He can talk. What a surprise

The Sunday Telegraph (U.K.) ^ | 11/23/03 | Stephen Pollard

[nicmarlo]

I didn't see that today (but I'm sure I've seen it before). PLEASE FIND AND POST IT! It would be great!!!

[lepton]

I like to imagine the guards at Buckingham Palace dressed in Leiderhosen and a great big swastica atop the monument in Trafalgar Square.

My experience with those types of people is that they're far more like us than they are like the British Press.

Once I took a trip to London, which was hopelessly botched, and the inter-city tours scheduled ended up being scrapped as we missed the contacts. Not once but twice, (ex-military) Brits, upon hearing that I was on leave, took it upon themselves to show me around for a few hours at a time, at various historical locations.

These aren't the type of people the papers will usually end up quoting...

[Kirkwood]

Man, you sure nailed that!

[lepton]

I suppose because of some conceit over the age of their nations in comparison to ours.

Like France and Germany...both less than 60 years old.

[Brad’s Gramma]

I'm still looking....but I think it's flat out disappeared.

[nicmarlo]

Well, ping me if you ever find it.....which I may be hitting the hay here, real soon. Almost midnight...getting tired.

[Saints fan]

The entire world is backward in comparison to the comprehension of most ordinary Americans, yet, funny as it is, they consider themselves the "enlightened ones". I suppose because of some conceit over the age of their nations in comparison to ours.

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I think that's what galls them, the age of their nation in comparison to ours. In only 200+ years we have become the greatest and most powerful nation on earth and they are slouching towards irrelevence. That must be pretty hard for them to take.They still feel the need to be important.

[Bernard Marx]

We can put up with Americans who seem ashamed to be American. Woe betide them, however, if they are proud of it. They will have to put up with our weapon of choice: the condescending sneer.

No we won't. I've spent the last of my precious, hard-earned American dollars in England. After the aggressive condescension I experienced from Brits on a couple of trips there a few years ago I'll never spend another penny in Albion. The scorn came from out the blue, just because we were American. I know we have friends there (I read the Telegraph every day and loved it!) But the America-haters can go pound sand and they can expect the same kind of treatment when they visit my area. Screw 'em!

[StriperSniper]

I just don't get it.

Me neither. :(

Then again, it fits their selfish M.O.

[ntnychik]

The landscape (here and abroad) is littered with the wreckage of fools who underestimated George W. It astounds me how many people believe that he doesn't know how to pronounce "nuclear". I am absolutely sure he does it the way he does it just to annoy people and lead them to think he's stupid.

I think you're right. I heard one of the American media talking heads note that Pres. Bush pronounced "nuclear" correctly in his speech in London.

[MissAmericanPie]

We are what happens when a nation respects God, builds their nation on Christian principles and receives in return blessings over flowing and unheard of in history.

[LiteKeeper]

mega-dittoes!!!!!

[Brad’s Gramma]

HLL found it for me, nicmarlo. Now there, don't these pictures say a lot??? ....... Previewing this, those 2 in the bottom picture look, oh.... so irrelevant, don't they?

[FlyVet]

That Bush fellow is just so typically American: crude and unsophisticated.

He left out "unenlightened". I'm disappointed.

[nicmarlo]

those 2 in the bottom picture look, oh.... so irrelevant, don't they?

Most irrelevant. Look at the pride in the face of the Queen as she looks at Laura. The change in mannerisms toward XXX42 and GW (throughout all those pics on the Queen and GW) is quite astounding (yet not, she probably wanted to puke standing next to XXX42 and Hitlery). Her Majesty looks like she's either tickled to death or just honored to be in GW's presence.

[MeekOneGOP]

The U.S. and the entire world have this tendency of misunderestimating (and/or putting down) George W. Bush ...

As The Guardian began its leader on Thursday: "Conscious that he has a bit of catching up do to, George Bush turned on the charm yesterday."

No, he didn't. He spoke as he always does: with a clarity of moral and political purpose unmatched by any American politician since Ronald Reagan, and with a charm that all who have met him confirm is entirely natural. The speech should hardly have come as a surprise. After all, he spoke just as eloquently when interviewed by Sir David Frost last Sunday. But until now the chatterers have chosen neither to listen nor to see. Last week they had no alternative, and so decided it was a one-off.

What such attitudes really reveal, however, is not how much they loathe President Bush but the reality of - I choose my words carefully - anti-Americanism in Britain. It is a phrase that has been bandied about far too loosely of late and is usually intended - and taken - to mean a loathing and hatred of all things, and people, American.

Thanks for the heads up on this article ...

[aculeus]

Meanwhile, full-time crank and ex-scientist, lectures the colonials on the evils of religion.


http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=350176

[aculeus]

Such is the power of the worldwide left-wing propaganda machine. Right!

[nicmarlo]

yw; I just pinged you to another good read: Revealed: what the tearful President told the grieving relatives of Britain's war dead

[aculeus]

Her Majesty looks like she's either tickled to death or just honored to be in GW's presence.

Astute observations. I'm reminded that the Queen was seen to weep during a September 11th memorial (shortly after the event) while the snots on BBC were ganging up on American guests (on a program they wouldn't dare show on BBC America).

Perhaps the pro-Americans are found at the top of the British class system ... and at the bottom. Most cockneys seem to like us.