No Special Relationship?

[DrMike]

It seems that once staunch allies, such as Great Britain, are discovering that under the current administration in the US, no special relationship exists. Somehow, it is disturbing to see a news article stating "No 'Special Relationship' Between Britain and the US: MPs" http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.d7ee3248658ea97d198f69b55aace657.17b1&show_article=1. There has been a special relationship, but when the President treats the Primer Minister with disdain and disrespect, nations take umbrage. It is worrisome to read that the President left an invited head of state to his own devices while he went to dinner, as happened recently. Well, at least a great friend like Fidel Castro commends the President and Congress for its recent work, even when the UK and Israel are slapped in the face.

For those who may wonder, the foregoing is meant to be rife with sarcasm.

 

[Elkman]

My friend whom is a naturalized American citizen from the UK and I were discussing that same subject yesterday. We believe that because of that special bond that we have had with the UK, Canada, Australia, Ireland and numerous other countries makes an alliance that cannot be overlooked by someone wanting to do harm in the world. However that alliance is suffering from the current band of fools/hoods that we have in the White House. I believe that throughout our history right has not prevailed by bullshitting someone to death as we seem want to do now. I am hopeing that a major change in our two houses will bring about a positive change this November.

Dr. Mike I skipped the sarcasm.

 

[Guy Miner]

We've enjoyed a special relationship with Great Britain, as well as Canada, Australia and other English speaking former colonies for a very long time. To our benefit and theirs.

I don't understand why a president would want to throw that away...

Semper Fi, Guy

 

[JD338]

Elkman nailed it!
I hope and pray that America does the right thing in November before it is too late!

JD338

 

[DrMike]

The present administration continues to lead the US to attack every ally that has stood with us for years even as they embrace the most rabid anti-American governments imaginable. Now, employing Chicago politics, the Obama administration has dealt an underhanded blow to Israel even while claiming they would honour prior commitments (http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.5eaf6bbb255b23063c3b3635bd5f7c52.161&show_article=1). Things are getting interesting. I hope November won't be too late. A lot can happen in international events in this period; a lot has happened in the past several weeks.

 

[owenv]

Article from the Wall Street Journal - by Eddie Sessions:

I have this theory about Barack Obama. I think he's led a kind
of make-believe life in which money was provided and doors were
opened because at some point early on somebody or some group took a look at this tall, good looking, half-white, half-black, young man with an exotic African/Muslim name and concluded he could be guided toward a life in politics where his facile speaking skills could even put him in the White House.

In a very real way, he has been a young man in a very big hurry. Who else do you know has written two memoirs before the age of 45? "Dreams of My Father" was published in 1995 when he was only
34 years old. The "Audacity of Hope" followed in 2006. If, indeed, he did write them himself. There are some who think that his mentor and friend, Bill Ayers, a man who calls himself a "communist with a small 'c'" was the real author.

His political skills consisted of rarely voting on anything that
might be deemed controversial. He went from a legislator in the
Illinois legislature to the Senator from that state because he had the good fortune of having Mayor Daley's formidable political machine at his disposal.

He was in the U.S. Senate so briefly that his bid for the presidency was either an act of astonishing self-confidence or part of some greater game plan that had been determined before he first stepped foot in the Capital. How, many must wonder, was he selected to be a 2004 keynote speaker at the Democrat convention that nominated John Kerry when virtually no one had ever even heard of him before?

He outmaneuvered Hillary Clinton in primaries. He took Iowa by
storm. A charming young man, an anomaly in the state with a very
small black population, he oozed "cool" in a place where agriculture was the antithesis of cool. He dazzled the locals. And he had an army of volunteers drawn to a charisma that hid any real substance.

And then he had the great good fortune of having the Republicans
select one of the most inept candidates for the presidency since
Bob Dole. And then John McCain did something crazy. He picked Sarah Palin, an unknown female governor from the very distant state of Alaska. It was a ticket that was reminiscent of 1984's Walter Mondale and Geraldine Ferraro and they went down to defeat.

The mainstream political media fell in love with him. It was a
schoolgirl crush with febrile commentators like Chris Mathews
swooning then and now over the man. The venom directed against McCain and, in particular, Palin, was extraordinary.

Now, nearly a full year into his first term, all of those gilded
years leading up to the White House have left him unprepared to be President. Left to his own instincts, he has a talent for saying the wrong thing at the wrong time. It swiftly became a joke that he could not deliver even the briefest of statements without the ever-present Tele-Prompters.

Far worse, however, is his capacity to want to "wish away" some
terrible realities, not the least of which is the Islamist intention to destroy America and enslave the West. Any student of history knows how swiftly Islam initially spread. It knocked on the doors of Europe, having gained a foothold in Spain.

The great crowds that greeted him at home or on his campaign
"world tour" were no substitute for having even the slightest grasp of history and the reality of a world filled with really bad people with really bad intentions.

Oddly and perhaps even inevitably, his political experience, a
cakewalk, has positioned him to destroy the Democrat Party's hold on power in Congress because in the end it was never about the Party. It was always about his communist ideology, learned at an early age from family, mentors, college professors, and extreme leftist friends and colleagues.

Obama is a man who could deliver a snap judgment about a Boston
police officer who arrested an "obstreperous" Harvard professor-friend, but would warn Americans against "jumping to conclusions" about a mass murderer at Fort Hood who shouted "Allahu Akbar." The absurdity of that was lost on no one. He has since compounded this by calling the Christmas bomber "an isolated extremist" only to have to admit a day or two later that he was part of an al Qaeda plot.

He is a man who could strive to close down our detention facility at Guantanamo even though those released were known to have returned to the battlefield against America. He could even instruct his Attorney General to afford the perpetrator of 9/11 a civil trial when no one else would ever even consider such an obscenity. And he is a man who could wait three days before having anything to say about the perpetrator of yet another terrorist attack on Americans and then have to elaborate on his remarks the following day because his first statement was so lame.

The pattern repeats itself. He either blames any problem on the Bush administration or he naively seeks to wish away the truth.

Knock, knock. Anyone home? Anyone there? Barack Obama exists only as the sock puppet of his handlers, of the people who have maneuvered and manufactured this pathetic individual's life.

When anyone else would quickly and easily produce a birth certificate, this man has spent over a million dollars to deny
access to his. Most other documents, the paper trail we all leave in our wake, have been sequestered from review. He has lived a make-believe life whose true facts remain hidden.

We laugh at the ventriloquist's dummy, but what do you do when
the dummy is President of the United States of America?

 

[big rifle man]

The article written by Eddie Sessions was one of the most accurate and concise pieces I have ever read. To the point is putting it mildly. I have spoken with a lot of people who voted for Obama and now realize what a serious mistake they have made. I do believe however that Obama is noticing that his house of cards is starting to tumble. A wall street journal reporter just last week in one of her columns called Obama inept, and a total failure. I guess once the facade wears off the chickens come home to roost.