Posted on 03/05/2009 7:41:09 AM PST by MaestroLC
On US radio's Garrison show today, I was asked for my reaction as a true born Englishman to President Obama's double insult - first the sending back of the Winston Churchill bust, then his snub to Gordon Brown. "Tough one. Really tough one," I said, torn - as most of surely are - between delight at seeing Brown roundly humiliated, and dismay at having the special relationship so peremptorily, cruelly and bafflingly ruptured.
Iain Martin is quite right here: no matter how utterly rubbish we have become as a nation in the Blair/Brown years, Britain's friendship is something Obama will come to regret having dispensed with so lightly. This was not the act of a global statesman, but of a hormonal teenager dismissing her bestest of best BFs for no other reason than that she felt like it and she can, so there.
What was the guy thinking? In researching my new book Welcome to Obamaland, I discovered that Obama's judgment is pretty dreadful - but this? My favourite theory so far - suggested by presenter Greg Garrison - was that it was a move calculated to please his Lady Macbeth. At the moment in Britain, we're still in the "Doesn't she look fabulous in a designer frock" stage of understanding of Michelle Obama. Gradually, though, we'll begin to realise that she is every bit the terrifying executive's wife that Hillary Clinton was. Or, shudder, Cherie Blair.
We may just LURVE Michelle's fashion sense. But Michelle doesn't reciprocate our affection, one bit. Her broad-brush view of history associates Brits with the wicked white global hegemony responsible for the slave trade. Never mind that a white, Tory Englishman - William Wilberforce - brought the slave trade to an end.
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Lady MacBeth? I was more thinking Marie Antoinette...
Teleprompter buddy was behind the snub ... Expect to see more of this.
That's EXACTLY what I suspect. Reverend Wright's tutelage is bearing fruit.
Black Liberation Theology.
Which is hilarious, because the Brits were only the slave trade in any significant way for about 90 years, from the end of the War of Spanish Succession in 1715, when they won the right to ship slaves to the Spanish colonies, to their decision to abolish the trade in 1807, after which the Royal Navy became the primary agent of destruction of the African slave trade. The Arabs and Moors had owned both the Indian and Atlantic sides of the African slave trade for centuries before the Spanish wrestled the Atlantic side out of their hands after the Reconquista of 1492.
If one were to pick the race of men most responsible for the worldwide abolition of slavery, it would in fact be the British.
This isn't a contest, my FRiend. I don't care who came first, as long as the news is posted.
That BITCH is nasty and she HATES “white folks”!
The Obamas are just two “typical” left-wing African-Americans. Who knew?
Note to news media: Rush told you so.
Tradition means nothing to Barack or Michelle. The problem for them is that bucking tradition is not as easy as they think it is. The problem for us is that his attempts to Buck tradition will screw alot of things up. Barack is an idealogue of the unattainable, and therefore is destined to fail.
He has worn out his welcome at home, and will do so roundly ini Europe, and will take refuge in the Islamic and African nations. No president of mine, a usuper, he continues to verify by his conduct his true nature and danger to America, as a well disguised rabid animal, Obama will be forced to war agianst Russia and Iran because of invited attack due to weakness.And his snub of Brown was just that: weakness.
He will not last long. And good riddance when he exits.
Winston Churchill was a huge proponent of the British Empire. As such Obama would not be PC to accept a bust of the, “Colonial Oppressor”. The Lady Macbeth angle may be true but it would not have to be for this to happen.
A communist president would WANT to destroy the west’s strongest alliances. This is no head scratcher.
Barack Obama is a bastard communist mole, created by Stanley Anne Dunham (communist skank), Frank Marshall Davis (communist perv), and William Ayers (communist bomber).
Barack and Michelle are nothing more than rubes.
America is beginning to realign.
We no longer need good relations with England, Poland, Australia or even Canada.
America is looking to court the likes of Syria, Egypt, Jordan, and even Iran.
Occam’s Razor:
DumbO’s father was born under British colonial rule in Kenya, and as far as we know, so was DumbO himself. We know his father was an ardent supporter of independence against the Brits and I’m sure some of that rubbed off on him.
Well, when it comes to Commie race baiting, I’d say that Barry and Michelle are both on the same page.
They are both Ivy-educated affirmative-action babies, too.
Winnie Mandella?
Come, you spirits
That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here,
Of direst cruelty! make thick my blood;
Stop up the access and passage to remorse,
That no compunctious visitings of nature
Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between
The effect and it!
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