Kevin Rudd (Griffith, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

I note the invitation from the member for North Sydney to keep going. In the G20 list I read before, of all those global leftists, I forgot to mention that leading global leftist, King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia. But I am sure he is part of Joe’s new conspiracy theory.

Then David Speers asked the member for North Sydney: ‘So you think he’—President Obama—‘went too far?’ ‘Well, maybe I can’t claim to be an expert on the US economy, but what I do know is that the American people are starting to question Barack Obama’s management of the US economy.’ What is it about the Liberals and President Obama? There they were, under John Howard, saying that his election would be a victory for al-Qaeda. Now we see, on the economy, that they are saying it is a victory for global socialism. What is it about the obsession on the part of the Liberal Party when it comes to US President Obama and the Democrats? What we have with the Liberal Party today is a party which is out of touch, out of control and, can I say, out on their own.

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