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Barack Obama can bring nations together in time of crisis - Swan (Pass the Bucket!!!)
Herald Sun ^ | 6 November 2008

Posted on 11/05/2008 4:51:58 PM PST by Aussie Dasher

AS Barack Obama plots his US presidency, Australia's Treasurer has hailed him as the man to bring the world together amid financial chaos.

"This is a huge generational change in Washington. There is a new president now with a fresh mandate," Wayne Swan told ABC radio.

"Of course what the world needs now is for countries to work together.

"Barack Obama looks like someone who will bring people together. In meeting the challenge of this international financial crisis, that is sorely needed."

(Excerpt) Read more at news.com.au ...


TOPICS: Australia/New Zealand; Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: agoose; bho2008; bobthebuilder; osama; wayneswan
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To: Aussie Dasher

This thread is not worth the


21 posted on 11/05/2008 5:04:38 PM PST by Publius6961 (Change is not a plan; Hope is not a strategy.)
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To: Aussie Dasher
My god!! The hyperbole!! The biggest change barak could bring to Washington would be to show up for work. I'm not even sure he can find Washington without a map. Boy, is he going to be surprised to find out the job is really 24/7/365!
22 posted on 11/05/2008 5:04:42 PM PST by tbpiper
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To: Aussie Dasher

Doesn’t all of this Obama worship remind you all of “The Life of Brian?”How can people be so blind by this farce?I have never seen this type of lemming mentality in all my life.


23 posted on 11/05/2008 5:08:15 PM PST by Uncle Meat
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To: Psycho_Bunny
Wow.....good pot, down under.

When the messiahnfuhrer lays his holy hands upon it, the standard desert weed shall become the best Panama Red.

24 posted on 11/05/2008 5:09:00 PM PST by freedumb2003 (Dasen Neu Fuhrer the Murdering Messiah: Keep your power dry, folks)
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To: Tarpon

Free pies? Make mine crow.


25 posted on 11/05/2008 5:11:21 PM PST by pankot
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To: JustDoItAlways

Instead of kumbaya might I suggest Maranatha?


26 posted on 11/05/2008 5:12:42 PM PST by pankot
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To: Scothia

Also, a second: His own church,the church of Rev.Wright.


27 posted on 11/05/2008 5:14:44 PM PST by pankot
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To: Aussie Dasher

kumbaya my Lord, kumbaya
(pass the marshmallows)


28 posted on 11/05/2008 5:14:55 PM PST by silverleaf (Fasten your seat belts- it's going to be a BUMPY ride.)
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To: Aussie Dasher

Ever heard the saying “it sounds like English, but I can’t understand a word you’re saying”? That’s Wayne Swan. Trouble is, he doesn’t understand anything he’s saying, either - so what hope is there for the rest of us?


29 posted on 11/05/2008 5:16:02 PM PST by HutchKeeper (http://basilshutch.blogspot.com)
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To: Aussie Dasher

30 posted on 11/05/2008 5:31:34 PM PST by Dallas59 (Redistribute Obamas Wealth)
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To: Aussie Dasher
I am going to call it by its correct title and I encourage the rest of you SUBJECTS to do the same;

King Hussein Obama the Benign, Spreader of Wealth and Healer of Planets.

31 posted on 11/05/2008 5:39:45 PM PST by pyx (Rule#1.The LEFT lies.Rule#2.See Rule#1. IF THE LEFT CONTROLS THE LANGUAGE, IT CONTROLS THE ARGUMENT.)
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To: Aussie Dasher

let’s not forget both bush presidencies were very good at bringing countries together in crisis. it’s keeping them together that is the difficult part.


32 posted on 11/05/2008 5:49:12 PM PST by zwerni (this isn't gonna be good for business)
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To: SERKIT

Barry Adoration Syndrome


33 posted on 11/05/2008 6:07:41 PM PST by Oztrich Boy (More law, less justice. - Marcus Tullius Cicero)
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To: Aussie Dasher

Wayne Swan is the one who has spent half of the 20 billion surplus already and is now talking about using the rest. God help us. America you think you’ve got problems.


34 posted on 11/05/2008 8:41:28 PM PST by Perahelion
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To: Aussie Dasher
If anyone thinks that a socialist like Obama can cure any financial mess (which his party mostly created), they have another thought coming. Obama is simultaneously the smartest politician and dumbest politician ever elected to the American presidency. He ran the most efficient campaign I've ever seen (considering how he was able to hide his rotten past so well), but he's also at heart a socialist making him an idiot in financial matters.

One liberal American talking head (Charles Gibson, anchor i.e. newsreader of ABCNews) even asked him why he wanted to raise taxes on capital gains since lower cap gains taxes have been proven to increase tax revenue. Obama replied that he didn't care if it did, he was concerned about fairness. This with about sixty percent of Americans invested in some way with the stock market.

So Americans have elected a socialist to run the world's greatest free-market economy. If that isn't the definition of stupidity, I don't know what is.

35 posted on 11/06/2008 3:34:28 AM PST by driftless2
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To: Perahelion
"God help us"

Yes, but does your pm, Rudd, have a socialist past like Obama's? Did he promise to "spread the wealth?"

36 posted on 11/06/2008 3:38:05 AM PST by driftless2
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To: driftless2

Sorry I’m slack in replying, I’m just getting used to how Free Republic, pings, and all that, works.

He didn’t actually say ‘spread the wealth’ but very pro union policies hinted at it. Also the very fact that Australian left wing Governments always pillage the surplus that the conservatives have built up to fund spending projects directed at the ‘needy’ and noisy masses is a pretty good indicator too.

The previous conservative Government also had a ‘future’ fund funded by the sale of Government assets, the labor Government soon suggested plunging into that even during the election campaign, they couldn’t help themselves.

As I said the conservatives had built up a 20 billion odd surplus over 10 years or so and half is now gone in just a year since the socialists were elected.

Now I know that George Bush is somewhat culpable over the American deficit but he has had pretty unusual, virtually one off circumstances, solialists always plunge us into debt here.


37 posted on 11/06/2008 1:42:48 PM PST by Perahelion
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To: Perahelion
"Bush...culpable"

Although I'm a big Bush supporter, that is a fair knock against him. However as a percentage of the gross domestic product, the deficit under Bush for the last three years was only one or two percent of gdp. His tax cuts from 2003 worked extremely well, as tax cuts always do, to stimulate the economy.

But Bush, and the country, are victims of the Democrats control of two government sponsored enterprises (GSEs) known by the nicknames Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Under Dem control, these enterprises granted trillions of dollars of worthless home mortgage loans to people who couldn't afford them. We are now paying the penalty for these Dem sponsored (and Dem refusal to accept responsibility for) mistakes. Both Bush and McCain tried to reform the GSEs to no avail.The Republicans have been falsely blamed for the mess on Wall Street. We will now reap the whirlwind under Comrade Obama.

Incidentally the man most responsible for the mess at the FMs, Franklin Raines, was an unofficial financial advisor to Obama. How's that for irony? The crisis, falsely blamed on Wall street bankers, helped propel Obama into the presidency.

38 posted on 11/06/2008 7:38:44 PM PST by driftless2
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To: driftless2

I’m not particularly disparaging President Bush, the most unfairly maligned President in history in my opinion, but in hindsight the invasion of Iraq was a mistake fiscally, and those ingarateful Iraqis will ultimately pay the price in my opinion.

Go on Obama pull out, then let’s see them have a good life, I don’t think so.

I will never forget President Bush standing on that pile of rubble threatening America’s enemies, somehow I just can’t see Obama in the same light, oh well, such is history.


39 posted on 11/06/2008 9:17:08 PM PST by Perahelion
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