Why Obama hates the British!

Vengeance is His

Yes I know. I’m just jumping back in without an explanation. Maybe later.

President Obama seems to have a problem with our closest ally, the United Kingdom.

First there was the bust of Churchill:

A bust of the former prime minister once voted the greatest Briton in history, which was loaned to [Former President] George W Bush from the Government's art collection after the September 11 attacks, has now been formally handed back.

The bronze by Sir Jacob Epstein, worth hundreds of thousands of pounds if it were ever sold on the open market, enjoyed pride of place in the Oval Office during President Bush's tenure.

But when British officials offered to let Mr Obama to hang onto the bust for a further four years, the White House said: "Thanks, but no thanks."

(Rumor has it that the president treated the bust far less ceremoniously than that.)

Then there was the president’s treatment of UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown days ago:

Obama, breaking with precedent, wouldn't grant the prime minister the customary honor of standing beside him in front of the two nations' flags for the TV cameras. [SNIP]

Still, Brown kept a stiff upper lip as he sat in the Oval Office yesterday as Obama, skipping the usual words of welcome for his guest, went straight to questions from the news services. Brown didn't get to speak for six minutes, after Obama had already answered two questions.

Many observers seem puzzled. I’m not and neither is the UK press. It’s about Kenya.

If you recall, before Kenya became Kenya (1963) it was a British colony known as British East Africa. Between 1952 and 1960, there was this little “difference of opinion” between the UK and the natives of British East Africa—primarily from the Kikuyu tribe. That conflict is known as the Mau Mau Uprising. There were tens of thousands of African civilians killed and, according to Wiki, seven to ten thousand Africans interned by the British colonial masters. In Dreams from My Father, President Obama says that his grandfather was tortured by the British during the conflict, though he was not a Kikuyu but a Luo. Guess which prime minister ordered the Mau Mau insurgency to be put down.

Mystery solved. It seems that the president is seeking to humiliate the progeny of those who humiliated his ancestors. Revenge isn’t that complicated a motive.

However, a question remains. Is this any way for a President of the United States to behave?


Read also about the gifts which the Obamas gave to the Browns during the latter's visit, especially this one: a collection of 25 classic American films on DVD. Not exactly special. And even more curiously: Brits can't play American DVDs.



To be fair, Prime Minister Brown was was thoughtless in his gift-giving as well. One of his gifts to the president: a seven-volume classic biography of Churchill by Sir Martin Gilbert. One would expect a UK Prime Minister to know the history of his own country, but one could say the same thing about our own head of state.

That's okay, I hate the British too.

I thought everyone did?

When Barry Met Gordon
[BRITISH PRIME MINISTER GORDON BROWN IS SHOVED THROUGH OVAL OFFICE DOOR BY SCOWLING SECRET SERVICE AGENT]

Brown: Good lord! How very-- [STANDS UP STRAIGHT, ADJUSTS TIE & SMOOTHS OUT WRINKLED SUIT, WALKS TOWARD OBAMA SITTING AT DESK] I'm afraid I wasn't expecting such treatment. But no matter. Good day to you, Mr. President.

Obama: [STARES DOWN AT PAPERS ON DESK]

Brown: Uhm. [CLEARS THROAT] I'm very sorry to bother you, Mr. President, but--

Obama: What? What is it? [LOOKS UP, NOT QUITE MAKING EYE CONTACT] Oh. It's you. Great. [RETURNS TO STARING AT PAPERS]

Brown: Hurm. Yes. Well. Have a seat, should I? [INDICATES CHAIR BEHIND HIM, WAITS FOR SOME SORT OF ACKNOWLEDGMENT, FINALLY SITS DOWN ANYWAY] So. It's. Did you, did you get the gifts I brought? The pen set is composed of wood from the sister ship of the one that was used to make the desk you're--

Obama: [STILL NOT LOOKING UP] Yes. Yes, I saw it. Alright? Jeez... [UNCOMFORTABLE SILENCE] Oh yeah. Forgot. [DIGS THROUGH PAPERS, FINDS DVD CASE UNDER ONE STACK, TOSSES IT INTO BROWN'S LAP]

Brown: Oh! Very, uh, very nice. [PICKS IT UP, PULLS READING GLASSES FROM SHIRT POCKET] It's, let me... Yes We Can! The Barack Obama Story. Ah. That's. Uhm. Well, I certainly--

Obama: [SIGHING LOUDLY, STILL NOT LOOKING UP] Will there be anything else? I don't know if you noticed, but I'm kind of the President?

Many observers seem puzzled. I’m not and neither is the UK press. It’s about Kenya.

If you recall, before Kenya became Kenya (1963) it was a British colony known as British East Africa. Between 1952 and 1960, there was this little “difference of opinion” between the UK and the natives of British East Africa—primarily from the Kikuyu tribe. That conflict is known as the Mau Mau Uprising. There were tens of thousands of African civilians killed and, according to Wiki, seven to ten thousand Africans interned by the British colonial masters. In Dreams from My Father, President Obama says that his grandfather was tortured by the British during the conflict, though he was not a Kikuyu but a Luo. Guess which prime minister ordered the Mau Mau insurgency to be put down.

Mystery solved. It seems that the president is seeking to humiliate the progeny of those who humiliated his ancestors. Revenge isn’t that complicated a motive.

However, a question remains. Is this any way for a President of the United States to behave?


Read also about the gifts which the Obamas gave to the Browns during the latter's visit, especially this one: a collection of 25 classic American films on DVD. Not exactly special. And even more curiously: Brits can't play American DVDs.

Being a very positive literotica poster, all I can say about the Brits is that they aren't French.

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http://forum.literotica.com/showthread.php?t=628391

The Brits have a different take on the snub:



Was 'Lady Macbeth' behind Barack Obama's snub of Gordon Brown?


On US radio's Garrison show today, I was asked for my reaction as a true born Englishman to President Obama's double insult - first the sending back of the Winston Churchill bust, then his snub to Gordon Brown. "Tough one. Really tough one," I said, torn - as most of surely are - between delight at seeing*Brown roundly humiliated, and dismay at having the special relationship so peremptorily, cruelly and bafflingly ruptured.


Iain Martin is quite right here: 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.

Consider her notorious statement that: "For the first time in my adult life I am really proud of my country." Consider her (till-recently suppressed) Princeton thesis, "Princeton Educated Blacks And The Black Community."

In it she writes: "I have found that at Princeton, no matter how liberal and open-minded some of my white professors and classmates try to be toward me, I sometimes feel like a visitor on campus; as if I really don't belong. Regardless of the circumstances underwhich I interact with whites at Princeton, it often seems as if, to them, I will always be black first and a student second."

Here we see that she has mastered the authentic voice of grievance culture. She also - the thesis was written in 1985 - pre-empts the Macpherson report's ludicrous, catch-all definition of racism: "A racist incident is any incident which is perceived to be racist by the victim or any other person." No matter how hard young Michelle's white undergraduate contemporaries try to be nice, it's not their behaviour that counts, but how Michelle feels.

More worrying, though, and dangerous, than young Michelle's desperate quest for validation through victimhood is the other strain within her thesis. "As I enter my final year at Princeton," she writes. "I find myself striving for many of the same goals as my White classmates - acceptance to a prestigious graduate or professional school or a high paying position in a successful corporation. Thus, my goals at Princeton are not as clear as before."

"Yes, exactly, you silly girl" you want to shriek at young Michelle as you give her a good shake. "It's called 'opening your mind', 'broadening your experience', 'allowing youthful dogma to be shaped by reality.' It's why people go to university, don't you know?"

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busybody said:

However, a question remains. Is this any way for a President of the United States to behave?

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[shrug] It's classier by orders of magnitude than overthrowing a foreign ruler because he tried to kill your daddy.

Its the uprising of the KNEE GROWZ


Classy

“Didn’t Obama campaign on strengthening our ties with our allies? Or was that the other guy?” Indeed.

Ward's still a bust in the White House...

busybody said:

“Didn’t Obama campaign on strengthening our ties with our allies? Or was that the other guy?” Indeed.

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When he said "our" it didn't mean WINGNUTS, it meant Mookie and St. Arafat's people...

yes

COLORED "people"

not WHITES

Why can't I be on the White Team? I don't like the people in the White House, they think I'm too st-st-stupid to get rich, a regular military type!





Can I claim to be a Jew? Maybe a HOMO??? I know, a homo-fied JAP!!!

If you were a TRANSGENDERED MOOSESLIME LIB ANTI AMERICAN

you'd have ALL your bases covered

I'm willing to convert...






Praying ain't all that bad if you smoke enough reefer; ask the Obama in Kenya!!!

Observed across the big pond...

President Barack Obama dislikes Britain, but he's keen to meet the Queen


President Obama has been rudeness personified towards Britain this week. His handling of the visit of the Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, to Washington was appalling. First Brown wasn't granted a press conference with flags, then one was hastily arranged in the Oval office after the Brits had to beg. Obama looked like he would rather have been anywhere else than welcoming the British leader to his office and topped it all with his choice of present (*) for the PM. A box of 25 DVDS including ET, the Wizard of Oz and Star Wars? Oh, give me strength. We do have television and DVD stores on this side of the Atlantic. Even Gordon Brown will have seen those films too often already.


This was coupled with Michelle Obama's casual choice of gifts for the Brown sons - matching models of the helicopter which ferry her husband around. While Sarah Brown had spent time choosing gifts for the Obama girls, Michelle had clearly sent an aide to the White House gift shop at the last moment.

All in all, he doesn't think much of us.

But what's this? Something, suddenly, seems to have made the Obama White House perk up and start to take an interest in the Brits. The Queen has invited the President to tea when he's here for the G20 in April. And he's in through the front door of Buckingham Palace faster than a Harley Davidson roaring along Route 66.

Note how the coolness of Team Obama disappears when a bit of regal glamour is introduced into the equation. He might not like the Brits, but he can recognise a global superstar when he encounters one. He wants to be associated with her. He's shameless.




(*) If Obama, or someone in his inner circle, had spent two minutes thinking about what present to get Brown then they could easily have come up with something appropriate. He likes books. He loves American history. Get him a signed first edition of a good Robert Dallek book such as the brilliant Flawed Giant on LBJ. Come to think of it, Obama should read it too, if he hasn't yet, as it reveals a great deal about how a Presidency can go so wrong.

He wants a Knight's Hood...

brilliant as usual,BB

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brilliant as usual,BB

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Jocks

Gordon Brown is Scottish a" Jock" maybe that is why obama dinna like him 'cos he could,na understan him the noo.

And l thought one of his presents was may,be to subtle for him a box made from an anti slave ship,should have had a "whip" round and got something decent like a set of boot brushes.

hopefully if he ever gets over here Queenie will let him stay with the corgis or the servants thats were the blacks usually stay.

Obama White House has the Gift of Gaffe


Maybe Barack Obama was just upset that the British Prime Minister didn't bring him gold, frankincense and myrrh.

Either way, the president and first lady managed to embarrass the Brits--and themselves--for the third time with lackluster gift choices for their counterparts from across the pond. Now, Obama apparently would like to meet the Queen. We'll see about that; after all, his track record is already lacking, and we're not so sure that the Queen is keen on the "fist-pound."

The first embarrassment came within the initial stages of Obama's presidency, when he sent a bust of Winston Churchill given to former President George W. Bush back to the British Embassy.
(Can you believe that! What an idiot!)

The second embarrassment came on British PM Gordon Brown's first official visit to the Obama White House, when the president decided that an informal question-and-answer session in the Oval Office would be better than the official pomp-and-circumstance of a flag-draped joint press conference, the type seen time and time again during the Bush administration as a sign of just how special the "special relationship" is between the United States and U.K.

The third embarrassment came yesterday, when details of the customary gift exchange between world leaders and their families emerged in the British press. The lack of thought put into the gifts coming from our side of the Atlantic was enough for the Telegraph's Iain Martin to write this:



Gordon Brown had given Obama an ornamental pen holder made from the timbers of the Victorian anti-slave ship HMS Gannet, which was once called HMS President. London’s Daily Mail noted that Brown's "unique present delighted Mr. Obama because oak from the Gannet's sister ship, HMS Resolute, was carved to make a desk that already takes its place in the Oval Office in the White House, after being presented by Britain to the U.S. in 1880." Now that, Virginia, was a gift supported with some thought.

Some time later, Sarah Brown (the Prime Minister's wife) showered little Sasha and Malia Obama with gifts, including a half-dozen carefully selected children's books by British authors not yet available in the States, and outfits from British boutique Topshop, which just recently opened up its first American location in New York City.

First Lady Michelle Obama, however, apparently sent a helper down to the White House gift shop and picked up, for the Browns' sons Fraser and John, two models of the presidential helicopter, Marine One. Each model, it seems, retails for $15 in the aforementioned gift shop. How thoughtful.

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It sounds like the presidential equivalent of picking up a last minute gift from the local Walgreens on the way to the baby shower.

The British press referred to Michelle Obama's gift to the Brown sons as "solipsistic." To those of us with less than an Obama-like Ivy League education, that refers to solipsism, the philosophical idea that "my mind is the only thing that I know exists." Take a few seconds to remember how Michelle Obama was finally--finally!--proud of her country for the first time when her husband was running for president, and "solipsistic" seems to fit the First Lady like a glove.

British journalist Sarah Vines explained a little better in a column for the Times:


And they say former President Bush lacked class.

To make matters worse, and to make the Obama White House look even more amateurish, President Obama returned the favor on the British PM's thoughtful gift with what the London press derisively--yet accurately and politely--calls a "blockbuster" gift . . . a collection of 25 DVDs spanning a variety of American classic movies. Worse, they weren’t even in Blu Ray.

The Daily Mail also wasn't impressed, noting earlier yesterday that Brown is not known "for his love of cinema, although he once claimed on a trip to India that he was an admirer of Bollywood" and comparing Obama's choice of gifts to "receiving a pair of socks from an unfamiliar aunt at Christmas." The full quote:


Coming in at No. 13 on the American Film Institute list: "Star Wars: Episode IV," though the Daily Mail and/or the Film Institute list excises part of the film’s title, the part after the Roman numeral "IV" being: "A New Hope." Perhaps the original selection from the half-dozen Star Wars films was "Star Wars: Episode 1, The Phantom Menace," though it would have been undoubtedly replaced when it dawned on someone that, with Obama's radical roots presenting themselves in his economic policies, perhaps the suggestion that part of the gift include a "phantom menace" reference was not such a good idea. Besides, "A New Hope" has such a nicer cachet and ring to it. Pity George Lucas didn't have time to incorporate a theme of "change."

One other DVD noticeably missing from the set: "The Manchurian Candidate." Go figure. Perhaps Gordon Brown has seen that one already. If not, perhaps we could give him a preview.




By Rick Saunders & Jeff Schreiber, America's Right