4-24-16

Personally, slam treasonous Tyrant O all you want but the racist police are having fits. 

MATT DATHAN, POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT FOR MAILONLINE reports Boris Johnson was accused of ‘dog whistle racism’ and likened to right-wing ‘Tea Party’ politicians in the US this morning after his attack on the ‘part-Kenyan’ Barack Obama.

Boris Johnson branded ‘racist’ and likened to the right-wing Tea Party after his attack on the ‘part Kenyan’ Barack Obama

• Mayor of London mentioned Obama‘s African ancestry as he criticised the decision to remove Winston Churchill bust from the Oval Office 
• Johnson suggested Obama got ride of the statue because of his ‘ancestral dislike of the British empire’
• But former Lib Dem leader Lord Campbell dismissed ‘unacceptable smear’
• Labour frontbencher Diane Abbott hits out at ‘offensive’ comments that echoed the right-wing Tea Party in the US
• See the latest on Boris Johnson as he attacks President Barack Obama

Boris Johnson was accused of ‘dog whistle racism’ and likened to right-wing ‘Tea Party’ politicians in the US this morning after his attack on the ‘part-Kenyan’ Barack Obama.

The Mayor of London spoke out against the US President after he urged British voters to stay in the EU and mentioned his African ancestry as he criticised the decision to remove a bust of Sir Winston Churchill from the Oval Office shortly after Mr Obama entered the White House.

Mr Johnson – who is favourite to succeed David Cameron as Prime Minister – suggested the President got rid of the statue as a ‘snub’ to Britain’s wartime prime minister and a ‘symbol of the part-Kenyan President’s ancestral dislike of the British empire’. 

But Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell hit out at Mr Johnson and demanded he withdraw the controversial remarks.

He wrote on Twitter: ‘Mask slips again. Boris part-Kenyan Obama comment is yet another example of dog whistle racism from senior Tories. He should withdraw it.’ 

This afternoon Mr Johnson defended his remarks and said he did not imply the US leader was anti-British. 

Diane Abbott, Shadow International Development Secretary, hit out at Mr Johnson, describing his remarks as ‘offensive’ and said they echoed those of the Tea Party’s right-wing, anti-immigration tendency in the US.

Former Lib Dem leader Lord Campbell said Mr Johnson’s comments were ‘an unacceptable smear’.

‘Many people will find Boris Johnson’s loaded attack on President Obama’s sincerity deeply offensive,’ Lord Campbell said. 

‘If this is an illustration of the kind of diplomacy that we might expect from a Johnson leadership of the Tory Party then heaven help us.’  

Referring to the removal of Sir Winston’s bust, Mr Johnson wrote in The Sun today : ‘No one was sure whether the President had himself been involved in the decision,’ he said.

‘Some said it was a snub to Britain. Some said it was a symbol of the part-Kenyan President’s ancestral dislike of the British empire – of which Churchill had been such a fervent defender.’ 

Asked later today if he intended to imply Mr Obama was anti-British, Mr Johnson said: ‘Not at all, not at all.’

Speaking outside a Subway restaurant in his Uxbridge constituency, he added: ‘Well I think obviously people will make of the article what they want.

‘The crucial point is that I’m a big fan of Barack Obama – I was one of the first people to come out in favour of him ages ago.

‘But I think there’s a weird paradox when the President of the Unites States, a country that would never dream of sharing its sovereignty over anything, instructs or urges us politely to get more embedded in the EU, which is already making 60% of our laws.

‘I think the issue really is about democracy – America guards its democracy very jealously and I think we should be entitled to do so as well.’

Downing Street said Mr Johnson was recycling ‘false’ claims in referring to the bust.

Ukip leader Nigel Farage backed up Mr Johnson’s claims.

He told The Guardian: ‘Look, I know his family’s background. Kenya. Colonialism. There is clearly something going on there.

‘It’s just that you know people emerge from colonialism with different views of the British. Some thought that they were really rather benign and rather good, and others saw them as foreign invaders.

‘Obama’s family come from that second school of thought and it hasn’t quite left him yet.’ 

The White House has previously insisted there was no basis to suggestions that the removal of Sir Winston’s statue was influenced by Mr Obama’s views on colonialism. 

Responding to Mr Johnson’s controversial remarks, Ms Abbott said: ’Boris dismissing president Obama as ‘half-Kenyan’ reflects the worst Tea Party rhetoric’. 

Mr Johnson’s attack on the President came after Mr Obama’s controversial decision to make a major intervention in the EU referendum campaign. 

He wrote a lengthy article in the Daily Telegraph this morning setting out the case for Britain remaining in the EU. 

He pleaded with British voters not to cut ties with Brussels – saying it ‘magnified’ the UK’s influence in the world.

He also invoked the spirit of the Second World War by claiming the sacrifice of GIs meant America has a stake in the EU debate and said our decision in June’s referendum ‘will echo in the prospects of today’s generation of Americans as well’. 

But a furious Mr Johnson responded by saying: ’It is deeply anti-democratic – and much as I admire the United States, and much as I respect the President, I believe he must admit that his country would not dream of embroiling itself in anything of the kind.

‘It is incoherent. It is inconsistent, and yes it is downright hypocritical. The Americans would never contemplate anything like the EU, for themselves or for their neighbours in their own hemisphere. Why should they think it right for us?’

His anger was echoed by a string of senior Eurosceptic MPs who vented their fury at David Cameron and Defence Secretary Michael Fallon over a warning that there would be celebrations by Moscow and the Islamic State ‘in Raqqa’ if the UK voted for Brexit.

Justice minister Dominic Raab said President Obama was guilty of ‘double standards’ because he would ‘not dream of opening the US border and allowing free movement with Mexico and he would not dream of allowing the US constitution to be trumped by a Latin American court’.  READ MORE

ARE YOU COMPLETELY PREPARED? 

IT’S THE MOST IMPORTANT PREP YOU CAN DO!   

The Bible tells us that every human has sinned and fallen short of the glory of God which is  is a heart-penetrating truth. He has provided a way to cleanse us of our sins since we can never be “good enough” to cleanse ourselves. That avenue to God’s grace, mercy and forgiveness (the cleansing of our sins) is through His only begotten Son, Jesus Christ of Nazareth Who is equally God.