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Why Barack Obama doesn't much care for Britain
The Telegraph ^ | 12/8/2010 | Daniel Hannan

Posted on 12/08/2010 1:30:48 PM PST by mojito

Let’s review the evidence. President Obama received from Gordon Brown a pen-holder made from the timbers of a Royal Navy anti-slavery vessel, and reciprocated with DVDs. He silkily downgraded the UK from “our closest ally” to “one of our allies”. He gave the Queen an iPod full of his own speeches. He used the Louisiana oil spill to attack an imaginary company called “British Petroleum” (it has been BP for the past decade, ever since the merger with Amoco gave it as many American as British shareholders). He sent a bust of Winston Churchill back to the British Embassy. He managed, on his visit to West Africa, to refer to the struggle for independence, but not to the Royal Navy’s campaign against slavery. He has refused to acknowledge our presence in Afghanistan in any major speech. He has even come dangerously close to backing Peronist Argentina’s claim to the Falkland Islands. There’s no getting away from it: Barack Obama doesn’t much like Limeys.

What has he got against us?

(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; danielhannan; falklands; imperialism; indonesia; kenya; thekenyan; unitedkingdom
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Because it's not Kenya or Indonesia, the only places he has any real affection for.

Interesting read, especially the part about his father's visit to his Hawaiian class.

1 posted on 12/08/2010 1:30:52 PM PST by mojito
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I’d think that his deep-seated and barely-concealed hatred for white folks would color his opinion of a country so full of them damn crackers.


2 posted on 12/08/2010 1:36:10 PM PST by I Buried My Guns (Novare Res!)
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To: mojito

Cause his pop-pop was mau-mau?


3 posted on 12/08/2010 1:37:58 PM PST by nina0113
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The Same reason he gave Britian Churchill’s bust back.From October 1952 to December 1959, Kenya was under a state of emergency arising from the Mau Mau rebellion against British rule. The governor requested and obtained British and African troops, including the King’s African Rifles. The British began counter-insurgency operations; in May 1953 General Sir George Erskine took charge as commander-in-chief of the colony’s armed forces in May 1953, with the personal backing of Winston Churchill.[27]


4 posted on 12/08/2010 1:40:07 PM PST by scooby321
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To: mojito

Or any other place in the Middle East.


5 posted on 12/08/2010 1:40:14 PM PST by RC2
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To: mojito

Obambi’s home country, Kenya, was once controlled by the Brits...


6 posted on 12/08/2010 1:40:36 PM PST by xtinct (The will of God will never take you where the Grace of God will not protect you..Be Strong Patriots!)
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Obama is technically a subject of the British Empire by his fathers birthrights, and since momma was too young to give him anything American.

Who’s your Daddy Barack Hussein Obama?


7 posted on 12/08/2010 1:42:51 PM PST by Eye of Unk (If your enemy is quick to anger, seek to irritate him. Sun Tzu, The Art of War.)
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It’s OK Great Britain don’t feel bad, he doesn’t care for Americans either.


8 posted on 12/08/2010 1:45:42 PM PST by alice_in_bubbaland (DeMint/Ryan 2012!!!!!)
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Because the Brits threw his Mau Mau grandfather in jail as a terrorist.

For those too young to remember it, the Mau Mau went around killing any white they could get their hands on, including women and children. Especially vicious were some household workers or gardeners who turned against their British employers.

Obama comes from a long line of Muslims, Communists, terrorists, and in earlier days, slave traders.


9 posted on 12/08/2010 1:46:19 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius.)
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To: Eye of Unk

Oh heck, I see where this is going. Six months after you guys justly exile him for crimes against humanity, he and Michelle will be repatriated to Britain and end up living at the end of my street.


10 posted on 12/08/2010 1:47:02 PM PST by agere_contra (...what if we won't eat the dog food?)
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end up living at the end of my street.

Do you like to play pick-up basketball?

11 posted on 12/08/2010 1:49:27 PM PST by paulycy (Demand Constitutionality. Save America From Bankruptcy.)
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LOL.


12 posted on 12/08/2010 1:51:22 PM PST by agere_contra (...what if we won't eat the dog food?)
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To: mojito

That’s OK with most Brits, they don’t like him either.


13 posted on 12/08/2010 1:53:04 PM PST by kiltie65
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To: paulycy

And remember: elbow to the kisser, with no apologies!


14 posted on 12/08/2010 1:53:45 PM PST by pingman (Price is what you pay, value is what you get.)
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To: mojito

So it’s the Brits fault we have this idiot, they should have pumped a bullet through this POS’s father’s head!


15 posted on 12/08/2010 1:56:47 PM PST by US Navy Vet
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To: mojito

Man in the mirror?


16 posted on 12/08/2010 1:56:51 PM PST by Gene Eric (Your Hope has been redistributed. Here's your Change.)
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Too many pasty white folks...


17 posted on 12/08/2010 1:57:45 PM PST by Maverick68
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To: mojito

And yet these morons thought he was the Second Coming of Jesus Christ a little over a year ago. Their reaction to the Big 0 and their reaction to Diana’s death lead me to conclude they have completely lost the ability to think like rational adults.


18 posted on 12/08/2010 2:00:53 PM PST by Opinionated Blowhard
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To: US Navy Vet

Threatening the President’s ancestors via the medium of time travel is almost certainly against some Federal statute :0)


19 posted on 12/08/2010 2:01:00 PM PST by agere_contra (...what if we won't eat the dog food?)
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

Funny. None of us voted for him.


20 posted on 12/08/2010 2:02:16 PM PST by agere_contra (...what if we won't eat the dog food?)
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