Is Obama anti British.

[modeller]

Is Obama anti British ? He is making a lot of anti-BP remarks . Which is stirring up anti British demonstrations, boycott and damage to BP petrol stations. There are pictures in the US of the Union Jack being trampled on .
The strange thing is 95% of BPs oil comes from Texas and the US bank Chase Morgan own 25% of BPs. shares. The UK own 33% the remainder is owned throughtout the world especially Kuwait an ally of the US.
So why is Obama stressing the British involvement ?

[R1Geezer]

...and the main c0ckup was by transOcean, an American outfit!

[saxy_jag]

Because if he doesn't blame us and get his country to do the same, all the racist bigots in the south will blame him for it because they never wanted a black president in the first place.

[craft1948]

Yes I think he's looking to shift any of the blame away from any american involvement, so he's stressing BP's britishness.

[dr b]

several answers here:

http://www.theanswerb...s/Question900312.html

[dr b]

and here

http://www.theanswerb...e/Question901317.html

[ABerrant]

http://blogs.telegrap...ults-against-britain/

[stewey]

I think that that the fixing should take precedence over the blaming.

[modeller]

Having read Abherrant's link I think my question should be re-worded to:
" Is Obama hostile to Britain ? " and the answer is pretty obviously . Yes !
But why ? I think we should re-consider our attitude to the US.

[jackthehat]

Obama's father was/is Kenyan.
The anti-British feeling seems to stem from the British colonial treatment of the Kenyans; Mau-mau uprisings, etc.