It's really quite an achievement to use the principle that "politics stops at the water's edge" to criticise Barack Obama for his response to Australian PM John Howard's statement --
"If I was running al-Qaeda in Iraq, I would put a circle around March 2008 and pray, as many times as possible, for a victory not only for Obama, but also for the Democrats"
as oppposed to criticising Howard's interference in the domestic politics of another country, but Powerline's "Trunk" manages just that. Howard's bizarre attack calls to mind a less noticed utterance from foreign minister Alexander Downer a few months back, which was likewise let pass by a somnolent US State Department.
UPDATE: US Joint Chiefs Chairman Peter Pace is in Australia and met John Howard today, and visited their Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. No word on whether he dissed it like Downer did the Malibu memorial, or whether Pace told Howard to stay out of US politics.
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