Obama's poodle??

The previous poodle led the way for Britain's involvement in a war that should not have been fought - the one in Iraq. The new one, Prime Minister Gordon Brown trumpets shared values and culture ahead of a visit with President Obama later today. Not sure what he has up his sleeve...

From an article written by Brown here: And there is no international partnership in recent history that has served the world better than the special relationship between Britain and the United States. It is a relationship that has endured and flourished because it is based not simply on our shared history but on the enduring values that bind us together – our countries founded upon liberty, our histories forged through democracy and an unshakeable belief in the power of enterprise and opportunity.
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Winston Churchill described the joint inheritance of Britain and America as not just a shared history but a shared belief in the great principles of freedom and the rights of man – what Barack Obama has described as the enduring power of our ideals – democracy, liberty, opportunity and unyielding hope. Britain and America may be separated by the thousands of miles of the Atlantic, but we are united by shared values that can never be broken. And as America stands at its own dawn of hope, I want that hope to be fulfilled through us all coming together to shape the 21st century as the first century of a truly global society.

Well known Bond Street loungers, 1820. The Earl of Sefton, The Duke of Devonshire, 'Poodle' Byng, Lord Manners and The Duke of Beaufort. Source: Mid-Manhattan Library / Picture Collection