UK Daily Mail trashes Cameron and his "fawning of Obama"

[Laura PourMeADrink]

http://harndenblog.dailymail.co.uk/2012/03/david-camerons-embarrassing-fawning-over-barack-obama-.html

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He takes a cheap shot at Richard Nixon - the easiest possible target in front of a gathering of Obamaphiles - and his own Tory predecessor Ted Heath. He makes corny jokes about cricket and Watergate ("call in the plumbers" - Geddit?) and then lauds Obama's "strength, moral authority and wisdom". No mention of Ronald Reagan or Margaret Thatcher.

Then comes what must surely be one of the most obsequious things Obama - who is well used to adulation - has ever heard. Obama, says Cameron "has pressed the reset button on the moral authority of the entire free world".

What? Pass the sickbag. Whichever way you look at it, that's ridiculous. Under Obama, despite his campaign promises and indeed an executive order when he took office, Guantanamo Bay has remained open. Drone strikes have increased exponentially - it being judged easier to kill suspects than capture and interrogate them. Military trials outside the federal system continue, as does indefinite detention without trial.

Certainly, Obama has delivered some "beautiful words" around the world, starting in Berlin before he was even the Democratic nominee and continuing in Cairo. In Strasbourg, he apologised for the times when "America has shown arrogance and been dismissive, even derisive" towards its allies.

But Obama has certainly shown arrogance and dismissiveness towards the UK in a way that President George W. Bush never did. Israel considers the US an unreliable ally under Obama. Iran's green revolutionaries might question Obama's "moral authority" after he allowed them to be crushed by Tehran's theocratic regime, as might the Syrian rebels and civilians currently dying at the hands of President Bashar Assad.

Then there was this passage, in which Cameron chucks in the names of Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King for no apparent reason at all - other than, presumably and patronisingly, because Obama is black: "Half a century ago, the amazing courage of Rosa Parks, the visionary leadership of Martin Luther King, and the inspirational actions of the civil rights movement led politicians to write equality into the law and make real the promise of America for all her citizens.

[BiggJawn]

1. Well, what do you expect from "The Daily FAIL"?

I don't even believe the pictures of celebrities in skimpy bathing suits.

[FarLeftFist]

2. Is it too much to ask that these RWNJs understand that Gitmo is still open because of a 90-6 vote?!

Seriously, it's as if they live in a bubble.

[rocktivity]

3. Right they are. He should be back on his home turf

engaging in the fawning of the Murdochs.


rocktivity

[nanabugg]

4. Envy!!! and hate. That is all.

[Spider Jerusalem]

5. It's very amusing to see a Daily Mail writer...

calling out Cameron for taking a pop at Ted Heath. One would think that would be red meat for the Tory right since Heath famously took Britain into the EU. The Mail is extremely Eurosceptic, and for reference here's a column in the Daily Mail from Peter Hitchens (Christopher Hitchens' brother) lambasting Cameron as "Ted Heath Mk 2" (that is to say, not a real Tory...the piece also has a photo of Heath with the caption "betrayed Britain&quot :

Two Tory MPs are so scared of David Cameron’s pro-EU thought police that they have hidden their identities when giving radio interviews on the subject.

One said that wanting to leave the EU was ‘the love that dare not speak its name’. The other attacked Mr Cameron’s broken pledge for a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty. Both knew that the Tory whips would destroy them if their names became known.

This extraordinary behaviour, broadcast on BBC Radio 4’s ultra-respectable Analysis programme, tells you all you need to know about the Conservative Party’s real position on Brussels, and plenty of other things.

For of course, this isn’t just about boring old Brussels. The EU is symbolic of all the other great issues that divide Mr Cameron from Tory voters - mass immigration, crime, disorder, education, marriage and morals.

I have known since I first spotted him trying to weaken the anti-drug laws that Mr Cameron was not a conservative. I have spoken to former colleagues who have concluded that he believes in nothing at all, but I think it is much worse than that. I think he is an active, militant elite liberal, who despises our country and its people, just as much as any Islington Marxist does.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2052264/David-Camerons-EU-thought-police-No-SuperCam-just-Ted-Heath-mark-2.html