Monday, March 09, 2009
Obama Administration to England: Bugger Off!
State Department Official Insults Britain (NRO) Great news: Obama fumbled Brown visit because he’s in over his head (Hot Air)
The Ultimate Diplomacy (Ace)
Obama phones Britain's PM Brown to disprove any rookie snub (LAT)
He's Just Not That Into the Special Relationship NRO
WHAT'S BEHIND BARACK'S BRIT SNIT (NY POST)
Perhaps the president simply believes some other nation should replace Britain as our closest friend. (For a while, the Clinton administration meant to put Germany ahead of the UK.) Or perhaps Obama has a different view of the special relationship - one held by the likes of his onetime mentor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright.
These critics don't see a legacy of freedom going back to Magna Carta. They see a historical procession of self-serving white males. And Churchill is not the man who singlehandedly stood up against Hitler and who warned us all about the Soviet Union's iron curtain, but a white supremacist.
In this view (which also sees an America steeped in racism, colonialism and greed, rather than a nation dedicated to the proposition of liberty under law), there is no need to preserve any precious British-born legacy.
