Topic: Brits not too impressed with President Man-child

[Glock32]

This is a great takedown of Barack-Go-Bragh O'Bama's most recent embarrassment^*, namely the ridiculous notion of him being the Emerald Isle's prodigal son:

Ah Bejaysus and Begorrah! Oi’ll be swearin’ boi the auld shrine to the Vorgin with the shamrocks growin’ round it next to the hill where Cuchullain slew the Great Leprechaun of Kildare on St Patrick’s Day that Barack Seamus O’Toole Flaherty Joyce O’Bama is the most Irish US president that ever set foot on the Emerald Oisle, so he is, so he is.

Except, when he’s in Africa, of course, when he disappears into the dry ice and re-emerges with a grass skirt and a bone through his nose and declares himself to be Mandingo, Prince of the Bloodline of the Bonga People, Drinker of Cattle Urine, Father of A Thousand Warrior Sons, Keeper of King Solomon’s Mines, Barehanded Slayer of Lions, Undaunted Victim of the Evil Colonial British Empire.

And in the Middle East, where he is Al-Barak Hussein Obama, Protector of the Holy Shrine, Smiter of the Kuffar, Lion of the Desert, Tent-Loving-Aficionado-of-the-Oversweetened-Coffee, Chomper of Sheeps’ Eyeballs, Restorer of the Caliphate.

Etc.

Tony Blair used to do this trick too, his accent mutating from broad Glaswegian to genteel Edinburgh to Mummerset to Estuary to Richard E Grant to Sarf London Grime – often in the course of one Downing Street reception – the better to persuade his target audience that he was their kind of guy. And it is, of course, the hallmark of an unutterable charlatan.

I’ve argued before that Tony Blair and Barack Obama have an awful lot in common. Both are lawyers; both are snake-oil-salesman; both claim to be post-partisan, and Third Way and consensual; both play the acceptable, moderate-seeming public face of a regime chock full of Communists, class warriors, single issue rabble rousers, malcontents, communitarians and eco-loons hell bent on destroying every last vestige of what once made their country great. And both do (or did) the things dodgy political leaders always do when the going gets tough at home and their domestic audience finally wises up to how totally useless they are: they hop on the plane and pose as international statesman instead.

More - http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100088971/obama-oh-puh-lease/

* Actually, the Irish embarrassment technically preceded him dating his entry in the guest book at Buckingham Palace with the year 2008, so you could call it the 2nd most recent embarrassment. Oh no, wait. That actually preceded his clumsy attempt to toast the Queen in the middle of God Save The Queen, complete with note cards (i.e., his manual teleprompter), so that would make it the 3rd most recent embarrassment. It's hard to keep up with his gaffes. Doubtless, there will be more to come....

[Libertas]

don't forget the sh*tty gifts!

I like the flattering photo of him bending over with the shovel...

...I can't see a pic like that and not imagining myself running up and kicking him in the ass!

 

[warpmine]

don't forget the sh*tty gifts!

I like the flattering photo of him bending over with the shovel...

...I can't see a pic like that and not imagining myself running up and kicking him in the ass!

 

Probably broke a fingernail with that exhibition of manliness. 

[Glock32]

I dunno, it was pretty gutsy.

[Pandora]

don't forget the sh*tty gifts!

I like the flattering photo of him bending over with the shovel...

...I can't see a pic like that and not imagining myself running up and kicking him in the ass!

 

Probably broke a fingernail with that exhibition of manliness. 

A better gift was given this time; an leather-bound album of photos of previous Brit monarchs who have visited the US.

Nevertheless, the guy and his posse have managed a gaffe a day since they left.  I feel sorry for the SS and the other staff in this regard, but one has to wonder what his advance team was doing that they overlooked the limo hangup in Ireland.  Then there was the issue of his having written the wrong date -- 2008 -- in the guest book in Westminster Abbey; his fck-up as regards the "God Save the Queen" toast and not knowing that phrase will trigger the orchestra to play, in which case one needs to know not to say it at the beginning or at least to put down the glass and stand until it's finished. 

There are people on both sides of the pond well-versed in Brit protocol, so was he acting like the smartest kid in the room and refusing to take a lesson from the Brit advisers or are his people all of the opinion that the US President MAKES protocol by dint of his mere presence?

He's an embarrassment.

[charlesoakwood]

He makes clear to long time friends our plight.  As in times past we may depend upon those ties.

[Glock32]

Oh but Dan Quayle spelled potato as "potatoe".

[Pandora]

Oh but Dan Quayle spelled potato as "potatoe".

Yes!  O me; O my!  Stoopit is as stoopit does.  One of the little known facts about that particular "gaffe" is that Quayle was reading from what a teacher had written and was tactful enough to not to publicly point out the error.

[Sectionhand]

Oh but Dan Quayle spelled potato as "potatoe".

Yes!  O me; O my!  Stoopit is as stoopit does.  One of the little known facts about that particular "gaffe" is that Quayle was reading from what a teacher had written and was tactful enough to not to publicly point out the error.

When I'm asked to spell "potato" I usually say S-P-U-D . But I also spell "Stymie" ... S-T-U-P-I-D !

[RickZ]

Oh but Dan Quayle spelled potato as "potatoe".

Yes!  O me; O my!  Stoopit is as stoopit does.  One of the little known facts about that particular "gaffe" is that Quayle was reading from what a teacher had written and was tactful enough to not to publicly point out the error.

Yeppers.  'The Rest Of The Story' no media darling will dare mention.  Can't be showing up those stupid goonion teachers, now can we?

[IronDioPriest]

...He's an embarrassment.

I agree - totally. But he's far worse than that. On the list of all the ways this man is damaging this country and ruining our national identity in the eyes of the world, my embarrassment of him is at or near the very bottom of my concerns.

[fingerroll]

can the man give a sikple toast or short speech without his telprompter?  He was reading off his dummy cards like some freshmen in speech class.  All the lefties talk about how intelligent he is but he looks retarded and at best a social retard when he screws up protocol.

Now if he'd have looked at the queen and reminded her that we kicked their a$$ back in the 1770's to rid our country of her totalitarian family tree and told her that we refuse to acknowledge her as some sort of supreme being bacause of her genetics...then I would have been proud of him.

[charlesoakwood]

As much as he drinks one would think he would have that 'give a toast' part down pat.

[ToddF]

re-emerges with a grass skirt and a bone through his nose and declares himself to be Mandingo, Prince of the Bloodline of the Bonga People

Heh, someone didn't take their political correct pills, this morning.