On the back of Brown's article causing a diplomatic row last week by appearing to endorse one of the U.S. Presidential Candidates, you'd have thought government ministers might now tread a little more carefully before expressing an opinion.
Not so the Government's newest Minister, Assistant Whip, Dawn Butler who said on Boulton this morning that Barack Obama is the best candidate.
"I have met him, I think he is going to...I think he is the best candidate."
Oops. Normally, she'd be reprimanded by the whips. Oh, wait...
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Obama is completly out of the frame for POTUS from what I have seen in todays Sunday Telegraph. He is trailing in the polls and Democratic party officials believe he is between 4 & 6% lower in the polls than even these figures state: due to a racial issue.
Seems to me that Labour are in denial about their likely electoral performance in this country and the Democrats in the U.S. The problem with the Labour Government allowing junior members to speak on such matters, causes confusion and may be detrimental to the national interest.
But since when has Brown been interested in the national interest? The only thing that shapes his policy is his failing grip on power.
Self flagellation?
But nothing much will happen...Gordon cannot afford to lose any more, can he?
Ms Butler still has a lot to learn regarding the "diplomatic niceties" of being albeit a junior member of government - that is - whatever your personal preference you do not comment on it particularly on "live TV"(and the more so because McCain & Palin have a better than evens chance of actually beating Obama and forming the next US Administration)
Surely it can't be beyond the wit of even this shambolic government to work out a form of words for these occasions ?
It's not like the Tories are innocent of this kind of thing.
I think the interesting point about the 'Butler intervention' should be the fact that Labour have internal strife. Why is a whip, however new to the job engaging in this rather than getting on with the job.
In the current circumstances they seem to more concerned with anything other than running the country and leading us out of the mess they have created.
Maybe Dawn will start writing a book on knitting or landscaping next as there would seem to be a Labour trait developing with Brown's books on Courage and Balls books on culinery skills.
Presumably the reason nothing is done about these prats by No. 10 is that the Supreme Ditherer is currently working on issues that came up 8 weeks ago and it will be a while before He gets around to dealing with this. All issues having to go to His Desk for Attention and Approval.
Anon:
September 14, 2008 1:24 PM
LoL, think you hit the nail on the head on that issue!
Dawn Butler (along with John Mann and John Cummings) has to be one of the three most mediocre MPs in the commons. The fact that she has been appointed a Government post albeit the most junior after PPS, shows that Brown really is scrapping the bottom of the barrel. To describe her as 'thick as pig-sh*t' would be an insult to the latter.
J
aanonymous at 1.24you cannot be correct as the article in his name was, we are told and expected to believe!, was written by a junior clerk!
What it shows is from top to bottom the whole lot of them are totally and completely out of their depth.
didn't a british ambassador to washington in victorian times get suckered into writing a letter backing one or other presidential candidate which was then produced to a fanfare of trumpets as evidence of perfidious albion interfering in american politics?
since then no ambassador has been foolish enought to be caught out although, perhaps no suprises here,this degree of caution does not appear to extend to our 'political elite'
To describe her as 'thick as pig-sh*t' would be an insult to the latter.
Bit like putting lipstick on a pig!
Obama is the best candidate. No doubt about it. What's the problem? I've heard Cameron gushing praise on Obama too - often.
McCain is willing to lose his integrity to win an election. Shame on McCain.
Canvas @ September 14, 2008 3:35 PM:
At least McCain has integrity to lose if he follows the path you deem him to be following. Obama does not seem to have any integrity what-so ever, indeed his whole electoral strategy seems to revolve around lecturing and childish name-calling. Mind you is that not the left's standard campaigning fare since they suffered the ideological defeat of communism and the associated Socialist ideologies.
I also think Obama is not just the best politician but the best person to be president. And however much I'd like the PM, of any party, to agree with me the fact is that the perception if not the reality of neutrality must be observed. Major damaged relations with the US and Brown is risking the same if McCain wins.
Dawn Butler seems just as dopey and inarticulate as her predecessor.
What is it about Labour women? They can't even read, properly, their planted questions at PMQs.
Dowdy, downcast and dopey just about sums them up.
McCain is so obviously willing to sell his soul to win this election.
McCain can continue to lie and lie and lie until November 4th but the middle class in America are hurting and they know that it is Barack Obama who is on their side. It's the younger generation and the middle class who will win this election for Obama.
McCain will continue with the failed Bush policies but America won't be fooled again by the Republican party. What exactly is McCain going to change? It's a joke. Voters aren't as stupid and McCain hopes they are.
>>> Do you see any world leaders visibly excited about the possibility of working with John McCain?? Let's be honest - the world has its fingers crossed for Obama.
Is Dawn Butler really a "Minister" Iain? Or are exceedingly lowly whips party apparatchniks rather than govt ministers? And does the idea of not backing sides really extend to lowly assistant whips?
I suppose once the McDonagh woman's importance and minister-hood had been exaggerated the MSM and other sheeple have to keep up the illusion.
Unpaid probably, unloved, not a minister.
Government whips are fully fledged, paid, members of the government. They are indeed ministers and paid as such.
Canvas,
As Obama starts revealing more of himself and his "policies" fingers will be crossed that he does not become president. He is a typical snake oil salesman who roamed the West selling the cure to everything and then rapidly left town. Sadly Obama cannot be got rid of that easily
Is Oberama still a candidate? He's so yesterday.
6.44pm "They can't even read, properly, their planted questions at PMQs."
PMQs, April 2010
"Will the Prime Minister rejoice with me …?"
(Sound of shot)
*The End*
Dawn Butler isn't Diane Abbott. She's clueless.
And sorry, Canvas, but I think your hero may still be called Senator Obama next year.
Firstly, he ran as a Christian, then it turns out he wants babies killed after birth. He fell out with his pastor, then stopped going to church. And when he attended Church, he was checking his blackberry during the sermon. He is vacuous, cynical and false. He's America's Tony Blair.
Plus his slip ups - lipstick on a pig, when most people were going to associate that with someone; saying 'my muslim faith' in a sentence knowing people could clip it and use it in ads; then saying he'll push back the waters and heal the earth ......
A lot of us who loved him now see he's rubbish. It'd be nice to show a recording of his inauguration to my kids when they're old enough to understand. But what's worse to Africans in diaspora is to have him win and mess up so badly that he prevents others who share his ethnicity from progressing politically for a generation.
Obama is a front-man for a movement that wishes to transform America into something worse.
To quote Chris Rock - we'd love a black President, but does it have to be that one?!
Go Palin!!
africanmum - glad to see you're supporting the anti-rational anti-intellectual ticket of McCain/Palin. sheesh.
Obama has integrity and he'll be the next President of the USA. Smart money is on Obama/Biden.
There's nothing anti-intellectual or irrational about believing in traditional values and loving your country. Maybe Democrats ought to try it sometime. If FDR was as anti-American as today's democrats we'd never had seen the New Deal. Fact is, people hate the democrats now as they're so condescending to Palin as she's the average citizen, and a lot of lefties really hate it when ordinary people dare to have an opinion that doesn't coincide with theirs.
And your candidate was raised by white people. The only black person in his family ran off. He chose to identify with African America when it suited his political ambitions. Anyone who really believes in equality would look at all candidates' policies and character and judge them accordingly.
Further to Obama's character - what sort of person would reject the identity of a loving grandmother just because it's politically inexpedient? If he's 'post-racial' as he claims, why go to a church like Trinity? Why not attend the numerous multi-cultural churches in Chicago? Why claim he was raised on food stamps when his grandparents gave him so much money? His old classmates remember a child who was very privileged. why claim his half-sister gave him a great insight into African culture when she only recalls a brief meeting of a few minutes at a railway station? Why quit a job because he was the only black executive placed in one part of the office with white executives? Why dump a girlfriend because she's white even though they got on fine and he found nothing wrong with her character, only thought the relationship should end because of her skin colour? If someone is presented to the world as the messiah, surely his character matters.
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