Middy
March 13th, 2009, 3:49 am
This writer of this article is Professor James C. Humes (Colorado University at Colorado Springs) who was awarded an O.B.E. by Queen Elizabeth for the award-winning, Pulitzer Prize finalist, "Churchill: Speaker of the Century." Humes is a former presidential speechwriter.
Obama is sure living up to his promise about making the rest of the world like us more. Perhaps he didn't have our allies in mind when he said that, but instead was thinking about Chavez, Castro, Ahmadinejad, Hamas, etc.
Obama Slams Churchill
Thursday, March 12, 2009 10:29 AM
By: James Humes
Winston Churchill once described American diplomacy as “a bull who carries his own china shop around with him.” President Obama took over a hundred years of diplomatic asset known as the “special relationship” and smashed it into smithereens. The candidate who promised diplomacy not war, as president declared a kind of cold war against our oldest ally.
Not coincidentally, the man who coined that phrase describing the relationship between United States and Britain, Winston Churchill, would be the symbol Obama would use in breaking off these special ties.
Upon the arrival of British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, the first head of government to visit the White House, Obama let word out the bust of Churchill that Prime Minister Blair had presented to the United States as a gift from the British people had been returned to the British Embassy.
That offensive act without explanation gave substance to the reported story that when President Obama walked into the Oval Office for the first time and saw the Churchill piece, he said, “Get that goddam thing out of here.”
Continued here:
http://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/james_humes_obama/2009/03/12/191206.html
Obama is sure living up to his promise about making the rest of the world like us more. Perhaps he didn't have our allies in mind when he said that, but instead was thinking about Chavez, Castro, Ahmadinejad, Hamas, etc.
Obama Slams Churchill
Thursday, March 12, 2009 10:29 AM
By: James Humes
Winston Churchill once described American diplomacy as “a bull who carries his own china shop around with him.” President Obama took over a hundred years of diplomatic asset known as the “special relationship” and smashed it into smithereens. The candidate who promised diplomacy not war, as president declared a kind of cold war against our oldest ally.
Not coincidentally, the man who coined that phrase describing the relationship between United States and Britain, Winston Churchill, would be the symbol Obama would use in breaking off these special ties.
Upon the arrival of British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, the first head of government to visit the White House, Obama let word out the bust of Churchill that Prime Minister Blair had presented to the United States as a gift from the British people had been returned to the British Embassy.
That offensive act without explanation gave substance to the reported story that when President Obama walked into the Oval Office for the first time and saw the Churchill piece, he said, “Get that goddam thing out of here.”
Continued here:
http://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/james_humes_obama/2009/03/12/191206.html