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Australia's John Howard stands by Obama smear

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February 13, 2007  |  
 
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Australian PM John Howard -- one of the last of the hard-core Bush bootlicks in the Western Alliance -- is taking some heat after saying that Barack Obama is adored by terrorists everywhere …

OPPOSITION Leader Kevin Rudd today went on the offensive against Prime Minister John Howard over his verbal attack on US presidential hopeful Barack Obama, warning it might damage the Australia-US alliance.
Rudd said:
To accuse the Democratic Party of the United States of being al-Qaeda's party of choice, to accuse the Democratic Party of being the terrorists' party of choice, to accuse the party of Roosevelt, Truman, Kennedy and Johnson of being the terrorists' party of choice is a most serious charge. I cannot understand how any responsible leader of this country can say to the nation that it is his serious view that the Democratic Party of the United States is the terrorists' party of choice.
Rudd called for Howard's censure, but the motion failed along party lines.

Joshua Holland is a staff writer at Alternet and a regular contributor to The Gadflyer.

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