This piece about Obama’s reception from world leaders from today’s Times online just showed up in my feed reader, and it looks like our future president isn’t much of an Anglophile. The quotes at the end of the story, from his autobiography Dreams From My Father, don’t exactly flatter the British.
I’m am so, so curious how the first meeting between the new president and the British government will go, mostly because whenever I saw Bush and Blair giving joint news conferences (or heard them speaking through microphones they thought were turned off), I wanted to climb under a table, stick my fingers in my ears, and hope no one else in the world was hearing it either. Now that Bush will be out in January, I give you Exhibit A, above, for your viewing and listening pleasure.
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Booh! Well, no one’s perfect.
I’m sure once Brown and Obama meet, they’ll have a much better relationship than Bush and Blair. Obama and Blair are both very serious men and are similarly located on the Left/Right spectrum.
I too cringed when Bush and Blair first met. I think we can rest assured knowing that Obama and Brown will not share their particular taste in toothpaste as Bush did so cringingly.
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You rock, Patti. I’m so flattered. Thank you!
p.s. I’ll pay you in chocolate next time I see you.