From the Telegraph.co.uk

The headline

The British press “gets it”….
Much more than our own "slavish to the left bunch of idiots" do ...



If al-Qaeda, the Taliban and the rest of the Looney Tunes brigade want to kick America to death, they had better move in quickly and grab a piece of the action before Barack Obama finishes the job himself. Never in the history of the United States has a president worked so actively against the interests of his own people - not even Jimmy Carter.

Obama's problem is that he does not know who the enemy is. To him, the enemy does not squat in caves in Waziristan, clutching automatic weapons and reciting the more militant verses from the Koran: instead, it sits around at tea parties in Kentucky quoting from the US Constitution. Obama is not at war with terrorists, but with his Republican fellow citizens. He has never abandoned the campaign trail.

That is why he opened Pandora's Box by publishing the Justice Department's legal opinions on waterboarding and other hardline interrogation techniques. He cynically subordinated the national interest to his partisan desire to embarrass the Republicans. Then he had to rush to Langley, Virginia to try to reassure a demoralised CIA that had just discovered the President of the United States was an even more formidable foe than al-Qaeda.

"Don't be discouraged by what's happened the last few weeks," he told intelligence officers. Is he kidding? Thanks to him, al-Qaeda knows the private interrogation techniques available to the US intelligence agencies and can train its operatives to withstand them - or would do so, if they had not already been outlawed.

So, next time a senior al-Qaeda hood is captured, all the CIA can do is ask him nicely if he would care to reveal when a major population centre is due to be hit by a terror spectacular, or which American city is about to be irradiated by a dirty bomb. Your view of this situation will be dictated by one simple criterion: whether or not you watched the people jumping from the twin towers...

President Pantywaist's recent world tour, cosying up to all the bad guys, excited the ambitions of America's enemies. Here, they realised, is a sucker they can really take to the cleaners. His only enemies are fellow Americans. Which prompts the question: why does President Pantywaist hate America so badly?

I have a hard time understanding why it was ok to release this info but they will not release what plots were "supposedly" averted due to the interrogations.

The UK press' opinion about a US president, our people, our government or even our culinary habits are of little interest to me. As pitiful as the US press can be, they rarely go out of their way to provide insulting nicknames for any foreign leader, especially an ally.

The classless description of the US president by the Telegraph simply demonstrates boorish behavior and poor upbringing.

As Charlie Daniels so aptly stated: "we may have done a little fightin' amongst ourselves, but you outside people best leave us alone...."

I may not agree with many of President Obama's policies, and cannot for the life of me understand or justify some of his actions. However, he is still the President of the United States and our elected representative to the world stage. His actions and policies are only answerable to the US voters, not the British press.

If the Washington Post made such disparaging remarks about Queen Elizabeth II or Prime Minister Brown, the British would have good reason to consider the action offensive. This is no different.

Originally Posted by SteveZ

The UK press' opinion about a US president, our people, our government or even our culinary habits are of little interest to me. As pitiful as the US press can be, they rarely go out of their way to provide insulting nicknames for any foreign leader, especially an ally.

The classless description of the US president by the Telegraph simply demonstrates boorish behavior and poor upbringing.

As Charlie Daniels so aptly stated: "we may have done a little fightin' amongst ourselves, but you outside people best leave us alone...."

I may not agree with many of President Obama's policies, and cannot for the life of me understand or justify some of his actions. However, he is still the President of the United States and our elected representative to the world stage. His actions and policies are only answerable to the US voters, not the British press.

If the Washington Post made such disparaging remarks about Queen Elizabeth II or Prime Minister Brown, the British would have good reason to consider the action offensive. This is no different.

Originally Posted by l2ridehd

From the Telegraph.co.uk

The headline

The British press “gets it”….
Much more than our own "slavish to the left bunch of idiots" do ...



If al-Qaeda, the Taliban and the rest of the Looney Tunes brigade want to kick America to death, they had better move in quickly and grab a piece of the action before Barack Obama finishes the job himself. Never in the history of the United States has a president worked so actively against the interests of his own people - not even Jimmy Carter.

Obama's problem is that he does not know who the enemy is. To him, the enemy does not squat in caves in Waziristan, clutching automatic weapons and reciting the more militant verses from the Koran: instead, it sits around at tea parties in Kentucky quoting from the US Constitution. Obama is not at war with terrorists, but with his Republican fellow citizens. He has never abandoned the campaign trail.

That is why he opened Pandora's Box by publishing the Justice Department's legal opinions on waterboarding and other hardline interrogation techniques. He cynically subordinated the national interest to his partisan desire to embarrass the Republicans. Then he had to rush to Langley, Virginia to try to reassure a demoralised CIA that had just discovered the President of the United States was an even more formidable foe than al-Qaeda.

"Don't be discouraged by what's happened the last few weeks," he told intelligence officers. Is he kidding? Thanks to him, al-Qaeda knows the private interrogation techniques available to the US intelligence agencies and can train its operatives to withstand them - or would do so, if they had not already been outlawed.

So, next time a senior al-Qaeda hood is captured, all the CIA can do is ask him nicely if he would care to reveal when a major population centre is due to be hit by a terror spectacular, or which American city is about to be irradiated by a dirty bomb. Your view of this situation will be dictated by one simple criterion: whether or not you watched the people jumping from the twin towers...

President Pantywaist's recent world tour, cosying up to all the bad guys, excited the ambitions of America's enemies. Here, they realised, is a sucker they can really take to the cleaners. His only enemies are fellow Americans. Which prompts the question: why does President Pantywaist hate America so badly?

When we start worrying about what these people say, we really are in trouble.

You fools on the Radical Right have it all wrong. You only have Limbaugh and Cheney to spout some line supporting American policy of torture. No wonder the world hated us during W's dynasty. Cheney forgets his pledge "to support and defend the Constituition of the United States. . " as his first priiority. Absolutely anything was ok as long as you wrapped it in a flag of "defending the Country against another 9/11." Give me a break!

You all miss the point. Guess I have just spent to much time in the UK.

Originally Posted by DougHough

You fools on the Radical Right have it all wrong. You only have Limbaugh and Cheney to spout some line supporting American policy of torture. No wonder the world hated us during W's dynasty. Cheney forgets his pledge "to support and defend the Constituition of the United States. . " as his first priiority. Absolutely anything was ok as long as you wrapped it in a flag of "defending the Country against another 9/11." Give me a break!

What did you do? Did you have 2 glasses of the Koolaid?

Yoda

A member of the loyal opposition

Originally Posted by l2ridehd

You all miss the point. Guess I have just spent to much time in the UK.

I think a lot of people get the point, but dislike foreign press calling our President names and the such.

I, personally, get the point big time but at the same time do not condone the name calling stuff and agree with Steve's comments.

Take heart...there appears to be the beginnings of cracks in the shiny veneer !

Whether you do or do not like the man the office should be respected.

SunnyMaryAnn---- You mean like when Bush was President???

Originally Posted by Sally Jo

SunnyMaryAnn---- You mean like when Bush was President???

Point well made.

Yoda

A member of the loyal opposition

[QUOTE=Bucco;203648]I think a lot of people get the point, but dislike foreign press calling our President names and the such.

I, personally, get the point big time but at the same time do not condone the name calling stuff and agree with Steve's comments.

Take heart...there appears to be the beginnings of cracks in the shiny veneer ![/QUOTE]

Oh goody, I can hardly wait.

Respect the office if not the man. Name calling is immature, achieves nothing and makes the caller look bad.

The Office of President of the United States is what should be treated with respect.

Isn't it wonderful to be able to voice our opinions and not be persecuted for doing so?