Obama's Top 10 Insults Against Britain - 2011

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Sad. Of course, when you have a "top ten" then that necessarily means there are more than ten...

In March last year I published a list of Barack Obama’s biggest insults against America’s biggest ally Great Britain, during his time in office. A lot of water has flown under the bridge since then, including the Gulf oil spill and the White House’s campaign against BP, the now infamous Obama-Sarkozy press conference earlier this year, and the release by Wikileaks of US government documents revealing the Obama administration had betrayed Britain in order to appease the Russians over the New START Treaty.

In honour of President Obama’s state visit to Britain this week, here’s an updated and revised list, as a reminder to readers of the president’s less than stellar track record when it comes to US-British relations. The US president will no doubt be careful not to offend his hosts when he travels to London, and he will receive a warm welcome from the Queen and the Prime Minister, as any American president would. But the prospect of an embarrassing diplomatic gaffe or insensitive remark cannot be ruled out from a world leader whose administration has all too often specialised in them. As I noted in my original piece:


Without a shadow of a doubt, Barack Obama has been the most anti-British president in modern American history. The Special Relationship has been significantly downgraded, and at times humiliated under his presidency, which has displayed a shocking disregard for America’s most important partner and strategic ally.

There are a multitude of reasons for President Obama’s dismissive approach to the UK, and here are a few: an obsession with engaging and appeasing America’s enemies rather than cultivating allies; personal animosity towards Britain because of his grandfather’s role as a Mau Mau supporter in 1950’s colonial Kenya; Democrat resentment over British support for the Bush Administration over Iraq; left-wing disdain for the idea of Anglo-American exceptionalism and world leadership; support for supranational institutions such as the European Union over the supremacy of the nation state.

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1. Siding with Argentina over the Falklands

2. Calling France America's Strongest Ally

3. Downgrading the Special Relationship

4. Supporting a federal Europe and undercutting British sovereignty.

5. Betraying Britain to appease Moscow over the New START Treaty.

6. Placing a "boot on the throat" of BP.

7. Throwing Churchill out of the Oval Office.

8. DVDs for the Prime Minister.

9. Insulting words from the State Department.

10. Undermining British influence in NATO.

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May 25, 2011 17:18:02 GMT -5 @toughtimes said:

Well since I am Irish, I say, "Keep up the Good Work." More proof that Obama is actually Irish. What, you didn't know the name was originally spelled, O' Bama?

and no link needed.

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We've visited the Falkland Islands. Much of the land is now permanently unusable because the Argentineans mined it with plastic covered explosives (not detectable with metal detectors) in some sort of "scorched earth policy" of making sure no one could live or farm there.

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We've visited the Falkland Islands. Much of the land is now permanently unusable because the Argentineans mined it with plastic covered explosives (not detectable with metal detectors) in some sort of "scorched earth policy" of making sure no one could live or farm there.

Maybe we can find our Pakistani enemies within the government and parachute them into these lands to find the explosives...parachutes optional.

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May 25, 2011 18:55:11 GMT -5 ❤ mollymouser ❤ said:

We've visited the Falkland Islands. Much of the land is now permanently unusable because the Argentineans mined it with plastic covered explosives (not detectable with metal detectors) in some sort of "scorched earth policy" of making sure no one could live or farm there.

I didn't know that. The trouble with mines , they are there long after the conflict, in some cases actually forgotten of , the conflict, except by some Historian lost for something to write about , that caused them to be laid in the first place
I would think they would be anti personnel as they didn't expect any Armor to be there, and am not sure if there is a life expectancy with them.
I thought I read that that was something that was going to be looked into, mines of the future, a law , like the Geneva conventions rule of wars, though how do you enforce it.
Even if anti Personnel and ran those mine clearing vehicles over the areas, no guarantee to get them all I am afraid.
I wonder if they are really even trying to remove them, the Brits, it would have to be them, butt they are so broke now.
The men lost there , buried on the Island , think that is how the Brits do it anyway, don't bring their lost home, possible from the days of the Empire , but today, think they could do a better job of it for the families of the lost, some comfort and closure.

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May 25, 2011 18:55:11 GMT -5 ❤ mollymouser ❤ said:

We've visited the Falkland Islands. Much of the land is now permanently unusable because the Argentineans mined it with plastic covered explosives (not detectable with metal detectors) in some sort of "scorched earth policy" of making sure no one could live or farm there.

Yeah- this sounds like people we should cozy up to.