In this morning’s Wall Street Journal, Con Coughlin tries to explain why the Obama Administration treats our staunch ally, the British so poorly.
Before he became president it was said that Mr. Obama harbored a deep grudge against Britain for its colonialist past. It is alleged that his paternal grandfather, Hussein Onyango Obama, was tortured by the British during the Mau Mau rebellion in Kenya in the 1950s, when it was controlled by Britain. In his autobiographical book “The Audacity of Hope,” Mr. Obama unflatteringly compares the British Empire to South Africa’s apartheid regime and the former Soviet Union.
Soon after his inauguration, he sent back to the U.K. a bust of Sir Winston Churchill that had been loaned to President George W. Bush after the 9/11 attacks. The sculpture had enjoyed pride of place in the Oval Office.
There is also an important ideological reason that Britain’s leading policy makers find themselves increasingly shunned by the U.S. Key foreign-policy advisers to Mr. Obama are keen advocates of a federal Europe, one in which the European Commission based in Brussels is the main center of power and influence, rather than the individual capitals, such as London, Paris and Berlin. In this context, Britain’s dogged attachment to a “special relationship” with America is regarded as an embarrassing relic of a previous era.
Yeah, he treats the British poorly because of something may have done before he was born, but he cuddles with the Iranians and Hugo Chavez despite things they’ve done and continue to do during his presidency. That makes sense – especially since he sees history as a record of class struggle.
Iran tested components that could be used in nuclear weapons just a few years ago. Hugo Chavez calls the US an “overt threat” to Iran and the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of the Americas (ALBA). Bolivia’s Evo Morales charges his opponent in the last election with corruption to send a message to his opposition. But the Obama Administration sees Hondurans acting within the confines of their constitution as a threat to human rights.
Something doesn’t smell right here.
Iranian = Dictatorship = Good
Britain = Democracy not knuckling under to EU = Bad
Hugo = Dictatorship = Good
O is a disaster writ large though it has been the policy of our equally retarded State Dept. to push Britain further into the EC for many years.
“U.S. Key foreign-policy advisers to Mr. Obama are keen advocates of a federal Europe, one in which the EUSSR Commission based in Brussels is the main center of power and influence”
That’s why I hold the belief that marxists are bureaucraps (mis-spelling intentional) on steroids… Centralized power structures breed inefficiency, cause scarcity and quash innovation. Be careful what you wish for sheeple, you just might get it… Ask any Euro farmer or fisherman what they think of the meddlesome, inhuman bureaucraps of the EUSSR, it’s enlightening.
Everyone accused Bush of going to war in Iraq to “finish Daddy’s work” so why would they think Obama would act any differently now that he can punish Britain for torturing his father. The only reason people run for president anymore is to exact family revenge on the world…duh…I on the other hand would like to become President to get revenge on my brother. My first CIA mission: hold him upside down and shake him until he throws up…how’d you like them apples!
“Everyone accused Bush of going to war in Iraq to “finish Daddy’s work” so why would they think Obama would act any differently now that he can punish Britain for torturing his father.”
Heh-heh, “differently”… ‘Specialy cracks me up that anyone thinks there’s truly a differance between these constituion raping republicrats or demicans…
…”something doesn’t smell right here.”
Smells like roses…..if you are a Marxist.
Please tell me that ALBA has Jessica Alba as a spokesperson. Because I could really get behind that.