Wonkette
Everybody loves Barack Obama, especially the British, who prefer the handsome young celebrity 5-to-1 over cranky old World War I veteran John McCain. But what will happen once Obama becomes president? One Englishman at the Times of London knows the answer: The world will turn on Handsome Barry, because he is an American, and everything bad in the world must eventually be blamed on America, even the post-Bush/Cheney America. [Times of London]
Is the dead picture another one of them ’satires’ I’ve been hearing so much about?
Wow, so they really do hate us for our freedom (and our wealth, power, and influence).
Actually, I’d be happy to get back to the pre-preemptive war level of America hate. *sigh* Those were the good ol’days, weren’t they?
Yeah. We will.
But we ALREADY hate the other guys. Yet another parallel to Australia07…
Geez, I’m glad you summed up this obtuse prick’s article for us…sixteen words in I got to “Manichaeism” and gave up.
From the article: “But there isn’t anything that can’t be fixed with a sprinkling of genuine fairy dust. What Bush lost, Obama can find. Where the Texan swaggered, the Chicagoan can glide. Emotional literacy will replace flat iteration, persuasion will supplant force as the preferred means of achieving what needs to be achieved, empathy will trump narcissism.”
Get a room, you homo!
Eh, he’s just a commie anyway. Aaronovitch!? Please. More like “I run and bitch”.
Betch.
And then there’s this: “Mr Obama is, after all, a big-game hunter, a full-trousered American candidate” Full-trousered–that’s terrific!
And, damn! that SWIM chick is so distracting!
Can’t she stop staring while I type?
Which is why we must swift boat him quickly.
V572625694: Unlike Bush’s trousers, Obama’s are bulge in the front rather than in the back.
“Hi I am David Aaronovitch, top British columnist. I wanted to find out what Europe really thinks of America. So I went to the Opera in England. And anyway they had this show that was mocking America. But guess what I know that nobody else could possibly get? The composer was American! You see? Stupid opera people. I’m quite brilliant, you know. Can I get paid now?”
Personally I would find it refreshing to be hated for our cultural imperialism again, and not just our ordinary, unmetaphorical imperialism.
This comradeship was destroyed, in a uniquely cavalier (or should we say cowboyish) fashion,
Oh, SNAP! You British, with your dry humououur. You look down on our pickup trucks, and our curious respect for the working man. Don’t worry, Americans will continue to hate your pasty white asses either way. Fuckin’ pompous redcoats.
[Bush] is not going to run Franklin Roosevelt a close race for nomination as the second greatest president of the US.
Wait, FDR second, who’s first? I’m confused.
I had my Minister of Silly Walks gab all primed to go and then I realized the guy is right. The Euros will piss on whomever gets into the White House sooner or later. It’s their other favorite sport, behind Fuhtball. Reminds me of the time I was in Luxembourg and an official sneered at me — yes, liberal, tolerant, gun-control loving me — saying, “You Americans have this juvenile affection for guns.” Jesus. We’d just been at the cemetery where the U.S. troops killed during the Bulge were buried — row after row of white marble crosses. Fuckin’ A. That was the only time in my life I’d wished I were actually carrying.
TJBeck: Duh! Rutherfor B. Hayes.
Barack Obama is American?
While it is a pretty decent newspaper, Times of London is owned by Rupert Murdoch. Just sayin’…
Mr. Herpes: That’s completely true. But we Euros won’t hate Barry the way we despise W. And that’s change we can believe in!
Mr. Herpes: Great story. It always seems to me that the European media, as a class, are particularly great at naming all the dreadful racism they see in America. Not so hot at analyzing the good old European race-hating business. That’s different, after all.
Joey Ratz: Yeah, that’s the big difference. Clinton was not everyone’s sweetheart in Europe, but he was not reviled the way Bush Jnr seems to be now. I can’t see Barack F. O’Kennedy leaving European bitters seething in the same way.
TJBeck: Andrew Jackson was, because he personally kicked their limey asses in Chalmette.
“Hysteria Alert: Fab One tour starts”
I believe that this is what those witty British toffs call “satire.”
>>Wait, FDR second, who’s first? I’m confused.
Reagan, probably.
Or Lincoln, depends on the columnist’s position on that whole treaso….err.secession thing.
V572625694: I don’t even understand what that means exactly. Are there sassy jodhpurs involved or do those not count as “full trousers”? Will this end with Obama in a pith helmet? This sounds like the bad beginning of a British boarding school prank wherein our new president ends up locked out of the G8 in his boxers.
Plus, I think David Aaronovich might be a wee bit gay.
David Sonovich?
TJBeck: James Knox Polk. He got us all of this land:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Mexican_Cession.png
Without Polk, the USA would be like Mexico is today, and Mexico would be the world’s greatest superpower.
We all must accept this. It is only so long until the rest of the world finds out that Obama is a secret Muslim.
Then again, when they find out that he also hates America, that might swing some over to his side.
populucious: our muslim-o-facsist PREZZ locked outside the G8 in his boxers.
world peace people.
Better a full trousered American than a big pantload.
AxmxZ: Marrrrvelous.
No nation will ever be as furious at America as England is, and that’s because we had a chance to be English and we rejected it. Just took the most sacred gift God could give a human, and threw it in their face.
NotUrEvryDayWEzl: Aaronovitch also used to write Dr. Who episodes. True fact.
jagorev: Everyone always gets that wrong!
Little known fact: #1 is Polk for stealing land from Juan McCain’s homeland of Mexico, #2 is Warren Gemaliel Harding for tossing all Woodrow Wilson’s Klan robe collection from the White House and busting out the WWI-era hippies from federal jail.
Needless to say, McCain is royally pissed at both of them.
David Aaronivitch is self important, ex-Marxist-turned-neo-con, who is totally gay for Bush. He’s kind of like Chris Hitchens without the lulz.