Posted on 04/24/2016 11:19:13 AM PDT by MtnClimber
I wonder who in Downing Street briefed Barack Obamas team on the wording of his friendly warning to the British. Somebody obviously pointed out that the population of this country retained a quaint obsession with the Second World War, and would therefore treat any reference to the glorious dead as irreproachable. So the President invoked the European graves of those American servicemen who died to protect well, what exactly?
I thought it was the democratic values and reverence for national independence that Britain shared with the US. Did Mr Obama have any sense at all that what he was now urging the British electorate to accept was precisely the surrender of those sacred principles of democratically accountable government and self-determination for which the combined American and British forces had made their ultimate sacrifice?
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SURRENDERED? I'd say it's more along the lines of promoting or advocating.
Hey, not to mention that his resume featured “community organizer” as his top achievement.
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