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Trump reveals he WILL return bust of Winston Churchill to the Oval Office after it was ripped....
dailymail.uk ^ | January 7, 2017 | Paddy Dinham For Mailonline

Posted on 01/07/2017 2:35:12 PM PST by Morgana

FULL TITLE: Trump reveals he WILL return bust of Winston Churchill to the Oval Office after it was ripped out by Obama in 'snub to Britain'

A bust of Winston Churchill is set to be restored to the Oval Office by Donald Trump.

The figurine of Britain's war-winning Prime Minister - who was half American and was the only person to be granted an honorary passport - was taken out by Barack Obama in favour of a similar statue of Martin Luther King.

His decision to send the Churchill bust to the US Embassy in London caused outrage in Britain, with Boris Johnson labelling it a 'snub to Britain' and suggesting it was because of Obama's 'ancestral dislike of the British Empire.'

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KEYWORDS: churchill; churchillbust; obama; trump; trumpwhitehouse; winstonchurchhill
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To: Morgana

He ought to put the dang bust on its own chair at his inauguration


21 posted on 01/07/2017 2:50:40 PM PST by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: Rusty0604

Why not? Isn’t MLK the only Republican to have his own federal,holiday?


22 posted on 01/07/2017 2:55:28 PM PST by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: Morgana

Obama resents Churchill because he was everything Obama can never be.

A great leader and a great man.


23 posted on 01/07/2017 2:55:35 PM PST by ChildOfThe60s ("If you can remember the 60s........you weren't really there")
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To: Rusty0604

And what makes you think he’s as afraid of the media as most of the GOP patsies before him have been? That’s why he’s president instead of JEB!


24 posted on 01/07/2017 3:01:33 PM PST by txrefugee
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To: Morgana

Obama had a bust of MLK, the communist and womanizer. Says alot.


25 posted on 01/07/2017 3:04:09 PM PST by Bullish
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To: miss marmelstein

“Let’s see Farage carry it back into the office,”

Even better, present it to Trump during the Inauguration which, I hear, Farage will attend.


26 posted on 01/07/2017 3:05:04 PM PST by MayflowerMadam (If you think the party that freed the slaves are the racist ones, you probably are a liberal.)
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To: Morgana

The first of a very long list of decisions made by the Liberal Messiah that will be reversed by The Donald.


27 posted on 01/07/2017 3:05:50 PM PST by Repeal 16-17 (Let me know when the Shooting starts.)
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To: Morgana

GOOD!


28 posted on 01/07/2017 3:08:34 PM PST by The Mayor (Honesty means never having to look over your shoulder.)
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To: ChildOfThe60s

Churchill knew the evil of Islam and called Mohammedanism for what it is.

Return of the bust had nothing to do with Obama being upset at “England” as the title implies.


29 posted on 01/07/2017 3:08:57 PM PST by Gasshog (Clinton denies... Expect to see a lot of this)
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To: Morgana

More winning. In your faces, proglodytes.


30 posted on 01/07/2017 3:11:44 PM PST by Noumenon (Proud Irredeemable Deplorable, heavily armed Infidel. Islam delenda est.)
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To: Leep
Lol! Indeed. 👍
31 posted on 01/07/2017 3:22:42 PM PST by MotorCityBuck ( Keep the change, you filthy animal! ,)
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To: Morgana

Churchill - the greatest man of his century shown thr respect he deserves by perhaps the greatest man of the 21st century . I hope he announces in his inaugural address his first act will be to return to the Oval Office .

I’ve heard it said many times that Trump is the Churchill of our times . Both seem heaven sent to save the world from evil .


32 posted on 01/07/2017 3:29:58 PM PST by WashingtonFire
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To: Morgana

A bust of Obama should also occupy a suitable place in the White House:

33 posted on 01/07/2017 3:32:16 PM PST by bigbob (We have better coverage than Verizon - Can You Hear Us Now?)
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To: Morgana

Uncle John helped the British with the radar during WWII. He and Churchill knew each other well.


34 posted on 01/07/2017 3:33:57 PM PST by hoosiermama (It is time to believe in the future: Time to believe in each other: Time to believe in AMERICA ! DT)
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To: Morgana
For too long in America, we have called Democrats "liberals," when, in fact, they are and have stood for ideas which are the antithesis of "classical liberalism."

Now, and for the past several decades they have morphed into and now identify themselves as "progressives," a term which, in itself is misleading. The so-called "progressive" philosophy is, in fact, most regressive, for it advocates failed ideas which lead to tyranny and oppression, not to freedom, opportunity, productivity, and plenty. "Progressive" ideas are more aptly described by the word "socialist."

In the following quotations from Churchill, we can see thoughts of his on the subject dating from 1908 to the 1950's. Much of what is happening in America today is described within these words:

"When I see the present Socialist Government denouncing capitalism in all its forms, mocking with derision and contempt the tremendous free enterprise capitalist system on which the mighty production of the United States is founded, I cannot help feeling that as a nation we are not acting honorably or even honestly." - Winston Churchill, Woodford Green, July 10, 1948.

"We shall not allow the advance of society and economic well-being of the nation to be regulated and curtailed by the pace of the weakest bretheren among us. Proper incentives must be offered and full freedom given to the strong to use their strength in the commonweal. Initiative, enterprise, thrift, domestic foresight, contrivance, good housekeeping and natural ability must reap their just reward. On any other plan the population of this island will sink by disastrous and agonizing stages to a far lower standard of life and two-thirds of its present numbers." - Winston Churchill, speech, Blenheim Palace, August 4, 1947.

"The difference between what is seen and what is not seen was often noticed by the old economists. What is not seen is the infinite variety of individual transactions and decisions which, in a civilized society, within the framework of just and well-known laws, insure the advantage not only of the individual concerned, but of the community, and provide that general body of well-being constituting the wealth of nations. All this is blotted out by an over-riding State control, however imposing some of its manifestations may be. It is the vital creative impulse that that I deeply fear the doctrines and policy of the socialist Government have destroyed, or are rapidly destroying, in our national life. Nothing that they can plan and order and rush around enforcing will take its place. They have broken the mainspring, and until we get a new one the watch will not go." - Winston Churchill, speech, House of Commons, October 28, 1947.

"It is in the interest of the wage-earner to have many other alternatives open to him than service under one all-powerful employer called the State. He will be in a better position to bargain collectively and production will be more abundant; there will be more for all and more freedom for all when the wage earner is able, in the large majority of cases, to choose and change his work, and deal with a private employer who, like himself, is subject to the ordinary pressures of life and, like himself, is dependent upon his personal thrift, ingenuity and good-housekeeping." - Winston Churchill, speech, Blackpool, October 5, 1946

"Liberalism (classical liberalism) has its own history and its own tradition. Socialism has its own formulas and aims. Socialism seeks to pull down wealth; Liberalism seeks to raise up poverty. Socialism would destroy private interests; Liberalism would preserve private interests in the only way in which they can be safely and justly preserved, namely, by reconciling them with public right. Socialism would kill enterprise; Liberalism would rescue enterprise from the trammels of privilege and preference. Socialism assails the pre-eminence of the individual; Liberalism seeks, and shall seek more in the future, to build up a minimum standard for the mass. Socialism exalts the rule; Liberalism exalts the man. Socialism attacks capital; Liberalism attacks monopoly." - Winston Churchill, Kinnaird Hall, Dundee, May 14, 1908.

"The British nation now has to make one of the most momentous choices in its history. That choice is between two ways of life: between individual liberty and State domination: between concentration of ownership in the hands of the State and the extension of a property-owning democracy; between a policy of increasing restraint and a policy of liberating energy and ingenuity: between a policy of levelling down and a policy of finding opportunities for all to rise upwards from a basic standard." - Winston Churchill, speech in Woodford, England, January 28, 1950.

"It is curious that, while in the days of my youth I was much reproached with inconsistency and being changeable, I am now scolded for adhering to the same views I had early in life and even of repeating passages from speeches which I made long before most of you were born. Of course the world moves on and we dwell in a constantly changing climate of opinion. But the broad principles and truths of wise and sane political actions do not necessarily alter with the changing moods of a democratic electorate. Not everything changes. Two and two still make four, and I could give you many other instances which go to prove that all wisdom is not new wisdom." - Winston Churchill, speech, Bele vue, Manchester, December 6, 1947.

"It is not Parliament that should rule; it is the people who should rule through Parliament." - Winston Churchill, speech, House of Commons. November 11, 1947.

"We have to combat the wolf of socialism, and we shall be able to do it far more effectively as a pack of hounds than as a flock of sheep." - Winston Churchill, speech, 1937.

:Athough it is now put forward in the main by people who have a good grounding in the Liberalism and Radicalism of the early part of this century, there can be no doubt that Socialism is inseparably interwoven with Totalitarianism and the abject worship of the State. It is not alone that property, in all its forms, is struck at, but that liberty, in all its forms, is challenged by the fundamental conceptions of Socialism." - Winston Churchill, B.B.C radio address, June 4, 1945.

"The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent vice of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries." - Winston Churchill, House of Commons, October 22, 1945.

"Socialism is the philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy." - Winston Churchill, Perth, May 28, 1948.

"I do not wonder that British youth is in revolt against the morbid doctrine that nothing matters but the equal sharing of miseries: that what used to be called the submerged tenth can only be rescued by bringing the other nine-tenths down to their level; against the folly that it is better that everyone should have half rations rather than that any by their exertions, or ability, should earn a second helping." - Winston Churchill, London, June 22, 1948.

"Socialism is based on the idea of an all-powerful State which owns everything, which plans everything, which distributes everything, and thus through its politicians and officials decides the daily life of the individual citizen." - Winston Churchill, London, January 21, 1950.

"The British and Americans do not war with races or governments as such. Tyranny, external or internal, is our foe whatever trappings and disguises it wears, whatever language it speaks, or perverts." - Winston Churchill, Speech, Dorchester Hotel, London, July 4, 1953.

"You may try to destroy wealth, and find that all you have done is to increase poverty." - Winston Churchill, speech, House of Commons. March 12, 1947.

"Nor should it be supposed as you would imagine, to read some of the Left-wing newspaper, that all Americans are multi-millionaires of Wall Street. If they were all multi-millionaires that would be no reason for condemning a system which has produced such material results.: - Winston Churchill, speech, Royal Albert Hall, London. April 21, 1948.

"Rich men, although valuable to the revenue, are not vital to a healthy state of society, but a society in which rich men are got rid of, from motives of jealousy, is not a healthy state." - Winston Churchill, speech, House of Commons, April 24, 1950.

35 posted on 01/07/2017 3:45:12 PM PST by loveliberty2
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To: stars & stripes forever

I agree


36 posted on 01/07/2017 3:57:32 PM PST by Donnafrflorida (Thru Him all things are possible.)
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To: Morgana

Trump has his priorities right.


37 posted on 01/07/2017 4:00:40 PM PST by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - JRRT)
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To: Morgana

Any chance of getting Washington’s Birthday back in lieu of “President’s Day”?


38 posted on 01/07/2017 4:05:33 PM PST by Anima Mundi
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To: Morgana

*\o/*


39 posted on 01/07/2017 4:08:47 PM PST by mancini
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To: Morgana

OUTSTANDING!!


40 posted on 01/07/2017 4:13:26 PM PST by EXCH54FE (Hurricane 416,Feisty Old Vet !!)
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