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."
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The Great Purge, Part Deux.
So 1-800 dentist should be real busy for about one more year
Churchill has less happy connotations for Mr Obama than those American politicians who celebrate his wartime leadership. 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.
FWIW, the Mau Mau rebellion was not a pretty thing, and Obama's grandfather was a Communist terrorist. Odinga takes after him, incidentally. Of course, you can no longer raise those sorts of issues in today's England.
Callaghan - I mean, he got beat by a woman too.
And in 2012, 0bamatuer gets beat by Palin?
It’d be nice to send this bust of a “leader” back to
Chicago...
I'm inclined to think that when they start decorating, as is the custom, we'll have a "Black Museum"...for a Whitehouse.
He is not stupid, he is evil.
I pray America survives this mistake.
I have a small dilema....do I continue to fly Old Glory on the shore of Lake Erie? Do I fly her at half mast? I don’t want to show any support for this “president”, but I still love “America the good”.
That ugly thing needs to be removed and a port a john put in it’s place.
Wonder why?
Churchill warned the world about resurgeant fascism, which we now have in the World Wide Caliphate Movement, f which Obama is a part.
Perhaps the Brits in Washington will begin to understand just what Obama represents.
Jonah Goldberg outlined it quite well:
Excellent book.
It’s worse than being empty by a long shot! That would be an improvement. Come to think of it, Chairman Mao might be considered an improvement!
Half-mast. I would say upside-down but that was stolen by the left in the last 8 years.
WTG Barry piss off a country that actually counts.
Incredible. A bust of Britain’s greatest modern figure by Britain’s greatest 20th C. sculptor.
But heck, it’s not a bust of Stevie Wonder, so who cares?
One of the items on my list of ‘things to do before I die”, is to urinate on the grave of Karl Marx. I was in London twice this past summer and never did get an opportunity - not going to make that mistake again.
Yes he was.
“Workers of All Lands Unite!”
I’m sure the workers in the U.S.S.R., China, and Vietnam could tell Carl a thing or two about his idealistic vision.
So could we.
It seems the EVERYTHING Comrade 0bama does, makes my blood boil!
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