Posted on 05/30/2010 5:43:21 AM PDT by DanMiller
Having read Churchill’s The Gathering Storm for the third or fourth time, it strikes me as frighteningly inauspicious, and not only for the United States today. Churchill was a leading proponent of stopping Hitler before stopping him would involve the massive devastation inflicted on much of the world when World War II eventually came. He noted:
We must regard as deeply blameworthy before history … [all British parties] during this fatal period. Delight in smooth-sounding platitudes, refusal to face unpleasant facts, desire for popularity and electoral success irrespective of the vital interests of the State, genuine love of peace and pathetic belief that love can be its sole foundation … the strong and violent pacifism which at this time dominated the Labour-Socialist Party, the utter devotion of the Liberals to sentiment apart from reality … constituted a picture of British fatuity and fecklessness which, though devoid of guile, was not devoid of guilt, and, though free from wickedness or evil design, played a definite part in unleashing upon the world of horrors and miseries which even so far as they have unfolded, are already beyond comparison in human experience.
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During a debate at the House of Commons in 1934 on Britain’s inadequate air defenses, Churchill recalled but refrained from reciting some lines remembered from youth about a railway accident:
Who is in charge of the clattering train?The axles creak and the couplings strain;
And the pace is hot, and the points are near,
And Sleep has deadened the driver’s ear;
And the signals flash through the night in vain,
For Death is in charge of the clattering train.
I think there is, or at least should be, a legitimate concern that we are passengers on the train.
Probably wouldn't trust him to competently empty the trash.
Re-send and find a new area to make a gift of his bust to n0bammy... someplace closer to Great Leader’s brain.
I hope we’ll be able to change the subject soon.
As someone who has read a great deal by and about Churchill, there is no doubt that Churchill would have held him in the highest, most absolute contempt.
And Obama knows this.
There are specific reasons he wanted Churchill’s bust removed from the White House and returned to England, an action that was a calculated and insulting slap in the face to the British. This is just one of those reasons.
Unfortunately, I am not sure how many Britons really understood this insult.
Anyone who knew anything about Churchill wouldn’t even have to ask this question “What would Winston Churchill Think of Obama?”.
By the way, that wasn't directed at you...I understand the rhetorical framing of the question.
Quisling.
I suspect he would try not to.
Well, one can certainly guess (and paraphrase) from his early writings ;-)
“How dreadful are the curses which Obamanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects are apparent in many. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the One rule or live. A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity.
Individual Democrats may show splendid qualities - but the influence of the One paralyses the social development of those who follow him. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world.”
That he was Neville Chamberlain without the mustache, and a better tan???
What would Churchill think of Obama?
Well, Obozo didn’t happen in a vacuume. One such as Churchill, with merely a glance at Obama, would thencforth never think of him again for his sadness at the death of such great promise as America had.
The classic Churchill qoute:
“If my son at 20 is not a liberal, I’d say he has no heart. But if at 40 he is still a liberal I’d say he has no brain.”
Thank you and God Love and Save the British!
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the entire poem
Death and His Brother, Sleep
by Edward Milliken
http://monologues.co.uk/Railroad_Tales/Death_and_Sleep.htm
Poland fell, but it wasn't "sacrificed" by Britain, which guaranteed Poland and declared war when it was invaded.
Many, many thanks for the complete text. Churchill said that he recalled it from some lines in Punch, read when he was about eight years old.
•When I am abroad I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the Government of my country. I make up for lost time when I am at home
•Truth is incontrovertible, ignorance can deride it, panic may resent it, malice may destroy it, but there it is.
•In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.
This enemy, which we fight today, never let's go of their ‘jihad’ against a perceived enemy who dares impugn the “One”...
They have managed to infiltrate the UK and use their greatest weapon, PC, to cause the elimination of Sir Winston Churchill from the textbooks!
Generations of school children in ENGLAND are growing up not knowing who this man was and what he did. If they do hear of him, they think he's but a legendary myth.
He is only, in my estimation, the prime human being responsible for most of the world - and indeed for us in the US - still speaking English, rather than German.
And now, we have in the WH, the “WON”, who has the Islamic hatred of this man. The insult he delivered to England in returning what was to him the bust of one of the most hated men of his faith - Islam. (From the only school record that escaped the great scrubbing, his elementary school entry form in Jakarta: “faith: Islam”
Who is this enemy Churchill described over a h hundred years ago? One man in the U.S. knows.
We need to make sure this man wins his election and gets to WAshington.
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