Obama to World: Drop Dead!

fulcanelli

Obama doesn't like a direct or probing question. It was the same in the campaign, and I doubt it will change any time soon. He prefers controlled, scripted environments where he appears messianic in the eyes of the majority of the US public. Are they in for a shock when the US press turns on him!

I can't stand Brown, but the way he snubbed him was disgraceful. More troops to Afghanistan, I'd withdraw the current lot and see how he copes then.

The US deserves everything they get for electing him.

Max Kaye

C'mon fulcanelli, Every red-blooded Briton is delighted that Obama 'dissed' (to use the current parlance) Brown so publicly.

The fact that Obama has feet of clay is neither here or there.

Nancy Baumgartner

I believe Obama was elected by those twins Dickens warned about: Ignorance and Want, with some help from the evil cousin, ACORN.

Li Rui Beijing

The whole world wanted Obama. Well, enjoy yourselves! Maybe their is a just God after all.

Craig Strachan

I think you're right that US political staffers are wary of the British press.

In "A Perfect Candidate" - the doc about Oliver North's Virginia senate race - there's a memorable moment in which North's campaign manager vents to camera about the British press by affecting an English accent and rehearsing the types of questions they ask - "Colonel North, why are you such a c---?" being one of them.

That film must be ten years old now, at least.

dearieme

Is Mr Obama going to make it three duds in a row?

Dr Jonathan Wilson Esher Surrey

Alex

What Mr. Brown and Mr. Obama have in common are one way tickets to Harare

See my take here:

http://my.telegraph.co.uk/drjonathanwilson/blog/?message=WW91ciBwb3N0IGhhcyBub3cgYmVlbiBzdWJtaXR0ZWQh

Northern Virginia

Fulcanelli has it half right; when the American press turns on Obama, it’ll get interesting, but please consider that everyone voted for him. The larger picture is that everyone in his Administration is improvising through the financial collapse, and that these guys have no plan.

W. B. Harris

The President is taking a page out of former President Bill, the lack of respect of the President’s office under all conditions.

Whether it is how his people respected the Office or how to treat visiting dignitaries.

It doesn’t matter what people think of former President Bush, people were treated with respect – even it would have been visiting Brown.

Remember, Obama sent back a gift from England of the bust of Winston Churchill.

Consider ‘Obamaniac’ brain is self-centered, because he cares less about common sense because he enjoys the swooning that has swept him by storm.

It’s interesting that both ‘Obammy’ and Brown are in the same leaking boat of political life.

Both are numb/dead to tradition, caring for the people they are suppose to represent and are damned that what they want is what they strive to achieve and the hell to practical understanding of mankind.

Yes, the U.S. of A. wanted the splinter messiah who knows nothing of accountability or truth and I think if there was a Presidential vote was today, I think he’d fall off his self-appointed throne.

I’m reminded when Saul was made King of ancient Israel, it was because the people wanted one and not the Real ONE. Oh, the price that Israel paid for the line of thinking and America too will suffer for that choice.

Both England and the U.S. of A. can turn it around only if people work together honestly to improve/correct the situation that they are encountering now.

Freedom isn’t free it’s only by standing up and being counted. So put your feet where your mouth has been in some of the writings that I’ve seen on the responses to the Spectator’s blogs!

It’s a fool that falls into the same pit twice – so watch your steps or what you want.

ndm

You can pretty much discount any comment on President Obama which contains statements like "[c]onsider 'Obamaniac' brain is self-centered, because he cares less about common sense because he enjoys the swooning that has swept him by storm." The word imbecilic comes to mind. But then there is this:

-- Yes, the U.S. of A. wanted the splinter messiah who knows nothing of accountability or truth and I think if there was a Presidential vote was today, I think he’d fall off his self-appointed throne.

This truly is mindless garbage. The American people were given a choice of four more years of stupidity from a Republican Party whose candidate was craven to his party's ideology or intelligent change from the Democratic Party whose candidate asked America to break from failed ideologies. The United States has just come out of the nightmare caused by the Bush Administration assault on the constiutional values that lie at the heart of American values. - eight years in which the President was never held accountable and never held to the truth. America is only one month into a new Administration and already we are seeing brought to light more and more of the memos that underpinned Bush Administration attacks on the constitution and by implicitation the American people - because it is the constitution that defines the relationship between the American people and their government. Yet W. B. Harris claims that Obama knows "nothing of accountability or truth."

Laura Meckler a journalist at the Wall Street Journal (no one of its worthless editorialists) provides us with some insight into the assertion by W.B. that Obama would "fall off his self-appointed throne" were an election held today. She writes ($):

-- President Barack Obama enjoys widespread backing from a frightened American public for his ambitious, front-loaded agenda, a new poll indicates.

-- He is more popular than ever, Americans are hopeful about his leadership, and opposition Republicans are getting drubbed in public opinion, the new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll suggests.

-- But there are also early warning signs showing risks if his plans don't show progress. The president's support, while still deep, looks increasingly partisan as Republicans move away from him. Americans have more confidence in the president himself than in some of his initiatives, such as the economic stimulus package, and have some hesitation about his plans to raise taxes to expand health coverage.

I wonder how well the leader of the opposition, Rush Limbaugh, would fare in an equivalent poll. It is all fine and dandy for Republican leaders to diss Obama's plan but the reality is that they have never provided any remotely credible plan of their own. Indeed, the Bush Administration had many months last year to come up with a sound plan but preferred to sit on its thumb biding out the remaining time of its pathetic administration.

ndm

I just noticed a great post by Michael Tomasky who will soon and unfortunately be the ex-American editor of the Guardian. Tomasky writes:

-- So when, a mere four days into his presidency, Barack Obama said "we can't let people like Rush Limbaugh stall this [stimulus package]," the conventional Washington wisdom immediately decreed it a glaring rookie error on the president's part. Why make Limbaugh so important, they asked, and asked, on cable television? Didn't he understand that he was merely raising Limbaugh's profile, and that El Fatso would be loving every minute of it?

-- Well, His Oxy-ness may indeed be loving every minute of it, but five weeks on, does Obama's invocation of Limbaugh look like such a mistake? I think not. Events have unfolded more or less exactly as Obama surely hoped they would. Limbaugh has indeed been elevated, and it's been a p.r. nightmare for the Republican Party.

I've seen a number of articles comparing the current Republican Party with the Conservatives in 1997. The true parallel is with Labour in 1979 and in the few years afterwards when Militant Tendency became an increasingly significant force in the Party. The difference is that the Labour Party eventually defeated Militant Tendency. Unfortunately for the Republican Party, Rush Limbaugh appears to have led his Militant Tendency forces to the point of victory where Michael Tomasky can describe him as "the GOP's spiritual leader." Is there anyone out there who thinks the Labour Party would have ever regained power had Derek Hatton become its spiritual leader in 1982? That could be the fate of a Republican Party unwilling to deal with the intellectual and moral vacuity of its leaders.

glenn

Just so you know, this Obama guy isn't Franklin Roosevelt. He's Huey Long.

Beltway

Northern Virginia: Your statement that "everyone voted for him"(Obama) is patently false. 47% of Americans did not vote for Obama, and his refusal to answer tough direct questions are a glimmering example of his inexperience and his failure at leadership.

Andrea

Leave President Obama alone! He has been distracted by a 400-lb radio talk show host. Some things take precedence.

Billy O'Malley

Obama has had a free ride from the press for three years now. When will he answer the tough questions? If he won't answer the tough questions, will reporters start investigating him a little closer.

Greed

Northern Virginia
March 4th, 2009 3:32am

Fulcanelli -but please consider that everyone voted for him.

Sorry but 52.9% of votes is not everyone

Jon Benit

Barry O. focused on the economy??? He's more focused on feuding with a Radio personality, nominating tax cheats, and paying off the Chicago campain machine fat cats. Heads of State and Foreign policy are low on the agenda.

It's Me!

This is simply explained.....
There was no teleprompter in the oval office.

'Nuff said.

Alex

Hey
Northern Virginia
March 4th, 2009 3:32am as far as i know 59 percent of the vote isnt "everyone"

jayne_cobb

I keep getting the feeling that this is a Jimmy Carter redux.

I mean come on, Obama's already been played by Putin twice, less than two months into his presidency.

On a side note the whole Rush thing is nothing but a distraction designed to avoid debate over the more than $3 trillion being spent right now. It's the political equivalent of yelling "look over there" and then running away.

Those who think this is some master play designed to destroy the Republicans are likely also easily distracted by shiny objects.

The only thing which matters is how the economy is doing in 2010 (or nat'l security depending on events in the meantime).

sigh

If Bush shredded the Constitution, Obama dug it out of the trash and taped it back together just so he could wipe his a** with it and gloat. Be warned, Americans will not accept socialism, and WE'RE ARMED.

Nicole in Texas, USA

Obama has no respect for the office of the President of the United States or American allies. He only has time for people and nations that will further his agenda. He has no tolerance for anyone who has differing opinions or beliefs. This was evident to anyone who followed the election. He used people and when they became a politically liability he threw them away. He disavowed his pastor of 20 years who baptized his children because it was politically expedient. Do you remember what happened when Obama approached an ordinary citizen, Joe the Plumber, not at a rally but at Joe’s own home and Joe asked a question Obama did not like? Obama supporters illegally searched government records for information to discredit Joe.
As American citizen I apologize for the disrespect by my President. Please realize that this man does not represent the beliefs of many, hopefully a growing portion, of Americans. Please pray for your American cousins.

LogicalSC

Obama is a narcissist and the world is going to find out that if it doesn't benefit B. Hussein Obama then he couldn't care a da*n.

Hell, the man dissed his only sane relative, his grandmother, by calling her a racist during the campaign in order to protect his racist, anti-American "pastor", Jeremiah Wright. Additionally, Obama oversaw a 155 million dollar foundation for the education of Chicago's children and it had to be closed down because all the money went to radical leftist nuts like William Ayers and Mike Klonsky, plus ACORN. None of it ever made it to the classrooms.

obladioblada

Oh you have to forgive our rookie, on the job training takes a lot of time. Our buyers' remorse is setting in early as he so deliberately goes about destroying our economy.

Joe

As an America, he's given us voters the big FU. Theres a giant list of things he refuses to release. Medical records: college record, birth certificate, donors list, senate voting record, clients he has represented, articles hes worked on for the harvard law reveiew...the list goes on and on.

All of you overseas, don't let the blatent bias of the MSM fool you. He barley got a majority vote to be president and that's becasue there were so many that were upset with Bush, they cut off their nose to spite their face. He's an empty suit and a fraud that is destroying America as quickly as he can.
Have you not noticed he snubs our allies while kissing the rearends of our enemies?

He does not speak for We the People. He's a classic Narcissist Personality disorder with a healthy dash of megalomania. Ypou got off easy England, don't trun your back on this man

Sue

Don't believe things you read in the American MSM. it's al lcrap, including the fake slanted polls. The media has been carrying water for him for a long time.
He barly eeked out a majority win and that was only becasue people were to PO'd at Bush to vote sensibly.
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He's nothing more than a snake oil salesman but he will bend over backwards to create a false perception. he's all about "looking like your successful despite the reality". Megalomania, you've seen it before. Or at least your grandparents have 70 years ago

Sara

Obama is a black liberation Marxist. Look it up and then you will understand what is going on with Obama and Europe and Obama and capitalism. We knew who he was when we elected him but most Americans were too stupid to read about his "church" and take his associations with these destructive souls seriously. But Britians cheered him on - now you get him, too.

Chris

I don't know what you Brits have to complain about. You're just like the socialists that elected him here. We both have a bunch of losers looking for free handouts from the government. You even have Americans coming over there because you have more free handouts. Good luck with that.

Dries

Obama will the first ever president to use a teleprompter during press conferences. While Bush handled himself alone & often mangled proper English during such meetings to cheerful applause of his foes, The One will be fed smart answers by his minions sitting somewhere behind. And US press will worship Him, while kneeling & pass the rapturous news onto populace that is quickly growing disillusioned.

Brits were, are & will always be our closest friends & allies. I don't care about Brown, but he should've been afforded more than a shoddy treatment undue to a man of his rank. Respect the rank, if not the man.

ndm

Sigh writes - "Be warned, Americans will not accept socialism, and WE'RE ARMED."

What is it about The Spectator blogs that attracts people who advocate revolt in America. It is certainly not Alex Massie's fault that these people are commenting on his blog.

As to the "socialism" canard. I read some American commentator suggesting today the reason why the right has reintroduced "socialism" to its vocabulary is that three decades of Reaganistic demonisation of "liberals" has been discredited. Republicans need a new demon word to describe Democratic policies - ans socialism it is.

JimB

In a world where he can create a Potemkin Village of his own greatness constructed by useful idiots in the press, why in the world would he ever subject himself to the risk of exposing himself? He did this during the campaign and will continue to do it. Eventually, reality will rear its ugly head, the artificial facade laid to waste and we will see the true Obama. I fear he will be as feckless and incompetent as I suspect.

Bentley

Hello, Everyone!
Please don't think that all Americans are behind this fraud of a president. Millions of us could not get anything reported in the media when this arrogant man was running in the primaries. Of course we all know who owns CNN, MSNBC, etc. So real truths did not get to the outside world, or to thousands of American citizens. We are becoming so dispared from our leadership.

The forum that I belong to posts many of the UK articles which makes us very happy. At least there is some realistic journalism left in the world.

BHO's treatment of PM Brown was uncalled for. Of course we must keep in mind that BHO didn't have his Greek columns and a high stage with a podium and teleprompter.

Please don't give up on the American people. His fans are still waiting for their gas tanks to be filled and their mortgages to be paid by others.

We must keep in mind, there is no proof that BHO actually received an education--all school records have been sealed. So, if I had to speculate, he may not be smart enough to lead this nation, or as he wanted to do--lead the world.

What hubris

Luther

i think that some of these comments were written by people who were paid to write them -- their views are in no way representational of the vast majority of americans

Arizona

Talk with Obama's handlers. They're the ones putting the words on the mandatory teleprompter.

Folks who think Bush was conservative are delusional. If nothing else, he was guilty of a single minded focus on national security, with a lapse on border security to irk conservatives.

Just as delusional are those who think Obama is moderate.

Constitutional crisis mongers will have a heyday with Barack Obama's administration. His henchmen are already known for delving into personal records of opponents during the elections, taking Clinton's techniques a step further into the dark side.

Don't believe President Obama is all that popular. His negatives are huge for such a new president. Vociferous opposition rallies are emerging, though the media chooses to ignore the thousands already taking to the streets (never mind they'd highlight 10 or 15 individuals representing Iraq war opposition on a corner in D.C.).

Obama's stimulus package is pouring a huge percentage of the US GDP down the drain. Why a FIFTH bailout modification for AIG? The answer is simple. The first $120 billion is already GONE. Never to be seen again except in the tax bills of all Americans and their children. And so it will be with the rest of the $1 trillion O'bailout Omnibus Earmark Expenditure. Such a waste.

Robert Jackson

Andrea (March 5th, 2009 12:41am) says, "Leave President Obama alone! He has been distracted by a 400-lb radio talk show host."

Not true.

Obama has been distracted by shiny things on the ground. He is fascinated by shiny things.

tnmama

Please don't lump me in with the half of Americans who voted for this jerk. There are those of us fighting his arrogance and social programming agenda every day. Obama is a narcissitic wimp and an emperor with no clothes. There are those of us here who wonder if he's even an American. Please Lord, give us another Ronald Reagan to clean up this mess!

Rab o' Ruglen

Hi Alex,

Having seen the way the Scottish press behaves towards its own elected government, he probably wouldn't want to be seen within a mile of them.

Wise man.

Regards,

OldLeprechaun

Hey! I thought the WHOLE WORLD loved President Obambam. And after he was sworn in, the whole world would love their Uncle Sammy again. As an 80'ish (white) woman recently said to me, "I voted for Obama because of all the terrible things that have been done to black people." Oh my! That's REALLY sound thinking. Unfortunately, during the campaign even his rabid supporters couldn't name one accomplishment. ALL of his records are sealed by court orders and the sum total of his experience has been working in one of the world's most corrupt cesspits; Chicago, Illinois.

Houston, we have a problem.

Rebecca in Georgia USA

Obama to World: Drop Dead!

World, don't feel so bad, Obama feels the same way towards the USA.

Suzan Tisdale

I am an American. I live in Illinois. (I didn’t vote for Mr. Obama). I’d like to apologize for the outrageous, unacceptable behavior shown to Mr. Brown and all of your great country. Obama should NEVER have returned the bust of Churchill. That was a gift to the United States. The president is merely a steward of gifts, not the owner. I myself was embarrassed and insulted by this action. I was also embarrassed that he didn’t give ANY time to the press after he visited with Mr. Brown, as all other presidents have done in the past. Lastly, the gift Mr. Obama gave to Gordon Brown was an insult. Mr. Brown gave three very thoughtful gifts to Mr. Obama. What did he get? A set of DVD’s of classic American movies? Mr. Brown could have purchased that at Amazon or Barnes and Noble! Just plain, out and out insulting.

I do not blame any of you for being angry and insulted. Please don’t make excuses that he’s too busy with our economic concerns. That isn’t it. He’s too busy trying to usurp the US Constitution to care much about anything else.

Again, I do apologize and sincerely hope that you do not hold these actions against the American peoples, especially those of us who didn’t vote for him.

Travis McGee

The first rule of American left-liberal diplomacy is to coddle your enemies. The second rule is to treat your friends like crap.

Unfortunately, nothing about what happened to PM Brown came as a surprise to those of us who have been paying attention.

Ryan Johnson

I am a red blooded American who LOVES Britain. It's a beautiful and amazing place with a rich history and great people. Every time I have visited I've met really nice and interesting people. I hope the British don't start thinking Obama speaks for any Americans in his "dis" of Brown. Does anyone know what region the DVD's were?

Sandra

Barak Obama will be a disaster for us...and the world. He fully believeshe was crowned Emperor and elected by the people for a period of 4 years.
He is crude and rude bore.
Did not ever think I would miss George Bush this much.

Doug T, Burleson TX

Ron Paul!! Duh the only one with the answer along with some repubs in senate and house.

ronpaulforums.com
Get Together !

P.s about story
ya obama sucks, everyone pretty much does in govt, until they cut the Federal reserve, and all the govt. spending overseas . And all the Govt. Spending for that matter.

Obama's plan = spend till the end! and dont CHAnge a dam thing!

Jim 02351

As an American I'd like to thank Mr Brown for the magnificent pen set that he gave Mr Obama. I'm sure that Mr Brown will enjoy the boxed set of 25 American movies on DVD in US format that the trailer trash president gave him. I hope he removed the $12.95 price tag before he presented it.

Steve Gregg

What you Brits are seeing is the beginning of the worst presidency in American history. His gratuitous snub of Great Britain, one of the few countries worthy of respect, a country that has stood by us in many a war, is a product of his arrogance and ignorance. Obama knows nothing about foreign affairs, the economy, health care, nor miitary affairs but he is committed to "improving" the state of all of them. He'll be taking the wrecking ball to America for the next four years.

NotYourTypicalNewYorker

Well,you Brits were just swooning over this guy last year,how do you like him now?...What?...I can't hear you!Suffer with the rest of us,you bunch of wankers!

mtp

Our girly-man prez, having called Rush Limbaugh out, now quivers like a three-year-old at her first Halloween haunted house over the prospect of having to debate Limbaugh, a high school graduate. We now learn that Obama, three months ago the smartest man in the history of the human race, cannot give even the briefest speech without a teleprompter; a special presidential podium with computer and video feeds is being constructed so that White House aides can feed him answers during press conferences. George Soros wanted an empty suit with an empty head; he got one.

Hank in Connecticut

Welcome to Obama world - where everything is about "the one" and nothing will be done to steal his glory. The man is terribly insecure and just a bit unstable. Well, this is what the world wanted - enjoy!

Anne

I am in the USA, and I had nothing to do with Obama getting elected, and do not feel that America deserves Obama.

It's pretty Obvious that Obama is like a fish out of water , in the Oval Office.

Holly

I agree with Susan!
He had no right to give that bust back! It was a gift to The People and we would like it back when we get the Fraud, marxist Obama out of office
We love our brothers across the pond

Lee M.

I though O's election was the beginning of a new Age of Kumbaya. That old cowboy George Bush is looking better every day, eh?

From the USA with love!

Leave Czar Telepromtorcus Obama alone. He has a tough job of raising taxes to pay for our military excursions while simultaneously taking away housing tax deductions during an economic downturn. And it is tough work to spend the USA into the ground even more while forcing us to pay for the air we breathe with carbon credits. How European.
Luckily T.K.Obama. was able to send Hitlery, the Waco Texas Massacre Queen, to China to grovel on her knees for more money!
Thanks Chinese government for enabling our treacherous D.C. leaders. Why doesn't the Chinese govt. spend the money on it's own people? Please Peoples Party of China, leave the USA alone, possibly to fail, so we can rebuild and heal already, and so we can stop terrorizing the world. You can run the world for 50 years! Or maybe India is ready to step up and take over for the broke A*s USofA.
You win across the pond, you were so thrilled about Obama. People across the pond always loved to snicker and point the finger at the rascist USA. Well a black man is now in charge of the world, get use to it racist Europeans. He probably hates all of you for what your past leaders did to his people.
Remember colonization? Well the African-Americans do! Remember the slave trade? Well they blame you for all of it!
Now you will get a taste of what we in the USA live.
Be careful what you wish for, you just might get it!
So take your bust back and stop complaining. And take your banking system back while you are at it. Obama is in charge, CHANGE has come.

GWW

No surprise. Obama was elected on rhetoric and little else. He has never succeeded at anything except getting elected. He has never had anyone tell him no, and he has a wife who believes that the world's evil is the result of European males, and Brown is one.

Get used to it. We elected him and we will suffer like we have not since Jimmy Carter. Now, the world will suffer too.

Bush was trapped by world events and natural disasters. Obama will be engulfed like he just walked into the Labrea tar pits.