Someone Take His Passport Now
Wednesday, March 4, 2009 at 06:40PM 
Americans - I apologise. In abasing myself before you I represent all over here. I beg your endless pardons, plead your forgiveness and .... sod it, you can keep him. Has anyone ever witnessed such a fountain of meaningless drivel in their lives? I talk, of course, of Gordon McMugabe and that torrent of first class blather to which he subjected Congress today (has the fool whose idea that was been taken out and kicked half to death yet?)
"And on January 20th, you the American people began to write the latest chapter in the American story, with a transition of dignity, in which both sides of the aisle could take great pride. President Obama gave the world renewed hope, and on that day billions of people truly looked to Washington D.C as "a shining city upon a hill".
Oh please, who wrote this tosh? Probably Brown himself, well known as he is for shredding the efforts of his wordsmiths before composing his own furiously, fingers a blur on the laptop. And that was only 10 seconds in.
"Not an alliance of convenience, but a partnership of purpose. Alliances can wither or be destroyed, but partnerships of purpose are indestructible."
What is this rubbish?! Good grief. Maximum Idiot had standing ovations from Congress for this? Maybe it was desperation in making for the buckets:
"And so I say to this Congress and this country, something that runs deep in your character and is woven in your history, we conquer our fear of the future through our faith in the future."
My fear of the future mainly revolves around this idiot returning home, and I don't mean to Fife and retirement, for here's a man at the helm of the HMS Britannia and it's full steam ahead for the iceberg:
"In the depths of the Depression, when Franklin Roosevelt did battle with fear itself, it was not simply by the power of his words, his personality and his example that he triumphed."
No, it was by the power of him popping his clogs so taxes could be slashed when he was gone.
"And when banks have failed and markets have faltered, we the representatives of the people have to be the people's last line of defence."
Please, no. Just step aside. Stay away.
"Our task is to rebuild prosperity ... "
Here we go again. Economic prosperity is the wellspring of our wants and needs. It has nothing to do with government. All government can do is drain private wealth and misallocate scarce resources, which is what it did for decades here and over there before our private economy could take no more and the markets found their own solutions.
Please, keep him.
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Impressive performance by Brown in Congress.
Pete:
"I represent all over here."
Megalomania kicking in? Or do you mean "I represent all over here chez Moore"?
Jimmy - fancy linking to the Grauniad! Have you no shame?
Brown has made the awful mistake of thinking what looks superdooper on paper will sound good when spoken...a common error of the illiterate.
His speech sounded like Obamarisms that Obama himself had tried out in proof copy before tearing them up and then trashing them.
Only a hack writer from the linguistically-challenged Groaniad could think it wonderful.
Pete - For a man who insists on returning the UK to its Christian roots surely "A Shining City Upon a Hill" should have rang a bell for you as the author of the phrase is not Gordon Brown, but rather John Winthrop who was paraphrasing The Gospel of Matthew, verse 14, "You are the light of the World etc."
Sermon on the Mount and all that. Or did you think it really was the Cheesemakers who are blessed?
Bernard:
"Brown has made the awful mistake of thinking what looks superdooper on paper will sound good when spoken...a common error of the illiterate."
Are you saying Brown, the PM, is illiterate? Do you share Pete and Allan's profession of world-class journalist or pundit, or are you also simply a nobody who opines on a blog?
Mahons
TO be fair to Pete, I am sure he knew the 'shining city upon a hill " line was a famous part of your country's literary history and not a Gordon Brown soundbite. It is very well know over here.
I see Gordy is upholding the long standing tradition of embarrassingly bad behaviour by 'Brits abroad'.
Derided across the European continent, for loutish slovenly, drunken behaviour, he is now encouraging and adding to the contagion across North America with his grovelling lickspittle behaviour.
Brown by name, brownose by nature, he is a total embarrassment, worse still, I will now have to listen to endless jibes from my neighbours who cannot believe this excuse for a man occupies the same position as the likes of Churchill or Thatcher...
I note that having claimed to have 'saved the World' in his lunchtime, he is now pleading for Obummer to follow his example and do the same - again...seeing as it didn't work first time around.
Mahons -
I got the reference, and after JFK and Ronald Reagan what's the point of any further reference which can only be stale and contrived?
Coming from a Scotch socialist, a man who regards liberty as bunk and the state as the font all good, it cannot rise above the comic.
Congressman Moore would have been insulted by such a reference from such a fool.
Ernest:
"this excuse for a man"
Yes, I was correct. You're obviously a highly gifted and learned celebrity. Do tell us who you really are that you can look down on the PM of your nation in this way.
Barry,
They're hurlers on the ditch, junior hurlers! :D
It is a common error among those who are seeking to ingratiate themselves, to use perhaps one of the few phrases with which he is familiar, and which he thinks will appeal to, and please his listeners.
All it did was show just how limited and corny his thinking really is...
Correction Pete - A Scottish Socialist. A Scotch is something a lot more palatable
Pete:
"such a fool"
Are you ready to reveal your true identity as well, Pete? Don't tell me: you're a famous statesman slumming down here in ATW.
"Congressman Moore would have been insulted by such a reference from such a fool."
If only he had access to your expert advice he could have avoided all that booing and tomato throwing.
I am going to stick up for our PM just a little bit. They all do 'corny' when it comes to these sorts of addresses to foreign parliaments. It's the very nature of these 'bum-kissing' speeches.
Pete talks like Dick van Dyke did in Mary Poppins. Perhaps someone with such a thick tongued mumble could become PM one day. I'm an optimist.
Pete, YES you can! :D
Irish Barry -
Ernest Young can speak for himself, but he's a man who has been in charge of a firm (and he might still be the boss man).
Every Pound of Brown's multi-million fortune has been confiscated from other Britons.
That makes Ernest Young more than qualified to pass judgement. It also makes him infinitely more qualified to be PM.
Jimmy:
Any theories on who Pete really is? A famous taxi-driver, a celebrated barber?
Pete:
"he's a man who has been in charge of a firm"
My plumber could also be described thus.
Irish Barry,
Unlike your goodself, I did have a fair education, and have managed to aquire a degree of self-respect which most certainly sees Brown as an 'excuse for a man'.
That you see 'celebrity' as being a prerequiste of any education or intellect, says much about the values you hold dear.
Wake up, - anyone with half a brain, - even you, are as good as, if not better than any in our present government...and certainly better than the oafish Brown, compared to whom 90% of the population really are gifted...
Well... brown has a grasp of economics that I haven't seen anyone here come close to. That's just one thing, I could go on...
At least Pete and I use our given names, unlike yourself, who, being too ashamed of the rubbish you write feel the need to use a psuedonym...:-)
How can you expect us to take you seriously, likewise for the Red Avenger, he must be at least ten years old with a name like that...
Red Avengers last comment proves it all - thanks for the laugh Red...
Mr Avenger -
Brown's grasp of economics runs the full gamut from regulatory statism to state regulation. That's why we're in this economic hole. Clearly, you think someone else has been Chancellor all this time.
Happily, Brown is a fan of FDR. So we're right on course for recovery around 2025.
Ernest:
"Unlike your goodself, I did have a fair education"
What do you know about my education? Fuck all, right? And "good self" is two words, as anyone with an education would know.
Irish Barry -
Your language is deteriorating. Time to go slow on the booze, dear boy.
Eh, too little regulation has us in this hole. Are you suggesting otherwise?
Mr Avenger -
Of course it's otherwise. We are where we are because of decades of fraudulant fiat currency use and monetary inflation.
'Regulation' has nothing to do with it and you can dismiss anyone who thinks it's a 'credit crunch' as a moron.
The entire fiat currency charade of the state-banking criminal network is exposed. Brown whooped it up because his banking chums in the City gushed what he thought were endless billions into the Treasury for him to build his state army of Labour voters.
Sorry old chum, that's at an end.
We're completely stuffed. Even AIG alone over there in the US is in hoc for many trillions of whatever worthless currency of your choosing. It's all collapsed, the whole false game.
And to think, some halfwits believe we can inflate our way out of it.
Colm - I know without asking that Pete got the reference to Winthrop (and to The Life of Brian).
Jaysus Ernest, old pal, you are losing the plot.
Such cynical attacks- it is not like you at all.
Is it past R. Avenger's bed time? Ah well.
Pete:
"Your language is deteriorating."
Not at all. What's wrong with "fuck all"? Too strong for your sensibilities? Or am I getting to you? Gosh, I believe I am. Good. That'll teach you to insult your betters.
What's wrong with "fuck all"?
It's coarse language, you vulgar little chap. Speak the Queen's English or not at all.
ernest
That you see 'celebrity' as being a prerequiste of any education or intellect, says much about the values you hold dear
That you see education as prerequisite for intelect or indeed intelect as a prerequisite for education says quite alot about you and the values you hold dear
Pete:
Define "coarse". "Fuck" is good old Anglo-Saxon, hence English, as is "all".
Yes, I have got to you. Perhaps you'll have a little more respect for your betters now.
I'm joking. Are you a world-class politic pundit or journalist as I suspected? Do please say you are, and not simply a nonentity blogging on the internet.
Ernest:
I used "celebrity" in the educated sense of the word.
Coming from a Scotch socialist
Scotch is the drink, Scottish is the nationality.
Obnly a fool or a bigot confuses them.
Sean:
"That you see education as prerequisite for intelect or indeed intelect as a prerequisite for education says quite alot about you and the values you hold dear"
Indeed. I have to confess I was using this thread to some extent to puncture the little egos of so many bloggers. They imagine they can label "fools", "idiots" and worse those politicians who are doing jobs that few others in the world could do. The men and women at the top are holding it together, being capable of making almost instant decisions that may have far-reaching consequences. I for one, although my work involves the continual application of brainpower, would not wish to trade places with Brown, Obama, Merkel or any other head of state. I don't envy them, but I do respect them.
Which is why I'm highly amused when the blogging nonentities have the temerity to describe a world leader as "a fool" or worse. Hurlers on the ditch we call them in Ireland, an apt description. They have no respect for talent, learning or experience. They're actually quite pathetic.
But you knew all this.
Peter -
'Scotch' is a traditional English term referring to the north Britons, i.e. the Scotch.
Yes it is.
Oirish Barry -
Whatever I am, it's world-class compared to you. Now do grow up sunshine.
Barry, you've made your point. Pete is also entitled to make his. He's also a clever, if misguided, commenter on ATW and always worth a read.
BTW, David likes to keep this site clean.
Well said, Barry. 100% correct.
Whatever I am, it's world-class compared to you. Now do grow up sunshine.
Not so "world-class" that you're prepared to mention what it is though! :D
Pete:
"Oirish Barry -
Whatever I am, it's world-class compared to you."
How do you know? And it's "Irish". Your nonentity-ness is showing.
Pete Moore
Scotch:
a largely obsolete adjective meaning having to do with Scotland and sometimes considered incorrect unless related to food or drink.
But of course you knew that. As a practised purveyor of racial insults (Frogs, Wops etc) you probably know them all.
Noel:
"Barry, you've made your point."
Good.
"Pete is also entitled to make his."
His "point" generally seems to revolve around someone else being a fool.
"He's also a clever, if misguided, commenter on ATW and always worth a read."
You say. Personally I find Gordon Brown's writings a better and more enlightened read. Same for Obama's. But hey, they're mere leaders of nations and Pete is a taxi-driver.
"BTW, David likes to keep this site clean."
Meaning?
Waterford hurlers in the ditch, even!!!
Pete Moore says " Oirish Barry -
Whatever I am, it's world-class compared to you...
Then without any sense of irony adds:
"Now do grow up sunshine.
"
>>His "point" generally seems to revolve around someone else being a fool. <<
Well, he's certainly entitled to call any politician or leader a fool. That's what this site is all about, I thought. He generally doesn't get into personal stuff with others there, though. He's also big enough not to hold grudges.
Gordon Brown unfortunately doesn't comment here, but Pete Moore is, IMO, probably the best writer on ATW, he's also entertaining. So quit that "nonentity" stuff.
You've made some great comments today. Let it be.
>>Meaning?<<
Meaning he doesn't like foul language.
He also doesn't like personal vitriol.
Noel,
You preaching again?
:-)