tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post5172143564460916305..comments2024-03-04T17:54:32.559+00:00Comments on Iain Dale's Diary: Touching the Hem of The MessiahIain Dalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03270146219458384372noreply@blogger.comBlogger106125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-63590977656612888932009-01-28T04:59:00.000+00:002009-01-28T04:59:00.000+00:00Keep it up chaps! Not at all surprised that a nul...Keep it up chaps! Not at all surprised that a nulabour MP attempts to bask in reflected glory, but watching you guys getting so worked up about Obama is a real treat. <BR/><BR/>Surely, surely, you feel just a touch embarrassed that Bush/Cheney was one of your kind? Have you no shame?Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00716916481489978222noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-46772787062090434672009-01-23T21:47:00.000+00:002009-01-23T21:47:00.000+00:00Could it be that Butler pushed a plain piece of Ho...Could it be that Butler pushed a plain piece of HofC note paper in front of him and asked for an autograph, only to add the text later? I think we should be told.<BR/><BR/>Has anyone contacted the White House to ask how Obama got a hold of HofC paper and if the endorsement is genuine?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-35086846571819082042009-01-23T01:53:00.000+00:002009-01-23T01:53:00.000+00:00Well done. This is a great find.The use of HOC pap...Well done. This is a great find.<BR/><BR/>The use of HOC paper is what needs to be investigated, too.<BR/><BR/>Who authorised its use?Martin Shttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04148241391183658112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-78821458748803377402009-01-23T00:42:00.000+00:002009-01-23T00:42:00.000+00:00It seems that Ms Butler isn't the only Brent candi...It seems that Ms Butler isn't the only Brent candidate touting their encounters with President Obama.<BR/><BR/>From Sarah Teather's website:<BR/><BR/>http://www.brentlibdems.org.uk/<BR/>images/sites/217.160.173.25-3e678870b1c3f9.89263653/178.jpeg<BR/><BR/>"Sarah met Barack Obama when he was Senator for Illinois in 2006, when she visited Washington on behalf of her constituent Jamil el-Banna, who was imprisoned in Guantanamo Bay. She spoke with Obama about US prison camp Guantánamo Bay, and asked him to commit to having the detention centre closed."<BR/><BR/>Of course it would have to be a complete coincidence that Butler chose to post her "endorsement" on the day Ms. Teather's request was granted!Dual Citizenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05688872768973943522noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-78746645047021084952009-01-22T21:50:00.000+00:002009-01-22T21:50:00.000+00:00Is that the letter the police were looking for yes...Is that the letter the police were looking for yesterday?Lorenzohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06522842976459302535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-12962039982929200232009-01-22T20:35:00.000+00:002009-01-22T20:35:00.000+00:00"Hey, we all know what those running Labourlist wi...<I>"Hey, we all know what those running Labourlist will be saying - the original letter was just a beta! ;-)"</I><BR/><BR/>Lol!!JuliaMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07844126589712842477noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-4506136554863949132009-01-22T19:24:00.000+00:002009-01-22T19:24:00.000+00:00Hey, we all know what those running Labourlist wil...Hey, we all know what those running Labourlist will be saying - the original letter was just a beta! ;-)Michaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09945446563544679722noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-30802669060241165902009-01-22T18:40:00.000+00:002009-01-22T18:40:00.000+00:00So Diane Abbott obviously not a good MP then. Pe...So Diane Abbott obviously not a good MP then. Perhaps the Obamessiah knows his British politics after all.(or she doesn't have time for photoshop)Mulliganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12445624135697167219noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-19576560053388657842009-01-22T18:18:00.000+00:002009-01-22T18:18:00.000+00:00By her own description he has only met her once fo...By her own description he has only met her once for a few minutes at which time he signed a document written by her before they met & agreed with his people saying he had already met her & found her intelligent.<BR/><BR/>And I've got a great deal on a bridge for anybody who believes her. Does labour expect any trace of honesty or intelligence from its MPs or are they going to keep her on.<BR/><BR/>Perhaps we should wait to see what Obama says - my guess is thety right now somebody on his staff is making sure she never got permission from the tea boy before rubbishing it.neil craighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09157898238945726349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-42103643006280800092009-01-22T17:57:00.000+00:002009-01-22T17:57:00.000+00:00Moon eyed lovers of 'The One' should note that if ...Moon eyed lovers of 'The One' should note that if this little billet doux had been signed in October as I have read, then Obama was not even President Elect when this little fiasco took place and I think if the American pubic had seen what a cretinous cringing crawling letter he had signed then he might never have been.<BR/><BR/>Strange that she only published the endorsement after the inauguration - no doubt trying to curry the impression that it was done more recently.<BR/><BR/>Putting it on HoC paper as well only shows the sycophantic dork to be even more of a muppet than many had previously thoughtAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-55992546037558368292009-01-22T17:37:00.000+00:002009-01-22T17:37:00.000+00:00Will she be claiming the fountain pen on H of C ex...Will she be claiming the fountain pen on H of C expenses?DespairingLiberalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02903904463236135611noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-10163679769769758832009-01-22T17:24:00.001+00:002009-01-22T17:24:00.001+00:00Sham dear chap you appear to be suffering from chr...Sham dear chap you appear to be suffering from chronic narcissim with all those 'advertisements for myself' on your blog. Is there some reason for your display. Am I missing the point, possibly?<BR/><BR/>Put one of Hansie Cronje up.<BR/><BR/>This is a storm in a teacup. Dawn should feel ashamed of herself - for vandalising the English language. Otherwise she showed initiative. Nice one Dawn.<BR/><BR/>BTW JPD could be the next superstar.Savonarolahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07500688050397705993noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-51377403550452947572009-01-22T17:24:00.000+00:002009-01-22T17:24:00.000+00:00@Shamik"It's quite pathetic the way you belittle h...@Shamik<BR/>"It's quite pathetic the way you belittle him as the "then American Senator". You still can't bring yourself to refer to him as President. Interesting..."<BR/><BR/>Are you thick? Something made all the more hilarious by you criticising the education level of the other posters in this thread. <BR/><BR/>I said, and you actually quoted this, yet still didn't understand it, "the then American Senator", as in - he was an American Senator when she met him, it was before the election, and before his inaugeration. He is the President NOW, but he wasn't then.<BR/><BR/>"Anyway, you people are beginning to bore me! :yawn:"<BR/><BR/>How childish. Unsworth was right, you really are being deliberately cretinous aren't you?Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11900834283869111242noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-42022418963035995412009-01-22T17:13:00.000+00:002009-01-22T17:13:00.000+00:00John "I'm so proud of my views that I've hidden my...John "I'm so proud of my views that I've hidden my profile", it's quite pathetic the way you belittle him as the "then American Senator". You still can't bring yourself to refer to him as President. Interesting...<BR/><BR/>Anyway, you people are beginning to bore me! :yawn:<BR/><BR/>Btw, some of you really need to learn how to spell. Education, education, etc.Shamik Dashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10935999254568311462noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-962699931014002702009-01-22T17:12:00.000+00:002009-01-22T17:12:00.000+00:00"...To seek validation from a foreign dignatory, e...<I>"...To seek validation from a foreign dignatory, even one as estimable as President-elect (as he then was) Obama by writing your own, poorly phrased, recommendation letter is indicative of a very limited faith in one's own electoral ability!"</I><BR/><BR/>Or a nicely-judged estimate of the low mental capacities of the voters in your area...?JuliaMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07844126589712842477noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-82699822934609815622009-01-22T17:09:00.000+00:002009-01-22T17:09:00.000+00:00"Good old BBC. Everything but the truth. I love th...<I>"Good old BBC. Everything but the truth. I love the way they spin it as positive as they can without actually lying."</I><BR/><BR/>They don't actually help much. <BR/><BR/>Anyone with any nous will wonder how, if she claims to have 'spoken to Mr Obama for 10 minutes at a party in the House of Commons', he can have been so impressed with her...JuliaMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07844126589712842477noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-87540427221147297532009-01-22T17:06:00.000+00:002009-01-22T17:06:00.000+00:00@ W.W.Have I misunderstood? Is this some sort of ...@ W.W.<BR/><BR/>Have I misunderstood? Is this some sort of satire blog that he's running, then? <BR/><BR/>On second thoughts, maybe it's not possible for anyone to be so cretinous - except deliberately.Unsworthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08307116169498533047noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-47446059259789111722009-01-22T16:59:00.000+00:002009-01-22T16:59:00.000+00:00Poor old Shamik Das. Instead of welcoming this fir...Poor old Shamik Das. Instead of welcoming this first timer some of you have derided him. Take a look at his blog, and then see if you change your minds, you, Shamik deriders.<BR/><BR/>http://shamikdas.blogspot.com/<BR/><BR/>Only someone with a heart of stone could read his fulsome Tribute to Tony Blair without bursting into fits of laughter.Wrinkled Weaselhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05291551539649118631noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-69287492305006656402009-01-22T16:42:00.000+00:002009-01-22T16:42:00.000+00:00Shamick - you really are a twerp.Shamick - you really are a twerp.Platohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07416276749202589235noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-32465547164267956762009-01-22T16:37:00.000+00:002009-01-22T16:37:00.000+00:00@Shamik"John 3:58 - piss off yourself you muppet.Y...@Shamik<BR/>"John 3:58 - piss off yourself you muppet.<BR/><BR/>Yet again, a Right-wing tosser incapable of reasoned debate.<BR/><BR/>Obama's the President. And there's nothing you can do about it!<BR/><BR/>Get over it, you closet Redneck.<BR/><BR/>O-ba-ma! O-ba-ma! O-ba-ma!!!"<BR/><BR/>Oh dear. You posted "Pity none of you have actually addressed my points", yet when someone does all you have in response is mindless rant. That says a lot about you too.<BR/><BR/>As for your "Right-wing Redneck" comments, maybe you've been watching a bit too much TV, because we aren't in America. <BR/><BR/>Interesting though that you label me a "Right-wing Redneck" because I think Dawn Butler has acted pathetically in drafing her own endorsement and then running to the then American Senator to endorse it.<BR/><BR/>If that's how you really feel, then you're about to find out that you're surrounded by people who you feel are "Right-wing Redneck's".<BR/><BR/>RUN FOR THE HILLS M'BOY!Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11900834283869111242noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-83136198482901305512009-01-22T16:35:00.000+00:002009-01-22T16:35:00.000+00:00@ Sham ikIt's probably not Dawned on you, but this...@ Sham ik<BR/><BR/>It's probably not Dawned on you, but this is a discussion about the activities that rather stupid Dawn Butler woman, not Obama. Whether Obama has been elected President, or Pope or the Archbishop of Canterbury or Chief Rabbi is entirely beside the point.Unsworthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08307116169498533047noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-78025573503519777442009-01-22T16:31:00.000+00:002009-01-22T16:31:00.000+00:00ShamikCalling him a 'Right-wing tosser' a 'redneck...Shamik<BR/><BR/>Calling him a 'Right-wing tosser' a 'redneck' and then chanting the President's name isn't exactly reasoned debate. Do you defend Ms Butler's letter and if so, why?<BR/><BR/>Regarding the letter itself: the grammar alone would be enough to make me ridicule an elected representative. But the substance, such as there is, is even worse. To seek validation from a foreign dignatory, even one as estimable as President-elect (as he then was) Obama by writing your own, poorly phrased, recommendation letter is indicative of a very limited faith in one's own electoral ability!GWHhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09201339633004935169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-73549133866531014162009-01-22T16:30:00.000+00:002009-01-22T16:30:00.000+00:00Bet this will be ignored by the BBC:"we should not...Bet this will be ignored by the BBC:<BR/><BR/>"we should not overlook an official rap for Jack Straw for failing to declare a £3,000 donation towards a knees-up at Blackburn Rovers FC to celebrate his 25 years as an MP."<BR/><BR/>http://blogs.news.sky.com/boultonandco/Post:8799033f-f31e-4f24-bcc7-52f3444a94a7TheBoilingFroghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00791961503315586243noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-75857645988780116092009-01-22T16:29:00.000+00:002009-01-22T16:29:00.000+00:00BBC quotes her as saying:"He signed it with his ow...BBC quotes her as saying:<BR/><BR/>"He signed it with his own fair hand. The signature is slightly smudged because he used a fountain pen and he is left-handed." <BR/><BR/>So, left-handed people can't use fountain pens without smudging the ink? Really? Well Obama's got a problem when he signs Orders and Agreements, hasn't he? He's already had to have two goes at the Oath of Office, after all. Doesn't bode very well for the rigours of office, does it?<BR/><BR/>And, as a left-handed fountain pen user I can tell her she's talking complete bollocks. But that we already knew, didn't we?<BR/><BR/>Of course she could always put the document out for independent scrutiny - assuming it's not verified by official American sources, of course.Unsworthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08307116169498533047noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-32195417416669461482009-01-22T16:22:00.000+00:002009-01-22T16:22:00.000+00:00John 3:58 - piss off yourself you muppet.Yet again...John 3:58 - piss off yourself you muppet.<BR/><BR/>Yet again, a Right-wing tosser incapable of reasoned debate.<BR/><BR/>Obama's the President. And there's nothing you can do about it!<BR/><BR/>Get over it, you closet Redneck.<BR/><BR/>O-ba-ma! O-ba-ma! O-ba-ma!!!Shamik Dashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10935999254568311462noreply@blogger.com