Julia Gillard for President?

[misi]

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/nat...h-to-us-congress/story-fn59niix-1226018797811

Julia Gillard’s speech to the US Congress in Washington early today (Australian time) was perfectly designed - drenched in overblown rhetoric, even corniness, but expertly tailored to tug US heart strings.
The Americans love their hyperbole.
And the Prime Minister did not disappoint, cleverly pulling in her audience with a blend of sentimentality and flattery while also outlining Australia’s future expectations of its ally in the areas of security, economic reform and trade liberalisation.
Ms Gillard lavished the legislators with wave after wave of goodwill and expressions of loyalty and friendship, sparking 10 wildly enthusiastic bouts of applause and no less than six standing ovations.

Describing Americans as loyal mates Ms Gillard wowed the legislators with the simple declaration: “You have a true friend Down Under’’.
While such a comment might have passed with little comment in an Australian pub, it scored an emotional bullseye in Washington - sending an audience including former presidential candidates John Kerry and John McCain into a state of rapture.
The legislators leapt to their feet in appreciation of the sentiment, with the 435-seat chamber nearly full with several dozen politicians and hundreds of staffers invited guests for the 11am local time speech.
And this was just the first of a giddy series of over-the-top responses.
Like a master controller, Ms Gillard deftly pressed her listeners’ hot buttons by variously supporting the war in Afghanistan, vowing Australians would never forget American help in World War II, pledging support in the war on terror and condemning Iran’s nuclear ambitions.
At one stage even Ms Gillard was moved, her voice shaking as she declared that when she was a child she had watched the first moon landing and come to the conclusion that Americans could “do anything’’.
Winding up her 30-minute speech, Ms Gillard said the people in her audience were “the same people’’ who had so amazed her as a little girl.
There was no doubt, she said, choking back tears, that Americans could still do anything.
Her comment brought the house down.
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The woman who had come to mark the 60th anniversary of the ANZUS Treaty left as hero with many new friends and, perhaps, a growing confidence in her ability to walk the world stage.

Hmmm...Julia's popularity growing in the US.
Flattery really works over there!

 

[TeeEm]

Tell them they can keep her if they like.

 

[Guess]

 

[okeedokee]

Her comment brought the house down.

Only in America.....They must be a gullible lot.

 

[Deb]

Jul-i-aaarrrr!!!! Mr Squiggle !!!! They can have her!

 

[misi]

Jul-i-aaarrrr!!!!

Rome-ohhhh!!!! Please help us!