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Flipped on the TV this day and what do I see? Arrrgh…. Obama’s face plastered all over my screen. The Usurper is addressing Parliament. What a farce. He’s got the tennis match back and forth head thing going again, a sure sign that he’s using the teleprompters again. God, he’s such a phony. And the words hissing from his mouth are nothing but more fakery and blather. “Lacking in substance and full of platitudes” said Nile Gardiner, foreign policy expert at The Heritage Foundation, and considered one of the most influential 50 Brits.
Jonathan Seidl at The Blaze found this piece by Nile Gardiner that suits the occasion. THIS is our “president”, the most anti-British president in our history. What a colossal embarrassment. Both he and the First Wookie shame us.
On the heels of Obama flubbing a toast to the queen (and talking over the British national anthem), it seems only appropriate to bring you what one British reporter has dubbed Obama’s “top 10” insults against Britain.
Meredith first posted the list on the blog yesterday, but it’s worth some real estate on the story side, too.
The Telegraph’s Nile Gardiner compiled the list, something he’s done in the past. But, he says, since then a lot has happened.
“In honour [British spelling] of President Obama’s state visit to Britain this week, here’s an updated and revised list, as a reminder to readers of the president’s less than stellar track record when it comes to US-British relations,” he writes. “The US president will no doubt be careful not to offend his hosts when he travels to London, and he will receive a warm welcome from the Queen and the Prime Minister, as any American president would. But the prospect of an embarrassing diplomatic gaffe or insensitive remark cannot be ruled out from a world leader whose administration has all too often specialised in them.”
It‘s important to note that Gardiner’s piece was written before the now-infamous toast and the Westminster Abbey gust-book signing. So that he would say “the prospect of an embarrassing diplomatic gaffe or insensitive remark cannot be ruled out” is not only prophetic but also sad — sad that it would seem so easy to predict.
Below is the list:
1. Siding with Argentina over the Falklands
2. Calling France America’s strongest ally
3. Downgrading the Special Relationship
4. Supporting a federal Europe and undercutting British sovereignty
5. Betraying Britain to appease Moscow over the New START Treaty
6. Placing a “boot on the throat” of BP
7. Throwing Churchill out of the Oval Office
8. DVDs for the Prime Minister
9. Insulting words from the State Department
10. Undermining British influence in NATO
After Obama’s current trip is over, the list might need to be updated again.
To get Gardiner’s explanation of each item, read his entire article here. You can also vote on our gaffe poll over on the blog.
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