Posted on 03/04/2009 6:47:26 AM PST by Lou Budvis
Why couldn't President Obama have put on more of a show for his British guests? He looked like he simply couldn't be bothered. Number 10 may be content that they just about got away with the visit to the Oval Office yesterday, as Andrew Porter reports from Washington. But on this side of the Atlantic the whole business looked pretty demeaning. The morning papers and TV last night featured plenty of comment focused on the White House's very odd and, frankly, exceptionally rude treatment of a British PM. Squeezing in a meeting, denying him a full press conference with flags etc. The British press corps, left outside for an hour in the cold, can take it and their privations are of limited concern to the public. But Obama's merely warmish words (one of our closest allies, said with little sincerity or passion) left a bitter taste with this Atlanticist. Especially after his team had made Number 10 beg for a mini press conference and then not even offered the PM lunch. We get the point, sunshine: we're just one of many allies and you want fancy new friends. Well, the next time you need something doing, something which impinges on your national security, then try calling the French, or the Japanese, or best of all the Germans. The French will be able to offer you first rate support from their catering corps but beyond that you'll be on your own. When it comes to men, munitions and commitment you'll soon find out why it pays to at least treat the Brits with some manners.
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HAHAHAHAHA!!!! Lesson #1 for the gullible.
Here's the new tone you wanted.
You're welcome.
But on this side of the Atlantic the whole business looked pretty demeaning. The morning papers and TV last night featured plenty of comment focused on the White House's very odd and, frankly, exceptionally rude treatment of a British PM.
Squeezing in a meeting, denying him a full press conference with flags etc. The British press corps, left outside for an hour in the cold, can take it and their privations are of limited concern to the public.
But Obama's merely warmish words (one of our closest allies, said with little sincerity or passion) left a bitter taste with this Atlanticist. Especially after his team had made Number 10 beg for a mini press conference and then not even offered the PM lunch.
We get the point, sunshine: we're just one of many allies and you want fancy new friends. Well, the next time you need something doing, something which impinges on your national security, then try calling the French, or the Japanese, or best of all the Germans.
The French will be able to offer you first rate support from their catering corps but beyond that you'll be on your own. When it comes to men, munitions and commitment you'll soon find out why it pays to at least treat the Brits with some manners.
That's better, easier to read:
He, the Messiah, thinks he is above everyone else. He needs to be taken down a couple of notches.
Exactly. It was rude of them to cheer him on. We knew what we were talking about and gee I guess it shows now doesn’t it. I love it. That is what they get. Bush was a class act. They those that cheered treated him like pond scum . . . speaking of the pond.
Well, he said that he was going to repair our relationships with our allies. I guess he intends to damage them first, then fix them...
LOL, I was going to post something similar! Idiots!
The Brits have been our allies for a long time, I think Obama is harming America by doing this. I wonder how many people, that voted for him, are having second thoughts.
Cheerio, mate ! Bambi has his hands full right now, talking down the gyrating stock market and selling out Eastern Europe.
He treats us like dirt, so Britain should expect the same.
The Zero will prove to be the BIGGEST EMBARRASSMENT THAT HAS EVER BEEN IN THE WHITE HOUSE.......................
Only the smart ones. So, I guess probably none.
He is creating enemies he doesn’t need. His party thinks that the US Conservatives are the enemy. We are not going to be nearly as dangerous to him as the countries that he is ruining financially and by lack of defense. Other countries have a great interest in seeing him dethroned. He is playing a very dangerous game.
Adding the last 4 words . . . may have been wise . . . but somewhat inaccurate.
I pray he is taken out of public life by God Almighty asap.
I think that Obama is avoiding any type of a press conference, other than pre screened and approved questions. It is inevitable that someone will ask him in public about the birth certificate issue. This issue is his kryptonite, and he knows it. He is trying to become embedded as long as he can before this comes out to make challenges harder.
Why was he treated so badly? The answer is simple. Most of the Brits still believe in Free Enterprise and Freedom.
The press "polls" show him as poopular as ever!
Second thoughts are going to pile up as high as Mt. Everest between now and 2012. I'm actually optimistic over the longer haul because the public is getting an overdue lesson in how the far left operates. The lesson Carter gave us had just about faded out.
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