hector5559
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Bob/PKB
Best answer!
ROMOS
Obama admits he DID remove bust of Churchill from the Oval Office and replace it with one of Martin Luther King... but insists he didn't mean to snub Britain, ASSHOLE!!!!!!
| 8 years ago. Rating: 6 | |
Benthere
jhharlan
I dunno. Maybe it should have been put to a vote……… Or read this.
Lately, there’s been a rumor swirling around about the current location of the bust of Winston Churchill. Some have claimed that President Obama removed the bust of Winston Churchill from the Oval Office and sent it back to the British Embassy.
Now, normally we wouldn’t address a rumor that’s so patently false, but just this morning the Washington Post’s Charles Krauthammer repeated this ridiculous claim in his column. He said President Obama “started his Presidency by returning to the British Embassy the bust of Winston Churchill that had graced the Oval Office.”
This is 100% false. The bust still in the White House. In the Residence. Outside the Treaty Room.
News outlets have debunked this claim time and again. First, back in 2010 the National Journal reported that “the Churchill bust was relocated to a prominent spot in the residence to make room for Abraham Lincoln, a figure from whom the first African-American occupant of the Oval Office might well draw inspiration in difficult times.” And just in case anyone forgot, just last year the AP reported that President Obama “replaced the Oval Office fixture with a bust of one of his American heroes, President Abraham Lincoln, and moved the Churchill bust to the White House residence.”
In case these news reports are not enough for Mr. Krauthammer and others, here’s a picture of the President showing off the Churchill bust to Prime Minister Cameron when he visited the White House residence in 2010.
| 8 years ago. Rating: 3 | |
and I never heard your expression before. Must be am Aussie thing....
He's got around 270 more days to embarrass us.
