Fresh off of his visit to Saudi Arabia, President Obama has now arrived in London, shifting his focus to demanding that British voters agree to remain part of the European Union in a vote scheduled for June 23. Polls have shown British voters split roughly down the middle on the matter.
Obama cited the number of American soldiers who died in Europe during World War 2 as proof America has an interest in how the vote goes, warning that Britain’s global influence would be weakened by exiting the EU. Several Euroskeptics in the British cabinet have said it is inappropriate for the US president to make demands in a British referendum.
But hiss involvement is likely not unilateral, with former Conservative Party leader Iain Duncan Smith reporting earlier this week that Prime Minister David Cameron was “begging” Obama to use his planned visit to “bully the British people” on the vote.
Cameron initially was using the threat to leave the European Union as a way to negotiate better terms with EU officials, but the effort spiraled into an outright referendum, with Cameron now scrambling to try to prevent the country from agreeing to leave the union.
Bush had his poodle. Now Obama has one as well. What would Obama be to netenyahoo though?
Golden Retriever?
Golden Retrievers have a personality and some willpower. Obama? Not so much.
He is a new breed –the Chicago Leg Humper!
Brooklyn Dave, that’s a real good one – the Chicago Leg Humper. :))
I demand that Obama stay at the back of the Chunnel train.
The UK’s ties with the US have always been stronger than its support for the EU. It has encouraged the US to push for a Europe that is as close to a mirror image of the US Federation as possible, weakening EU member’s sovereignty in the process.
UK support for NATO has prevented that long-past-its-best-by-date organization being allowed to fade gracefully into history. UK’s more than willing membership of Echelon/Five eyes has allowed surveillance to blossom into a monolithic global entity answerable to no one government that is destroying the foundation of Western democracies.
UK eagerness to be invited to every US regime change and military adventure, in the pathetic belief it maintains the UK’s status as a “world power”, has encouraged US hawks in their quest for a new-world-order. A quest that has, instead, thrashed once viable nation-states in a swath from Ukraine through the Middle East, down the Horn of Africa and across the entire Southern Mediterranean.
Brits will be doing everyone – including themselves – a giant favor if they vote for Brexit. The EU can top this off by turning down TTIP.
The British public should politely give Obama
the stiff middle finger knowing full well that his mack daddy
backside will be back in Chicago come January. Even though NWO banksters
funded Hitler in WW II, the vast number of Americans weren’t fighting the Nazis just to save Britain. We didn’t want him coming to our shores. BHO is acting just like BibI Netanyahu did before the US Congress with demands and hubris.
Spot on, Brooklyn Dave 🙂 The British public should give Obama the stiff middle finger, knowing his backside will be back in Chicago come January.
Yes, BHO’S acting just as Bibi Boo-Boo did before the US Congress with demands and hubris; and Dave Cameron should politely tell him with no uncertain terms that the British voters will vote as they please; that no outsider – including BHO – is to tell them how to vote.
I can’t wait till this mack daddy and his ugly ass wife (or husband) are out of the White House. The guyreally isn’t competent for much –and I really believe most of his life has been a sham. Yes, he can be somewhatelegant –as can many of the brothers in da hood. Have you ever listened to some of those black guys in the inner city–they can really be verbally entertaining. — but does that mean they should be president? Hillary thinks she’s is going toget in office primarily by virtue of her gender. That woman and her husband are the biggest crooks out there. I would rather have La Cosa Nostra in the White House directly –they are more straightforward and honest. Trump is Trump– I am not putting any halos on him–but he is the best thing out there. Poor Sanders –don’t agree with him on much, but the guy isn’t a crook and it shows that there is a lot of dissatisfction in the Democratic camp as well.
The EU has prevented wars in western Europe the past 70 years. It’s a good thing.