Posted on 03/04/2009 4:35:38 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
The White House could easily have granted the press conference Gordon Brown so clearly craved. Though there was something a little craven, a touch humiliating about much of the build-up to this week's Prime Ministerial visit to Washington, it's reasonable to suppose that, in this instance at least, Brown may have been treated a little shabbily. The kindest way to view this is that the White House is so focused on economic fire-fighting that it has little time for diplomatic niceties; alternatively it sends a tough reminder as to who wears the trousers in this relationship partnership. There'll be none of this Athens to Rome nonsense, Mister Brown. (Was it just a coincidence that the BBC went big on Macmillan visiting JFK in their footage last night?)
There is a third possibility, of course. Obama has been briefed about the British press corps and sees no reason to humour them. This would not be wholly unsurprising: Fleet Street's finest are viewed as scatalogically-obsessed, bottle-throwing, teenage yobs far too fond of relieving themselves behind the bushes in the Rose Garden, or worse, in the East Room's pot plants.
Anyway, as you might expect, the British press corps is not happy with being ignored and sidelined today. Instead of half an hour in which to ask rude penetrating questions, they will have to watch and fume as the wire services ask a couple of softball questions while Brown and Obama pose for pictures. Most unhappy of all are the DC-based correspondents who have been denied access to even the "pool spray" press mini-event there will be. This means the colourful reconstructions of the "summit" in the Sunday papers this weekend may have to be (even) more artful than usual.
(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.co.uk ...
Actually, it’s very simple: the Kenyan resents the colonists, wouldn’t you?
I like the sound of that, “Acting”.
He snubbed the Brits good and proper and they should be mad as hell.
Yes, that is referred to as "magical thinking". It's a symptom of people with mental disorders (I'm serious)..like adult children etc...(but that's what most liberals are anyway).
Example of (lib) magical thinking:
"If we're just nice to terrorists, they will want to be nice to us."
It has no basis in reality.
"...magical thinking is "a fundamental dimension of a child's thinking."
--Zusne and Jones
He and Meechelle are ugly
Downing St left embarrassed after Obama scales down first meeting with Brown
Daily Mail UK | March 2, 2009 | Benedict Brogan
Posted on 03/03/2009 7:09:59 AM PST by rightwingintelligentsia
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2198107/posts
Snow cancels Brown-Obama news conference
UPI | 3/3/09 | Unnamed
Posted on 03/03/2009 9:18:47 AM PST by Califreak
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2198208/posts
Obama Meets With British Prime Minister Brown
The Washington Post | March 3, 2009 | Staff
Posted on 03/03/2009 2:48:29 PM PST by yoe
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2198476/posts
White House cancels Brown press conference in Rose Garden (0 Punks the PM)
Times Online | 3/3/2009 | Philippe Naughton
Posted on 03/03/2009 4:20:23 PM PST by mojito
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2198547/posts
Barack Obama cancels press conference with Gordon Brown “because of snow”
The Telegraph (UK) | 3/3/09 | Toby Harnden
Posted on 03/04/2009 8:09:34 AM PST by Reaganesque
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2199001/posts
It will get worse. How much will the American people take before a real change is made?
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