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ProSense Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-25-11 03:00 PM
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President Obama scores another first

President Obama scores another first

by amk for obama

Today, President Barack Hussein Obama became the first ever American President to address the British Parliament at the 900-year old Westminster Hall.

Since WWII, only three other foreign national heads have addressed the British Parliament - President Charles de Gaulle, President Nelson Mandela and Pope Benedict and President Obama joins that elite rank.

The 35-minute speech can be watched here.

http://www.c-span.org/Events/Pres-Obama-Addresses-British-Parliament/10737421747-1

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Update:

The full text of the speech is here (h/t to grannyhelen).

http://www.cnn.com/2011/POLITICS/05/25/obama.europe.speech


Update 2: From a brit blog, a brit poll. :)
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Eagle Mall Donating Member (199 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-25-11 03:02 PM
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1. There is a reason he was the first President to ever be asked to do this.
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vaberella Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-25-11 03:56 PM
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12. What's the reason? n/t
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Eagle Mall Donating Member (199 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-25-11 05:12 PM
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14. He deserved to be asked.
He's definitely the best President the Queen's ever seen.
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Fire1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-26-11 12:56 PM
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20. BINGO!! We have a winna!!! n/t
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BrklynLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-25-11 03:12 PM
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2. The Brits know what of they speak....remember this?
Edited on Wed May-25-11 03:12 PM by BrklynLiberal
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CakeGrrl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-25-11 03:17 PM
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3. Yes, and that question is as relevant now as then,
if not MORE so, given the nuttiness of the candidates on the Right.
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Number23 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-25-11 03:18 PM
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4. Yep. He's got the Bush in Reverse thing down pat
People in other countries hated Bush when he still had relatively high favorables in the States. Obama is the opposite -- folks in the States seem determined to tear him down while he is still very much loved by people in other countries.

All of these positive stories and pics about the president have a few folks here in a frenzy. I'm beginning to understand the damn near PANIC in some of the ridiculously negative posts I've seen today. Can't have too much positivity about the president, now can we?
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monmouth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-25-11 03:52 PM
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9. You'd think some of them were thrown out of FR or something..LOL...n/t
Edited on Wed May-25-11 03:53 PM by monmouth
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Number23 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-25-11 08:48 PM
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18. I know, right? :o)
It's also so very, VERY interesting that GD-P seems to be the only section on all of DU talking about this incredibly historic achievement and honor for our president. So very, very interesting indeed.
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Fire1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-26-11 12:59 PM
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21. Pathetic, is what it is. n/t
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Number23 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-25-11 03:23 PM
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5. wow.
"As the Lady Speaker of the Lords, Baroness Hayman, said, “He reminded us again of the poetry of government.”

Comments:

"Apparently, he spent another hour after the speech shaking hands with their MP's, often to the accompaniment of applause."

"A high honor for President Obama...

and he was only the second sitting president to be invited to a state dinner by the Queen, who has reigned since the Truman admin.."

Fantastic.
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JNelson6563 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-25-11 06:36 PM
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15. This is awesome.
I for one am glad to be represented by someone world leaders actually want to invite to speak in their countries. Perhaps we have earned a bit of redemption in the eyes of the world.

Julie
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Drunken Irishman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-25-11 08:06 PM
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17. I wouldn't get too excited over the state dinner - George W. Bush was the other pres. invited.
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SCantiGOP Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-25-11 03:24 PM
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6. there's some right wing spam going around
That Obama wasn't invited to the royal wedding because, well, they were afraid he would steal the silverware or something. The truth is only heads of state for Commonwealth countries were invited (if the 1770's conservatives had had their way of course we would still be a British colony). As this story and the trip to Ireland proves, our first family are rock stars in the British Isles.
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CakeGrrl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-25-11 03:52 PM
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10. The thing about the RW rumors is that they sound more and more unhinged
when you actually SEE how much the President is actually loved and welcomed.

After you see how Ireland and England have received him and the First Lady this week, a claim like that sounds like it came from an absolute nut.

The RW has less and less credibility every day - as if it had any to begin with.
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Whisp Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-25-11 06:53 PM
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16. but wiggy Trump swears Obama is so 'hated' throughout the world
doorknob
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barbtries Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-25-11 03:38 PM
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7. that's pretty special.
imo
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JTFrog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-25-11 03:42 PM
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8. K&R!
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vaberella Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-25-11 03:55 PM
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11. 6% of people think Bush is articulate---and Obama is ONLY in the 50/60% range for the others?!
What world am I living in?!
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ProSense Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-25-11 04:03 PM
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13. In association, the numbers will overlap.
From the link, the straight numbers:

The 2003 poll suggested that 75 per cent polled had little or no confidence in President Bush. Today 72 per cent have a great deal or fair mount of confidence in President Obama. In today’s poll, 81 per cent think President Obama is highly intelligent, back in 2003 17 per cent thought the US had got itself an highly intelligent president. You get the picture.


:rofl:
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struggle4progress Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-26-11 12:32 PM
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19. The C4 poll results are interesting: overwhelmingly, Obama is considered "highly intelligent,"
"sincere," and "well-informed about the world"

:bounce:
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