A New Era in U.S.-British Relations
[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
That’s total BS dude!
Jeff Barea (eff5e1) — 5/8/2010 @ 1:34 amO’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) — 5/8/2010 @ 3:41 amTOTUS.
Ain’t that just so.
EW1(SG) (edc268) — 5/8/2010 @ 4:36 amWell of course Barack Obama was unimpressed . . .
Cameron is pro-America!
Icy Texan (073b90) — 5/8/2010 @ 4:42 amJeezus [censored] Keerist!
I swear, this country will not elect a black politician from Chicago to the Presidency ever again.
nk (db4a41) — 5/8/2010 @ 5:19 amThe Adventures of the “LightWorker” Continues
Neo (7830e6) — 5/8/2010 @ 5:28 amAnd 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) — 5/8/2010 @ 6:41 amnk
Hopefully they’ll never elect any poltician from Chicago again (even a Greek- you’ll have to move farther out)
MD in Philly (ea3785) — 5/8/2010 @ 6:46 amDukakis is calling, man that was weak.
ian cormac (042eb8) — 5/8/2010 @ 7:23 amWhat the article neglected to mention was that Obama was looking in a mirror when he said it…
Steve (d033a9) — 5/8/2010 @ 7:45 amWhat the article failed to mention was that Obama was looking in a mirror when he said it…
Steve (d033a9) — 5/8/2010 @ 7:45 amLightweights 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) — 5/8/2010 @ 7:53 amGet ready for Alexi. He wants to make the three months of the FMLA paid.
nk (db4a41) — 5/8/2010 @ 7:56 amObama 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) — 5/8/2010 @ 7:58 amObama is mediocre, after-birth. Always has been.
HeavenSent (a9126d) — 5/8/2010 @ 7:59 amRoy Rogers tanned Trigger and taxodirmiest him. Will liberals do that to Obama? Would he want it?
nk (db4a41) — 5/8/2010 @ 8:09 amnk
A gold likeness, bigger than life(size), “just like the man”
MD in Philly (ea3785) — 5/8/2010 @ 8:18 amWho you calling lightweight, Willis??
If the narrative doesn’t revolve around him, he is against it. A total narcissistic fool.
PatAZ (9d1bb3) — 5/8/2010 @ 8:42 amThe 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) — 5/8/2010 @ 9:00 am9.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) — 5/8/2010 @ 9:07 amobamas 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) — 5/8/2010 @ 9:08 amCameron and Sarkozy should be able to form a nice anti-leftist alliance against Big O. Can’t wait!
Patricia (160852) — 5/8/2010 @ 9:26 amNot 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) — 5/8/2010 @ 9:57 amHaaahahahahhaahahahahahaaahahaaaaa!!!
Blacque Jacques Shellacque (78c9e7) — 5/8/2010 @ 9:58 amLets not all jump to conclusions.
Maybe Obama meant it as a compliment.
Sean P (6f6c60) — 5/8/2010 @ 11:11 am#14 SPQR:
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) — 5/8/2010 @ 11:25 amIt’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.
Mark (411533) — 5/8/2010 @ 11:29 amEW1(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) — 5/8/2010 @ 11:36 amI’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) — 5/8/2010 @ 11:51 am#28 SPQR:
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) — 5/8/2010 @ 11:56 amGood one, Sean P. In fact, there have been several interesting comments and good points on this thread.
DRJ (d43dcd) — 5/8/2010 @ 12:35 pmStressing “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) — 5/8/2010 @ 1:40 pmComment 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) — 5/8/2010 @ 2:33 pmObama was probably just referring to the sort of DVDs he was going to get for Cameron – nothing too heavy.
Leviticus (30ac20) — 5/8/2010 @ 2:49 pmHeh. Or maybe Obama was referring to the gifts Cameron gave him (from the link in the post):
DRJ (d43dcd) — 5/8/2010 @ 3:36 pmHe’s too thin-skinned to be tanned. They’ll have to use a substitute skin.
htom (412a17) — 5/8/2010 @ 3:46 pm