This is becoming awkward. I must say all European fans of Obama if you had been reading Opinionated Catholic I was warning of you of this last year!! Wait till you have to talk about issues such as trade!!
Brits Officials Can’t Get Obama Folks on Phone, U.S. Media Not Picking Up Either
If the snub of British PM Gordon Brown at the hands of President Obama and his wife weren’t enough, now British Cabinet Secretary Sir Gus O’Donnell is saying that Downing Street is finding it “unbelievably difficult” to get hold of officials from Obama’s administration. British officials can’t seem to ever get past the administration’s answer machines as they call here to try and coordinate plans for the coming G20 summit.
In frustration O’Donnell said that that when he tries to get in touch with key members of Obama’s Treasury Department “there is nobody there.” The phones ring and nobody answers or they get messages and that is all. “You cannot believe how difficult it is,” O’Donnell told participants at a civil service conference.
While the Obama Administration ducks the Brit’s phone calls, the U.S. media also seems to be ignoring this story as they’ve widely ignored several of the stories that detail the new administration’s offhanded treatment of our closest ally.
Attempting to re-spin O’Donnell’s pique, Downing Street replied by reiterating that the relationship between Britain and the Obama administration is perfectly fine. Officials also claimed that O’Donnell was critiquing the American system of replacing key officials with each new administration.
The Old Media in this country, though, seems uninterested in this story. This isn’t surprising because they’ve been systematically ignoring many of the stories coming from England detailing the deteriorating relations between the Obama administration and British representatives.
First Obama dissed the Brits by summarily returning her generous loan of a bust of Churchill to adorn the Oval Office. Along with the gift gaffes that Michelle and Barack perpetrated when the Brown’s visited and the Obama official that told British authorities that they weren’t “special” to the U.S., this story is all over the European media but is not making much of a splash on this side of the Atlantic.
One has to wonder why the Old Media in the U.S. is not too interested in these stories of how Obama is dissing the Brits? Could it be that President Obama is not living up to the campaign promise that he’d “fix” our international relations and that truth does not appeal to the delicate sensibilities of the U.S. media? .
If it is consolation to our Friends in the Mother Country it seems Americans themselves are having a hard time getting the Treasury on the phone!!!
Thursday, March 12, 2009
Great Britian Can't Get Obama Folks On the Phone Now
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Obama is a foreigner.
And I don't even have to go to legitimate questions regarding his birth certificate to make such a statement.
Even if he is technically, legally, a citizen, in his heart, in his soul, he is a foreigner. He comes at things with a foreign perspective. He comes at things with a foreign world view.
But as to the Brits, I have no sympathy for them. Obama is as much "their guy" then anyone elses. They did polls during the election to the effect "If you could vote in the US election, who would you vote for?". Overwhelming (as was the case in most foreign countries) Obama was the choice.
So, I just see this as poetic justice!
Well I feel syspathy for them largely because they are not only a important Ally bit they have been fighting with our guys and a help.
I understand what you mean though. Though I guess they were decieved just like Americans sadly were
The fact that so many Americans voted for this guy cuts me deeply.
The fact that when I walk down the street every other person is my enemy is unbearable.
It is hard to live without hope but since the late 1980s for the most part it has been the case where you see this country fall further into the abyss and currently I see few faint chances to turn things around.
As bad as Obama is and indeed he is bad, what has really sapped my spirit in the last month or so has been Michael Steele. He has proved that the GOP at this point still doesn't offer a viable option. It looks like we are looking at eight years of Obama if not more.
But getting back to the UK. When Obama visited the UK last year (the year of a Presidential election and he is spending time abroad, what's with that) there were large crowds cheering him, just like there were in Berlin, and even Israel.
In the last few elections they have done polls abroad. I am sure the pollsters find such a question as irresistible for them as I find it offensive. The question is "If you could vote for US President who would you vote for".
And whether it was India, the UK, France, wherever outside of America the question was asked, it wasn't even close, Obama by a large landslide.
So, I kind of feel now, hey, World (or in this case specifically the UK) America has elected you your President. America has elected the President you want us to have.
So, you got what you wanted. Now (excuse the language) STFU.
Let us not forget why the British PM was over there.
He was hoping that some of the great popularly that Obama enjoys (or I should say enjoyed) in the UK would rub off on him.
Well, it didn't quite work out that way did it? Poetic Justice!
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