Imagine the scenario - someone thinks they got away with something, no one has a clue - and you unravel the scam in front of their eyes and watch as the look goes from slick to sick in a few moments, followed by their flustered protestations.
Something like the English now.
For EIGHT YEARS the English elites have mocked the US, ridiculed the people who voted for Bush (we have the front pages from 2004 showing their mockery and ridicule), and never failed to show Bush as the uncouth person they believe he is. They ached for someone suave and debonair - someone who could articulate their ideas, who was an intellectual giant and understood Americans role in the world - equal but not superior to anyone.
And what to their wondering eyes did appear, but Obama and his oratory skills - he went to Europe and called for a new way of thinking and Europeans had orgasms all over themselves, repeatedly. They saw in Obama a new method of birth control - they would listen to him and never need sex. He satisfied them. Europeans became the co-conspirator in his election and they had a stake in his winning - if he didn't win, they would have to go back to the old way of doing things, and they preferred listening to Obama.
He won. They wet themselves and then orgasmed again. Their hero, their savior ...
But now he seems to have rebuffed them, and they no longer get all orgasmic with him. The true story has yet to be printed about this relationship and will be, undoubtedly, over the next few years. For the moment, his disciples will say - this is just a story by one guy and you are taking it all out of context. Possibly, so we look at other evidence we have.
Obama, believing his own press, and perhaps the orgasmic experience of BEING Obama ... wrote to Amindinejad about meetings. He was rebuffed.
Obama wrote to India about the Kashmir - he was told he was climbing the wrong tree.
Obama wrote to Russia about Iran and nuclear stuff, was even willing to trade away a missile defense system - Russia laughed at him and said they were not interested in bargaining.
And the issue of the UK. So what if it is Brown - few in England like the guy. Not the point. It is England, not some pathetic little dot on some map - our longest trade partner, friend, ally ... not someone to dismiss so cavalierly ... wasn't that what the losercrats said about Bush - he had destroyed friendships. Now Obama has done that with the closest ally we have, pissed off another working friendship with Russia, and made us look weak in Iran.
When you consider the whole package - yes, it does tell a story and the writer of the Telegraph piece is not so far off.
Bush made the world respect us, not always like us, but respect us. Obama has already started us off and the world doesn't respect nor does it like us much.
In the coming months, Michelle, whether she played a role or not, will be spoken to, as will Obama. he can discount what he is told, but if he does so ... there will be many articles like this concerning the rest of our allies and friends, and the British will post an apology to Bush in their papers at some point.
Was 'Lady Macbeth' behind Barack Obama's snub of Gordon Brown?
James Delingpole
Mar 5, 2009
Telegraph
On US radio's Garrison show today, I was asked for my reaction as a true born Englishman to President Obama's double insult - first the sending back of the Winston Churchill bust, then his snub to Gordon Brown. "Tough one. Really tough one," I said, torn - as most of surely are - between delight at seeing Brown roundly humiliated, and dismay at having the special relationship so peremptorily, cruelly and bafflingly ruptured.
Iain Martin is quite right here: no matter how utterly rubbish we have become as a nation in the Blair/Brown years, Britain's friendship is something Obama will come to regret having dispensed with so lightly. This was not the act of a global statesman, but of a hormonal teenager dismissing her bestest of best BFs for no other reason than that she felt like it and she can, so there.
What was the guy thinking? In researching my new book Welcome to Obamaland, I discovered that Obama's judgment is pretty dreadful - but this? My favourite theory so far - suggested by presenter Greg Garrison - was that it was a move calculated to please his Lady Macbeth. At the moment in Britain, we're still in the "Doesn't she look fabulous in a designer frock" stage of understanding of Michelle Obama. Gradually, though, we'll begin to realise that she is every bit the terrifying executive's wife that Hillary Clinton was. Or, shudder, Cherie Blair.
We may just LURVE Michelle's fashion sense. But Michelle doesn't reciprocate our affection, one bit. Her broad-brush view of history associates Brits with the wicked white global hegemony responsible for the slave trade. Never mind that a white, Tory Englishman - William Wilberforce - brought the slave trade to an end. Judging by her record, Michelle does not make room for such subtle nuance.
Consider her notorious statement that: "For the first time in my adult life I am really proud of my country." Consider her (till-recently suppressed) Princeton thesis, "Princeton Educated Blacks And The Black Community."
[It was not suppressed. I read a copy of it at least eight months ago.]
In it she writes: "I have found that at Princeton, no matter how liberal and open-minded some of my white professors and classmates try to be toward me, I sometimes feel like a visitor on campus; as if I really don't belong. Regardless of the circumstances underwhich I interact with whites at Princeton, it often seems as if, to them, I will always be black first and a student second."
Here we see that she has mastered the authentic voice of grievance culture. She also - the thesis was written in 1985 - pre-empts the Macpherson report's ludicrous, catch-all definition of racism: "A racist incident is any incident which is perceived to be racist by the victim or any other person." No matter how hard young Michelle's white undergraduate contemporaries try to be nice, it's not their behaviour that counts, but how Michelle feels.
More worrying, though, and dangerous, than young Michelle's desperate quest for validation through victimhood is the other strain within her thesis. "As I enter my final year at Princeton," she writes. "I find myself striving for many of the same goals as my White classmates - acceptance to a prestigious graduate or professional school or a high paying position in a successful corporation. Thus, my goals at Princeton are not as clear as before."
"Yes, exactly, you silly girl" you want to shriek at young Michelle as you give her a good shake. "It's called 'opening your mind', 'broadening your experience', 'allowing youthful dogma to be shaped by reality.' It's why people go to university, don't you know?"
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