ummm ok russ
Posted on 09/14/2008 9:50:41 PM PDT by Schnucki
Have Russell Brand and Gordon Brown damaged Barack Obama's chances? An alarming number of Americans have been saying it is possible - that's how much their countrymen hate being told how to vote by the British.
Mr Brown didn't exactly endorse Mr Obama, but he certainly suggested a preference in a magazine article. Brand, a comedian who is almost as unknown in the US as the British Prime Minister, was more blunt as he exhorted - "on behalf of the world" - the audience of the MTV Video Awards to vote Democrat. George Bush, he added, was a "retarded cowboy". Americans will forgive almost anything from a Brit with good dental work, but the toothy comic's not-very-original gags went down badly with his audience and with most of the US media.
On the internet, it turned into a tremendous Anglo-American slanging match as unkind generalisations about "snooty Brits" and "humourless Yanks" flashed back and forth across the Atlantic, fleshed out with occasional pointed references to 1776. Open as they are to other influences, Americans do not take kindly to foreigners telling them how to run their country.
"We believe we have the best political system in the world," said an American friend. "It's not something we need outside advice on."
Fair enough, and it's not as if the US ever puts its oar into anyone else's political process, but still it is odd, given how much bullying the Americans lap up from the British in other areas. US television is full of it, with Simon Cowell telling them they cannot sing on American Idol; Gordon Ramsay that they cannot cook; and "Supernanny" Jo Frost that they don't know how to bring up children. As long as he stayed off politics, there is probably even airtime space for a British dentist
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Brits need shut f*** up
Only cool thing about the UK is the music Brit comedies Masterpiece theatre and us Americans goofing on Brit Royal family also giving the world two great Brit PM in Winnie Churchill and Maggie Thatcher
We could take credit on Winnie he is part American other things forgetaboutit
THAT ALL
Come to think of it, I am tiring of hearing British accents on TV.
>> Americans do not like Britons telling them who to vote for
Americans are more concerned with the treatment returning British troops receive by their countrymen.
ummm ok russ
The Brits are being overrun by Muslims who despise their Western lifestyle and want to end it yesterday - which they do nothing about - and yet they sit there in their superiority telling us how to handle our affairs.
Hussein Oboe brought this election to Europe just for the purpose of having EU & Brit weenies say crap like this.
His supporters “need” world approval.
It wouldn’t surprise me if he held a “test election” for POTUS inside the EU simply for bragging rights to the One World crowd.
The Brits are so over..... All that is left them is spite and envy. They had a pretty good run, but more vigorous, confident peoples are about to take control of their island— madmen in dirty bathrobes thundering threats of murder and mayhem on the corners of their decaying cities. It is over.
It would be even worse for Obama if Americans knew who the heck Russell Brand is.
I’ll admit that if Simon Cowell told John McCain that he cannot sing, I’d accept the verdict. If Gordon Ramsay said McCain couldn’t cook, I’d take it as fact. I wouldn’t cotton to Jo Frost telling Sarah Palin how to raise her kids, though.
Again iirc, the telephone campaign backfired. Ohioans did NOT want to be lobbied by Brits.
I have a soft spot for British Comedies, but even I had to look up just who this Russell Brand twat actually was.
Turns out he’s a bipolar, ex-heroin addict, ex-alcoholic, ex-sex addict, who likes to dress like a pouf. Surely, all the drugs he’s consumed have addled his young brain...either that or his vegetarian lifestyle surely has [see related FR article on how veggie diets do this, somewhere around here, seriously, it explains a lot]
And he thinks *Bush* is the retard? Get the f*ck outta here.
I hope he applies for asylum when the headchoppers start headchopping over there and President Palin responds “Take a flying leap, limey c*nt.”
My wife is a vegetarian. She does take B12 daily, as it has been known for many years that deficiencies in B12 and some amino acids can result from a veg diet.
She is also conservative, self-employed, puts Rush on the radio at her business, detests 0bama, and loves Sarah Palin.
Dear Brits,
Most Americans like you and in many ways we are brethren, but our shared history shows that when it comes to politics please stay the f#$k out of ours just as we stay out of yours . That is all.
Aft
Unfair. The GEICO Cavemen are much better groomed.
agreed
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