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”.
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Mr Obamaslime, the trouble is that you’re not anything at all.
Yo, B0z0, why send the bust of Churchill back?
Oh yes you are, Mr. Maumau Obama.
Yeah. He’s too busy being anti-American.
And wasn’t it in Britain that Mishelly mis-buttoned her sweater?? Classless, the both of them!
He’s not anti-British. He’s anti-West.
Yes, he was heard to say, “I have nothing against those buck-toothed limey bastards.”
He was born with British citizenship and may be more hostile to Britain than to us for two reasons: his British citizenship is valid and unquestioned, and he doesn’t have the immediate power to ruin Britain like he’s ruining America.
Funny. I was just talking about that tonight with someone.
Of all the things Obozo has done since being in office, there is something about that gesture that eats at me.
Churchill is one of my heroes. We need a Churchill today.
I hope that an adult in England has put that bust in a safe place, so when we get that POS out of office, they can send it back to us with the message “Here. This was a gift given to an ally, it belongs to YOU. We just held on to it for you.”
I just wish.
Didn’t he snub Gordon Brown, before the Presidential election, by having that little press conference in front of 10 Downing Street without Brown?
Has Obama ever had a course in American History?
Zer0 is all about trashing natural and historical allies and embracing and enabling enemies. Horribly wrong headed. And H! is deeply involved without complaint.
Didn’t he once call it Limey Petroleum?
If Obama was only just anti-British!
We need another Churchill- he inspired the entire free world.
Never mattered to me that he was a Brit, even as a small child during his last days I understood that the hatchet had been buried and we had much more in common going forward than we had experienced in our contentious past.
The first time I saw German allied officers here at a US base (6-7 years old) kind of weirded me out though...
I am going to guess that “H!” is “She Who Must Not Be Named”...:)
So true. The Brits were great allies for a long time (friction with Montgomery and Marshall not withstanding!)
WWII was a watershed in our relationship.
It is hard to foresee what will happen with the muslims taking over...
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