Posted on 02/15/2009 12:23:29 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
Barack Obama has sent Sir Winston Churchill packing and pulse rates soaring among anxious British diplomats.
A bust of the former prime minister once voted the greatest Briton in history, which was loaned to George W Bush from the Government's art collection after the September 11 attacks, has now been formally handed back.
The bronze by Sir Jacob Epstein, worth hundreds of thousands of pounds if it were ever sold on the open market, enjoyed pride of place in the Oval Office during President Bush's tenure.
But when British officials offered to let Mr Obama to hang onto the bust for a further four years, the White House said: "Thanks, but no thanks."
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
This makes no sense to me.
“I won.”
Thanks for pings justice. Slowly catching up on news after being gone awhile.
If you haven’t done so, please see Mr. Mojo’s post # 133 as a possible explanation.
This makes sense. Why would bammy want to look at the face of a true leader who loved his country?
It would only serve to remind the marxist messiah of the POS he really is.
Besides, better the bust be removed before it gets destroyed when aunt esther goes on a purse swinging tirade.
"It was during Churchill's second premiership that Britain suppressed Kenya's Mau Mau rebellion. Among Kenyans allegedly tortured by the colonial regime included one Hussein Onyango Obama, the President's grandfather. "
Keeping with the tradition of the Clinton Administration, unlike the American papers, the Telegraph gave the reader the whole story as to why Obama returned the bust.
By Jove! I think you’ve got it!
That makes perfect sense.
Ping to #146
This stuff makes me ill.
Maybe Obama is already showing us why the Founding Fathers put the "natural born citizen" clause in the Constitution as a qualification for the presidency. Certainly the vast majority of natural born American citizens have favorable impressions of Winston Churchill's legacy in world history.
I'm sure you are referring to the tradition of the Telegraph as exemplified during the Clinton Administration. I recall specifically the investigative reporting of the Telegraph on the Vincent Foster homicide case by its Washington correspondent, Ambrose Evans-Pritchard.
Unfortunately, the Telegraph seemed to have lost its way for a while after a change in ownership.
I can see a point where we draw a line straight across the middle of this country and make a big split as I don't believe the majority of the southern part of this country are going to drink this man's koolaid. BTW did you see the real reason he is coming to Phoenix this week? Start of his 2012 campaign to win the southwest... AZ is the one red chink in their missing SW armour.
BTW is the Guardian still being run by the pro-Clinton editor?
Once you’re disarmed, demonized, put on notice that you are being watched, there isn’t much you can do other than do what you are told. How do you protect yourself, or avoid capture and immediate destruction?
People hoped that the reports were false, Germany would fall, and that fate would ultimately work in their favor.
And when it didn’t... six million died.
Things certainly didn't work out like some folks had planned.
When Germany and Russia failed to neutralize each other - the game changed. Much to the chagrin of the folks in the City of London and Wall Street who financed Hitler's military industrial complex.
And here we are again....
Hey, ‘FREE TRADE’, it was capitalism at it’s best.
Folks just don’t want to admit that no matter how sound an ideology is, it can have very negative impacts, if it is not implemented in a sane manner.
I like to say, I love sex, but I can’t participate in it 24/7/365. Capitalism is great internally, but if it is applied across international borders, it can really cause havok.
Look at the technology transfers to China alone. That ain’t right!!!
Senator Hatch at one point wanted to hand the Chinese our complete patent database. You can’t make this stuff up...
>>Hey, ‘FREE TRADE’, it was capitalism at it’s best.
Ayup.
“Communist Chinese Capitalism”
Capitalism is just a tool, and like any tool, the moral nature of the tool’s product depends entirely upon the moral character of the tool’s user.
The presently observable systemic corruption of governance, financial and otherwise, is symptomatic of the moral corruption of the individuals who comprise that system.
When folks behave as though “do that thou wilt is the whole of the law” bad things happen. Simple.
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