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The UK Is Now Freaking Out About The U.S. Reaction To BP
The Business Insider ^ | 6-10-2010 | Gregory White

Posted on 06/10/2010 10:03:42 AM PDT by blam

The UK Is Now Freaking Out About The U.S. Reaction To BP

Gregory White
Jun. 10, 2010, 10:29 AM

The UK is freaking out right now about the U.S. reaction to the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

Major Conservative political leader and Mayor of London Boris Johnson has called President Barack Obama's language "anti-British" after the President called BP 'British Petroleum' rather than its modern name.

Conservative Lord Tebbit's quote is just too vitriolic to paraphrase.

From The Daily Mail:

"The whole might of American wealth and technology is displayed as utterly unable to deal with the disastrous spill - so what more natural than a crude, bigoted, xenophobic display of partisan political Presidential petulance against a multinational company," said Lord Tebbit.

Much of the furor over the fallout from the BP spill in the UK stems from the potential damage to the company's dividends, which are linked to many pensions in the country.

Now UK Prime Minister David Cameron is going to speak personally to U.S. President Barack Obama over the issue, in an effort to calm the tensions between the two countries.

But the UK's Spectator blog doesn't think Cameron has a chance of stopping Obama on his warpath, as the U.S. president has no choice but to attack with his poll numbers sagging.

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(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: bp; britishpetroleum; britishpresident; gulf; naturalborncitizen; naturalbornsubject; oilspill; uk; xenophobe
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To: counterpunch

And yet he is half White. Talk about self-hate!


161 posted on 06/11/2010 5:32:45 PM PDT by Ptarmigan (Remember The Great Ptarmigan/Rabbit War!)
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To: DesertRhino

England is no friend to us

ARE YOU FRIGGING SERIOUS.

They have been losing men for us for years, just about every week and even this week, they are the first country to help us in our wars, saying England is no friend to us is about one of the most stupid posts I have read.

they see us as the muscle to execute their plan.

what on earth are you on about?
what plan do they have then ?

If you want to fight the war of 1812 or 1776 then go a head but the Brits have been our best ally and it is a shame that other countries like france, Ireland etc could have helped us in half of what the Brits have.

No friend of ours

ASTOUNDING, Have you been to war with them and fought along side them , seen them give their lives and seen them die for our war?
I have


162 posted on 06/11/2010 5:45:30 PM PDT by manc (WILL OBAMA EVER GO TO CHURCH ON A SUNDAY OR WILL HE LET THE MEDIA/THE LEFT BE FOOLED FOR EVER)
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To: blam

How much of BP do the Royals own? I hope Charles loses his ass.


163 posted on 06/11/2010 5:46:50 PM PDT by stboz
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To: Thurston_Howell_III

what are you on?

UK have been our best friend and are giving their lives for our wars every week and have done for years.

shame countries like Spain, France, Ireland etc could not have helped us like the UK or given half of what the UK has done for us


164 posted on 06/11/2010 5:47:52 PM PDT by manc (WILL OBAMA EVER GO TO CHURCH ON A SUNDAY OR WILL HE LET THE MEDIA/THE LEFT BE FOOLED FOR EVER)
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To: Thurston_Howell_III
I suspect BP would have performed their cleanup with better diligence if this spill had occurred on the shores of merry old England.

I suspect the British Government would have done less finger pointing and more action on the ground. It is the weak spineless community organizer leftist Ozerobumbo that sends lawyers to oil spills. One does not lead by intimidation and demonizing -such tactics may work for a community organizer strong arming the man BUT they do not work for the man. We do not have a man in the White House we have a wimp -a dangerous wimp!

165 posted on 06/11/2010 5:50:11 PM PDT by DBeers (†)
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To: DesertRhino

holy crap what are you on?

they have dragged us into their wars,

first world war two is when we came into it when we got attacked and two years into their war

Have you forgot about Afghanistan and Iraq, those wars are ours and it is they who came to us to help us and have lost their lives helping us.

I suggest you look elsewhere for countries who do nothing for us but pretend to be our friend but have gone against us in wars.


166 posted on 06/11/2010 5:51:10 PM PDT by manc (WILL OBAMA EVER GO TO CHURCH ON A SUNDAY OR WILL HE LET THE MEDIA/THE LEFT BE FOOLED FOR EVER)
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To: DesertRhino

slight change to OP

holy crap what are you on?

they have dragged us into their wars,

second world war two is when we came into it when we got attacked and two years into their war

Have you forgot about Afghanistan and Iraq, those wars are ours and it is they who came to us to help us and have lost their lives helping us.

I suggest you look elsewhere for countries who do nothing for us but pretend to be our friend but have gone against us in wars.


167 posted on 06/11/2010 5:51:32 PM PDT by manc (WILL OBAMA EVER GO TO CHURCH ON A SUNDAY OR WILL HE LET THE MEDIA/THE LEFT BE FOOLED FOR EVER)
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To: blam

Obama’s daddy was a British “subject”.
That makes him a Brit/Kenyan in my book.
Sounds like a rare occurance of British self-hate to me.


168 posted on 06/11/2010 5:51:40 PM PDT by Finalapproach29er (Obama will sink as fast as he rose. Idolatry will not succeed. Be patient, folks...)
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To: Durus

if the spill was off cape cod then obama would have got a grip about this much quicker I bet


169 posted on 06/11/2010 5:52:10 PM PDT by manc (WILL OBAMA EVER GO TO CHURCH ON A SUNDAY OR WILL HE LET THE MEDIA/THE LEFT BE FOOLED FOR EVER)
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To: blam

Why? They promoted Obama and people like him for the last 40 years. They hate capitalism as much as Obama. They are reaping what they have sown.


170 posted on 06/11/2010 5:53:43 PM PDT by Republic of Texas (Socialism Always Fails)
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To: WilliamTells; DesertRhino

good post
maybe if some had seen the Brits giving their lives and see dead Brit soldiers who helped us in Iraq then they might stop having their hatred for the Uk

astounding posts by desert rhino


171 posted on 06/11/2010 5:54:06 PM PDT by manc (WILL OBAMA EVER GO TO CHURCH ON A SUNDAY OR WILL HE LET THE MEDIA/THE LEFT BE FOOLED FOR EVER)
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To: silverleaf

good posts

I can believe the stupid posts I have read on here about them not being our friend.

I have seen Brit soldiers dead who given their lives for us in OUR WARS over the years.

if some fool has their bigotry of the Brits then I suggest they go to see their dead soldiers who helped us and then tell their families they are not friends to us


172 posted on 06/11/2010 5:57:27 PM PDT by manc (WILL OBAMA EVER GO TO CHURCH ON A SUNDAY OR WILL HE LET THE MEDIA/THE LEFT BE FOOLED FOR EVER)
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To: DesertRhino

OK at least you admit you were drunk when writing that post.
I did ask you what you were on and it seems beer which I will be starting.

I will add that the Brits have been with us for years, giving their lives and there is no country I will ever go to war other than the Brits


173 posted on 06/11/2010 5:59:34 PM PDT by manc (WILL OBAMA EVER GO TO CHURCH ON A SUNDAY OR WILL HE LET THE MEDIA/THE LEFT BE FOOLED FOR EVER)
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To: silverleaf

obama hates the Brits have they have always been there for us and stood there when ever we needed them, shame some fools will fall for his propaganda crap

he has done nothing but slap them in the face , Israel too.


174 posted on 06/11/2010 6:02:41 PM PDT by manc (WILL OBAMA EVER GO TO CHURCH ON A SUNDAY OR WILL HE LET THE MEDIA/THE LEFT BE FOOLED FOR EVER)
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To: Chi-townChief

just spat my drink out.
LOL

here to a game tomorrow


175 posted on 06/11/2010 6:03:47 PM PDT by manc (WILL OBAMA EVER GO TO CHURCH ON A SUNDAY OR WILL HE LET THE MEDIA/THE LEFT BE FOOLED FOR EVER)
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To: ConservativeMind

no the Brit media did, I have family there and go there many times a year and know of only a couple who wanted him.

please do not fall for the media’s lies, we have so many idiots here and the media who will anything to make obama’s hatred for our best ally go to crap


176 posted on 06/11/2010 6:05:17 PM PDT by manc (WILL OBAMA EVER GO TO CHURCH ON A SUNDAY OR WILL HE LET THE MEDIA/THE LEFT BE FOOLED FOR EVER)
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To: MississippiMan

I’ve met people here who did nor know what KFC stood for and one who did did not knwo where it origianted

yes he was a rat


177 posted on 06/11/2010 6:06:13 PM PDT by manc (WILL OBAMA EVER GO TO CHURCH ON A SUNDAY OR WILL HE LET THE MEDIA/THE LEFT BE FOOLED FOR EVER)
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To: Tzimisce

not all Brits, please do not stereotype all of a country, it is the media and their lies


178 posted on 06/11/2010 6:07:37 PM PDT by manc (WILL OBAMA EVER GO TO CHURCH ON A SUNDAY OR WILL HE LET THE MEDIA/THE LEFT BE FOOLED FOR EVER)
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To: jacquej

actually many scots killed scots, that is why they lost


179 posted on 06/11/2010 6:08:49 PM PDT by manc (WILL OBAMA EVER GO TO CHURCH ON A SUNDAY OR WILL HE LET THE MEDIA/THE LEFT BE FOOLED FOR EVER)
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To: Ptarmigan

He would be wise to stay out of south Louisiana because some of those pizzed off cajuns wouldn’t mind chumming the waters and tossing him in the oilspill he caused.


180 posted on 06/11/2010 6:17:29 PM PDT by CajunConservative (0bama, your ass is the first one you need to kick.)
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