Posted on 10/02/2008 2:22:15 PM PDT by tcrlaf
Barack Obama is a "decidedly liberal" senator "who was finding his feet, and then got diverted by his presidential ambitions", according to a frank verdict delivered to Gordon Brown by the British ambassador to the United States.
Sir Nigel Sheinwald, ambassador in Washington since last year, delivered his unvarnished assessment of the White House front runner in a seven-page letter to the Prime Minister, obtained by The Daily Telegraph, just before the Democratic nominee's visit to Downing Street just over two months ago.
The candid letter, marked as containing "sensitive judgements" and requesting officials to "protect the contents carefully" gives a remarkable insight into how the Foreign Office views the political phenomenon who stunned Mr Brown's inner circle by defeating their favourite, Hillary Clinton, in the Democratic primaries.
Although the picture Sir Nigel paints is a highly complimentary one - Mr Obama's speeches are "elegant" and "mesmerising", he is "highly intelligent" and has "star quality" - he also judges that his "policies are still evolving" and that if elected he will "have less of a track record than any recent president".
The letter's contents suggest that Mr Brown could initially find it difficult to deal with a President Obama because he remains a largely unknown quantity who "resists pigeon-holing" and the leak is likely to complicate relations.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
-Charges of elitism "are not entirely unfair" and he is "maybe aloof, insensitive" at times"
-Sir Nigel had worked hard to dampen down what he viewed as "Obamamania" within Downing Street
-"Obama's politics and policies are still evolving," Sir Nigel wrote.
And the knife twist... -He was lucky that Hillary Clinton had such a bad organisation in the primary campaign, and took so long to respond to Obama's threat."
Is that the same as arrogant? lol
This is Hugh and Series!!!
Actually, probably not.
BARF
Downing Street Memo Pt. 2 !!
“aloof aloof aloof is on fire”
If a Brit says someone is aloof then wow...
Pigeon-holing? Is that something new from the Barney Frank playbook?
LOL
Not aloof — should be agoof.
This may indicate that Downing Street is not all that excited about Obama.
How else would this leak out? I think this was designed to hurt Barry.
The Brits are now campaigning harder for McCain than McCain
UK TElegraph now has the FULL Letter posted here:
full text of a July 2008 letter sent by Sir Nigel Sheinwald, British ambassador to the United States, to Gordon Brown, British Prime Minister
When a Brit calls you aloof, you are in deep excrement, fella’.
Please was there any doubt that Obama’s Socialist Marxist mind insists that Allies be punished and Enemies be rewarded. Obama Presidency will mean the ultimate Failure of Europe....Dangerous, it is existential.
There was a reason he ran for President so soon after being elected to the Senate. The longer the record of his liberal votes, the less chance he would have of becoming a candidate.
Two reasons come to mind for the Obamaloon’s “aloofness”:
1) He actually thinks that he is an intellectual. Since he most obviously is not, this makes him a fool.
2) He knows he’s a fool, and keeps his mouth shut to hide this fact. Again, he’s a fool.
3) There is no “there” there. Again, a fool.
Hmmm, three out of three. The Obamaloon is a fool. But an experienced one, according to bottom of the SAT barrel journalists.
The news article doesn't mention what these are.
He misspelled 'a loon'.
He is also an idiot without any accomplishments.
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