President Neophyte Working Hard To Tick Off Allies
No unicorns visible in the British press corp: Iain Martin President Barack Obama just plain rude to Britain. Don’t call us in future.
Why couldn’t President Obama have put on more of a show for his British guests? He looked like he simply couldn’t be bothered.
Number 10 may be content that they just about got away with the visit to the Oval Office yesterday, as Andrew Porter reports from Washington.
But on this side of the Atlantic the whole business looked pretty demeaning. The morning papers and TV last night featured plenty of comment focused on the White House’s very odd and, frankly, exceptionally rude treatment of a British PM. Squeezing in a meeting, denying him a full press conference with flags etc. The British press corps, left outside for an hour in the cold, can take it and their privations are of limited concern to the public.
But Obama’s merely warmish words (one of our closest allies, said with little sincerity or passion) left a bitter taste with this Atlanticist. Especially after his team had made Number 10 beg for a mini press conference and then not even offered the PM lunch.
And there are plenty more stories like that from the British media. Bruce McQuain at Q&O has a great breakdown of the various stories, check it out, but, here is one of my favorite quotes from Alex Massie at the Spectator
Obama is not on the campaign trail any longer but his press strategy does not seem to have switched to governing mode yet.
Obama’s governing strategy hasn’t switched to governing mode yet, either. And he is showing his inexperience complete lack of experience in foreign matters. Otherwise, one has to assume that Obama is intentionally being rude to allies. Remember, he did decline to keep the Winston Churchill bust right from the get go.
Say, wasn’t Joe Biden picked to be V.P. for this exact kind of experience? Cause no one messes with Joe!
Flopping Aces: I thought Obama promised to repair our alliances not damage them?
Don Surber: Times of London: While President Obama was snubbing British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, Mrs. Obama was snubbing Mrs. Brown.
Tim Shipman: Barack Obama is running scared of tough questions
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Posted by William Teach on March 5, 2009 9:52 am
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Well, look at it like this. Obie is really, really busy trying to BOHICA the American taxpayer again so he just didn’t have time to meet with the head of a foreign country as non-important as England.
Besides that 3,700 buck playhouse for his daughters wasn’t going to build it’s self, you know.
I dropped an S when copying and pasting.
Of course, that is all you can pick on, since you cannot answer as to why the guy you voted for, Anonymous, is doing this.
Thanks for your drive buy troll dropping.
and to think of all the folks across the pond that throught we would be a better country if we voted this turkey into office. Now look, he’s disrespecting their elected officials.
Frankly, I think Joe & Mrs. Biden would’ve been more thoughtful and hospitable…and I’m no fan of Joe.
Does anyone else think that American media should focus more on newsworthy than novelty? I was disappointed to see that no media station is talking about the Prime Minister’s “Global New Deal”. We are doing him more of an injustice by not taking seriously or discussing his propositions. Clearly, President Obama’s Public Affairs professionals dropped the ball on positive PR. I found an objective video news site that discusses the story from global perspectives. It’s interesting to hear international opinions on the visit.
http://www.newsy.com/videos/no_party_for_uk/