Tonight it appears that President Obama will change the narrative - British Petroleum crashed hijacked planes into the the Event Horizon Oil Rig at the orders of former President George W. Bush and he inherited the greatest ecological disaster and its not his fault. Then he will announce a really stupid order that will boost American Taxes and MSNBC will warn us that grannies of the Tea Party are dangerous.
Cry Wolf from Our Amateur Hour White House.
President Obama removed the bust of Winston Churchill in one of his first and only acts as President.
Imagine if President Obama were Prime Minister in 1940 Britain - hell, why not, the President imagines that his dandified mincing around the Gulf oil spill parallels 9/11. As if, . . .
Picture this, roughly seventy years prior to the month of Obama's full time inaction on Event Horizon, Prime Minister Winston Obama acts in much of the same manner - this time 336,000 British troops are stranded on the beach at Dunkirk.
Winston Churchill rallied everything that could float and shoved them all across the English Channel and what remained of the British Army was saved and went on to defeat Hitler.
Dunkirk
After the British deliverance at Dunkirk, Churchill, in the House of Commons, rallied Britain with his most memorable speech.
"We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills. We shall never surrender," he declared.
Then, as the House of Commons thundered in an uproar at his stirring rhetoric, Churchill muttered in a whispered aside to a colleague, "And we’ll fight them with the butt ends of broken beer bottles because that’s bloody well all we’ve got!"
Now, let's shift our historical narrative with our imaginations - No Hitler like BP and GOP -
Hushed Sissified BBC voice:
This IS the BBC - Prime Minister Obama speaks to Parliament on the complete defeat of Crown Forces and the capture of the entire British Expeditionary Force at Dunkerque.Ladies and Gentleman . . .the Prime Minister . . .
“Some of you may have noticed that we have been building this foundation without much help from our friends in the other party. From our efforts to rescue the economy to health insurance reform to financial reform, most have sat on the sidelines and shouted from the bleachers. They said no to tax cuts for small businesses; no to tax credits for college tuition; no to investments in clean energy. They said no to protecting patients from insurance companies and consumers from big banks, make no mistake, I have been on this from day one, I talked to Lord Elton John and Sir Paul McCartney, not because this is some college seminar, but because someone could use the thorough and sound thumping , What? What? Haw? Haw . . This is Neville Chamberlain's Legacy!!!! The French won;t fight! I am annoucing an Energy policy that will make the Third Reich energy dependent - Windmills! I am on it!"
Ripping, Winnie! or is it Whiny?
Here's what really happened
May 10 – WWII:
Battle of France begins – German forces invade Low Countries.
Iceland is invaded by the United Kingdom.
With the resignation of Neville Chamberlain, Winston Churchill becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
May 10:Winston ChurchillMay 13 – Winston Churchill, in his first address as Prime Minister, tells the House of Commons, "I have nothing to offer you but blood, toil, tears, and sweat."
May 13 – WWII: German armies open a 60-mile wide breach in the Maginot Line at Sedan, France.
May 14 – Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands and her government flee to London; Rotterdam is subjected to savage terror bombing by the Luftwaffe; 980 are killed, and 20,000 buildings destroyed.
May 14 – Recruitment begins in Britain for a home defence force: the Local Defence Volunteers, later known as the Home Guard.
May 15 – The very first McDonald's restaurant opens in San Bernardino, California.
May 15 – WWII: The Dutch army surrenders.
May 16 – U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, addressing a joint session of Congress, asks for an extraordinary credit of approximately $900 million to finance construction of at least 50,000 airplanes per year.
May 17 – Brussels falls to German forces; the Belgian government flees to Ostend.
May 18 – Marshal Philippe Pétain is named vice-premier of France.
May 19 – General Maxime Weygand replaces Maurice Gamelin as commander-in-chief of all French forces.
May 20 – WWII: German forces (2nd Panzer division), under General Rudolf Veiel, reach Noyelles on the English Channel.
May 20 – Holocaust: The Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and death camp opens in Poland.
May 22 – WWII: The British Parliament passes the Emergency Powers Act, giving the government full control over all persons and property.
May 26 – WWII: The Dunkirk evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force starts.
