Obama: Britain Should Stay in the EU Because Of Iran, Climate Change, TTIP, And Because Sovereignty

Breitbart ^ | 4/21/16 | Raheem Kassam

[Nachum]

U.S. President Barack Obama has penned an opinion column in Britain’s Daily Telegraph newspaper outlining why he believes Britain should remain in the European Union (EU). The core of his arguments are: that Britain’s voice would be lost without Brussels bureaucrats; his failing deal with the largest state sponsor of terrorism; the pro-mass-privatisation TTIP deal; and the fact that dead American servicemen are buried in Europe.

[upcountryhorseman]

O’bama, being a Kenyan, does not have Britain's well being
at heart. Remember, he returned Churchill's statue to Britain!

[the scotsman]

Difference between the Guardian whoring for Obummer and said Prez whoring his viewpoint. The general feel in the UK is that he should button his lip and stay out.

[NorthMountain]

Dear British:

In case you weren't aware: the proper response to 0b0la's utterances is ridicule and rejection, accompanied by howls of derisive laughter.

[miss marmelstein]

I agree; now tell your pols to butt out of our internal politics. And no fake whinging about how America controls GB either!

[NorthMountain]

:1,$s/faint/fart/

[Vanders9]

Brits comment, but British politicians (certainly major ones) are very careful not to take sides in other country’s internal political issues.

[miss marmelstein]

My God, pols debated whether to ban Trump! They did that not necessarily because they had the guts to do it but to send a message to America not to vote for this guy. British pols are always mouthing off about American policies to influence American policies. Let’s not be naïve.

[the scotsman]

They had to: parliamentary procedure. After the online petition triggered a certain level.

[miss marmelstein]

Embarrassing. Obama, to his credit, has thrown out some of those petitions. We don’t debate in Congress to throw out idiot people like Piers Morgan.

[Vanders9]

And you were furious (rightly) about some of the things that were said in that debate (they didn't actually have any choice not to debate it, and the motion was defeated). So why would the Brits not be equally furious at the language Obama used?

Look, we all know that Obama wants Britain to stay in the EU because it is in America's interest that Britain is in. It is inevitable that a certain amount of US pressure is going to seep into the debate, but it's very unusual for a foreign political leader to directly advise the citizens of another nation to "vote for such and such a person" or "not to vote for such and such a treaty", at least in the terms that Obama used.

[miss marmelstein]

I have no problem with Brits being furious at Obama. In fact, I encourage it. As long as it doesn’t lead to the usual America-bashing, of course.

[Vanders9]

It’s hard to tell how this will play out. Against all the odds (and all reason) Obama remains pretty popular in the UK. His intervention may very well encourage some to vote the way he wants. OTOH, I personally think its going to encourage many more people to vote the other way (and, unfortunately, encourage anti-American sentiment). No one likes to be bullied or threatened, and that’s what the subtext of his statement was. Not only that Britain was going to suffer for leaving the EU, but that America was going to punish us.

[miss marmelstein]

It doesn’t take much to encourage anti-American sentiment in Great Britain. You guys are fed it in all your media throughout the isles and on a daily basis. If your countrymen are so weak as to follow what a community organizer from the south of Chicago says about international affairs, well, you get the results you deserve.

[Vanders9]

Well you have to remember that people on this side of the pond get very skewed news about US political figures. No one in the UK is very much interested in Obama's views on abortion or the 2nd amendment because it doesn't directly affect them, so its rarely reported. In fact the only domestic US politics that gets reported in the UK are big events like the Ferguson race riots. Of course, the fact that the self-proclaimed "post-racial" president, and first black man in the office, has presided over the lowest point in US race relations in decades is never explicitly pointed out.

Obviously the main Obama policies that affect non-US citizens are foreign affairs, and here I really am at a loss as to explain why Obama remains popular, as his policies are ...well...erratic at best. I can only think he's managed to wriggle out of difficulties by saying the right words and putting all the blame on previous administrations.

[Joe Boucher]

This “magic negro”, has become little more than Sideshow Bob.