Touching times

[nmbluesky]

JULIA Gillard and Barack Obama are a touchy pairing. Their hands, like disembodied life forms, seek out the other's shoulders and backs.

When such targets are out of reach, digits settle on forearms or the nearest available body part.
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Gillard glowed, head bowed, as though a new beau was being introduced to the family for the first time.

Gillard and Obama plainly like each other - which puts them ahead of John Howard and Bill Clinton, and Malcolm Fraser and Jimmy Carter.

In Obama's company, Gillard looks like she's won a date with George Clooney. Their encounters, the respectful gazes as the other speaks, the touches of familiarity, stand to bestow her with a statesmanship she may have lacked until now.
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http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/more-news/touching-times-for-prime-minister-julia-gillard-and-us-president-barack-obama/story-fn7x8me2-1226197260438

[Loge23]

1. That's all so very nice...

Meanwhile, his own country is going to hell in a hand basket.
The image of this nonsense down under juxtaposes nicely with the image of "counter-terrorist" para-military units beating peaceful OWS people and pepper-spraying 84 year-old women back home.

[JuniperLea]

3. You don't see the merits of this kind of international diplomacy?

Really? Is the hate so pervasive that you can't give credit to a man for creating a solid working relationship with a country where so many other relationships failed in the past?

Very telling... and your concern is duly noted.

[Loge23]

6. Wrong.

There's no hate, other than for ridiculous assumptions such as yours.
My point is made.
Obama's silence in the face of the OWS onslaught is fair game.

[JuniperLea]

7. Utter bullshit

Clearly you have no point, except for the one that holds your hat.

Obama has no right to step on the toes of local officials... that would be cause for an all out assault on his principles... an assault I'm quite sure you would join.

As for international diplomacy, I guess you see no need, which was my question.

[dionysus]

8. threadjack fail....

:nopity:

[lunatica]

2. What a strange article

The author is far too interested in finding romance than in talking about the implications of having our troops as close to China as possible.

[JuniperLea]

4. I thought that too...

But later in the article where he points out the chilly relationships other American diplomats have had in the past made a different point to me... a glaring juxtaposition.

[Beacool]

5. This article is full of crock!!!

It's treating two heads of state as if they were teenagers on their first date. It's just silly.

:-(

[dionysus]

9. hey Bea, wanna go hit the soda shop after class? (i got bankies....)

:P

[Beacool]

10. Bankies!!!!

:woohoo:

How's life?

:hi: