Posted on 04/18/2012 5:25:55 PM PDT by Kaslin
OK, picture this: President George W. Bush, he of the cast-iron Texas tongue, at a news conference concluding an international summit.
He's asked about a dispute involving Argentina and Great Britain, our closest overseas ally, the one that's lost 408 soldiers by our side in Afghanistan, where we've fought a decade together to prevent a second 9/11.
In his answer, Bush refers to the disputed territory by the wrong name, misplacing the islands by some 8,000 miles. Worse than his geographic ignorance, instead of backing Britain, whose prime minister he just buddy-buddied at an NCAA game and White House state dinner, Bush says, Well, that's not really something he thinks the United States would take sides on.
Britain?
Or Argentina?
Seriously?
Do you think there might be some prolonged outraged news coverage back home about the latest Bush blunder, this time a two-fer?
Well, Bush never did that. But Barack Obama did last weekend.
We've seen ample coverage of the Colombian prostitute situation since. But have you been impressed by the media mockings of this latest international stupidity by the 44th United States president, who's previously talked about such things as the Austrian language, the president of Canada, E Pluribus Unum the national motto and traveling all 57 states?
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I think it’s Obama’s built in hostility to anything Western....especially a western nation like Great Britian that used to own the land where his daddy came from.
He has really gone out of his way to stick his finger in the Brit’s eye.
I can’t wait for November.
Newt would not have said it.
What is this supposed to mean?
Let’s see, Obama’s granddaddy was a Mau Mau ( you know, August 1951
Information is filtering back about secret meetings being held in the forests outside Nairobi. A secret society called the Mau Mau, believed to have been started in the previous year, requires its members to take an oath to drive the white man from Kenya. Intelligence suggests that membership of the Mau Mau is currently restricted to members of the Kikuyu tribe, many of whom have been arrested during burglaries in Nairobi’s white suburbs. )
Obama’s daddy was arrested fro being in league with the Mau Mau.
Bammy don’t like Brits - not had to understand.
Ever wonder how he would have done at the pols if folks knew about his terrorist lineage? Odd, how the MSM just over looked his entire history....
Guess it will take more than one commie-Brit-hating mulatto to end the “special relationship”
But Argentina has an outspoken Marxist as its leader. Britian is the former colonial power in Kenya. That’s all there is to it. He just mixed one former colony up with a protectorate.
Bush-so-so.
He’s smart enough to have fooled the American public into electing him. And to wreck the republic in less than 4 years.
Gaffes are unintentional. Clearly he intended to insult the British, but failed at it.
Ummm. They didn’t beat him 3 and a half years ago. What make you think they will this time? lol
Hell ... He was able to promise the ruskies that he would sell us out after the elections and was able to make a yuk yuk comment about it afterward. The silence by the media is deafening.
EPF - Epic Presidential Fail!
It’s not only international geography or history Obama does not know or care about, but....worse then that, Obama knows nothing about American history either. What he does know very well is the Black racism and hate of the USA, taught to him by his father, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Louie Farrakhan, Bill Ayres, Saul Alinsky, etc. Wake up, America!!!
And....Black Americans, you need a wake-up call most of all!!! Obama is not with you, not for you, not for your future, not for your children. Follow Obama, and......you will be adrift at sea forever!!!
President Bush would have never made a gaffe like that.
Dear UK, we feel your pain.
Our dorkfaced, limp d*ck joke of a man-girl is a quota baby that couldn’t pass a local community college without help.
It’s that simple.
(I don’t have that many African-American friends, but EVERY ONE of them has a PhD in technical subjects. You can guess what they think of the dork in charge.)
The French allegedly helped the Brits, too. Reports that they told the RN how to spoof the French-built Exocet missile.
Nor would Newt have returned the bust of Churchill.
Over at the The Telegraph in the UK someone introduced the story by taking a shot at Bush, “Barack Obama made an uncharacteristic error, more akin to those of his predecessor George W Bush, by referring to the Falkland Islands as the Maldives.” http://tinyurl.com/bnds22b I was annoyed that they couldn’t even report an error by Obama without taking a shot at Bush, and was going to make a comment about it there.
No need to, though. I read the first 25 of the 1300 comments, and nearly all were anti-Obama. Several listed other blunders that Obama — characteristically — has made.
The only good thing you can say about Argentina’s leader is she’s easy on the eyes.
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