Posted on 10/02/2008 2:22:15 PM PDT by tcrlaf
Barack Obama is a "decidedly liberal" senator "who was finding his feet, and then got diverted by his presidential ambitions", according to a frank verdict delivered to Gordon Brown by the British ambassador to the United States.
Sir Nigel Sheinwald, ambassador in Washington since last year, delivered his unvarnished assessment of the White House front runner in a seven-page letter to the Prime Minister, obtained by The Daily Telegraph, just before the Democratic nominee's visit to Downing Street just over two months ago.
The candid letter, marked as containing "sensitive judgements" and requesting officials to "protect the contents carefully" gives a remarkable insight into how the Foreign Office views the political phenomenon who stunned Mr Brown's inner circle by defeating their favourite, Hillary Clinton, in the Democratic primaries.
Although the picture Sir Nigel paints is a highly complimentary one - Mr Obama's speeches are "elegant" and "mesmerising", he is "highly intelligent" and has "star quality" - he also judges that his "policies are still evolving" and that if elected he will "have less of a track record than any recent president".
The letter's contents suggest that Mr Brown could initially find it difficult to deal with a President Obama because he remains a largely unknown quantity who "resists pigeon-holing" and the leak is likely to complicate relations.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Love it when the ‘humor’ show up/lol!
The news cycles are so quick these days, this has just been blown off like all the other stuff.
Not until I read your post; did I realize the 'before' was the 'AFTER'.
So, yes, think the old ones look better; in fact he looks a whole lot better in the first earlier picture! Of course, he was a 'bit' younger; but not much younger. . .
Eyes 'left' or downward. . .ONLY!
You can fool some of the people some of the times, but....it appears the international community is not so fooled these days.
Here’s a new article about Obama refusing a normal formal press conference with Brown.
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