The irony of it all, from the standpoint of the Churchill Centre, is that President Obama seems to have picked up the Churchill line from Andrew Sullivan, who earned the ire of many here about 15 years ago for writing some articles that were perceived as anti-Churchill Centre (though not anti-Churchill).
I must admit that Sullivan's blog was a long favorite of mine, though his continuing obsession with Sarah Palin's ovaries has turned me off to him, probably permanently. Anthony My Blog "Towards the government I feel no scruples and would dodge paying the tax if I could. Yet I would give my life for England readily enough, if I thought it necessary. No one is patriotic about taxes." -- George Orwell, Wartime Diary, September 8, 1940. > Date: Tue, 5 May 2009 09:02:13 -0700 > Subject: [ChurchillChat] Obama Misquotes Churchill > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > > > To unite several previous threads, please see: > > http://richardlangworth.com/2009/04/obama-misquotes-churchill/ > > Everybody from Salon.com to The Weekly Standard has been calling or > picking this up. Whether one agrees or disagrees with Obama's position > on "enhanced interrogation" is not the point. The point is, if you're > quoting our man, get it right. > > Incidentally, the business about Obama disliking Churchill because of > the Mau Mau business was exploded by Diana West on Townhall.com. > Thanks to Gordon Brown, Barack now has more Churchilliana than G.W. > Bush. See: > > http://richardlangworth.com/2009/03/more-obama-and-the-churchill-bust/ > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail® has a new way to see what's up with your friends. http://windowslive.com/Tutorial/Hotmail/WhatsNew?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_HM_Tutorial_WhatsNew1_052009 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ChurchillChat" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/ChurchillChat?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
