Behind the Snub
Ouch.
no matter how utterly rubbish we have become as a nation in the Blair/Brown years, Britain’s friendship is something Obama will come to regret having dispensed with so lightly. This was not the act of a global statesman, but of a hormonal teenager dismissing her bestest of best BFs for no other reason than that she felt like it and she can, so there.
What was the guy thinking? In researching my new book Welcome to Obamaland, I discovered that Obama’s judgment is pretty dreadful - but this? My favourite theory so far - suggested by presenter Greg Garrison - was that it was a move calculated to please his Lady Macbeth. At the moment in Britain, we’re still in the “Doesn’t she look fabulous in a designer frock” stage of understanding of Michelle Obama. Gradually, though, we’ll begin to realise that she is every bit the terrifying executive’s wife that Hillary Clinton was. Or, shudder, Cherie Blair.
We may just LURVE Michelle’s fashion sense. But Michelle doesn’t reciprocate our affection, one bit. Her broad-brush view of history associates Brits with the wicked white global hegemony responsible for the slave trade. Never mind that a white, Tory Englishman - William Wilberforce - brought the slave trade to an end. Judging by her record, Michelle does not make room for such subtle nuance.
“Her broad-brush view of history associates Brits with the wicked white global hegemony responsible for the slave trade.”
Where did that come from? The articles says nothing of the kind - it just quotes an essay MB wrote as an undergrad. Seems this Brit just pulled that one out of his arse.
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on March 05, 2009 at 2016 hrs
That makes three ginned up “Britain hates Obama” posts. We are all smelling dead horse.
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on March 05, 2009 at 2052 hrs
I’m smelling a guy who is indeed not particularly bright or competent but who indeed was thrust into the role by fate and events.
I thought all the criticism last fall about Obama being a community organizer with zero real experience running anything was over the top. But it truly appears the guy is an eloquent bs-er with a teleprompter who can “talk” about things and sound intelligent, but I don’t think he really understands what he is saying.
And what do giving the Star Wars DVD’s to the British PM say about the level of competency in the people he has surrounded himself with?
Hopefully these same people aren’t managing our counter-terrorism activities. Say what you will about Dick Cheney, but I had confidence the guy was working 24/7 to stop Al-Queda attacks however he had to. The new guys might be too busy surfing Facebook and miss monitoring terrorist communications.
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on March 05, 2009 at 2118 hrs
Imagine when Obama gets the dreaded 3:00 AM call and at 3:15 AM, PM Brown gets a call from Obama: “We have a situation”.
Brown says” “yah, have your people call my people, maybe we can do lunch sometime. Love ya, baby”
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on March 05, 2009 at 2152 hrs
On one hand, I could give a shit if the brits got their trousers in a bundle…
On the other hand, Obama gets another free pass from the media because he’s god.
shrug
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on March 05, 2009 at 2348 hrs
I’m with Keith on this one. Three posts about perceived slights to P.M. Brown is excessive, even for you.
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on March 06, 2009 at 0021 hrs
Wasn’t his campaign hailing his superior “judgement” over his experience.
Now we see he had neither.
And, Owen, you should stop beating this dead horse. You should blog about Rush Limbaugh instead. That’s the real issue.
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on March 06, 2009 at 0832 hrs
I don’t understand Obama, he loves Island countries, Cuba for instance. If Castro came he would probably give him, Castro, a 21 gun salute and he deserves one. At him, not for him. Watch this clown the next 4 years. The Obama operation will make us the laughing stock of the world.
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on March 06, 2009 at 0832 hrs
And, Owen, you should stop beating this dead horse. You should blog about Rush Limbaugh instead. That’s the real issue.
Or the Mad Money commentator Jim Cramer vs White House thing. He had the audacity to say Obama is destroying the wealth of our nation, and the response was they tried to rip him a new asshole.
http://www.mainstreet.com/article/moneyinvesting/news/cramer-my-response-white-house?page=1
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Which leads me to the true irony of not being political: I don’t like talking politics. It is personal, but some things are a matter of public record, including my substantial six figure donations to the Democratic Party before I was no longer allowed to contribute by contractual agreement
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I also made it clear in a New York magazine article that I favored Obama over McCain because I thought Obama to be a middle-of-the-road DemocratPosted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on March 06, 2009 at 0844 hrs
Publius—Rush is the
real
issue? He said that if Obama was going to lead us along the path to socialism, he hoped he would fail.
Nothing there, except for the drive-by media to cut and paste to try to discredit a major conservative voice.
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on March 06, 2009 at 1038 hrs
I was being facetious. Mocking Schmitz, the Democratic Party of Wisconsin, et al.
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on March 06, 2009 at 1124 hrs
For a group of people often attacking MSM, you sure like to queue up for the chance to hurl their trite epithets around the place…(teleprompter, facebook, 3:00 am phone call, Rush Limbaugh). Seems y’all are pretty good parrots.
Posted by Mike on March 06, 2009 at 1422 hrs
So Mike, what do you make of Obama’s lack of statesmanship, his unconcern for key allies and export nations, and the question of whether he did it because he is inexperienced, kowtows to his wife, or is just plain stupid?
Me, I’m appalled, and I want the guy to succeed for the good of the American people.
Posted by tee bee on March 06, 2009 at 1612 hrs
Obie only gives a sh*t about the countries that hate us. He’ll kiss their asses. England has been a staunch ally, but they get the “too busy, here’s some videos”
What an idiot. Let him snub a few more EU leaders and see how much they continue to love him.
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on March 06, 2009 at 1700 hrs
Well tee bee, I am not at all sure that the incident with the Browns rises to the level of diplomatic crisis. I don’t think that it forbodes a coming period of inept American international relations. Which isn’t to say that such a scenario won’t come about, just that the evidence put forward by Mr Delingpole in the article and by Iain Martin in an NPR interview this evening doesn’t really seem to be too shocking.
So we think that Britain is gonna go all Russia on us because Gordon Brown didn’t like the present he got from president Obama? hmmmm, tough sell…
I also don’t think that this has anything to do with teleprompters, Facebook, or a phone call at 3:00a.m. If the right is going to keep wringing its hands over every little thing (I understand the folks at the Telegraph were a little miffed that there weren’t an adequate number of flags on display at the joint meeting between Mssrs. Brown and Obama), then it risks becoming seriously marginalized. That’s bad for everyone. A democracy—and our two party system—relies on a healthy, not an irrelevant, opposition.
Posted by Mike on March 06, 2009 at 1931 hrs
The Pope is coming in a few months and the President is planning on giving him a one year subscription to Net Flixs.
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on March 06, 2009 at 2340 hrs
This way he doesn’t have to stop at Wal-Mart during the day to pick anything up.
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on March 06, 2009 at 2343 hrs
I’m going to go across the pond and start selling T-shirts that say “My Prime Minister went all the way to D.C. and all I got was this Stupid T-Shirt”
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on March 06, 2009 at 2344 hrs
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