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5/8/2010

A New Era in U.S.-British Relations

Filed under: International,Obama — DRJ @ 12:39 am



[Guest post by DRJ]

Voters in Britain went to the polls yesterday and while it’s not clear how the next government will be formed, Tory David Cameron may end up as Prime Minister. Getting a head start on his customary relations with America’s closest ally, President Obama has already questioned Cameron’s competence:

“According to tomorrow’s New Statesman, Barack Obama was unimpressed by his encounter with David Cameron earlier this year and commented: “What a lightweight!”

According to James Macintyre’s report, Cameron’s attempt to stress his pro-American and Eurosceptic credentials did not meet with Obama’s approval. According to Macintyre’s diplomatic sources, the Democratic candidate was “distinctly unimpressed” and labelled Cameron a lightweight.”

I think President Obama is eminently qualified to know a lightweight when he sees one.

H/T Allahpundit, of course.

— DRJ

36 Responses to “A New Era in U.S.-British Relations”

  1. That’s total BS dude!

    Jeff Barea (eff5e1)

  2. O’Mamba, vandal Presendente, is the quintessential ‘wiseguy’. Any ingenuous person, lacking a con, a game, a scheme to disarm and fleece his quarry, is a sucker.

    How’s it feel, Amerikkka, you hayseed?

    gary gulrud (75a696)

  3. is eminently qualified to know a lightweight

    TOTUS.

    Ain’t that just so.

    EW1(SG) (edc268)

  4. Well of course Barack Obama was unimpressed . . .

    Cameron is pro-America!

    Icy Texan (073b90)

  5. Jeezus [censored] Keerist!

    I swear, this country will not elect a black politician from Chicago to the Presidency ever again.

    nk (db4a41)

  6. The Adventures of the “LightWorker” Continues

    Neo (7830e6)

  7. And Big Zero… the man who accomplished next to nothing before his perfect storm election… the man who has never had a “real job”… the classic narcissist… raises his chin up at that odd, arrogant angle and pronounces another politician a “lightweight”…

    snicker… snicker.

    GeneralMalaise (3d45b5)

  8. nk

    Hopefully they’ll never elect any poltician from Chicago again (even a Greek- you’ll have to move farther out)

    MD in Philly (ea3785)

  9. Dukakis is calling, man that was weak.

    ian cormac (042eb8)

  10. What the article neglected to mention was that Obama was looking in a mirror when he said it…

    Steve (d033a9)

  11. What the article failed to mention was that Obama was looking in a mirror when he said it…

    Steve (d033a9)

  12. Lightweights do not get on well together, as a rule. Each is trying to impress the other with how impressive he is. Cameron is very bad news news for Britain. If he had any selfawareness, he would let Brown form a government and then wait for him to fail. As it is, Cameron, if he forms a government with the Liberal Democrats, will do the failing himself. None of them can fix Britain’s problems. It’s as if David Frum were the Republican candidate against Obama.

    Mike K (2cf494)

  13. Get ready for Alexi. He wants to make the three months of the FMLA paid.

    nk (db4a41)

  14. Obama really is quite the piece of work. No clue how to conduct himself in the most basic aspects of his job. Absolutely none.

    SPQR (26be8b)

  15. Obama is mediocre, after-birth. Always has been.

    HeavenSent (a9126d)

  16. Roy Rogers tanned Trigger and taxodirmiest him. Will liberals do that to Obama? Would he want it?

    nk (db4a41)

  17. nk

    A gold likeness, bigger than life(size), “just like the man”

    MD in Philly (ea3785)

  18. Who you calling lightweight, Willis??

    If the narrative doesn’t revolve around him, he is against it. A total narcissistic fool.

    PatAZ (9d1bb3)

  19. The report is sure to dismay Cameron and damage his attempts to portray himself as a world-class statesman – not to mention relations between Obama’s incoming administration and a possible future Tory government.

    It’s interesting that according to the linked article anyway, President Obama’s view of him will have a negative impact upon Cameron’s image.

    I’m curious if that is because it’s the the office of the United States presidency that wields such influence, or because the individual, Barack Obama, is simply that influential? Perhaps a bit of both, but it would not seem the individual who came to the WH with such a wispy resume would be able to influence so much.

    Dana (1e5ad4)

  20. 9.Dukakis is calling, man that was weak.
    Comment by ian cormac — 5/8/2010 @ 7:23 am

    Comedy gold, well played, sir.

    My own thought is “there’s a new kid in town.” Obama was a vessel of hope, now a known quantity of disappointment. He’s already trying to undermine the new vessel of hope. Jealousy is unbecoming.

    TimesDisliker (2a6050)

  21. obamas gift of trash talking may soon cause great harm to our country.should he ever try to form a coalition of the willing, who in the world would join? Chavez,castro, correa,assad,hamas and the like would likely be willing to engage in talks and photo ops.Contempt quickly becomes mutual and respect must be earned by deeds,not blather.It is not all about him and his socialst dreams from his father.note the difference between stupid and ignorant.this community organizer college grad is surely the former.though he sits in the highest office in the world,he is not personally a man with any accomplishment. nobel peace prize joke.

    clyde (436837)

  22. Cameron and Sarkozy should be able to form a nice anti-leftist alliance against Big O. Can’t wait!

    Patricia (160852)

  23. Not that I’m complaining, but there’s been a noticeable absence of the usual lefty posts for a day or two.

    Are they trying to develop a new disinformation campaign that will attempt to counteract the steady stream of info that shows just how incompetent this administration is?

    GeneralMalaise (3d45b5)

  24. “According to tomorrow’s New Statesman, Barack Obama was unimpressed by his encounter with David Cameron earlier this year and commented: “What a lightweight!”

    Haaahahahahhaahahahahahaaahahaaaaa!!!

    Blacque Jacques Shellacque (78c9e7)

  25. Lets not all jump to conclusions.

    Maybe Obama meant it as a compliment.

    Sean P (6f6c60)

  26. #14 SPQR:

    No clue how to conduct himself in the most basic aspects of his job.

    Hasn’t the business of the Socialists and Communists always been party business? Everything always undertaken by committee, decided by committee, followed up by committee, committed to such and such a committee by committee, and so on.

    I have a feeling Barcky is probably pretty good on a committee, but a position requiring individual initiative and accountability, not so much.

    Most men capable of leading aren’t particularly dissuaded by what others think of them, this one seems to feel that he needs to tell all of us what we should think of him in order for us to know that he’s getting the job done.

    EW1(SG) (edc268)

  27. It’s as if David Frum were the Republican candidate against Obama.

    And only in the context of Europe, in which the socio-political scene overall has become very liberal, if not ultra-liberal, would Cameron be perceived as very rightwing. As it is, Brown and the even more uber-liberal Clegg split the majority of British voters who favor leftism, in effect allowing Cameron to win by default.

    A variation of a 3-way split played out in Mexico’s presidential election a few years ago, although the margin of win for that country’s current president (from the PAN party, or a quasi-Mexican-version of the US Republican Party) was razor thin.

    If all this empty-headed liberalism continues throughout the industrialized world on both a small (eg, California) and large scale (Obama’s America, Hatoyama’s Japan), we can expect to become one big happy version of Greece or Spain.

    CNSNews.com, April 27, 2010:

    Eight months after his party’s historic election victory, Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama’s popularity ratings sank to new lows this week, amid a drawn-out controversy over the relocation of a United States airbase.

    A weekend opinion poll garnered Hatoyama less than 25 percent support of the Japanese public, adding to the woes of a prime minister who is already facing calls to resign and threats of splits in his center-left coalition if he cannot resolve the dispute with Washington.

    The Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) leader swept to power last August, unseating the long-ruling center-right Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), having undertaken to move a U.S. Marines base off Japan’s southern island of Okinawa.

    Mark (411533)

  28. EW1(SG), if by pretty good on a committee, you mean that he can warm a seat, I’d agree.

    Otherwise, not so much.

    SPQR (26be8b)

  29. I’m unimpressed with Cameron – at the beginning of his campaign, he stressed that if elected, he’d be obligated to enact tough fiscal policies immediately. When the reaction to that was sour, he went soft quicker than that – no more mentions of cuts of any kind, instead more promises of gov’t spending. Six or half – dozen of the other.

    Dmac (21311c)

  30. #28 SPQR:

    you mean that he can warm a seat, I’d agree.

    Oh, I don’t know about that, looks like he probably has an awful bony butt.

    But yes, as the Soviet Union was a great triumph of government by committee, so do I think Barcky is.

    EW1(SG) (edc268)

  31. Good one, Sean P. In fact, there have been several interesting comments and good points on this thread.

    DRJ (d43dcd)

  32. Stressing “his pro-American and Eurosceptic credentials” was probably not the right move, given Obama’s Eurocentric and anti-pro-American credentials.

    beer 'n pretzels (3d1d61)

  33. Comment by Patricia — 5/8/2010 @ 9:26 am

    As Cameron is dissed by the WH, his standing among the Euro’s can only improve.

    For the first time in my life I am ashamed for my country!

    AD - RtR/OS! (31bef0)

  34. Obama was probably just referring to the sort of DVDs he was going to get for Cameron – nothing too heavy.

    Leviticus (30ac20)

  35. Heh. Or maybe Obama was referring to the gifts Cameron gave him (from the link in the post):

    When Cameron met the then-presidential candidate in July, the two held an hour of discussions, and Obama also met shadow cabinet members William Hague and George Osborne.

    Photographs showed the pair looking relaxed and comfortable with each other, and Cameron gave Obama gifts including a box of CDs by some of the Conservative leader’s favourite British musicians, among them the Smiths, Radiohead, Gorillaz and Lily Allen, and a copy of Hague’s recent biography of the anti-slavery campaigner, William Wilberforce.

    DRJ (d43dcd)

  36. 16. Roy Rogers tanned Trigger and taxodirmiest him. Will liberals do that to Obama? Would he want it?

    Comment by nk

    He’s too thin-skinned to be tanned. They’ll have to use a substitute skin.

    htom (412a17)


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