British politicians squabble over Obama

Friday, November 14th, 2008 | Obama and the Dems

Guardian piece by Paul Owen

David Lammy has attacked David Cameron’s attempts to claim common cause with Barack Obama in a piece in today’s New Statesman.

“I know Obama,” the higher education minister writes, adding of the US president-elect:

His political worldview is grounded in his experience as a community organiser. He has a deep-seated affinity with the people of Chicago’s South Side among whom he has worked. He understands their daily struggles and the dreams they hold for their children. For Cameron to claim common cause with Obama is absurd and demeaning.

At prime minister’s questions last Wednesday, a day after the US election result, both Cameron and Gordon Brown competed to attach themselves to the Obama bandwagon.

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November 15, 2008

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