Turning His Back

President Obama has been on his 2016 Farewell World Tour and stopped by England to lecture them about why leaving the EU is a bad idea. Coming from a man who removed a bust of Churchill from the Oval Office on his first day and unceremoniously dumped it at the British Embassy, and has rarely missed an opportunity since then to diss the Brits, the reaction was not, as you might imagine, rapt and enthusiastic attention. 

The best riposte to the President's meddling makes the most telling point about this man - that unlike a long line of American Presidents before him, Barack Obama is profoundly anti-democratic. As Andrew Roberts, the author of the essay below, puts it:

"Almost alone amongst US presidents, Obama has turned his back on this fundamental duty, and instead showed peoples who are struggling for sovereignty the superior sneer of the cold, haughty academic that he really is."
Roberts' article is worth reading in whole. What he describes has been the touchstone of President Obama's entire time in office - "We are your betters and we know better than you." Enough. 

I rejoice that the British people are turning their backs on the socialist EU Superstate. I hope that the day will soon come when we have a President who will resume the long and honorable tradition of of supporting the right of peoples around the world to be free of tyrannical oppression and choose their own leaders. A time when the torch on the Statue of Liberty will really mean something again. 

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