First impressions count,
and for Obama that was July, 2008, when then candidate putz gave a
speech in front of 10 Downing Street while the Prime Minister and
family pretended they weren't home. So much for the Obama who
promised to restore the world respect that "President Bush had
squandered." Brits remain underwhelmed by the Him.
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It says a lot
about a man, how he makes his big entrance. A motorcade says brute
power, as everyone stops to make way for The Leader and an arrival that
no one can ignore. But a helicopter out of the night sky? An
other-worldly presence coming down out of the starry heavens, bright
lights cutting through the darkness as the divine presence comes down
to earth?
That is how Barack Obama arrived in London last night, with a deafening
chugga-chugga of helicopter engines as he landed by the US Ambassador’s
residence in Regent’s Park. This is how the Second Coming will be, if
the Lord chooses to make His appearance in a VH-3D helicopter fitted
with anti-missile flares.
Only an American president can make such an entrance.
“We were having a
discussion before whether it was cool to be seeing Obama, or really sad
to be waiting for him,” he (Ad Agency employee "Joe"] said. “I think it
has just gone over the boundary from cool to sad.” [Story]
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Linda Sue ...
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