I want to like Obama and I wish the world could be as rosy as he wants it to be. I watched his University of Queensland speech this afternoon and could see the joy the invited audience experienced in his presence. Tanya Plibersek was so happy she looked as though she was awaiting the Dali Lama.

When Obama first ran for President I was as hopeful as anyone else that a positive change was coming; that a new age was dawning. Unfortunately a combination of circumstances including the Republicans and unpopular policies got in Obama's way. He has become totally out of touch with most Americans; his followers are now the diehard faithful and international Socialists around the globe.

I try to watch him speak when there is an easy opportunity and I still think he is a great orator. I still wish the world was a better place, more fair and peaceful. But I've also become one of those who feels Obama doesn't let the truth or practical reality get in the way of a good story.

Today's speech enjoyable. When he got onto the topic of climate change it was as though a big Green 'Applaud Light' flashed and the whole audience clapped wildly. The invited audience clearly believes Obama and Ban ki Moon that global warming is the biggest issue facing humanity. The Reverend Obama delivered the message the climate faithful wanted to hear and there was dancing in the streets.

With predictable reliability the media is calling Obama's comments a spanking for Tony Abbott and calling for the whole G20 Agenda to be modified, in other words drop the discussion they came for and turn the Summit into the Obama Show.

To the Believers, today is your day in the sun. Hope you are enjoying a nice bottle of bubbles with your celebration.

Ooh ooh, ConservativeHippie, Obama's speech was one thing, but the real star of the show was Tones indulging in parochial blather in his opening address to delegates.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_epjAMuS8Wo

This is an international forum - the eyes of the world upon our Prime Minister.

How excruciating for him to bang on complaining that he can't get his $7 co-payment through.

Not an Obama show. What happened merely indicated the rest of the industrial world are on board to invest in renewables....considering the nations of the world are spending $550 billion a year on fossil fuel subsidies.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/11/12/renewables-are-replacing-coal-just-not-fast-enough-to-save-the-planet/

"Barack Obama delivers a lesson in power"

http://www.afr.com/p/national/barack_obama_delivers_lesson_in_f6g832V3aLVQYDnAzS9cBL

Good old Tones, finished off the summit by singing his old time coal ditty. You've got to give it to him. He still stumps up and blathers away - apparently completely oblivious to being humiliated by the superior powers.

Obviously the lame duck President does not know that the warming myth has been seen through by the majority of Austalians. The 'greatest moral challenge of the century' cost both Kev and Julia their jobs. Now the lame duck sprouts his ignorance and nonsense to try and impress the gullible.

Of course Runner, you and Abbott know more than the rest of the world.
They must all be wrong, while you are right. Is that how it goes?

Your holy Abbott has been an embarrassment at this G20 summit, what with continuing with his head in the sand re climate change, when he is Tony-no-friends with this subject.
The boring rant about his own little unpopular GP $7.00 co-payment to an international audience, who really couldn't give a damn and must have been bored out of their minds, was really the last straw for me.

It seemed to me that the other international leaders were just tolerating Tony, and I remain embarrassed.
Surely the Libs will pick another leader soon?

The yanks did not elect Obama, they elected a dream, they hopefully projected onto a man with feet of clay. He has proved to be the most incompetent person ever to hold the presidency of the USA,

Like most narcissistic orators, Obama is all talk, & no substance. He has always been more interested in the words & how they are presented, than in what they actually say.

In this speech he played to a rent a crowd, as much as any nuclear protester ever did. The university of Qld slips even further with this episode.

The US will long rue having put this clown in the white house

'It seemed to me that the other international leaders were just tolerating Tony, and I remain embarrassed.'

We know Susie you, Poirot and the abc are competing as to who has the most hatred for Abbott. Just shows how effective he is. Feel free to leave Aussie if you get to embarassed.