President Barack Obama : Leader Of The Free World

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I’m particularly interested to note in the following Wikipedia entry that Barack Obama’s mother’s ancestry was primarily English. Clearly it is this trait in him that has served to make him such a great guy, although having a mother called ‘Stanley’ seems rather unusual.

Barack Obama

Obama was born on August 4, 1961, at Kapiʻolani Maternity & Gynecological Hospital (now Kapiʻolani Medical Center for Women and Children) in Honolulu, Hawaii, and would become the first President to have been born in Hawaii. His mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, was born in Wichita, Kansas, and was of mostly English ancestry. His father, Barack Obama, Sr., was a Luo from Nyang’oma Kogelo, Kenya. Obama’s parents met in 1960 in a Russian class at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, where his father was a foreign student on scholarship. The couple married in Wailuku on Maui on February 2, 1961, and separated when, in late August 1961, Obama’s mother moved with their newborn son to attend the University of Washington in Seattle for one year.

Why, you may well ask, is this self opinionated, occasionally (unintentionally) obnoxious, frequently alcohol fueled English man contributing an article to Mad Mikes America about America’s President.

Fair question.

The answer is that I would like to give a ‘sense’ of what the Brits in general think about him. Clearly I am not claiming to speak for Britain, I’ll leave that to the likes of David Beckham and other well known Brits living occasionally and more often in America.

I have contented myself with interviewing ‘local people’ where I live for the benefit of MMA readers.

For the purposes of careful and accurate research of the British people regarding their views of Obama I have selected a random sample of local residents in my home town – well, my street to be honest – and asked them outright and simply “I am carrying out a survey for Mad Mikes America and the survey is ‘what do you think about President Obama’?”

Grace (the lady who lives next door to me) : “Who? – Oh, him. He’s in America isn’t he? (Yes Grace, as President of America that is where you would most regularly find him I suspect) I like him. He’s got an honest face. You don’t get many politicians with an honest face do you? Look at Blair! Yes. I think I like him”

Anita and Ravinder over the road : “Why are you asking?” (I explained) “Mad Mark? Who is Mad Mark?” (I explained again). “Well – is this going on the internet?” (I explained it was) “We like Obama don’t we Ravi? He seems very nice and I can’t remember a politician seeming very nice before. He is American isn’t he? Yes. We like him”

The bloke a few doors down who works for a pest controller and is known rather unkindly as ‘The Rat Man’ : “Obama? Don’t mind him. Can’t stand Cameron and that ugly bloke from Labour. Mind you Obama’s American isn’t he. Never see ugly people on American television. Don’t mind him. Better than most”

My pal Ken a couple of doors down across the road : “Oh, you doing that Mad man thing on the interweb again Norman? I might read that when the son’s home. Can’t understand how you get on the interweb. Obama? Seems alright to me. Better than our mottley crew if you ask me”.

Curtis – lives a few doors down and started stealing cars aged 12 years old. Now 22. He seems to quite like me for some reason : “He’s alright I suppose. Don’t normally like black blokes but he doesn’t talk funny like the blacks around here. He’s American anyway. It’s them Somalians I can’t stand”.

Mr. & Mrs. Rudkowski who arrived three years ago from Poland and live five doors away : Mrs Rudkowski – “He seems very nice”. Mr Rudkowski – “They always do. Never trust a politician”. Mrs Rudkowski – “Oh I think he’s someone you can trust”. Mr Rudkowski – “If you say so”.

The German Sikhs the other side of my house from Grace : “Warum hält er ärgerlich wir?” (I asked them to give their opinion in English) “Er ist ein Idiot!” – at which point they closed their door so, frankly, I have no idea but, as they are German who cares eh?

Ray and Terry two doors up the road : “You’re doing that Mad Mike thing again aren’t you Norman? Yes, we like Obama. He seems a decent sort at least compared to ours. Are you going to put this on Mad Mike? All right, I promise I’ll have a look at it”

Sue over the road and two doors down – nicknamed ‘eyelashes’ by my wife as A) she wears long false eyelashes and B) she wolf whistled me in my shorts just after we moved in about 27 years ago : “Curtis said you were doing some writing on the internet. Is this part of it Norman?” (I replied that it was) “Do I get to be on the internet then?” (I replied that she does) “Ohhhhh – lovely! Yes I like Obama. He’s very handsome don’t you think? I wouldn’t say ‘no’ anyway would you? Oh, of course you would dear you’re a man. Anyway I do like him. I wonder if he has a big ‘willy’? Oh! Don’t put that on the internet will you?”

Mick just up the road : “I think he’s a very principled bloke. It must be frustrating for him with America’s democratic system. He has to get his ideas past their other ‘house’ and it’s packed with his enemies and dissenters. Very hard for him I would think. I rate him very highly. He’s genuinely tried to make a difference and how many politicians do that?

Lacey the dog next door officially belonging to Grace next door but seems to think she’s mine : “Woof”

Knowing Lacey as well as I do that ‘woof’ was definitely approving.

So there you have it MMA. With the exception of the German Sikhs who didn’t realise I could understand them and will, as a result, be hearing Meatloaf at full volume until 1 am, it is perfectly clear that my tiny little bit of England has a lot of time for Obama.

President Barack Hussein Obama, leader of the free world can sleep easily. He has the complete support of almost all of the residents of a small little street near Heathrow Airport and even better, being British in the main, he actually has the support of a tea party – Earl Grey I hasten to add.

He’s genuine in our opinion. How many politicians can you say that about eh?

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Neil Bamforth

I am English first, British second and never ever European. I have supported Oldham Athletic FC for 50 years which has made me immune from depression. My taste buds have died due to too many red hot curries so I drink Kronenburg beer and milk - sometimes in the same glass. I have a wife, daughter, 9 cats and I like toast.
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9 years ago

I just realized…
“Mad Dogs (Mike will do–he likes dogs) and Englishmen.”

Reply to  Jim Moore
9 years ago

Ayup! That’s what my friend Jess would say. 🙂

Reply to  Jim Moore
9 years ago

I freely admit to going out in the noonday sun before writing this 😉

Anonymous
9 years ago

What a stupid ‘survey’ !

I’m sure President Obama will be very interested – not!

Just as a point of interest I think Obama is a very decent man and speaks sense.

I’m English.

Reply to  Anonymous
9 years ago

I disagree that it’s a “stupid survey.” It’s not scientific, but he doesn’t pretend that it is. It’s a fun little canvas of the neighborhood and I’m not the only one that finds it to be a fun read. Clearly, however, your the only one that doesn’t agree.

Reply to  Anonymous
9 years ago

You know anyone who has to hide behind an “anonymous” moniker really shouldn’t be entitled to an opinion. Fuck off. It was a fun story and I’M ENGLISH!!

Reply to  Anonymous
9 years ago

Oh! Let me get a lick in, on this flame war!

Dood. Lighten up. It’s a style of writing called “Humor.” You can surely understand that. Somewhere in that sludge, where the neurons fire like cold molasses – somewhere in that pea-soup morass you call your brain, you’ve heard that term.

If you can’t create anything for the Internet, don’t critique those who do.

Just go back to “tweeting,” and leave your betters in peace.

Reply to  BitcoDavid
9 years ago

Yes~ Just what I would say 🙂

Reply to  Anonymous
9 years ago

Get a life knobhead

9 years ago

“Barack Obama’s mother’s ancestry was primarily English. Clearly it is this trait in him that has served to make him such a great guy…” said the self-confessed “…Englishman, originally from a small village in Lancashire where everyone looks the same – even, slightly worryingly, the sheep.”

Clearly an unbiased opinion. 🙂

Reply to  Jim Moore
9 years ago

BAAAAAAH!! 🙂

Chuck
9 years ago

Hilarious.

Jess
9 years ago

First you have to explain to me who elected him or any of our presidents leader of the free world. I missed that whole thing. He is the leader of the United States of America, nowhere else. I am not saying this out of “he’s my boyfriend and you cannot have him” I am saying it because I get sick of the arrogance, that we here in America should be above any other country and our leader is the best of the best. Done an okay job with all the hate coming from the other side that just wants to be contrary but he is still a politician like many others, who will say things to get elected then not follow through on some of them.

Reply to  Jess
9 years ago

Nooooo! it might be an onerous position to be in Jess but the USA are viewed as ‘leaders of the free world’ by most western countries – mainly because despite Britain’s valiant fight against the nazis of WWII without America getting off it’s bottom and helping it has to be said – we would have been f*ck*d.

Ever since then America is, or has been perceived as, the ‘leader of the free world’ so live with it love.

Let’s face it, it’s better than being some scumbag country ending in ‘stan’ eh? 😉

Jess
Reply to  Norman Rampart
9 years ago

Well part of America is Jesustan and teabagistan so there is that Norman 😉

Reply to  Jess
9 years ago

🙂 You really are a little star aren’t you!

9 years ago

Maybe “nice” but still a politician. That means that everything he thinks does, and says must pass this one filter. “Will this help in the next election?” Nothing else matters even a tiny bit.

Maybe being an American, albeit living in Brazil for over eleven years, makes me more cynical (realistic) than usual.

Reply to  James Smith
9 years ago

Valid point old bean but it’s a rarity in England to hear a politician from anywhere called ‘nice’ so he must be doing something right?

9 years ago

I like Sue over the road and two doors down. (Psst. You don’t happen to have her number, do you? Don’t tell my wife I asked.)

Rachael
Reply to  BitcoDavid
9 years ago

LOL David! I liked “the bloke a few doors down.”

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