These comments on the Pravda website.
- I seriously hope President Putin washes his hands and sterilizes them after touching the grubby paw of Abbott. Tony Abbott displays a degree of insolence, arrogance and incompetence.
- Once again, we see a country whose political class is divorced from the collective will of its people yet we see a politician who thinks it is cool to be rude, insolent, insulting, impolite, impertinent, unpolished, gross, unpleasant and downright impudent.
Many more comments too. I'm sure many Australians, though not all, are very disappointed to have our country's leader spoken of this way. I've read lots of derogatory comments from various news websites from around the world and it seems he has trashed the position and how we are viewed by many other countries. And I stress not every country is knocking him but enough to know that he is not popular.
"Tony Abbott said today that he will "shirtfront" Russian president Vladimir Putin when the pair meet at the G20 meeting in Brisbane next month." Is this seriously how we treat other world leaders? What happened to open dialogue and discussion?
We were once so admired for our leaders as statesmen, from both sides of politics. Tony Abbott has brought much criticism and shame and embarrassment to the position. No matter what side of politics, the position of Prime Minister should be held with respect but when we have one in the position who bullies and insults world leaders, then it is their prerogative to comment.
It is going to take some doing to win back the respect we once held.
so he is doing a bit of back tracking, maybe someone reminded him of his limited capabilities as a boxer....
limited capabilities should be his middle name.
No, apparantly there wasn't a meeting set up in the first place so I don't know when he thought he was going to get the opportunity to 'shirt front' him. And there's probably no chance of one being set up now.
I'm still concerned about the "You bet you are" "You bet I am" comments.
Some other sites are commenting that it is pretty obvious that he was being fed his lines. And that is a real worry if our Prime Minister has to be fed lines to make comments and is unable to carry on a conversation without it. No way of knowing of course but it might explain his repetetive speech and delayed speech patterns. Others have said his behaviour is similar to Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher who were both diagnosed with alzheimers. It's interesting to see it play out and to see where it ends up. It's still making news which is unusual in the normal news cycle.
Either way, the fact is It's gone viral world wide. So much for me just being outraged and insulted along with a few posters on a communist mouthpiece newspaper.
I'm still concerned about the "You bet you are" "You bet I am" comments.
Yes, I have seen TA quoted in print and they only include the You bet I am. They should quote exactly what he said even though it makes no sense at all!
If you think the prime minister is wrong to be aggressive in demanding answers Google the maslin children look at their face then come back here and tell me he shouldn't be doing it
But has anybody actually noticed how similar these 2 men are?
well yes - thats what made it so funny
