The Most Equal Comrade goes overseas and embarrasses post-America - today's edition

The MEC can play patty-cake with the Iranian mullahs, do a reset with Russia, accept a Noam Chomsky book from Hugo Chavez and coddle a Muslim Brotherhood regime in Egypt, but when it comes to those that had been allies when this was the United States of America, he can't conceal his contempt:

Lost in the shuffle of Obama’s immigration diktat and his sham of a farce of a travesty of a climate agreement with China was his speech about climate change in Canberra, Australia, where Obama went out of his way to insult Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott.  Apparently our embassy personnel in Canberra advised Obama against this course, but naturally Obama knows better.

Australian newspaper columnist Greg Sheridan reports on the matter in an article that is behind the newspaper’s paywall (but easily gotten around through Google if you want to), so here are the important excerpts from it:

BARACK  Obama defied the ­advice of his embassy in Canberra to deliver a stinging attack on the Abbott government’s climate policies in Brisbane last weekend.

The US embassy, under the leadership of ambassador John Berry, advised the President, through his senior staff, not to couch his climate change comments in a way that would be seen as disobliging to the Abbott government, sources have revealed. . .
It is normal practice when the US President makes an overseas visit that the ambassador in the country he is visiting is consulted about the contents of major speeches. It is unusual, though not unprecedented, for an embassy’s advice to be ignored.

Because a scientific fiction, being so useful as a took for imposing totalitarian collectivism, is more important than shoring up strategic alliances in a world full of wacko jihadists and unfriendly Communists.

That's why we call him a Western civilization-hater.