Special relationship not so special to him

I was reading this write-up about President Obama's first press conference in the UK, said write-up appearing in The Guardian, a left-wing British paper, and I learned something about Mr Obama I did not know.

Apparently, had I read one the books published in his name, I would have known it:

"Whatever family hostility we suspect the half-Kenyan president harbours towards the British Empire – his autobiography contains several sharp passages – he buried it. War and peace, thick and thin, a kinship of ideals as well as interests ... he laid it on with a trowel, though not with discernible warmth."

I didn't know he had expressed hostility towards Britain in print.

That's not good. They are our friends, maybe our second-best friends after the Australians. Maybe lingering hostility towards Britain explains the classless gifts Mr Obama has given Prime Minister Gordon Brown (25 DVDs that only play in North America, and besides, Mr Brown is three-quarters blind) and Queen Elizabeth (an iPod full of show tunes and Obama speeches).

Posted: Thu - April 2, 2009 at 12:52 PM

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Special relationship not so special to him

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