I'd bet this statement POs Prime Minister Brown. What an arrogant ass he must think Obama is to believe that Britain was a 'poodle' of Washington.
Posted on 07/09/2008 2:35:17 PM PDT by pissant
Senator Barack Obama is expected to tell Gordon Brown that he wants the Special Relationship to be a more equal partnership when he visits Britain later this month.
Sources in Washington said yesterday that on his first overseas visit since winning the Democratic Party's nomination, Mr Obama will tell the Prime Minister that he wants to eradicate the impression of Britain being Washington's poodle that emerged during the Bush-Blair years, after the UK followed the US into the unpopular war in Iraq.
"He genuinely appreciates the UK and he genuinely would like to have more balance in the relationship," said a British official. "The vibes between the two men are very good and very positive."
Mr Obama, who is currently the narrow favourite to win the White House in November, will make a one-day visit to London between July 24 and 28, on a trip that will include calls on President Nicolas Sarkozy in France and Chancellor Angela Merkel in Germany.
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Why should Brown want it to be "equal" (whatever that means) now? We friggin' owe them. We need to be there when the favor needs to be returned. None of this "equal" crap.
I'd bet this statement POs Prime Minister Brown. What an arrogant ass he must think Obama is to believe that Britain was a 'poodle' of Washington.
How can something be ‘more equal?’
My thoughts exactly.
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Personally I think the Brits are more like our Rottie or Bull Mastiff.
A guy two years out of the Illinois Senate with absolutely NO foreign policy experience said this? C’mon, you’ve got to be pullin’ my leg!! LOL
Barry Hussein does not even have the nomination, yet he is traveling the globe dictating foreign policy. Somewhere Mrs. Clinton is having a good cackle.
...two socialists in agreement about their post-modern, multicultural, islamo-socialist vision of dhimmitude
Mr Blair said Britain and the US had to use force when the Iraqi regime refused to co-operate with the weapons inspectors.
He rejected accusations that he was “President Clinton’s poodle”.
The suggestion that the campaign was deliberately timed to eclipse President Clinton’s battle against impeachment was “grotesque and offensive”, he said.
December 20, 1998
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/events/crisis_in_the_gulf/latest_news/238991.stm
Fist Bump (to the top)!
When I saw the headline, I thought for sure this was satire.
Good grief. What an arrogant idiot!
O’barmys on to something without knowing it. That “poodles” nails have been varnished with American blood for a century.
0bambi’s new foreign policy—open mouth, stick foot in all the way to the knee, chew vigorously, recant within 24 hours.
“Personally I think the Brits are more like our Rottie or Bull Mastiff.”
Britain has become, tragically, much more like an old Rottie that got fixed:
http://rachellucas.com/index.php/2008/07/08/no-you-cannot-possibly-be-serious/
For anyone that ever admired any aspect of British society, this story (one of hundreds like it every week) is a rude slap in the face. The lunatics have absolutely taken over the asylum - no, strike that: It is “Lord of the Flies” on a national level.
Obviously Obama never read "How to Win Friends and Influence Enemies"; I guess the book wasn't on Rev. Wright's "recommended reading" list.
This field hand thinks himself mighty important.
Somewhere the DNC leadership has to be thinking “Holy crap what have we gotten ourselves into???”
This Brandenburg Gate thing could set him off against Reagan in a very unflattering way. Then again, the sheeple may not even notice....One hopes that his grandstanding will finally rub people the wrong way.
Britain is not our poodle and never has been.
That is all.
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