Political leaders so predictable! If things are not going well at home, you need to flee abroad for a while, poulybatsya there, shake hands with foreign colleagues and to change the subject. Perhaps Obama was thinking about just this reliable, time-tested strategy, planning a visit to Australia, perhaps the most remote country from Washington. And yet, it is unlikely he and Prime Minister of Australia Julia Gillard will be able to evade the topic unconvincing leadership, undermines not only the internal economy of their countries, but also the world economy as a whole. Gillard and Obama are remarkably similar. Both - the stars of the pre-election trailers. The first woman Prime Minister of Australia and the first black U.S. president - they both promised to change the political atmosphere in their capitals. Both men are attractive and often cause people in a primitive and inexplicable dislike anything, both face stiff opposition, which cynically trampled into the dirt all their undertakings. Both have to confront the press, which then elevates them, then descends from heaven to earth. Obama tries in vain to push through Congress at least some law and economics, among those poised on the brink. Gillard also can not achieve their policies and thus risk missing a unique opportunity to get the most from the boom in the mining sector and to prepare for the fact that the resources will sooner or later run out. Their opponents are so mad that they forgot their own slogans. Gillard can not get the support of a law on refugees, although in the summer of 2010, before she became prime minister, parliament would gladly took it. Opposition leader Tony Abbott is now fiercely opposed to the emissions trading system that is so actively supported several years ago.