George Galloway British Maverick MP on Obama

How Obama Has Given America A Reason To Believe
Jan 28 2008 George Galloway, Daily Record

CAROLINE KENNEDY, the last surviving child of JFK, endorsed Barack Obama last week as he swept to a crushing victory in the South Carolina primary.
Like her father, Obama is giving Americans something to believe in again, after a period of arid, cynical, mendacious and murderous misrule.

I caught Obama's victory speech live at four in the morning yesterday, and even I - who heard it all, and at that time of the night, too - was really moved.
This movie star-looking man, with his lovely family and his Bobby Kennedy-type speeches: it all looks and feels like a Hollywood story starring Sidney Poitier.

The Clintons - scheming, manoeuvring, oh-so-economical with the truth - are like Mrs & Mr Cruella de Vil, trying to steal his victory, employing every dirty trick, except that one with the teenage girl in the Oval Office with the Havana cigar..... snip

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/comment/columnists/lifestyle-columnists/george-galloway/2008/01/28/how-obama-has-given-america-a-reason-to-believe-86908-20300721/

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Go at it guys......

and more clearly than we see ourselves. Been like that for 200 years.

Try this http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/comment/columnists/lifestyle-columnists/george-galloway/2008/01/28/how-obama-has-given-america-a-reason-to-believe-86908-20300721/

I'm not gonna comment on this since I just lost Dennis and then Edwards.

I shall never forget Galloway taking down Senator Coleman in the Senate.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8869.htm

He might do better to make some comment on Britney.

I saw Galloway make an ass out himself "debating" Christopher Hitchens. I don't really like the characterization of Mrs. Clinton being about scheming, manoeuvring, and lying. I mean, she could be our nominee.

Is it too late for Biden or Dodd to reenter the race?

"I don't really like the characterization of Mrs. Clinton being about scheming, manoeuvring, and lying."

That's how a good portion of the country perceives her...

It doesn't matter if she doesn't actually do those things. People have been told to think she does for 16 years. That's a hell of thing to run against. People have been told to think McCain is a maverick for a long time and Romney is a successful businessman who creates jobs. It boggles the mind when you think about what actually happened.

Britain can keep him.

We do agree with his position on the war, but other than that he is a bit of a buffoon who is more interested in things like being on Celebrity Big Brother than doing his job in Parliament.

Despite being a Brit with a strong interest in American politics, I am not sure that it is really appropriate for British politicians to make specific endorsements of another country's candidates in any case. I wouldn't really be that keen on it if it happened the other way around.

I would say Obama is more tempered and measured in his criticism. :) But at least his criticism is there, and always was.

This is one endorsement Obama can do without.

One of MY FAVORITE Galloway quotes:

Testimony before the US Senate on May 17, 2005.

"I have met Saddam Hussein exactly the same number of times as Donald Rumsfeld met him. The difference is that Donald Rumsfeld met him to sell him guns and to give him maps the better to target those guns. I met him to try and bring about an end to sanctions, suffering and war, and on the second of the two occasions, I met him to try and persuade him to let Dr Hans Blix and the United Nations weapons inspectors back into the country - a rather better use of two meetings with Saddam Hussein than your own Secretary of State for Defense made of his."

"Galloway v the US Senate: transcript of statement", The Times, May 18, 2005

And don't look now, but most of the civilized world DOES CONSIDER ISRAEL A TERRORIST STATE, and unfortunately, also now considers the United States of America a terrorist state. Most of the free, civilized world now considers the United States THE rogue nation and THE biggest threat to world peace and stability.

I'm not a big Galloway fan, although I do admire his chutzpah. And if you're going to cherry-pick Galloway quotes, please expect others to do the same. And quite frankly, Senator Obama has been endorsed by far worse in my book than Galloway. I'll take a nutter Brit any day over American home-grown homophobic theo-fascists.

See the video link posted below wherein he eviscerates the Senate over the lies told to invade Iraq.

Here, I'll post it again for you: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrdFFCnYtbk

Way to show how ignorant you are. You haven't a clue who he is and you shouldn't have tried to fake it. If you're so lazy that you can't be bothered to google you should keep your trap shut lest you look like a fool.

one thing he definitely ISN'T is a 'Bush suck-up'!

here on DU. It will be one of the most miraculous transformations ever, up there with Ted Kennedy.

:popcorn: :rofl:

"it all looks and feels like a Hollywood story starring Sidney Poitier."

Thanks for the post.

girl in Oval Office.:eyes: "teenage girl"?:eyes:

He's a drunken British embarrassment who needs to get his information from much better sources than his local pub.

right here