{"id":1879,"date":"2003-10-26T10:15:50","date_gmt":"2003-10-27T02:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/10\/26\/bush-in-oz\/"},"modified":"2019-12-06T10:13:34","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T18:13:34","slug":"bush-in-oz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/10\/26\/bush-in-oz\/","title":{"rendered":"Bush in Oz"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:13052,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/kookaburra.typepad.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:13053,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/kookaburra.typepad.com\\\/weblog\\\/2003\\\/10\\\/the_ugly_side_o.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kookaburra.typepad.com\/\" title=\"Kookaburra\">Kookaburra<\/a> has an interesting wrap-up of President Bush&#8217;s visit to Australia <a href=\"http:\/\/kookaburra.typepad.com\/weblog\/2003\/10\/the_ugly_side_o.html\" title=\"The ugly side of the Bush visit\">posted on his site<\/a>. While it&#8217;s certainly no surprise, apparently Bush&#8217;s visit was heavily stage managed to make sure he got the most possible accolades, and the fewest possible questions&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  Every aspect of the visit was stage managed to ensure that John Howard controlled it for maximum political gain. Simon Crean managed a single 20 minute audience with George Bush, despite more Australian&#8217;s voting for his party than John Howard&#8217;s in the last election. (Howard is in government as the leader of a coalition between his Liberal Party and the National Party).<\/p>\n<p>  Alan Ramsay (of SMH) in commenting on the exclusion of Crean, <em>&#8220;&#8230;the Opposition Leader was left out in mugsville. He was not included in the welcome at Canberra airport, in the farewell, in the ceremony at the War Memorial, or in the barbecue at the Lodge, the only social occasion Bush would agree to. Even the press gallery was represented at the lunch by its president, Malcolm Farr of The Daily Telegraph. But not the Leader of the Australian Opposition. If nothing else, you&#8217;d have thought protocol if not manners might have extended an invitation to Crean.&#8221;<\/em>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Lord knows we can&#8217;t have our President actually have to face questions about what he&#8217;s doing to the world &#8212; he might slip up and accidentally tell the truth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While it&#8217;s certainly no surprise, apparently Bush&#8217;s visit was heavily stage managed to make sure he got the most possible accolades, and the fewest possible questions&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2042],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-1879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1879\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}