UK Guardian: “The question that flummoxed the great orator”

Gordon Brown wondering what the hell Barack Obama is talking about.
Gordon Brown wondering what the hell Barack Obama is talking about.

There is some immense disconnect between American media and British media. While the American media swoons at the feet of Barack Obama, the British media has been writing about his feet of clay.

Here’s the UK Guardian’s scathing review of one of the President’s British news conferences:

Barack Obama, the World’s Greatest Orator (™all news organisations), didn’t exactly cover himself in glory when the BBC’s political editor Nick Robinson asked him a question about who was to blame for the financial crisis. Normally word perfect, Obama ummed, ahed and waffled for the best part of two and a half minutes. Here, John Crace decodes what he was really thinking…

Click through and read the rest of it. It’s hilarious.

Source: UK Guardian

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