Obama: Cameron has no substance
Obama: Cameron has no substance
Reports of Barack Obama's opinion of David Cameron reached a new low this morning after it emerged the US president considered the Tory leader to have no substance. After meeting Gordon Brown and Mr Cameron on July 26th last year, President Obama is said to have decided that Mr Brown is "substance" and Mr Cameron is just "sizzle".
The comments come in today's edition of the New Statesman. There were originally communicated by one of President Obama's aides to a British newspaper journalist, but he had been unable to write it up after a frantic call from the aide to stop publication.
Today's news follows comments from President Obama last year in which he described Mr Cameron as a "lightweight".
More recently, President Obama's foreign policy circle have come to distrust Mr Cameron over his choice of Michal Kaminski as leader of the European Conservatives and Reformists. Mr Kaminski has a highly dubious past as a member of the neo-Nazi National Revival of Poland (NOP) party.
One Democratic party source close to the administration told the New Statesman: "Your assumptions about the beliefs of Obama's foreign policy team are correct – there are concerns about Cameron among top members of the team."
Meanwhile, David Rothkopf, US foreign policy expert and former deputy under-secretary for international trade under Bill Clinton, described attitudes in starker terms.
"I used to think David Cameron was just an empty suit," he said.
"But it is increasingly clear that the former PR guy… ought to be ditched at the altar both by the British people and by the Obama administration."
The Kaminski decision made Mr Cameron "an even more dubious choice to be Britain's next prime minister than he was before and, should he attain that post, someone about whom the Obama administration ought to be very cautious," Mr Rothkopf continued.
"A pillar of leadership acumen he ain't."
Political observers are expecting a tetchy period in Anglo-American relations should Mr Cameron come to power.
http://www.politics.co.uk/news/foreign-policy/obama-cameron-has-no-substance-$1316792.htm
Reports of Barack Obama's opinion of David Cameron reached a new low this morning after it emerged the US president considered the Tory leader to have no substance. After meeting Gordon Brown and Mr Cameron on July 26th last year, President Obama is said to have decided that Mr Brown is "substance" and Mr Cameron is just "sizzle".
The comments come in today's edition of the New Statesman. There were originally communicated by one of President Obama's aides to a British newspaper journalist, but he had been unable to write it up after a frantic call from the aide to stop publication.
Today's news follows comments from President Obama last year in which he described Mr Cameron as a "lightweight".
More recently, President Obama's foreign policy circle have come to distrust Mr Cameron over his choice of Michal Kaminski as leader of the European Conservatives and Reformists. Mr Kaminski has a highly dubious past as a member of the neo-Nazi National Revival of Poland (NOP) party.
One Democratic party source close to the administration told the New Statesman: "Your assumptions about the beliefs of Obama's foreign policy team are correct – there are concerns about Cameron among top members of the team."
Meanwhile, David Rothkopf, US foreign policy expert and former deputy under-secretary for international trade under Bill Clinton, described attitudes in starker terms.
"I used to think David Cameron was just an empty suit," he said.
"But it is increasingly clear that the former PR guy… ought to be ditched at the altar both by the British people and by the Obama administration."
The Kaminski decision made Mr Cameron "an even more dubious choice to be Britain's next prime minister than he was before and, should he attain that post, someone about whom the Obama administration ought to be very cautious," Mr Rothkopf continued.
"A pillar of leadership acumen he ain't."
Political observers are expecting a tetchy period in Anglo-American relations should Mr Cameron come to power.
http://www.politics.co.uk/news/foreign-policy/obama-cameron-has-no-substance-$1316792.htm
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He's right for once though.
Well its safer than posting bits of it.
It could well have happened, but its right up there with the Michael Jackson and Jade Goody stories without any hard facts.
Which tory has been posted twice
You beat me to it gummy.
LOL. Well it can't be Cameron as pauli posts stuff about him far more often than that.
The only heavyweight they've got is Hague.
Obama got elected based on the colour of his skin. He's a corporate filled empty suit, much in the same way Blair is and Camo is.
However the amount of times this story has been rehashed, debunked and popped back again, makes it even impossible to believe. More so the fact that Pauli has dragged it up again.
Seriously pauli no matter how much you try and smear DC, it won't stop people voting for the Tory Party in 2010, remember, we the electorate vote foe the Party, not the leader of the Party.
We all know, as stated in the article itself, that it was reported previously that Obama called Cameron a "lightweight".
Link please to the story where it was previously stated that Obama said Mr Brown is "substance" and Mr Cameron is just "sizzle"?
Or is it just your standard replies to discredit a story you don't like, the ones that are old and rehashed (and not the story itself as you imply).;)
The story is old rehased news though tbh I couldn't care less what is reported or indeed what Obama actually thinks about our politicians.
A story that is from December:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/blog/2008/dec/03/obama-cameron-lightweight
It has two new "quotes", its the same story. Why should I have to provide a link to something which I didnt state?
Perhaps I should go and bump an old thread to the top of the page every other day, one that I started and debated in 23 hours a day...wait thats you.
Surely you mean the latter?
The new story, is the new quotes. We all know what he said that previously, it says so in article.
So basically you can't provide a link because the new quotes have never been written about before.
http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=946062&highlight=cameron+lightweight