Title: Democrats Seething At Aussie PM
Time/date: Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 8:01:27 pm

As I predicted, Australian PM John Howard is coming under heavy fire for his comments about Barack Obama’s appeasement platform: PM stands by Obama attack.

Howard does have one minor advantage in this controversy; he’s right.

Prime Minister John Howard has defended his comments about United States presidential candidate Barack Obama’s proposed policies.

The spat erupted when Democrat Senator Obama said he would like US troops out of Iraq by March 2008.

Mr Howard responded by saying that if he ran Al Qaeda, he would put a circle around March next year and pray for Senator Obama to win.

The attack on Senator Obama’s plan has upset several US Democrats, including Senator Ron Wyden, who believes Mr Howard is meddling in US politics.

There you have the modern Democrat Party: they want to talk with our worst enemies, and pick fights with our best friends.

UPDATE at 2/11/07 8:26:31 pm:

Obama’s response to Howard:

In a news conference here, Mr. Obama dismissed the remarks, saying it was “flattering that one of George Bush’s allies on the other side of the world started attacking me the day after I announced.”

Mr. Obama said Australia had sent 1,400 troops to Iraq, a fraction of the American force.

“If he’s ginned up to fight the good fight in Iraq, I would suggest that he calls up another 20,000 Australians and send them to Iraq,” Mr. Obama said. “Otherwise, it’s just a bunch of empty rhetoric.”

Oh yeah. Call the Prime Minister of Australia a chickenhawk.

Now that’s presidential.