“WILL YOU LOVE ME IN DECEMBER AS YOU DO IN MAY?" – AT 8:44 P.M. ET:  That's a lyric written by Jimmy Walker, the late, and very corrupt, mayor of the New York of many decades ago, and someone might slip it under Barack Obama's door.  They were applauding for The One all over the world at one time.  No longer.  Nile Gardiner marks the president's decline in Britain: 

What a difference 18 months and an oil spill makes. In January 2009 Barack Obama was hugely popular on this side of the Atlantic, and could have walked on water in the eyes of the British media, the political elites, and the general public. In June 2010 however he probably qualifies as the most despised US president since Nixon among the British people. In fact you can’t open a London paper at this time without reading yet another fiery broadside against a leader who famously boasted of restoring “America’s standing” in the world.

What a valentine!

It’s hard to believe that any politician could become more disliked in the UK than Gordon Brown, but Barack Obama is achieving that in spades. And as Janet Daley noted of the British press, the love affair with Barack is well and truly over.

The key catalyst for rising anti-Obama sentiment in the UK has been his disastrous handling of the BP issue, and his relentless desire to crush Britain’s biggest company. There is no doubting BP’s responsibility over the Gulf oil disaster, and it is right that the firm is being held to account for its failures. But the brutal, almost sadistic trashing of BP by the imperious Obama administration, which has helped wipe out about half its value, threatens its very future, as well as the pensions of 18 million British people and the jobs of 29,000 Americans.

As Churchill once said of another British politician, Obama is a bull who brings his own China shop with him.

The Anglo-American Special Relationship, the most successful partnership of modern times, will survive long after President Obama departs the White House. It is far bigger than any one president or prime minister. But there can be no doubt that it is being significantly damaged and weakened at this moment by the Obama administration’s sneering approach towards Great Britain, at a time when British and American soldiers are fighting and dying alongside each other in a major war in Afghanistan. President Obama needs to see the big picture and understand that his anti-British posturing is hugely counter-productive and highly offensive. He is already one of the least popular US presidents of modern times, not only in the eyes of the American people, but now the people of Britain as well.

COMMENT:  Those of us who were for McCain during the 2008 election campaign, and who were ridiculed for it, can hold our heads high. 

And Sarah Palin has more common sense in her little finger than Obama has in his whole brain.

June 18, 2010