BACK FROM THE PARTY – AT 11:51 P.M. ET:  Well, we had a grand party for Winston Churchill tonight at the Union League Club, founded to support the Union cause in the Civil War, or the War of Northern Aggression, whichever you wish.

Andrew Roberts, the distinguished British historian spoke about things Churchillian, Hitlerian and Obaman.  He lit into Obama for returning to Britain the bust of Churchill that had rested in the Oval Office, a gesture Roberts described as entirely gratuitous, but which sent a message to Britain that the special relationship between our two nations was a thing of the past.  It isn't, and won't be, when a real president comes to office again, replacing Mr. Make Believe.

Roberts noted that some people attributed Obama's ungrand gesture to the president's presumed belief that his Kenyan father or grandfather had been roughed up by the British during the colonial era.  Roberts says that there is absolutely nothing that supports the claim.

Ah, it was good to hear a Brit who spoke in the tradition of Winston.  A recording of Winston's "finest hour" speech was played, and some in the audience spontaneously rose to toast him and sing "God Save the Queen."  Of course, those were the British guys.

Nice to be among friends.  Then I left and realized I was in the middle of a city that, not many years ago, rejected a Navy proposal to make New York an official home port because the idea offended local leftists. 

The celebrations are much more inspiring than the reality.

November 30, 2010