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Posted on 07/29/2012 12:55:44 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
White House admits it did return Winston Churchill bust to Britain
Barack Obama's White House has been forced to admit that it did return a bust of Sir Winston Churchill to British diplomats, after describing such claims as "100 per cent false".
By Jon Swaine, Washington
7:53PM BST 29 Jul 2012
Aides to Mr Obama were furious after The Daily Telegraph disclosed last week that Mitt Romney planned to restore the Jacob Epstein sculpture to its home under George W Bush from 2001 to 2009.
"I'm looking forward to the bust of Winston Churchill being in the Oval Office again," the Republican challenger confirmed at a fund-raiser at London's Mandarin Oriental hotel.
Dan Pfeiffer, the President's communications director, said in a statement that widespread reports of the bust being returned to Britain's embassy in Washington as Mr Obama took office were untrue.
"This is 100 per cent false," Mr Pfeiffer said. "The bust is still in the White House. In the Residence. Outside the Treaty Room". Illustrating his statement with a photograph of Mr Obama inspecting it with David Cameron in 2010, he added: "Hopefully this clears things up a bit and prevents folks from making this ridiculous claim again".
British officials were surprised by Mr Pfeiffer's statement and photograph, however, because the bust now resides in the residence of Sir Peter Westmacott, Britain's ambassador to the US. Further inquiries led to the discovery that there are, in fact, two matching Churchill busts by Epstein.
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It’s not like there aren’t plenty of other examples besides the bust. The wookie manhandling the Queen, the iPod of Obama speeches, the collection of unusable video discs to a man who can’t see, the plastic marine helicopter from the WH gift shoppe. There are loads of ways this little man has snubbed our cousins.
Friggin’ liars
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The LYING White House staff was covering for the Kenyan, because the Kenyan saw Winston Churchill as the figurehead of Colonialism.
Of course they had to “admit” such, they got caught in another LIE! =.=
not a peep from the media.
They are too busy waiting for Romney to say something incorrect so that they can beat it to death.
It is about time for them to start up with a “Romney is dumb” campaign like they did with GW and Palin. No, wait, that would require mentioning college transcripts, which would lead some to inquire about Obama’s transcripts. And we just CANNOT have any of that!
Hussein Obama has been busted MANY, MANY times.
But, he is the FIRST BLACK PRESIDENT, so all is forgiven and forgotten by his sheeple.
Why did the sculptor make it appear as though the head is perched on a pike?
Thanks Sub-Driver
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Berry couldn’t even carry Winston’s jockstrap. Imagine what the world would look like if Berry was in charge of England during WWII instead of Winston.
I would venture to suggest that those Brits who ‘gush’ over Obama are either ignorant over Obama’s attitude towards us, or are liberal anti-patriots who find any expression or manifestation of British patriotism cringeworthy and unacceptable. These people make up a disproportionate number of people within the political and media elites.
Until very recently, these anti-patriots were quite vocal in snorting at and deriding their own country as a means of persuading us to, amongst other things, embrace the EU project wholeheartedly (although they tend to be a bit quieter about it now).
Like their American equivilents, they secretly loathe their country, its history and culture and would embrace its destruction in favour of implementing a new world order.
Well put, I’ve copied and pasted that into my collection of excellent quotes.
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