No.10 turns on Obama and Clinton for criticising decision to release Lockerbie bomber

Daily Mail Online ^ | 3:14 AM on 06th September 2009 | Simon Walters

[fiodora]

President Obama and the US Secretary of State fuelled a fierce American backlash against Britain, claiming Abdelbaset Al Megrahi should have been forced to serve out his jail sentence in Scotland – but a senior Whitehall aide said their reaction was ‘disingenuous’.

British officials claim Mr Obama and Mrs Clinton were kept informed at all stages of discussions concerning Megrahi’s return.

The officials say the Americans spoke out because they were taken aback by the row over Megrahi’s release, not because they did not know it was about to happen.

‘The US was kept fully in touch about everything that was going on with regard to Britain’s discussions with Libya in recent years and about Megrahi,’ said the Whitehall aide.

‘We would never do anything about Lockerbie without discussing it with the US. It is disingenuous of them to act as though Megrahi’s return was out of the blue.

[StatenIsland]

Well, well, well.

I hope this is true. What number nail is this?

[freedumb2003]

‘The US was kept fully in touch about everything that was going on with regard to Britain’s discussions with Libya in recent years and about Megrahi,’ said the Whitehall aide. ‘We would never do anything about Lockerbie without discussing it with the US. It is disingenuous of them to act as though Megrahi’s return was out of the blue.

Lockerbie-gate a-brewin'?

[Danae]

At least number 10. lol

[True Grit]

Sounds like more trouble for the Long Legged Mac Daddy.

[ishabibble]

Is anyone at all surprised by this news?

[FreeReign]

‘The US was kept fully in touch about everything that was going on with regard to Britain’s discussions with Libya in recent years and about Megrahi,’ said the Whitehall aide. ‘We would never do anything about Lockerbie without discussing it with the US. It is disingenuous of them to act as though Megrahi’s return was out of the blue.

How is this not really, really big news.

[FreeReign]

Is anyone at all surprised by this news?

Ask that to the 53% who voted for the SOB.

[edcoil]

Fact:

Half of every graduation class, graduates at the bottom. These people go into government.

When governments are small - it matters little, when government enlarges itself - it becomes the horror our founding fathers warned us about.

[skeeter]

There is scum in our White House.

[GnuHere]

Bambi is shocked and saddened by this news. Now that it is news, that is.

[Sparko]

LOL

Obama Is a Mack Daddy - Pastor Manning
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfZqMkdpYi0

Too bad the middle third who voted for the Mack Daddy didn’t pay the Reverend Manning much attention.

[1000 silverlings]

Obama and Hillary, dancing with the devil in the pale moonlight

[fiodora]

“Is anyone at all surprised by this news?”

Absolutely, not! He probably convinced Brown to free Megrahi and apologize to dictator Ghadafi on behalf of the USA...

[MizSterious]

I always thought that if Obama objected at all, it was with a wink-wink and a snicker. This proves it.

[counterpunch]

BUSTED.

[txroadkill]

This is the story to watch. There will be blood in the water

[RoseofTexas]

I LOATHE the mediaPUKES and their lovingass Ozero kissers!! OUR next fight has to be the EVIL socialist mediaWHORES before they take our country down the tubes!! NEXT HIT, THE DRIVE-BY MEDIAWHORES!! Please TEA PARTY DC goers, print some signs against the SOCIALIST MEDIACOMMIES!! LET'S start a WAR AGAINST THEM! I'm mad as hell! The pukes have declared war on us AMERICAN CITIZENS IT'S TIME TO FIGHT BACK!

[BuckeyeTexan]

Let me be the first to say that this prisoner release would not have happened if Bush and Cheney were in office. Imagine if Brown tried to pull this stunt during the Bush Admin. Cheney would have had Brown for breakfast and Brown would have thanked him kindly for the breakfast invitation.

Weakness and capitulation, the hallmarks of the Obama Admin.

[fiodora]

“Too bad the middle third who voted for the Mack Daddy didn’t pay the Reverend Manning much attention.”

Rev. Manning needs to be the new green czar.

HAHAHAHA! This guy is so funny, I cannot stop laughing!

THANKS for the link.

[machogirl]

“disingenuous”? How about some “straight talk”? THEY LIED.

[fiodora]

“Cheney would have had Brown for breakfast and Brown would have thanked him kindly for the breakfast invitation.”

I MISS MR. CHENEY!!!!

[BuckeyeTexan]

“White folks are TIRED of it. They gonna RISE UP! And I’m gonna JOIN ‘em ... If they’ll let me ... Long-legged Mack Daddy!”

He’s too funny.

[Lisamei62]

I was more surprised...and DOUBTFUL...when the administration spoke out against this release....I wasn’t buying it for a minute...

So...the truth comes out...and where’s the BREAKING NEWS?

No worries...I’m sure Limbaugh, Levin, Hannity, and others will be discussing this at great length in the next day or so...

Transparency my @$$!!!

[RummyChick]

Does the last line in the excerpt basically tell us that the US authorized it..because if they had said No, the UK would have not done it????

[jongaltsr]

Is anyone at all surprised by this news?

I'm Shocked!
Shocked I say!
How much clearer can I make it but to say I am more than just Surprised?
I am DAMNED Shocked......
......but more than that - I am not in ANY WAY surprised!

"Piss off" Barak (and the rest of your cronies as well)!

[fiodora]

“where’s the BREAKING NEWS?”

See, that’s why we need to give [minus]Zero the absolute control of the Internet!!

[chuck_the_tv_out]

“How is this not really, really big news”

It’s a riddle! Let me think..

When there is no free means of mass dissemination?

[HapaxLegamenon]

That funny, I haven’t seen something like this on CNN.

[Sparko]

He’s a little outrageous - but I’d rather be in Rev Manning’s pews than Rev J Wright.

Here’s the whole collection

http://www.youtube.com/user/ATLAHWorldwide

There are only about 380 plus minus

[Dagnabitt]

The curtain pulled back on Hussein's deceitful little kabuki theater. Hope he and Ms. Rodman catch holy hell for their perfidy.

[Vaquero]

There is scum in our White House

you have denigrated the good name of scum everywhere.

[BuckeyeTexan]

Yes, absolutely. Note that this discussion has been going on for some time. Did the Brits say “in recent years” regarding discussions with the WH? Also note that Bush and Cheney didn’t allow it to happen. If the Brits brought it up with the Bush WH, Cheney put the ixnay on it.

[Beloved Levinite]

"Weakness and capitulation, the hallmarks of the Obama Admin."

Got that right Buck, and if we allow it to continue, he will destroy this nation. NOT SO FAST, BAMBI!

Lock-n-Load...chi, chink.

[Beloved Levinite]

Will be interesting to hear Darth Cheney’s take on this.

[RummyChick]

Batman quote
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZyNI5iq1qk

Dance with the Devil
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0napS9s92Y

[Beloved Levinite]

Wait till it comes out that Hussein actually AGREED to it & PUSHED for it. The Brits are holding back, me thinks.

[fiodora]

“He’s a little outrageous - but I’d rather be in Rev Manning’s pews than Rev J Wright.”

Nicely put! He is a bit outrageous, but he’s very funny, unlike the Zero’s Wright. Wright is consumed by resentment!

Thanks for the collection!!

[freedumb2003]

Obama and Hillary, dancing with the devil in the pale moonlight

hillary is a non-issue. She clearly is clueless on everything and contributing nothing. The TOTUS-reader's handlers got that one completely right.

But ayers and soros and obama are certainly doing that dance.

[Beloved Levinite]

Yes, you can bet Levin will tear Bambi & Shrillary new a-holes on Tuesday!

[AFPhys]

I guarantee that this is true.

It took MANY DAYS before the US administration peeped a word about this. There was a strong and adverse reaction by the public in UK and in the US before they acted.

They LIED about this by pretending not to know about it.

Thank you #10 Downing for confirming this.

[AFPhys]

This LYING SLIME BALL administration is bound and determined to ruin the US relationship with all that is good on this earth. It took me four times as long to get as upset at the ‘Toon’s administration as I already am with this one.

[CdMGuy]

Why would this be a surprise. Everyone, except our Obama-worshipping new media, should have know immediately that Obama had been kept informed on this matter. No way would the Brits have released this murderer of hundreds of Americans without US acquiescence.

[pollywog]

DISINGENUOUS is Obama's real name!

[RummyChick]

Hopefully this will really cause a big stink as Qaddafi comes to America. It is looking like the guy really wasn’t sick and they let him out as part of a deal. Obama’s hands are dirty in this.

[Friendofgeorge]

Come on people! Obama was not aware of this, just as he was unaware of Van Jones and Rev Wright. roll eyes

[BuckeyeTexan]

“Not so fast, Bambi!”

Exactly.

[lowbridge]

bump

[LomanBill]

League of Notions

Al Stewart

I'm here sitting in the wreck of Europe
With a map of Europe
Spread out in a hall of Versailles
And every single nationality and principality
have come for a piece of the pie

I'm sitting in the wreck of Europe
With a map of Europe
And the lines and the borders are gone
We've got to do this jigsaw puzzle
It's an awful muddle
But somehow we've got to go on

Lawrence of Arabia is waiting in the wings
He's got some Arab sheikhs and kings
And we're in debt to them somehow
Lawrence of Arabia has got this perfect vision
Gonna sell him down the river
There's no time for him now

I think I'm gonna take a piece of Russia
And a Piece of Germany
And give them to Poland again
I'll put together Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia
And hope that is how they'll remain

Then I'll take a bit of Turkey
Then a lot of Turkey
This is all quite a heady affair
There's Persia and Iraq to pick up
And there's Churchill's hiccup
And we can't leave it up in the air

Woodrow Wilson waves his fourteen points around
And says "The time to act is now
Won't get this opportunity again"
Woodrow Wilson has his fourteen points
But Clemenceau turns to Lloyd George
And says "You know that
God himself had only ten"

Today I'm carried by a league of notions
(It's a league of notions)
By a league of notions
I don't think I quite understand
(I don't think I understand)
I only know from this commotion
(From this commotion)
There's a chance that we could turn
The world in the palm of our hands
(We can turn the world in the palm of our hands)

Voices in the corridors of power
Candles burning hour by hour
Still you know that to the victors go the spoils
Such a great responsibility to make it fair
And there must be some reparations now
And don't forget the oil

Today I'm carried by a league of notions
(It's a league of notions)
By a league of notions
I don't think I quite understand
(I don't think I understand)
I only know from this commotion
(From this commotion)
There's a chance that we could turn
The world in the palm of our hands
(We can turn the world in the palm of our hands)

Pax vobiscum
Wo-Oh, Pax vobiscum

--Lyrics from Al Stewart's, "League of Notions"

[An American In Dairyland]

Ovomit is going to put the blame on Hilly. And Hilly is going to disappear again...into the Congo or only God knows where...so she can’t get any face time with the press to defend herself against his charges. Oh, well.