Sunday, March 15, 2009

Obama aides a "posse of smirky smart alecks ..."

The British Prime Minister’s reception during his visit to Washington has been a huge embarrassment to the Obama Administration. Aside from the cheesy gifts offered to PM Brown and his family:

... A new poll revealed that the president's personal approval ratings have slumped to levels below those of George W. Bush at the same stage of his first term.

... Camille Paglia, the feminist writer who was early and vocal Obama fan, said: "Heads should be rolling at the White House for the embarrassing series of flubs that have overshadowed President Obama's first seven weeks in office."

She denounced "the fiasco of the ham-handed White House reception for British Prime Minister Gordon Brown" and said that Mr Obama's aides were a "posse of smirky smart alecks and provincial rubes" who seemed like "dazed lost lambs in the brave new world of federal legislation and global statesmanship". Ms Paglia added on Salon.com that Mr Obama "has been ill-served by his advisers and staff."

Nile Gardiner, the foremost conservative expert on the special relationship in Washington, is gunning for the official at the state department who told The Sunday Telegraph last weekend that Britain deserved no special favours and was "just the same as the other 190 countries in the world".

Dr Gardiner, director of the Margaret Thatcher Centre for Freedom at the Heritage Foundation, said: "The official's highly insulting remarks were the most offensive comments directed against Britain by any U.S. representative in recent memory.

Ouch!

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4 comments:

  1. Roy EappenMarch 15, 2009 at 11:32:00 AM PDT

    I am disapppointed, but not surprised. obamessiah doesn't get the Anglosphere.

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  2. AnonymousMarch 15, 2009 at 12:11:00 PM PDT

    "Mr Obama "has been ill-served by his advisers and staff."

    Of course Mr Obama HIMSELF is ot held responsible.

    Careful now, you don't want to attack the Obamamessiah someone might call you a racist!

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  3. FredMMarch 15, 2009 at 12:35:00 PM PDT

    "Mr Obama "has been ill-served by his advisers and staff."

    I see how it goes, no matter how bad it gets we still cant bring ourselves to blaming the messiah. It must have been his advisers, and not him. But then again how can these lefty writers blame the one they praised and put on a pedestal with out even looking into his back ground.

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  4. JRMarch 15, 2009 at 6:05:00 PM PDT

    Yes, someone commented on this, I can't remember where, that with Harry Truman it was the "the buck stops here"; with Obama it's "the buck stops over there".

    P.S. The formerly screwed up link to the Telegraph article is fixed.

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