Ah, the UK Telegraph spews bile again....Was 'Lady Macbeth' behind Obama's snub of Brown?

[Jackeens]

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

By: James Delingpole

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.


More here: http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/james_delingpole/blog/2009/03/05/was_lady_macbeth_behind_barack_obamas_snub_of_gordon_brown

[Why Syzygy]

1. Is that the same bust that was a present to Bush

from Blair? :wtf:

[Jackeens]

2. The very one!

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article5622197.ece

[Why Syzygy]

6. Good grief.

Churchill was Bush's ancestor. Obama doesn't need to display it!

[Cha]

3. What "snub"? If Obama

unintentionally "snubbed" Brown then I see him apologizing for it.

[Jackeens]

5. No snub at all Cha, only one concocted by the right wing UK press.

Obama's people simply returned Blair's 'gift' to Bush, and replaced it with a bust of Lincoln.

What a crime!!

[Cha]

8. I knew it had

to be manufactured.. Good ol tony tony tony.

[crimsonblue]

4. ya know, fuck England.

The Oval Office resides in the White House, in the UNITED STATES. Whatever the President wants to put in the room is his prerogative. It's bullshit for people to be bitching about some stupid bronze bust of Churchill. Get the fuck over yourselves, Britain.

[Jackeens]

7. crimsonblue, it's only the scumbag right wing UK press making an issue of this...

...they're just searching for any way possible to suggest Gordon Brown was 'humiliated' by Obama. He wasn't - one of the many reasons they hate him is that he's an Americophile, so (and as a Labour man) he more than most would appreciate the desire to replace Churchill with Lincoln!

[crimsonblue]

10. I was ranting... my nana is native English

so I love the country, but they are just a prone to being fucking pricks as the rest of us (especially their horrendous newpapers).

[Jackeens]

11. You're absolutely right, most of their press (Guardian and Independent excluded) is vile. n/t

[musette_sf]

9. was this guy as perturbed

about "hormonal teenager(s)" Georgie and Tony and their little sleepover party?

or about Margaret "Lady Macbeth" Thatcher?

i presume not.

[pa28]

12. One racist non-sequitur after another

And best of all the inflammatory title has nothing to do with the story that follows!

:crazy:

The righ wing clown car has unloaded. Who knew so many could fit inside.