Why Obama gave Churchill's bust back to the Brits may become a news story, at long last.

Editor's notes: this will be a developing story, beginning [at least] today. We noted this event the day it happened, wondering why Obama did this. No explanation was given for this bit of extreme rudeness - ever. Some argued that the bust of Churchill was loaned to Bush and it was simply time for someone to give it back. But the facts appear to be different. Indeed, the bust was on loan from England BUT the English made it clear to Obama that it was not being recalled. He gave it back anyway and placed a bust of Lincoln in its place. While this event had very little hearing in the America media, was was a big big deal in England. The reason why we mention it now, again, is found in the fact that tensions between England and Obama's America have been steadily increasing. In England, the "bust story" is now a recurring story. It seems that the general British population feels that Obama is anti-English.


From the Telegraph.co.uk

Feb 14,2009 A bust of the former prime minister once voted the greatest Briton in history, which was loaned to George W Bush from the Government's art collection after the September 11 attacks, has now been formally handed back. The bronze by Sir Jacob Epstein, worth hundreds of thousands of pounds if it were ever sold on the open market, enjoyed pride of place in the Oval Office during President Bush's tenure.

But when British officials offered to let Mr Obama to hang onto the bust for a further four years, the White House said: "Thanks, but no thanks."

Diplomats were at first reluctant to discuss the whereabouts of the Churchill bronze, after its ejection from the seat of American power. But the British Embassy in Washington has now confirmed that it sits in the palatial residence of ambassador Sir Nigel Sheinwald, just down the road from Vice President Joe Biden's official residence. It is not clear whether the ambassador plans to keep it in Washington or send it back to London.

American politicians have made quoting Churchill, whose mother was American, something of an art form, but not Mr Obama, who prefers to cite the words and works of his hero Abraham Lincoln. Indeed a bust of Mr Lincoln now sits in the Oval Office where Epstein's Churchill once ruled the roost. . . . READ MORE >>>