The 1990s are Back, Glenn Greenwald is Worried About Angry White Racist Militias

-By Warner Todd Huston

Glenn Greenwald of Salon.com seems to think that Bill Clinton’s nonexistent boogie men, “the militias,” are back. Why are they back? Because all white people are angry, racists that are mad that Obama got elected, of course. What else could have dredged up this fantasy from the depths of the liberal’s worst nightmares of the 1990s? Somehow, though, it’s a bit hard to imagine Greenwald’s main premise considering the fact that millions of those same white Americans Greenwald so fears actually voted for Obama.

But, in an effort to scold Fox News for airing Glenn Beck’s recent “War Room” segments, Greenwald indulged in precisely the same sort of behavior he claims Beck does, namely that of making wild, unsubstantiated claims about the “other” side.

Greenwald imagines that militias are again on the rise because Barack Obama is “an exotic other occupying the White House” and because the U.S. is a “declining imperial power,” these things upsetting to gun-owning, white folks, apparently. Greenwald also scoffs at the “militia movement” that Clinton talked about in the 1990s because they “completely vanished” once George Bush became president in 2000, that this shows they really had no principles he says.

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The 1990s are Back, Glenn Greenwald is Worried About Angry White Racist Militias”


The Long and Short of It

-By Thomas E. Brewton

Asked about long-term inflationary effects of government deficit spending that he recommended to combat the Depression, economist John Maynard Keynes’s flippant dismissal was, “In the long run we are all dead.”

Keynes’s irresponsible mode of thinking has become Congress’s accepted way of dealing with any problem having more than a six-months horizon. Exhibit A is the refusal of Democrat/Socialists to face up to the looming unfunded liabilities of the Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid funds. Exhibit B is the near-trillion dollar stimulus bill, to be funded largely by the Fed’s bookkeeping entries creating fictitious, fiat money out of thin air.
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The Long and Short of It”


Tennessee’s Stimulus Share Stimulates Government, not Economy

-By Warner Todd Huston

My good friend, Ken Marrero over at Blue Collar Muse, did some interesting research into where the money from Tennessee’s share of the so-called stimulus payoff ends up going. Ken notes that there is a lot of money floating around but little of it goes to stimulate the economy. In fact, it seems that the lion’s share goes to government and its grasping needs as opposed to the economy.

According to Marrero, The Volunteer State stands to have a windfall of $3,779,708,000 thanks to the pork-laden bill passed by Congress and President Obama. The list of payouts is impressive, but it really does show that only a small amount of the total could be considered an economic stimulant.

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Tennessee’s Stimulus Share Stimulates Government, not Economy”


The Failure of ‘Help’: ‘Modified Loans’ Don’t Modify Repayment

-By Warner Todd Huston

One of the fixes that Democrats are insisting upon to save people’s homes is the idea of the “modified mortgage.” A modified loan is an offer to homeowners that have either become delinquent in payments or have become overwhelmed in interest to have their loans reinstated with certain modifications that are expected to make payments lower to the borrower. The idea is that the troubled homeowner can forestall foreclosure and stay in their home.

Sounds like a great program. The bank or mortgage holder can continue getting paid without all the hassle or foreclosing and taking possession of the house, the homeowner is not thrown out in the street and with all that turmoil avoided, society is in approximate harmony. And, with Democrats making noise on how they support these sorts of programs, they get to pretend they care about Mr. and Mrs. America down on their luck.

It’s a win-win for everybody, right?

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The Failure of ‘Help’: ‘Modified Loans’ Don’t Modify Repayment”


Dems say Secret ballot for Them, but not for us?

-By Warner Todd Huston

We have been talking about it for some time here, that most odious provision in the Democrat pushed Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) that eliminates the secret ballot for prospective union members. Democrats want to eliminate the secret ballot because, they say, it will make it easier to enlarge union membership without all that messy votes of conscience stuff. It’s easier, they feel, to leave prospective new members open to union intimidation to get them to vote pro-union.

So, doing away with the secret ballot is a particular goal of the EFCA. Democrats are dead set on passing this act with this anti-democratic voting measure intact.

Yet in 2001 the same Democrats that are so intent on eliminating the secret ballot for American workers were all exercised over maintaining the secret ballot for Mexican workers.

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Giving Obama a Chance

-By Selwyn Duke
Being a cerebral sort, when I ponder President Obama’s seduction of America, I think of the story of the snake and the duck. To be brief, the snake wants the duck to take him to the other side of a creek, but the duck is reluctant. He says, “But when we get there, you’ll bite me.” The snake is very persuasive, however, and convinces the duck he wouldn’t do such a thing. He just wants help and would have the utmost appreciation. Well, I think you know what happened upon concluding their little crossing. Bam! The snake bit the foolish bird, who then started stammering, “Bu-bu-bu-but you said . . . .” The snake just replied, “Hey, you knew what I was when you picked me up.” I suppose the duck just wanted to give the serpent a chance.

That certainly is what many want us to give Barack Obama. Criticize the president and you’re admonished for being unfair and partisan. “Give the man a chance!” hiss the critics. Or is it that they quack? Whatever.
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Giving Obama a Chance”


ABC Groaner: Now Just Living ‘Near’ Fast Food Places Kills?

-By Warner Todd Huston

The ABC News medical unit wants to warn you about a stunning new risk to your health: fast food. Amazingly, it “ups your stroke risk” ABC tells us. Of course, we all know that eating too much fast food is bad for us, right? Well ABC has even more startling news. It isn’t necessarily only eating the stuff that’ll kill you. You see, ABC wants us to believe that just living near fast food places will kill you, too.

Now stop laughing. I think ABC is serious with this stuff.

ABC unleashed this “news” piece on February 19 with a headline that screams “Living Near Fast Food Ups Stroke Risk” and based it on yet another one of those groundbreaking “studies” that are always touted as “science.” This piece is filled with dire warnings and shocking conclusions… unless you actually read it, that is. Then you find it is really built on conjecture, maybes and assumptions instead of hard proof. So much for science.

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ABC Groaner: Now Just Living ‘Near’ Fast Food Places Kills?”


Paper At Last Finds Unions Hurt Business, When it’s THEIR Business

-By Warner Todd Huston

The Minneapolis Star Tribune is often called the “Red Star” Tribune by residents of Minneapolis for its long-time, virulently left-wing outlook. Many has been the time when the editorial board of the Star Trib has carried water for political candidates shilling for big labor.

The STrib endorsed Obama for president for his supposed fiscal responsibility as well as his focus on the working classes. It is well known that big labor was solidly behind Obama and have been getting payoffs every week since the January inaugural.

But that was then. Now-a-days the STrib is not so keen on unions. In fact, it is so put off by unions that it is going to court to have its contract with its printers union annulled and asks for new terms to be imposed by the courts to save the paper from going bankrupt. Apparently, unions are fine for politicians as far as the STrib is concerned, but when it is faced with real life union demands, well, the courts are asked to save them from union excess.

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Paper At Last Finds Unions Hurt Business, When it’s THEIR Business”


Crappy Inaugural Poem Finds Crappy Sales

-By Warner Todd Huston

Let me first say that I am no judge of poetry. I have little knowledge of the stuff and have even less interest in it. So, for all I knew the poem that Elizabeth Alexander read during Obama’s inaugural was a great one. It seemed a bit pedestrian to me, but, like I said, what do I know?

As the days rolled onward after the inaugural ended more and more people in the know about poetry came out to say that Alexander’s poem was a bad one. Well, apparently the poem buying public agrees with those in the know because the book in which this panned poem appears is selling like crap cakes.
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Crappy Inaugural Poem Finds Crappy Sales”


ABC’s Jake Tapper: The Sam Donaldson of the Obamanation

-By Warner Todd Huston

Is it Jake Tapper or Jake Scrapper? I am beginning to think the later as amongst the Obamagobbed media, ABC News’ senior White House correspondent Tapper is emerging as the man ever ready with the pointed question for Obama and his administration. We may even call Tapper the Sam Donaldson of the Obama era.

We all remember the many long years when Sam Donaldson would stand before Republican presidents (oh, and Clinton, too) and their press secretaries and, in that accusing monotone, ask the the most pointed question of the day, don’t we? Of course, we also remember the less than newsworthy subjects he often interjected there, too. Like the question he asked George W. Bush in 2006.

“Mr. President, should Mel Gibson be forgiven?”

Who cares, Sam? And even if we did care, why should this be a question that a president must weigh in on. It’s as bad as the fool Washington Post reporter that recently asked Obama about “ARod.” Would a little relevance be too much to ask when our supposedly hard-edged media are “speaking truth to power”?

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ABC’s Jake Tapper: The Sam Donaldson of the Obamanation”


‘Blue Dogs’ Stave Off EFCA For Now

-By Warner Todd Huston

Greg Sargent is reporting that a coalition of conservative Democrats, the so-called “Blue Dogs,” have joined to ask Speaker Pelosi not to bring the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) to the floor.

The Blue Dogs have asked Pelosi not to consider the bill until the Senate has first voted on it. As far as the Senate goes, Majority Leader Harry Reid has said that he won’t bring it up for vote unless he knows he has 60 votes and that number doesn’t seem very likely at this time.

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‘Blue Dogs’ Stave Off EFCA For Now”


The AP Talks of ‘Happy Fish’

-By Warner Todd Huston

Fish are people to, you know? At least the Associated Press seems to think so. It seems the AP has decided that a ruling by officials that run a state park in Pennsylvania that allows people to feed bread to carp at Pymatuning State Park will make the fish “happy.”

With a report headlined “Fish likely to be happy with Pennsylvania ruling” the AP has absurdly decided that fish both know that their gastronomic intake was a subject of the Pennsylvania legislature and will be satisfied with the final ruling.

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The AP Talks of ‘Happy Fish’”


How Barack Obama Wants to Make Black Children Poorer

-By Warner Todd Huston

In 1996 Congress passed and Bill Clinton signed the welfare reforms that for the first time in 20 years caused poverty statistics for black children to fall to unprecedented lows during the modern welfare era.

In 1996, Barack Obama was against these reforms.

In 2009, with his giant welfare bill he calls a “stimulus plan,” Barack Obama has eliminated these reforms.

Watch this video to see how Obama wants to return to the days of higher poverty rates for black children.

Proof once again that Democrats want to enlarge welfare rolls, destroy the lives of citizens, make everyone poorer, and create a permanent underclass that they can count on for votes.


NutRoot Outrage at Fake Video Bashing John Gibson of Fox News

-By Warner Todd Huston

This is a tale that should serve as a cautionary one to all that inhabit the Internet. It’s all about the instant outrage, the ginned up hatred, the immediate immolation, that one sees so often infesting the left in our fair country. It shows how unhinged many there are. It started on the Huffington Post on February 19, when poster Alex Leo found what he thought was a video of John Gibson of Fox News saying that new Attorney General Eric Holder was like a monkey with a “bright blue scrotum.” In reality, though, what Huffposter Leo found was a spoof video, not a real one, of someone else’s words edited over the top of John Gibson’s video.

It wasn’t true. It was a fake. Regardless of the truth, however, the left-o-sphere went wild with faux outrage over the obviously “racist” John Gibson and his evil remarks. Within hours the tale had spread over to DailyKos, and other lefty bloggers as well as the site of supposed bastion of troof, Keith Olbermann. Even the profane folks at Wonkette went for the manufactured lie. Naturally, comments of outrage accompanied each posting on this fake story. (Thanks to JohhnyDollar for the work on this)

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NutRoot Outrage at Fake Video Bashing John Gibson of Fox News”


Chigo Trib: GOP Doesn’t Want to Help, ‘No Interest in Family, Work or Neighborhood’

-By Warner Todd Huston

For the Chicago Tribune, Romney supporter turned Obama man Douglas Kmiec indulged in quite a litany of name-calling, finger pointing and demagoguery against the GOP that would have been amazing from the same man only one year ago. Hopefully questioning “The Death of the GOP,” Kmiec has shown that he no longer cares much how he is viewed, going full Democrat Partisan at this point.

In his Tribune article, Kmiec outrageously says that Republicans don’t care about “helping” the country, that they denigrate the “values, hopes and planning of others,” and have “no interest in family, work or neighborhood.” After heaping such calumny onto the GOP, he then does further damage to poor Mitt Romney by happily reminding us that Romney is a “flip flopper” that should join the Obama administration. Some friend he is!

Douglas Kmiec used to have a certain reputation as a serious man of the law and a man of religious conviction. Apparently that reputation is no longer important to him if this display of name-calling is any indication.

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Chigo Trib: GOP Doesn’t Want to Help, ‘No Interest in Family, Work or Neighborhood’”


Microdictatorships Line The Road To The Future

-By Frederick Meekins

In my column “Capital Implements Measures Violating Rights & Property”, I warned that a number of steps taken in the name of curtailing crime in a particular Washington, DC neighborhood forbidding entrance to anyone but those whose business and reasons for being there were deemed legitimate by law enforcement were to be baby steps in laying the foundation of a plan that would ultimately turn many of America’s cities into micropolice states by cordoning off selected segments of concentrated areas of population. Some snickered at my idea as I in part drew inspiration for my projections from an episode of “Star Trek: Deep Space Nine” where the downtrodden were corralled into sanctuary districts and they also chided me for failing to comprehend the complexities of the lawless situation supposedly requiring a response characterized by considerable sternness.

In all honesty, as an analyst basing many of my conjectures upon extrapolations where I see various trends headed, there are times when I wonder if perhaps I have overreacted to certain things I have stumbled across in the news. However, in light of a number of additional press accounts, any doubts I may have had about America’s municipalities eventually going into a state of lockdown with few chances of them reopening have been laid to rest as things continue along to such a lamentable destination
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Microdictatorships Line The Road To The Future”


Where’s the Transparency? Obama’s Secret Orders Caught Media Unawares

-By Warner Todd Huston

Despite all claims to the contrary, President Obama has not been very vigilant about pursuing that idea of “transparency” he ballyhooed during the recent campaign. Politico reported on a host of documents, proclamations and executive orders that Obama has made in the last month and none of them were online. In fact, many were not even released at all to the press by the White House.

So, where is the drumbeat of outrage about the “secret presidency” we heard for the last 6 or so years?

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Where’s the Transparency? Obama’s Secret Orders Caught Media Unawares”


Philly Judge Dishonors Memory of Fallen Police Officer

-By Warner Todd Huston

On February 13, a popular Philadelphia police officer was killed in the line of duty. 25-year-old Officer John Pawlowski was shot by Rasheed Scrugs, a career criminal that was due in court the following Monday for his latest car theft bust. Since then Officer Pawlowski’s photograph was placed as a memorial in the roll-call room of the 35th District, a room that doubles as the courtroom of Municipal Court Judge Craig M. Washington.

Judge Craig M. Washington was not as reverent of the memorial as everyone else, however, and requested the photo of the fallen officer be removed from his “courtroom.” Judge Washington went to several police officials demanding that the memorial photos be removed. When police officials refused the request, Judge Washington decided to rip down the memorial himself.

Naturally, the Federal Order of Police and officers of the 35th District were not amused. In fact, they were incensed.
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Philly Judge Dishonors Memory of Fallen Police Officer”


Offending the Islamofascists

-By John Armor

It was just a minor story on Friday about a Dutch politician being denied entry to Britain at a London airport. You might well have missed it. But it was an extremely important event for its broader meaning.

Geert Wilders, a member of the Netherlands parliament, was invited to Britain by a member of the House ot Lords. The invitation asked Wilders to show his 17-minute film “Fitna,” which he made last year. Fitna juxtaposes quotes from the Koran with images of Islamofascists attacking and murdering various non-Muslims.
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Offending the Islamofascists”


Investing In High Unemployment And High Inflation

-By Dan Scott

Now that Pelosi, Obama and Reid got their so-called Economic Recovery Plan passed and signed into law what’s an investor to do? That depends upon whether you think the plan will work or not. If you don’t believe it will work as advertised then you know the economy is about to enter a period of high unemployment and high inflation in what I would call the Carter follies redux. At this point even some in the liberal MSM don’t believe it will either.
Analysis: Stimulus won’t jump-start economy By Jeannine Aversa / Associated Press
No, the big stimulus plan won’t “save or create 3.5 million jobs,” as the president and congressional Democrats claim — at least not this year.
The economy will remain feeble through 2009, analysts warn, and businesses will keep shedding jobs, though not as many as they would have without the $789 billion boost._Advertisement
The stimulus agreement, heading for final votes in the next day or so, goes to the heart of President Barrack Obama’s strategy to revive the economy and will go far in shaping how Americans view his economic leadership.
What it won’t do is quickly snap the country out of the painful recession, now in its second year.
It should provide some relief, economists say, though some argue it won’t plow enough money into the economy to prop it up.

So already the liberals are back peddling by blaming Bush for a year long recession, when in fact it’s only been 6 months or 2 quarters of negative GDP, they admit their pump priming of the economy with deficit spending isn’t going to work as advertised.
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Investing In High Unemployment And High Inflation”


Unheroic Superheroes, Watch out for the Watchmen

-By Warner Todd Huston

Who Watches The Watchers? -A Comic Book As Political Commentary and a new blockbuster movie soon to hit theaters

If you thought the last Batman movie, The Dark Knight, was dark and cynical, wait until you see Watchmen, arriving in theaters on March 6, 2009. Brooding Bruce Wayne will have nothing on a “hero” that rapes his sidekick, another one that has no interest in mankind at all, one that is a megalomaniac, one that is psychotic, and one that is overweight and sexually impotent all set against a backdrop of a United States that is many shades of despair and evil. It makes Batman, The Dark Knight, seem like a festival of sweetness and light. This is the Watchmen, soon to be released by Warner Brothers. If this new flick at all follows that anti-American, nihilism of the original comic books we are in for some dark stuff, indeed.

Why do contemporary artists all seem to think the end of the world is nigh? Why has art become a thing of ugliness, instead of light? With all the beautiful things we see every day, the delicacy of a flower, the turn of a woman’s arm, the grace of a bird in flight, we are treated only to the bizarre and horrid by our artists. These days we see sculptures that look like molecular mistakes writ large. We live in architecture with the image of a jumble of blocks thrown to the ground in the midst of a temper tantrum by a gigantic, petulant child. We view paintings that appear more accidental than planned. We have movies full of violence and anti-social behavior. On the radio we hear music that celebrates all the worst in man. We even have comic books that belittle heroism, that deconstruct the good and exceptional turning their heroes as cartoonishly flawed as the most obscene head case on the Jerry Springer Show.

When did entertainment turn so dark?

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Unheroic Superheroes, Watch out for the Watchmen”


The New Yorker: Obama Like Gandhi

-By Warner Todd Huston

We’ve seen the Obamacized media call President Obama Lincoln, we’ve heard him called FDR and Kennedy, we’ve been informed that he gives newsers a thrill up their leg. The media has even ridiculously called Barack Obama a “light worker.” He is The One, their Obammessiah. Well, we can now add another undue adulation to the media’s obsession of finding great figures to compare Obama to: Mahatma Gandhi. At least according to the New Yorker’s Hendrick Hertzberg he is, anyway.

In a piece from February 23, headlined “Partisanship, by the bye,” Hertzberg likened Obama’s work on the so-called stimulus bill to a “Gandhian” effort because it is going so swimmingly for The One.

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The New Yorker: Obama Like Gandhi”


Retiree Makes Own Electric Car — Becomes Tax Cheat and Enviro Criminal

-By Warner Todd Huston

A retiree from NASA who resides in Texas tinkering around with spare parts, a friend’s junked VW Beetle, with the sponsorship of a battery maker, invented his own electric car. It’s that ol’ American ingenuity at work (I won’t say Yankee ingenuity since the fellow is in Texas). We should applaud him, right? Not so fast.

Like you, I celebrate the garage inventor, the sort of creature that makes Apple computer a household name. I love the fact that as an American one can come up with an idea, build it, and maybe even get rich from it. But, let’s think about this story a bit, shall we? It becomes one of every good deed not going unpunished.

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Retiree Makes Own Electric Car — Becomes Tax Cheat and Enviro Criminal”


Chuck Schumer: Liar, Propagandist, Anti-American, Killer of Free Speech

-By Warner Todd Huston

Usually I don’t go for the hard-edged treatment of politicians as my headline here does. I don’t often call individuals “liars” and the like, though I’ve been known to do so on occasion. Generally, I prefer to assume that those that oppose my views are truthfully advocating for deep held beliefs and not using lies and obfuscation to get there — some exceptions to that, of course. I am not really the biggest fan of the wild-eyed, Olbermannesque sort of bombast and name-calling.

But, after what Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said of his desire to push the ill-conceived “Fairness Doctrine” down our throats, I just can’t see any other explanation of his motives. Every single word he said on this issue was convoluted, unAmerican, illogical and meant solely as a cynical means to his ends of quashing free political speech so that his party could consolidate it’s domination of American politics.

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Chuck Schumer: Liar, Propagandist, Anti-American, Killer of Free Speech”


AP: Advertising Kids ‘E-Book’ Obama Indoctrination Effort

-By Warner Todd Huston

The Associated Press is taken with the new e-book full of letters to President Obama published by the National Education Association (NEA) a liberal teachers union. Naturally, all the kids in this book are filled to overflowing with leftist talking points like pushing the anti-military angle — one kid even said he was “very luckey because I am not part of a military family.”

The kids were all indoctrinated with concern over global warming, infused with unthinking anti-war sentiment, disdain for our soldiers, and enthusiastic for Father Obama and his big government machine. Sadly, it appears that not one of these kids have been taught by their teachers about liberty, freedom, personal responsibility and American principles.

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AP: Advertising Kids ‘E-Book’ Obama Indoctrination Effort”


Defending the Pope

-By Selwyn Duke

Pope Benedict XVI has found himself in a maelstrom of controversy over his lifting of the excommunication of Richard Williamson, an illegally-consecrated prelate who has downplayed the magnitude of the Holocaust. The Pope has been scored by the media, certain Jewish groups and even some fellow Catholics, yet few truly understand what they’re criticizing. Let’s examine the matter.

There is no question that Williamson has made some outrageous statements. For instance, first we have the Holocaust comment that put him on the radar screen:

“I think the most serious conclude that between 200,000 to 300,000 perished in Nazi concentration camps, but not one of them by gassing in a gas chamber. I believe that the historical evidence is strongly against, 6 million Jews having been gassed in gas chambers as a deliberate policy of Adolf Hitler.”
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Defending the Pope”


Obama Disses Brits, Will Media Miss?

-By Warner Todd Huston

Barack Obama loves Lincoln. It seems not a day goes by that he isn’t quoting the Civil War icon or comparing himself to that great man. But it looks like we are finding one great leader that Barack Obama doesn’t like so much: Winston Churchill.

It appears that President Obama is dissing the Brit’s most famous and stalwart leader by quickly returning the most famous bust of the man loaned to this country by the United Kingdom in the aftermath of 9//11. The return of the bust of Churchill flustered the British government because they didn’t ask for it to be returned. Our best ally was nonplussed and even quickly told Obama he could keep it in the Oval Office where Bush had displayed the piece of art. Obama told them no thanks which made the Brits even more amazed.

So, Barack Obama, the man that would “fix” our “bad image” with the rest of the world, we were told by the media, has just dissed Churchill after only one month in office? And, according to one of the only stories I can find on this incident, the British government has been made nervous about the relationship between England and the U.S. because of the casual return of their generously loaned Churchill bust.

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