The gospel according to Obama:

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[h=1]DAILY MAIL COMMENT: This President is last man we should heed[/h]By DAILY MAIL COMMENT
PUBLISHED: 00:57, 23 April 2016 | UPDATED: 07:58, 23 April 2016
The tone was patronising, the language menacing – and the message not only hypocritical but, frankly, insulting.
Certainly, Barack Obama has every right to say he thinks it’s in America’s best interests for Britain to remain in the EU, if that is what he believes.
But he has no business to come here and preach that submission to Brussels is good for the people of the UK.

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Barack Obama has every right to say he thinks it’s in America’s best interests for Britain to remain in the EU, if that is what he believes. But he has no business to come here and preach that submission to Brussels is good for the people of the UK




.By arguing that a Britain outside the EU would be at the ‘back of the queue’ for a trade deal, to Number 10’s delight, Mr Obama displayed contempt for voters and left little doubt that he sees the special relationship as a one-way street.Has he forgotten he leads a nation founded to proclaim independence from overseas control, whose citizens died for the right to make their own laws?
Will he not admit that the US wouldn’t agree in a million years to join a body like the EU, putting the Supreme Court in Washington under the thumb of foreign judges? Or that freedom-loving America wouldn’t tolerate for a second the statist edicts spewing daily from Brussels?
Why, then, does he abuse the UK’s hospitality by urging Britons to remain in a relationship his own people would never countenance?


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Mr Obama’s grasp of history is shaky, too, if he believes the EU can take credit for seven decades of relative peace.
Yes, a new spirit of friendship between European nations sprang up after 1945. But this had far more to do with memories of the horrors of two world wars than with any Brussels institution.
No, the true peacekeeper has surely been Nato, whose shield protected the continent from the Soviet Union’s might during the Cold War – while our intelligence-sharing arrangements, on which our security from terrorism depend, have nothing to do with the EU.
Which brings us to Mr Obama’s own sorry record as Commander-in-Chief and architect of America’s foreign policy.
This is the man who made way for the rise of IS by his reckless withdrawal from Iraq. He has failed even to honour his pledge to close Guantanamo Bay. And his chief foreign policy ‘success’ has been a deal with terrorist-sponsoring Iran.
In the spirit of ‘friends who have no fear of each other’, to borrow his words, aren’t we entitled to ask why Britain should take advice from this President on how to conduct our own affairs?


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[h=1]Obama admits he DID remove bust of Churchill from the Oval Office and replace it with one of Martin Luther King... but insists he didn't mean to snub Britain[/h]

• Obama says he removed Churchill bust when he took office in 2009
• He replaced it with Martin Luther King because he wanted to pay tribute to civil rights movement as the first black President
• He now has a sculpture of Churchill outside his private White House office
• Controversy has seen Obama accused of snubbing Special Relationship
• See the latest news on Barack Obama visit www.dailymail.co.uk/obama

By HUGO GYE FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 18:36, 22 April 2016 | UPDATED: 15:34, 23 April 2016



Barack Obama today admitted for the first time that he had removed a bust of Winston Churchill from the Oval Office and replaced it with one of Martin Luther King.
The US President said that he took the scuplture of Britain's wartime leader out of his office, where it had been placed by George W. Bush, because the room was 'a little cluttered'.
However, he also pointed out that he keeps a bust of Churchill outside his private office elsewhere in the White House, adding: 'I see it every day, including on weekends.'

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Confession: Barack Obama today admitted removing a bust of Churchill from the Oval Office


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The removal of the bust from the Oval Office has been a source of tension ever since Mr Obama came to power in January 2009, with some Britons seeing the move as a snub to the Special Relationships.
It has also become a hot topic in US politics, with a string of Republican leaders complaining about the decision and pledging to reverse it once the President leaves office.

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The White House originally denied that the bust had been removed and sent back to Britain, before admitting that it actually had - although a second identical bust remains in the White House.
Mayor of London Boris Johnson today mentioned the removal of the Churchill bust in a newspaper article criticising the President for supporting Britain's membership of the EU.
His intervention seems to have prompted Mr Obama to set the record straight during a Press conference in London alongside Prime Minister David Cameron.

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Conference: The admission came while Mr Obama was speaking in London alongside David Cameron

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Replacement: A different bust of Churchill is located in the private residence of the White House; Mr Cameron and Mr Obama are pictured examining it in July 2010


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The White House originally denied that the bust had been removed and sent back to Britain, before admitting that it actually had - although a second identical bust remains in the White House.
Mayor of London Boris Johnson today mentioned the removal of the Churchill bust in a newspaper article criticising the President for supporting Britain's membership of the EU.
His intervention seems to have prompted Mr Obama to set the record straight during a Press conference in London alongside Prime Minister David Cameron.

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Conference: The admission came while Mr Obama was speaking in London alongside David Cameron

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Replacement: A different bust of Churchill is located in the private residence of the White House; Mr Cameron and Mr Obama are pictured examining it in July 2010


.Following a question which alluded to Mr Johnson, the President revealed that he had replaced Churchill with Dr King in the Oval Office, but added: 'I love Winston Churchill.'
'When I was elected President of the United States, my predecessor had kept a Churchill bust in the Oval Office,' he told reporters.
'There are only so many tables where you can put busts, otherwise it starts looking a little cluttered.
'And I thought it was appropriate that as the first African-American President, it might be appropriate to have a bust of Dr Martin Luther King in my office to remind me of all the hard work of a lot of people who would somehow allow me to have the privilege of holding this office.'
He insisted that he had not snubbed Churchill or the UK, adding: 'In the residence, on the second floor, my office - my private office - is called the Treaty Room.
'And right outside the door of the Treaty Room, so that I see it every day, including on weekends when I'm going into that office to watch a basketball game, the primary image I see is a bust of Winston Churchill.
'It's there voluntarily, because I can do anything on the second floor. I love Winston Churchill, love the guy.'

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Row: The supposed snub to Churchill, left, was brought up today by Mayor of London Boris Johnson, right

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Summit: Earlier today the President and his wife Michelle had lunch with the Queen and Prince Philip

In an apparent acknowledgement that he had been slow to speak out on the issue, the President concluded: 'That's just on Winston Churchill - I think people should know that, know my thinking on that.'
During Mr Bush's time in office, the White House was home to two busts of Churchill, both by British sculptor Jacob Epstein, with one in the Oval Office and another in the private quarters.
After it emerged that Mr Obama had sent the Oval Office sculpture, which was originally a loan from Tony Blair, back to Britain some saw it as a sign he was not committed to the US-UK alliance.
White House officials denied that the bust had been removed at all, but later admitted that they been confused by the fact that there were originally two of the sculptures.
Rivals of Mr Obama such as presidential candidate Ted Cruz have sought to make political capital out of the incident.
Mr Cruz said this year: 'One of the very first acts President Obama did upon being elected was sending Churchill’s bust back to the UK, and I think that foreshadowed everything that was to come the next six years.'
And in 2012, Mitt Romney promised to restore Churchill to the Oval Office if he was elected President.
Mr Obama's statement today came during the first full day of his visit to Britain, which will be the last before he leaves office next year.
He has courted controversy by vigorously opposing 'Brexit', and also devoted some of the Press conference to paying an emotional tribute to the Queen after having lunch with her at Windsor Castle.

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The President hugs Brooke Brown Barzun wife of American Ambassador Matthew Barzun, left at Stansted last night


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[h=1]Barack Obama's views betray a 'woeful ignorance' on the impact of the EU on Britain's security, says Armed Forces minister[/h]

• Tim Ross, senior political correspondent

24 APRIL 2016 • 8:00AM

Barack Obama has been accused of showing “woeful ignorance” of the damage the European Union does to British national security, in a growing backlash over his intervention in the referendum campaign.
Penny Mordaunt, the Armed Forces minister, hit back at the American President for his failure to appreciate how European judges and laws on migration undermine transatlantic efforts to tackle terrorism.

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President Obama joined David Cameron for a round of golf at the Grove Golf Course, in Hertfordshire CREDIT: PA WIRE
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In an exclusive column for The Telegraph earlier this week, President Obama, warned of the risks of Brexit and urged Britons to vote to Remain in the EU in this summer's referendum.
But Ms Mordaunt attacked the President for failing to grasp the true threat to security that the EU poses to Britain.

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Penny Mordaunt says Obama "must be unaware of the alarming weaknesses" in his recent Brexit warning CREDIT: PAUL GROVER
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Mrs Mordaunt, who has previously worked for the Republican former president, George W Bush, said she agreed with Mr Obama that Britain and the US were special allies who played a vital role spreading democracy and security together through the world.
“Where we part company, however, is in our views of the value of EU membership to this mission,” she said. “In Obama’s view, ‘The European Union doesn’t moderate British influence – it magnifies it.’
“Unfortunately this opinion betrays a woeful ignorance of the practical reality of the EU’s impact on our security, and the interests of the UK and the US. Obama warned on Friday that divisions in Europe will weaken Nato, but often those divisions are caused by the EU itself. Obama confuses collective action and defence through Nato with the integration-at all-costs-and-damn-the- consequences ideology that too often motivates the EU.”

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The minister said the President “must be unaware of the alarming weaknesses” that allow terrorists from the so-called Islamic State “to move unimpeded across Europe” are the result of the EU’s “bull-headed desire to take down all frontiers on the continent”.
The European Court of Justice has “repeatedly” undermined the ability of Britain and America to share intelligence and President Obama should simply ask the CIA to “explain to him” why a new EU intelligence agency will help, she said.



In his joint press conference with Mr Cameron on Friday, President Obama infuriated Leave campaigners by claiming that Britain would be “in the back of the queue” for forging a new trade deal with the US if the country votes to leave the EU.
Leave campaigners claimed that an American would never use the word “queue” in this context because the usual term in the United States is “line”.
The apparent discrepancy led to speculation that the President had agreed what he would say with the help of British officials before making his blunt warning on the consequences of a vote to Leave the EU in June.









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[ScottL]

His psychiatrist must've upped the dosage.





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[busterhyman]

gospel of obuma-spread muslims to the ends of the earth and fuck up everything.