Now Australia wants to vote for OUR President???

[bluesdave]

Guys, cool it, please. I can't speak for all Aussies but I can assure you that the majority of us do not want to vote for your president. We are currently enmeshed in our own election campaign, and have enough to worry about without adding the US presidency to our list. Of course we take a keen interest in the US election, because as Mari has already pointed out, the US exerts a great influence on the whole world, but that is the full extent of it.

Australia has just agreed to a free trade agreement with the USA, and part of that agreement means that the US has some say in how we do things here - like to what extent the government can fund our pharmaceutical benefits scheme. We are not happy about this. Most Aussies do not like being told by the US, what we can or can't do, so we would expect you to object to us trying to tell you how to live your lives, too.

Don't attack the whole country for the writings of one journalist.