Posted on 09/10/2008 12:02:37 PM PDT by Schnucki
Gordon Brown's article in the Parliamentary Monitor has sent Downing Street screeching into one of those clumsy reverse manoeuvres with which it has become so familiar of late. Apparently, the PM hadn't meant to endorse Barack Obama at all - in fact, he hadn't even meant to write the article, which, it is now claimed, was put together by some junior official and submitted to the magazine without so much as a cursory glance by its supposed author.
Number 10 today signalled that Mr Brown had not written the article, but refused to comment on claims that he had not even seen it. The prime minister took "responsibility" for everything published "under his name", his spokesman would only say.
The article, in which Brown (or the soon-to-be-jobless official) rhapsodised on the Democratic nominee as the "progressive" candidate with the vision to turn around the ailing US economy, was greeted with a collective groan by British commentators. It is the resigned cringe of a teenager embarrassed, again, by a gaffe-prone parent - the "he's-not-with-me" response which seems to have become the default setting for so much of the British public since Brown's non-election last year.
Not because Brits don't want Obama in the White House (though if he doesn't make it, there might be some Labour backbenchers looking to draft him over here) but because we are well aware that the endorsement of our esteemed leader can only have a negative effect on his prospects. Among the swelling ranks of passportless-and-proud-of-it small town Americans who Obama most needs to win over, the only endorsement more damaging would have been if Jacques Chirac himself had swooped in from his retirement in the septième arrondissement and anointed him with a slice of over-ripe Camembert.
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Your a dead man walking in British Politics.
How can the leader of the UK possibly believe that a Marxist who will raise taxes on "the rich" and raise the capital gains tax will turn around the "ailing US economy". If the US economy is ailing, how are European economies doing? How does the US economy compare to the European economy in unemployment, productivity and GNP? How stupid can people be?
Guido Fawkes:
"The first meeting Obama had with Gordon resulted in McCain inching ahead in the polls. This is more good news, get your money on McCain. Barring an act of god, the curse of Jonah Brown means Obama is now doomed...
"Team McCain are trying to keep a straight face - see the campaign's piss-take "The Coveted Gordon Brown Endorsement". Loser backs loser... "
Our Brit friends seem much more interested in American politics than their own. My advice to Strange Hannah: Take care of your own problems and leave America to Americans. If you want B.O. Plenty involved in British political affairs, by all means bring him over and let him help turn the U.K. into an even greater Islamic/socialist cesspool.
oops. didn’t mean to post that declaration of war against france. what an idiot. no wonder it’s called londonistan.
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