Also not to nitpick but the Brits seem to have very short memories. They were all for us electing Obama before the election.
Yeah I remember the letter writing campaign to encourage Americans to vote for John Kerry. That didn’t work out too well thank God.
70% for Obama, 14% for McCain.
I'm sure the Brits will be very irritated by that pointed reminder. They were eager for 0bama to take us (the US) down a peg or two but they didn't know he would take our erstwhile allies down with us.
Latest polls from America have McCain and Obama in a near statistical deal heat. CNN recently reported Obama leading by a mere 3% with RealClearPolitics reporting a lead for Obama of just 2.5%. America clearly has not decided. However, Great Britain has for sure! Obamania has crossed the Atlantic and taken Britain by storm. A poll in Britain gave Obama 73% of the vote to McCain's poor 27%. This startling statistic begets the question, why is this the case? Why do the British prefer Obama so significantly more than McCain?
Yep... poor memory.
Actually, we weren't. There are comments of this kind (at least 7 on this thread) every time there's a report from the other side of the Atlantic that the British are unhappy with something the current regime has done or said. But the impression that Obama's election was greeted with unalloyed joy by this entire nation is very wide of the mark, I can assure you. Those who had, to put it at its mildest, doubts, may not have been as loud as the Obama fans and did not, on the whole, have the ear of the media - but there were (and are) plenty of them.
They certainly were.
I happened to be in the UK on election night. They were estatic.