They elected a president based on symbolism, not on capability. This is a man whose highest role to date was community organizer, did they really think he could leap from that level to run a country, the biggest in the world. Clearly they did, not knowing just what that means, apart form all the promised handouts.

What's amazing is his ego led him to believe he could.

He wasn't even previously a state governor, like the much maligned Sarah Palin (who was NOT running for president, but I expect the flailing arms and the usual left wing bile for mentioning her - Sarah is not stupid and could run a state, Obama is the idiot who can't even run a meeting, without a teleprompter)

"little was known about Obama's political views, management style or leadership skills."

No kidding!, yet the dems elected him, the left in Australia were all cheering, it's all about the look not the substance as it always is with the left.

Have a nice day, it's great to see now the realization that Obama is a fool. Americans I know are horrified at his kowtowing to the tyrants of the world.

Well said, Amicus, the comment about Obama being a fool.

A very cunning fool, Amicus, appointed and sponsored by the Zionists mafia in Chicago for a single term during which time he was to do nothing, to keep sprouting his election rhetoric, hot air, which he has done, exceedingly well. No resolution in the middle east, no reduction of the war in Afghanistan, no initiatives for the poor except printing money, making the US financially as well as morally bankrupt.

He will retire in 2012 having allowed a right wing government to be installed with the assistance of the AIPAC / Israeli fifth column, aiming for an Israeli-sponsored war with Iran, as per Iraq and Afghanistan and retire to Hawaii, well-heeled and having survived an assassination by either Mossad or the 'new' Republicans. This is America, after all.

So we will now see an extreme Congress (and Senate in 2012), even more so than the Bush / Cheney cabal with another war on the agenda, possibly following another false flag operation, any day soon.

The US is now the most indebted nation in the history of the world and the cleverness of the mortgage-holders, China, will allow them to be calling the tune in a few more years.

How the mighty have fallen. And this is the country before whom Rudd, Gillard and Smith were prostrating themselves two weeks ago in the US campaign at getting American bases on our soil to spread the war load (and increase the targets) and make China feel that they are surrounded.
That is the same China who buys all our raw material, the same that contributes so heavily to our current standard of living.

We are so naive.

As a stooge, Obama has done his job with two years a a lame duck to go, as planned.

Perhaps the two previous opinions would prefer Sarah Palin as President of the USA?

The man is all hot air and piss; pleasant, but useless.
He is the Billy Ocean of politics - light, catchy and disposable.

hohum, anyone would be better equipped than Obama to run a country - Sarah Palin was just an example of someone who actually has experience in running large organizations.

Would I prefer her? Who cares .. I'm not American, so it's irrelevant.

For the sake of a man who talks well, the Dems sacrificed an opportunity to progress their society.

Now they regret not electing a capable woman, and as much as I dislike Hillary Clinton, there is no doubt she would have made an admirable and capable president.

To balance this regret, the left hate Sarah,because she's acapable woman who will probably be the next president.

If you listen to the blather of the left who hate her, you hear what you want - if you listen to her, she's not an idiot.

Obama is the bozo, perhaps a bozobama .. as someone said

I couldn't believe it when the democrats painted themselves into the corner, with just looser to be Obama, or proven looser Hillary as their choice of candidates.

Hillary had failed to do the health care thing, even when her old man was the boss, & it was pretty obvious to anyone with any perception that Obama was like a hired actor, pretending to be something he was not, & never could be. That he was elected by a wave of yanks, dreaming that they had become liberal & mature, showed just how dumb they are.

That we could elect the same kind of actor in Rudd, when it should have been obvious that he was following a script portraying someone nothing like the man he was, shows us in no better light. In fact, that we could repeat the foolishness shows that we may be just a little dumber than our yank friends.

That both us & the yanks could have such dead heads in the top jobs, at the same time is probably just down to a mixture of bad luck, & bad management. At least I hope it is. If not, those Chinese are a damn sight more cleaver than I have given them credit for.