Why Barack Obama doesn't much care for Britain

The Telegraph ^ | 12/8/2010 | Daniel Hannan

[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?

[Patton@Bastogne]

stop being so damn polite !

[iowamark]

Excellent essay by Mr. Hannan.

[the scotsman]

Maybe, but are you lot any better?. I’d say no.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks mojito.

[Karliner]

If Oburkha moves to Britian will he adopt a West Indies accent, maybe join the jamaican basketball-bobsled team mon?I noticed his lip is frowing..oh yeah the purple heart he earned getting smakdown by a hispanic muahahahahaha.