Yes, if he discovers France ever mistreated Kenya and/or his paternal relatives.
The British tried to kill George Washington and did kill thousands of Americans’ great grandfathers during the Revolution. They sacked the White House and Washington, D.C. during the War of 1812. Yet, the United States saw fit to let bygones be bygones in order to join hands with the United Kingdom to defeat the Kaiser, Nazism, Communism and al Qaida after 911.
That’s not good enough for America’s 44th President:
A bust of the former prime minister once voted the greatest Briton in history, which was loaned to George W Bush from the Government’s art collection after the September 11 attacks, has now been formally handed back.
The bronze by Sir Jacob Epstein, worth hundreds of thousands of pounds if it were ever sold on the open market, enjoyed pride of place in the Oval Office during President Bush’s tenure.
But when British officials offered to let Mr Obama to hang onto the bust for a further four years, the White House said: “Thanks, but no thanks.”
America long ago reconciled with Britain, Germany, Japan and Vietnam. But America’s diplomacy with our greatest ally on Earth is snubbed by the latest natural born citizen to be Commander-on-Chief on behalf of Kenya?
Diplomats were at first reluctant to discuss the whereabouts of the Churchill bronze, after its ejection from the seat of American power. But the British Embassy in Washington has now confirmed that it sits in the palatial residence of ambassador Sir Nigel Sheinwald, just down the road from Vice President Joe Biden’s official residence. It is not clear whether the ambassador plans to keep it in Washington or send it back to London.
American politicians have made quoting Churchill, whose mother was American, something of an art form, but not Mr Obama, who prefers to cite the words and works of his hero Abraham Lincoln. Indeed a bust of Mr Lincoln now sits in the Oval Office where Epstein’s Churchill once ruled the roost.
Churchill has less happy connotations for Mr Obama than those American politicians who celebrate his wartime leadership. It was during Churchill’s second premiership that Britain suppressed Kenya’s Mau Mau rebellion. Among Kenyans allegedly tortured by the colonial regime included one Hussein Onyango Obama, the President’s grandfather.
Want to understand the foreign policy of the United States in the Naughts of the 21st Century? Educate yourself on the grievances of the African home of Olympic marathoners and the Marxist dreams of Barack’s dad.
No matter that Churchill stood alone against the Nazis before Pearl? Oral history has it that an Obama was once tortured by English soldiers.
With liberals its all personal. No matter if someone else’s gramps was killed. If MY foreign pappy was harmed, then alliances for the country I lead are shaky.
Sounds like a Duke-Duchess European feud that could lead to a war of roses despite the fact that Britain has been our greatest ally for a century and more?. But since Iran has never harmed a hair on the head of a Kenyan Obama, not only would gifts of Ayatollah busts be kept, we’ll trash America for making you resort to hostage taking and more for the past 30 years in our first press conference.
This is what we elected.
God help us.
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Mike DeVine’s Charlotte Observer, Examiner.com and Minority Report columns
“One man with courage makes a majority.” – Andrew Jackson
February 28th, 2009 at 7:35 pm
How is this guy still writing?
Seriously what else do you need??
February 28th, 2009 at 7:53 pm
“On behalf of Kenya”.
Excellent post. Gamecock should be front page every day!
Well DONE, Sir!
February 28th, 2009 at 8:16 pm
DeVine is cracking up now.
February 28th, 2009 at 8:16 pm
Thanks gal
February 28th, 2009 at 8:25 pm
Yes, Gamecock. In fact, Obama would send the Statue of Liberty back to Paris.
February 28th, 2009 at 8:49 pm
No doubt, given that Britain is our closest ally, France is chump change. Hope his dad was never insulted by a French lady of the evening.
February 28th, 2009 at 9:32 pm
Great post Gamecock. Way to call out these liberal nuts.
February 28th, 2009 at 9:38 pm
Good post Gamecock,
I am glad you are drawing attention to this scandal. I was disheartened and angry when I first read about the Churchill bust being removed. Along with the informal casual attire in the Oval Office it is just one more slap in the face to tradition and honor.
February 28th, 2009 at 10:07 pm
No doubt Obama is making room for a bust of Mugabe or Lenin.
February 28th, 2009 at 10:35 pm
Shameful. Simply shameful.
There is no evidence whatsoever that Obama removed the bust because of British actions in Kenya. All DeVine has to support this post is one paragraph from a newspaper which itself had no supporting evidence.
I am shocked that DeVine is still allowed to post on the front page here.
February 28th, 2009 at 10:46 pm
#10 Why would he send it back? I don’t rely on the newspaper. I rely on the fact that he sent it back.
February 28th, 2009 at 10:49 pm
Get over it. He’s decorating his office… Every president chooses art from our own collections to suit their own tastes. Just because he admires Lincoln more doesn’t mean he’s hoping to destroy to transatlantic alliance (nor, for that matter, does it mean that he has anything against Winston Churchill).
February 28th, 2009 at 11:01 pm
Decorating one’s office is not the same as insulting an ally Zach.
February 28th, 2009 at 11:39 pm
Exactly. He is not insulting an ally.
March 1st, 2009 at 2:11 am
Zach. Stop making sense. This blog wants to keep its Obama Derangement Syndrome.
March 1st, 2009 at 3:05 am
President Obama will probably be a two term President.
Romney turns 62 in March . His wife turns 60 this year in April.
Maybe in 2016, Romney will be too old, maybe not, at 69 or 70.
March 1st, 2009 at 6:32 am
14, I disagree. It is one thing to change the location of a gift, it is another to give it back.
March 1st, 2009 at 9:30 am
17 – EXACTLY – I’ve been telling all of you for a long time how bad this guy really is!
March 1st, 2009 at 11:35 am
17, It was not a gift, it was a loaner.
March 1st, 2009 at 1:37 pm
“it was a loaner.” That is news to me.
March 1st, 2009 at 2:23 pm
“#10 Why would he send it back? I don’t rely on the newspaper. I rely on the fact that he sent it back.”
You explicitly accused Obama of sending it back because of Churchill’s actions in Kenya. You had no support for this statement whatsoever – even the news article which you quote does not support it.
March 1st, 2009 at 2:34 pm
You are missing the whole point, forget Kenya, Mr. Obama disgraced our country by looking a gift horse in the mouth.
March 1st, 2009 at 6:04 pm
Wow. Making mountains out of molehills has been taken to whole new levels.
March 1st, 2009 at 8:58 pm
“A bust of the former prime minister once voted the greatest Briton in history, which was LOANED to George W Bush from the Government’s art collection after the September 11 attacks” (emphasis mine)
If you follow the link and read the original, there are also sections about them “extending the loan” and such.