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Barack Obama: I’m not anti-British
The Times ^ | 6/13/2010 | Jonathan Oliver

Posted on 06/12/2010 8:24:19 PM PDT by bruinbirdman

BARACK OBAMA yesterday told David Cameron that his aggressive stance towards BP over the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster was not motivated by anti-British prejudice.

The US president, whose grandfather was allegedly tortured by the British in colonial Kenya, has pointedly referred to the oil giant as “British Petroleum”, although it changed its name nine years ago. British politicians claimed he was exploiting BP’s origins to deflect attention from his failure to manage the crisis.

After yesterday’s 30-minute telephone conversation, No 10 issued a carefully worded statement to defuse the growing transatlantic tensions. It stated: “President Obama said to the prime minister that BP was a multinational global company and that frustrations about the oil spill had nothing to do with national identity. The prime minister stressed the economic importance of BP to the UK, US and other countries. The president made it clear that he had no interest in undermining BP’s value.”

The softening of the row comes as BP prepares to offer new concessions to the US government, including a plan to set aside billions of dollars in a ring-fenced “clean-up fund”.

(Excerpt) Read more at timesonline.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: anglophiles; empireloyalists; poms
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To: bruinbirdman
Nice to see the League of Empire Loyalists on these threads. Do you really think that the Poms really LIKE you Yanks. They have been playing us for saps for decades, going back to WWI, a war which we should have stayed neutral in, but the Anglophile elite led by Wilson said otherwise.

The Anglophile elite in the US was overthrown a long time ago, and the ONLY reason why we should have a close relationship with the UK is the foothold it provides us in Europe. Any other argument is based on foolish emotional and so-called cultural ties that are only held by a small and dwindling minority of the American population.

41 posted on 06/12/2010 11:02:35 PM PDT by Clemenza (Remember our Korean War Veterans)
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To: bruinbirdman

Obama also told Cameron that he thought the Welch people made awesome jam.


42 posted on 06/12/2010 11:09:30 PM PDT by VeniVidiVici (I Don't Want Obama to Kick Ass. I WANT HIM TO GET OFF HIS ASS!!!!)
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To: bruinbirdman

Time for some damage control. 0bama’s going to send Joe Biden over to say how much he loves the English. With stops in Glasgow, Cardiff, and Dublin.


43 posted on 06/12/2010 11:16:32 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Clemenza
While I agree with your WW1 comment, the rest sounded like you were channeling old Joe P. Kennedy(SR).
You're not dating some hippy Wiccan type chick are you ?
(j/k)
44 posted on 06/12/2010 11:39:07 PM PDT by investigateworld (Abortion stops a beating Heart)
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To: bruinbirdman

He is not specifically anti-British. He is strongly anti-American and that necessarily includes some hostility toward countries that have been allies of the evil America so a bit of that hostility leaks across the Atlantic, a bit splashing Britain while the greatest part of the much descends on Israel.


45 posted on 06/13/2010 5:15:04 AM PDT by arthurus ("If you don't believe in shooting abortionists, don't shoot an abortionist." -Ann C.)
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To: lonestar

He learned his history from the eminent Professor Karl Marx and specialized under Professor Vladimir Ulyanov.


46 posted on 06/13/2010 5:17:59 AM PDT by arthurus ("If you don't believe in shooting abortionists, don't shoot an abortionist." -Ann C.)
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To: bruinbirdman

“Barack Obama: I’m not anti-British”

He lies every time he speaks.


47 posted on 06/13/2010 6:03:38 AM PDT by RoadTest (Religion is a substitute for the relationship God wants with you.)
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To: bruinbirdman

Obama is such a liar - smooth, yes - but still a liar


48 posted on 06/13/2010 11:03:18 AM PDT by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-Qaeda" and its allies.)
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To: originalbuckeye
From your lips to God's ears.

Or from your keyboard to God's monitor . . . .

49 posted on 06/13/2010 3:14:13 PM PDT by AnAmericanMother (Ministrix of ye Chasse, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment))
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To: AnAmericanMother

Yes.


50 posted on 06/13/2010 4:17:30 PM PDT by originalbuckeye
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To: investigateworld
Nah, just getting married to a Lula Da Silva supporter in September.

I have nothing personal against the English (who are but one component of the UK of course), but don't believe that we should walk arm in arm on every foreign policy initiative, nor should we show them excessive deference founded in sentimentality and fraud.

51 posted on 06/13/2010 7:00:36 PM PDT by Clemenza (Remember our Korean War Veterans)
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To: Clemenza

Well congratulations!!!


52 posted on 06/13/2010 7:53:42 PM PDT by investigateworld (Abortion stops a beating Heart)
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To: bruinbirdman

Two words:

Bull, and

Sh*t


53 posted on 06/13/2010 7:55:05 PM PDT by Oceander (The Price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance -- Thos. Jefferson)
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