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White House admits it did return Winston Churchill bust to Britain
telegraph.co.uk ^

Posted on 07/29/2012 12:55:44 PM PDT by Sub-Driver

White House admits it did return Winston Churchill bust to Britain

Barack Obama's White House has been forced to admit that it did return a bust of Sir Winston Churchill to British diplomats, after describing such claims as "100 per cent false".

By Jon Swaine, Washington

7:53PM BST 29 Jul 2012

Aides to Mr Obama were furious after The Daily Telegraph disclosed last week that Mitt Romney planned to restore the Jacob Epstein sculpture to its home under George W Bush from 2001 to 2009.

"I'm looking forward to the bust of Winston Churchill being in the Oval Office again," the Republican challenger confirmed at a fund-raiser at London's Mandarin Oriental hotel.

Dan Pfeiffer, the President's communications director, said in a statement that widespread reports of the bust being returned to Britain's embassy in Washington as Mr Obama took office were untrue.

"This is 100 per cent false," Mr Pfeiffer said. "The bust is still in the White House. In the Residence. Outside the Treaty Room". Illustrating his statement with a photograph of Mr Obama inspecting it with David Cameron in 2010, he added: "Hopefully this clears things up a bit and prevents folks from making this ridiculous claim again".

British officials were surprised by Mr Pfeiffer's statement and photograph, however, because the bust now resides in the residence of Sir Peter Westmacott, Britain's ambassador to the US. Further inquiries led to the discovery that there are, in fact, two matching Churchill busts by Epstein.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: bhouk; churchill; churchillbust; demlies; elections; first100days; liars; lie; lying; lyingliars; obama; obamalies; obamascandals; revisionisthistory; statue; winstonchurchillbust
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To: SkyPilot
That's hardly lifelike. The head needs to be tilted back and the jaw needs to be thrust out. And there's not near enough haughtiness in the eyes.


41 posted on 07/29/2012 1:45:03 PM PDT by upchuck ("Definition of 'racist:' someone that is winning an argument with a liberal." ~ Peter Brimelow)
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To: Sub-Driver

when their lips move


42 posted on 07/29/2012 1:45:49 PM PDT by vbmoneyspender
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To: FatherofFive; SandRat
Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects are apparent in many countries.

That barbarous legacy and fatalist habit infests unformly the scions of Andalus, IOW, every Latin American country on Earth.

43 posted on 07/29/2012 1:45:56 PM PDT by Carry_Okie (The Slave Party Switcheroo: Economic crisis! Zero's eligibility Trumped!! Hillary 2012!!!)
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To: FatherofFive

I bet Churchill is turning over in his grave seeing what muslims have done to Great Britain (and America).


44 posted on 07/29/2012 1:47:44 PM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: Sub-Driver
Less than ONE MONTH after his Inauguration:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/barackobama/4623148/Barack-Obama-sends-bust-of-Winston-Churchill-on-its-way-back-to-Britain.html

45 posted on 07/29/2012 1:51:06 PM PDT by GeorgeWashingtonsGhost
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To: upchuck

You don’t even have to look closely at that photo you posted to see the bits of undigested corn and peanuts.


46 posted on 07/29/2012 1:51:55 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: Sub-Driver

and the RATS, take another one in the.........HA ha!!!

47 posted on 07/29/2012 1:54:22 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: Sub-Driver

No one but a fool in the first degree would believe anything a Democrat said without proof.


48 posted on 07/29/2012 1:57:03 PM PDT by sport
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To: WilliamofCarmichael
Obama is a biological/ideological issue of 1960s Marxist-Alinsky ideologues and the whole damn administration is occupied by aged 1960s campus spoiled brats and their bratty ideological issue -- and that includes the majority of the MSM.

Bingo! The Churchill bust return, "you didn't build that," "spread the wealth around," plus 1000 other comments by Obama and his minions point to their Marxist/Alinsky/socialist/communist roots. What about this do Americans not get? . . November 6, 2012. .

49 posted on 07/29/2012 2:02:55 PM PDT by Art in Idaho (Conservatism is the only hope for Western Civilization.)
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50 posted on 07/29/2012 2:10:53 PM PDT by LucyT (~ Countdown: Ninety-Nine days until November 6. ~)
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To: Sub-Driver

Sorry for my potty mouth, but what an a$$hole!


51 posted on 07/29/2012 2:16:01 PM PDT by NoGrayZone (For evil to triumph it is only necessary for good men to do nothing.)
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To: Houghton M.

All what you say is true, however, the british government offered the bust to Emporer Nero Narcissus for 4 more years.


52 posted on 07/29/2012 2:22:54 PM PDT by dsrtsage (One half of all people have below average IQ. In the US the number is 54%)
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To: Sub-Driver
"This is 100 per cent false," Mr Pfeiffer said. "The bust is still in the White House. In the Residence. Outside the Treaty Room".

Well hell, nobody asked him what "this" and "the" meant.

So it's our fault.

Pfeiffer should be a federal judge.

53 posted on 07/29/2012 2:28:33 PM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Politico.com isn’t JUST a propaganda mouthpiece for this administration, but for Communist/Socialist agenda in general... The sad thing is that many in the upper echelons of the GOP have used these “journ-o-listers” to bash each OTHER through the last two primary cycles as well. I take EVERYTHING I read at Politico.com with more than a grain of salt, if I read it at all.


54 posted on 07/29/2012 2:32:25 PM PDT by LibertyRocks
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To: Sub-Driver
In an update to his statement, a defiant Mr Pfeiffer stressed that the notion Mr Obama had returned a bust "because of antipathy towards the British" was "an urban legend".

It wasn't "antipathy towards the British," it was antipathy towards anything Bush.

-PJ

55 posted on 07/29/2012 2:33:17 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (It doesn't come naturally when you're not natural born.)
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To: Sub-Driver

This asshole lies about everything


56 posted on 07/29/2012 2:34:54 PM PDT by The Wizard (Madam President is my President now and in the future)
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To: Army Air Corps

TTheses communists lie constantly with to problem....to get their way when possible.


57 posted on 07/29/2012 2:35:16 PM PDT by fabian (" And a new day will dawn for those who stand long, and the forests will echo with laughter")
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To: Army Air Corps

TTheses communists lie constantly with to problem....to get their way when possible.


58 posted on 07/29/2012 2:35:36 PM PDT by fabian (" And a new day will dawn for those who stand long, and the forests will echo with laughter")
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To: Army Air Corps

TTheses communists lie constantly with to problem....to get their way when possible.


59 posted on 07/29/2012 2:35:48 PM PDT by fabian (" And a new day will dawn for those who stand long, and the forests will echo with laughter")
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To: Sub-Driver

This article is a damned barefaced lie!

The bust was broken by Miz Obama while cracking nuts for her husband thingy.


60 posted on 07/29/2012 2:42:46 PM PDT by IbJensen (If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed)
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