Posted on 09/27/2009 12:58:19 PM PDT by Nachum
At the G20 summit in Pittsburgh, and at the UN Security Council meeting before that, Barack Obama continued his administration's new policy toward Great Britain: declare that the "special relationship" between the U.S. and the U.K. is as strong as ever, and then act as if there is no such relationship at all.
The British papers were filled with the news that the president would not grant Prime Minister Gordon Brown a one-on-one meeting. "Mr. Obama had refused five separate requests from the prime minister for a private meeting during his U.S. trip for the UN summit in New York," reported the Daily Mail.
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It cuts into his supreme being status.
Oxford English Dictionary
Mau Mau, n. and adj.
Brit. /{sm}ma{shtu} ma{shtu}/, U.S. /{sm}ma{shtu} {smm}ma{shtu}/ Plural unchanged, -s. Forms: also with lower-case initial in sense A. 2. [Origin uncertain; apparently a name attributed by the public rather than owned by the society. Perhaps < Kikuyu mau-mau, ideophone used to describe voracious devouring; or < Kikuyu uma uma ‘scram! scram!’, with syllable reversal characteristic of children’s code; or alteration of Kikuyu (kiama kia) muma ‘(council of the) oath’, a self-appellation of the society; or a contemptuous distortion of the initials of the Kenya African Union, the political voice of African resistance to colonial rule. In sense A. 2 < MAU-MAU v.]
A. n.
1. More fully Mau Mau Association. An African secret society, originating among the Kikuyu and active in the 1950s, which favoured the use of armed resistance to expel European settlers and end British rule in Kenya; a member of this society. Now hist.
1950 E. Afr. Standard (Nairobi) 16 June A/5 We have arrived at a state of dissatisfaction and insecurity, bitterness and delusion which has given rise to the formation of such societies as the ‘Dini ya Mswambwa’ and the ‘Mau Mau Association’. 1953 Newsweek 6 Apr. 38/3 As the villagers ran from their blazing homes, waiting Mau Maus struck them down with pangas (long knives) and hatchets. 1955 Times 13 July 6/5 Further evidence of the infiltration of Mau Mau into tribes other than the Kikuyu, Embu, and Meru was revealed here to-day. 1971 Sunday Nation (Nairobi) 11 Apr. 12/5 Events beyond human control{em}famine, Mau Mau, the changing environment. 1990 C. ALLEN Savage Wars of Peace (1991) 135 A sweep was going on at the Tana River and on one flank of the sweep there was a large gang of Mau Mau.
The fact is part of Obama’s family is from Kenya, some still live there. Kenya was once a part of the British Empire, and the Brits rule there, as elsewhere around the world at the time, was brutal, vicious and cruel. I’ve always thought that Obama’s antipathy to London was because of this. Maybe someone in his direct family was treated very badly by the Brits.
Senior aides to Barack Obama accompanied four Uighur prisoners as they were flown from Guantanamo Bay to the British colony of Bermuda, without the United Kingdom (UK) being informed, it was revealed yesterday, angering the UK.
In an escalating diplomatic row over the transfer of the former terrorist suspects, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton discussed the transfer with British Foreign Secretary David Miliband in what was said to be an uneasy conversation. Privately Whitehall officials accused America of treating Britain, with whom it is supposed to have a “special relationship,” with barely disguised contempt.
Remember, in February, in one of his first exchanges with the UK, Obama sent a bust of Winston Churchill back to Britain. Then, in March, Prime Minister Gordon Brown faced humiliation after he was snubbed by Obama. During Brown’s visit, the Prime Minister brought several meaningful and valued items to give to Obama. What he got in return was 25 CD’s of classic movies, that were incompatible with the UK format. Then, in April, Obama gifted Queen Elizabeth II with an iPod, a gift that was criticized by etiquette experts.
In June, Queen Elizabeth — the only living head of state that participated in WW II — was snubbed and not invited to the D-Day ceremonies, described as a “Franco-American” event.
In September, it emerged that Barack Obama had turned down no fewer than five requests from Downing Street to hold a bilateral meeting between Obama and Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, at the United Nations in New York or at the G20 summit starting in Pittsburgh on September, 24th.
Obama has not missed a single opportunity to insult the Brits, one of our greatest allies.
Accidents? I hardly think so. The US State Department, Office of the Chief of Protocol, under the direction of Acting Chief of Protocol Laura B. Wills, is responsible for avoiding these gaffes. Career bureaucrats, working out of the White House are in place to ensure insults such as these, don’t occur. So, they must be purposeful — but why?
It’s my opinion that Obama’s divided loyalties are at the bottom of his treatment of the UK and he harbors a deep and abiding hostility towards the Brits because of the treatment he believes his grandfather and father received during British colonial rule.
During Obama’s first visit to Kenya in 1988, his grandmother Sarah told him about the resentment against white colonial rule in Kenya, with rallies and mounting violence that would explode into full-scale rebellion in 1952. “Most of this activity centered on Kikuyuland,” she told him. “But the Luo, too, were oppressed. Men in our area began to join the Kikuyu”
“Granny Sarah” told Obama that Hussein Onyango Obama, Obama’s paternal grandfather, became involved in the Kenyan independence movement while working as a cook for a British army officer after World War II. He was arrested in 1949 and jailed for two years in a high-security prison where, according to his family, he was subjected to horrific violence to extract information about the growing insurgency. Sarah, said that her husband had supplied information to the insurgents. “His job as cook to a British army officer made him a useful informer for the secret oathing movement which would later form the Mau Mau rebellion,” she said. “At the time the insurgents were secretly taking oaths which included promises to kill white settlers and colonialists,” Mrs. Onyango said.
“To arrest a Luo, WW II veteran, who was a senior figure in the community, is pretty serious. They must have had some damn good evidence,” said Professor David Anderson, director of the African Studies Centre at the University of Oxford, and an authority on the Mau Mau rebellion.
Obama refers briefly to his grandfather’s imprisonment in his best-selling memoir, “Dreams...,” but states that his grandfather was held only for “more than six months.” Obama described his grandfather’s physical state: “When he returned to Alego he was very thin and dirty. He had difficulty walking, and his head was full of lice.” For some time, he was too traumatized to speak about his experiences.
Barack Obama Sr., Onyango’s son and Obama’s father, seems to have inherited his father’s attitudes towards the colonial power. He was also arrested, for attending a meeting in Nairobi of the Kenya African National Union (KANU), the organization spearheading the independence movement. Sarah told Obama that his father, unlike her husband, had been held only for a short time in the white man’s prison: “Because he was not a leader in KANU, Barack [Sr.] was released after a few days.”
Onyango may have been a victim of the fight for Kenyan independence, but his son became a direct beneficiary of that movement. In 1959, Barack Obama Sr. was sent, on a scholarship, to the University of Hawaii. Obama Sr. was selected by a former Kenyan cabinet minister, the late Tom Mboya, who was earmarked as the successor to Jomo Kenyatta, Kenya’s first prime minister and leader of the terrorist Mau Mau.
It is clear that the Obama’s were close to the leadership of the independence movement. It is also clear that Obama’s “divided loyalty” — his anger at the white British colonists’ treatment of his grandfather and father — is behind all of these insults to America’s greatest ally.
“Divided loyalties” was an issue during the Constitutional Convention because of the Founders fear of foreign influence and the possibility of incidents, such as the ones mentioned above.
In fact, Elbridge Gerry of Massachusetts wanted to take the issue so far as to stop foreigners from becoming citizens at all, claiming that the naturalized citizens would always have divided loyalties both to their home land and to America. John Jay, Superintendent of Foreign Affairs (the predecessor of today’s office of Secretary of State), claimed that it would be “wise and seasonable to provide a strong check to the admission of Foreigners into the administration of our national Government; and to declare expressly that the Command in chief of the American army shall not be given to, nor devolve on, any but a natural born Citizen.”
Pierce Butler, an Irish-born delegate from South Carolina, developed an intense plan that would defeat all objections arising against earlier proposals for electing the president. However, given the doubts concerning divided loyalties that Elbridge Gerry, John Jay, and others expressed, Butler’s proposal also included what became Article II, Section I of the Constitution.
It is evident that the Founders had a clear reason to fear conspiracy and divided loyalties, and it is evident that Obama, a native-born Kenyan, has allowed his divided loyalties influence his judgment and behavior in regards to the UK.
This is personal and purposeful.
And don’t even get me started on Obama’s divided loyalties and Islam.
http://www.theobamafile.com/_eligibility/IssueDividedLoyalties.htm
He seems to be bent on whizzing on every country with whom the US has had good relations. He’s all about sucking up to our enemies and messing things up with our friends.
I think it’s that Liberal fashion of blaming the Anglo-Saxon “race” for everything that goes wrong and romanticizing third-worlders.
Because they are a bunch of WASPs.
It’s simple. He’s snubbing them because he’s an idiot. As are the bulk of his advisors and most of the Democrats in Congress.
In his book he said the British tortured his Kenyan grandfather.
You can take the mau-mau out of Kenya, put him in a suit and install him in the White House, but he’s still a mau mau
I agree with you assessment; however, No. 2 may actually be the number one reason.
The Brits are racists. Isn’t that the libs excuse for everything?
If your goal is to destroy the US, marginalize it and all it stands for then one of the moves you make is to destroy our relationship with the Brits.
Obama wreaks of everything and anything that is good for the US from prayer to flying flags to common gratitude for the Britts joining us in the WOT.
He is not to be trusted.
The Kenyan’s foreign policy is to stab our former allies in the back and hug the Axis of Evil.
When can we say that he ruined America’s reputation?
On the money, Beckwith!
Was his grandfather really tortured, or was that just something Bill Ayers snuck into the book?
“Why does Obama keep snubbing the British?”
...because he can.
Barak Hussein Obamah has CHANGED The Axis of Evil INTO The Axis of Comrades!
Because they’re white.
Prime Minister Gordon Brown faced humiliation after he was snubbed repeatedly by Obama at the recent UN event.
Apparently Gordeon Brown ran thru back halls and UN kitchens trying to find Obama for a face to face.
Forgot where I read this and no link.
Sounds about right though.
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