President Barack Obama holds a koala before the G20 Leaders’ Summit in Brisbane
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President @BarackObama is the type of leader we in #Australia need & don't have. Progressive, visionary, fearless and outspoken #ObamaUQ
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Jieh-Yung Lo | 罗介雍 (@jiehyunglo) November 15, 2025US has a leader with policies it's not ready for.
Aus has a leader with policies we've out grown.
Let's swap? #auspol #g20 #G20Brisbane
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Alicia WanstallBurke (@alicia_j_burke) November 15, 2025****
Obama's fantastic 'Brisbane Speech' #G20 #G20Brisbane #Obama bit.ly/1tT7WhG
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Natalie Gregg (@NatGregg) November 15, 2025Lots of people trying to photograph @BarackObama after his landmark speech at #UQ. #G20 http://t.co/EwPLwbnYJx
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7News Brisbane (@7NewsBrisbane) November 15, 2025****
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The crowd went wild at #Brisbane's iconic @regattahotel when @BarackObama's motorcade drove past along Coro Drive! http://t.co/qq8EN6jXJ0
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7News Brisbane (@7NewsBrisbane) November 15, 2025Pictures of @BarackObama's motorcade crossing the river on their way to @QAGOMA for a #G20 cocktail function. #7News http://t.co/k4m4mb306f
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7News Brisbane (@7NewsBrisbane) November 15, 2025****
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US President @BarackObama is on his way to @QAGOMA - his motorcade was just spotted leaving the Marriott Hotel. #G20 http://t.co/tVfA0Yta9j
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7News Brisbane (@7NewsBrisbane) November 15, 2025President @BarackObama's motorcade has left the Marriott Hotel in #Brisbane. http://t.co/DxeDRFX2Am
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7News Brisbane (@7NewsBrisbane) November 15, 2025****
Hey Mr President! When your time's up in the US, feel free to move down & do some classy speechifying 'round these parts. #G20Brisbane
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Natalie Bochenski (@girlclumsy) November 15, 2025This police officer had front-row views as @BarackObama's motorcade left #UQ. #G20 http://t.co/4VdmOf6hwa
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7News Brisbane (@7NewsBrisbane) November 15, 2025****
luv u Obama! 🇺🇸 #G20 #ObamaUQ
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tara revillas (@teeraay) November 15, 2025Great to see @BarackObama bringing together so many young leaders for today's address! #ObamaUQ
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Holly Ransom (@HollyRansom) November 15, 2025****
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An honour to watch Obama in action. Couldn't think of anyone else I'd rather listen to talk. #G20 #ObamaUQ http://t.co/ayVJhV5bhl
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Bronte Baldwin (@BronteBaldwin) November 15, 2025"Here in the Asia Pacific, nobody has more at stake when it comes to acting on #climatechange" ~ @BarackObama Hear that Tony? #ObamaUQ #G20
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Alice Howard-Vyse (@alicehv) November 15, 2025****
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Was at President Obama's speech at UQ 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸😄😄😄😄 #ObamaUQ #Obama #OnceInALifetime http://t.co/4T6QM7wOE4
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Victoria Kohl (@tori090398) November 15, 2025One of my favorite lines in the room today. #obamaUQ #G20Brisbane http://t.co/iNjONKkFtj
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David Elwood (@DavidElwoodAU) November 15, 2025****
Listening to Obama's UQ speech. Tony needs a lesson from this guy.
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Nick Bedford (@nickjbedford) November 15, 2025It's a shame Obama is not the President of Australia after hearing that speech. #ObamaUQ
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Nick Bedford (@nickjbedford) November 15, 2025****
@nickjbedford @sherrilee7 Canada already requested Obama after he gets out of office. Wait your turn :-P
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Shrouded☠Sciuridae (@ShroudSciuridae) November 15, 2025Putin's koala tries to engineer a getaway.
President Obama's koala hugs him then makes out with another koala. #G20 http://t.co/0b6FXwCPNW
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Nerdy Wonka (@NerdyWonka) November 15, 2025****
Australia’s Prime Minister Tony Abbott and President Barack Obama each hold a koala before the G20 Leaders’ Summit in Brisbane
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Good Afternoon, TODers!
Thanks, NW!
You’re welcome, Swbluega.
Good afternoon to our winner, swbluega!
:-) Go Girl! :-)
Now I can catch up. Thanks NW!!!
You’re welcome, Judith.
Goooooooorgeous post Nerdy, the koalas are tooooo cute!!! Thanks a trazillion, Legend!!
Thanks, Chips!
WOW!!!! NW!!!! Just one great post after another on President Obama’s globe trotting Leadership. Thank you.
Congrats on 1st swbluega :)
Be sure to check the photo in the article ….
PM Harper did good :)
Awesome! :-)
Thanks, Bob.
Add “koala whisperer” to PBO’s list of skills. They definitely liked him much more than they liked Vladimir Vladimirovich.
Animals and children knows people who are sincere, kind and genuine (PBO) and who are fake and evil (Putin).
More Happy Enrollment in Obamacare tweets:
Great tweets, Judith!!! :)
Thanks, Bobfr! A picture really does tell a story.
These are WONDERFUL, Judith! #YouRock! :-)
Dudette - you rock my socks!
TY M”am! We’ve got a whole lotta rockin’ goin’ on all over TOD today! :-)
NW - I probably put oo many tweets in one post. Awaiting moderation…
Vlad is a pariah and the entire world is not the least bit hesitant to inform him of that fact.
“Ukrainian Australians have staged a powerful protest, laying on the ground in a symbol of the murderous acts they say Russia’s president is responsible for.
Young protesters, wearing headbands reading ‘Putin, Killer’, laid down on a large Ukrainian flag near the G20 summit venue on Saturday, claiming Vladimir Putin had the blood of their compatriots and MH17 passengers on his hands.
Their bodies were draped with the flags of the nations that lost citizens when the Malaysia Airlines flight was shot down in July, killing 298 people, including 38 Australian citizens and residents.
They also said the president had to answer for the deaths of Ukrainians killed as a result of his support for pro-Russian separatists.”
- See more at: http://www.skynews.com.au/news/top-stories/2014/11/15/powerful-ukraine-anti-putin-protest-at-g20.html#sthash.S3SbdO3z.dpuf
This is an EXCELLENT post Nerdy - thanks!! I guess our President will not be resting after 2017 as we had thought…he has to run for PM in Canada, and then after winning and serving the maximum time, he has to run for Australia PM….oh dear…
This man needs about 9 lives….t
He will be quite busy running all the nations of the world!
Good Morning/Afternoon TOD Family.
My guess if there was a position as one of ten world leaders who could be voted on by the world, President Obama would win over and over again.
No question - hands down!
Absolutely!
I doubt he’ll spend much time on the ‘running’ aspect of his campaigns, Hf. Canada & Australia will probably just acclaim him - saves time, so he can get right into the governing piece! ;)
LOL.
Thanks, HF.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B2dBomMCcAA4lsD.jpg:large
Wonderful!
Why is this possible? I ask myself.
$16 dollars an hour in Australia, and over here in what is suppose to be the greatest country on earth $7.25 an hour. OMG. President Obama and the Democrats want to raise minimum wage, Republicans do not want to raise it. But still you saw no reason to get out to vote. How disgusting.
Tell it, b!
Kinda makes one wonder, doesn’t it?
please retweet; this says it all
I miss all the talk about Gruber, can someone tell me what is this all about.
The mess Jonathan Gruber created
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/the-mess-jonathan-gruber-created
The media joined the RW by making this non-issue into something. Gruber’s remarks were thoughtless,but in the grand scheme of the ACA and what it means to millions of Americans, they’re largely irrelevant.
MSNBC loves to help the GOP by giving them underhanded “assists” in fomenting their bullshit narratives.
As I said on a previous thread—Gruber is a nothingburger served up by the usual sabateurs.
A new shiny object so the media and GOP can make news so that uninformed can have something to chat about in hopes to create ratings.
The Jonathan Gruber Controversy and Washington’s Dirty Little Secret
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/13/upshot/the-jonathan-gruber-controversy-and-washingtons-dirty-little-secret.html?ref=us&_r=1&abt=0002&abg=0
Ian Millhiser �?@imillhiser · 48m48 minutes ago
BREAKING: 23,000 people apply for insurance in first 8 hours of the new Obamacare enrollment period.
I blame that Obama guy for this!
I guess #Gruber trending didn’t stop them… LMAO!
Time to talk about website “glitches.”
This one cracked me up! :-D
Here’s the face Alito made when the female justices read their dissent in the Hobby Lobby case.
http://i.huffpost.com/gen/1209124/thumbs/s-ALITO-ROLLS-EYES-large.jpg?6
This is wonderful! never thought that I would be so excited about the idea of health insurance. Thank you, PBO.
:-)
Wow!
I am awaiting bulletin from the DINO PBO-bashing front damning the ACA with faint praise and prevaricating about “fixing” it.
On the previous post I offered some thoughts about the Democratic Party leaving POTUS.
I also think that The President seems to be implementing his agenda quite nicely without them.
If Clintonland sees value in what they might call distancing then they are dumber than I thought.
Our President has been steadily devouring the truly democratic parts of our national landscape and will be leaving very little ground for a non-Obama candiate to stand on.
In other words, If you cannot stand with President Obama then the only solid ground left is as a GOP-lite. Good luck with that.
I may be off-the-rails here and I’m sure my good friends at TOD will tell me so if telling is what is needed.
You’re moving smoothly down the tracks, Vicki.
#BackBarack …. or fail ….
I wonder if these are NEW policies. My brother signed up last year through the help of our very own Lovely Tally and he received a letter that his policy will continue with a slight increase over last year. I am happy to say he won’t need it after January because he will be on medicare since he will be 65 yrs old Feb 1st. I was told if I sign him up for a medicare and a supplemental plan it will be effective January 1, 2015.
Spot on, Vicki!
Some of the tweets mentioned in the article…
Oh sorry, I missed one with the duplicate.
Get ‘er done!
Oh for heaven’s sake! No!
this is what you could call unmitigated gall
these republicans have no shame!
not only no but HECK no!
Hell NO!
Tell @GovKitz what you think of this. My reply to Kapur did not come through above.
That woman is insane! She was investigated for stalking both her previous boyfriend and husband.
A gag reflex!
Sometimes only a Yiddish word will suffice to describe someone.
So true LL…….Putz maybe, or schmuck?
Oh da horror!
Dude must still be in pain over these fries. I bleed for him.
Way cool!!!
Wish I was one of them!!
The real truth! :)
Oh yardarm756, that is sad.
But true. :lol:
Where is the symbol for Husband where the woman is picking up his dirty clothes next to the hamper? :) :) :)
Sorry. I can’t relate! :lol:
Us wimmin can definitely relate! :)
You also know how to “put it on the card” too! :lol:
In my family, that would represent my Dad apologizing to Mom for blowing good money another piece of junk that will collect dust in storage.
Whatevah! :)
Heheheh! :-)
that is my hubby as well Dudette. My husband says I don’t spend enough, I am always looking for bargains and I am too quick to walk away because I think everything is overpriced. He on the other hand will pick up anything not look at cost, swipes our debit card and leaves. Doesn’t even check the receipt.
Drives me nuts.
Thank you nospin.
Take that Sailor Man! :-)
Newsflash from Clayton MO
Announcement tomorrow.
If I hear any further details i will post ASAP.
What about this (posted last night at the tail end of a thread, after a new one had been opened):
Here’s the source (annoying autoplay video in link):
Great round-up, NW. Thanks for all that you do to help Chips to keep the blog rolling. I especially love the inclusion of the tweets.
Thanks, CEB.
Welp moderation again. Must’ve been something I said.
Thank you Blog Swami! :-)
I am ready to help others enroll in ObamaCare
#ThisIsWhy
Yeh, you guys; the ones who didn’t bother to vote…
“Conservatives, including in the Abbott Government, enjoy the discomfort that US President Barack Obama feels at the loss of any control of the US Congress.
It only reinforces their dismissal of him as “the lamest of lame duck presidents�?.
Unfortunately for our Prime Minister, however, Barack Obama has delivered a rather humiliating exercise in power politics over the weekend: showing how leadership and power lies in setting and controlling an agenda ”
they never learn Zizi.
:-)
Yes!
Shorter: Not no, but HELL NO!
And they now have guns too. No more of that bow and arrow bs!
Gives new meaning to the phrase: “Don’t even think about it!”
Don’t really care for Sanders…if he’s not outright criticizing PBO, he’s damning him with faint praise. Never had a GENUINELY kind word to say about this President. I hope you understand Dudette, but I just can’t support somebody who’s constantly undermining this President. And Sanders is one of the emoprogs/left-wing Libertarians’ heroes who does exactly that.
Funny, I don’t really care for Sanders either. I haven’t been able to figure out anything specific/practical/tangible he’s done/been doing other than sound bites every so often. Also, too, he does not ring high on my sincerity meter.
me either hopefruit2.
Agree with you on all points raised.
LOL :-D
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BrVjne2IYAAxa1G.jpg:large
Whoa! That’s a reeeally reeeeally big picture! Although I like the subject very much! :-)
Much, much better! :-)
Gotta hop! Catch y’all later!
New post.
http://theobamadiary.com/2014/11/15/affordable-health-insurance-for-all-thanks-obamacare/