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‘Tell President Obama I’ll call back, I’m playing tennis’
David Cameron’s reputation for “chillaxing” has come back to haunt him after a friend claimed he declined to take a phone call from Barack Obama because he was finishing a game of tennis.
The claim was made by Charlie Brooks, an old friend who knew the Prime Minister at Eton and lives near him in Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire.
However Downing Street questioned the claims, insisting that official records show the pair had only played tennis once at Chequers, and no phone call was logged during that time from Mr Obama.
Mr Brooks – who with his wife former tabloid editor Rebekah Brooks has become embroiled in the phone hacking scandal – claimed he was playing tennis at the Prime Minister’s official residence in Chequers when the American president called.
He said: “I played tennis with him at Chequers one day. I won the first set easily, then he won the second set, and then someone came up to him and said ‘er … Mr Obama is on the phone for you, Prime Minister’.
“I thought ‘okay, we’ll have to leave it there’. But he said ‘I think we’ve got time for a third set – tell Mr Obama I’ll ring him back’. He obviously thought he had me on the ropes. And I beat him two sets to one.”
SgtZim
September 28th, 2012
So what. ODouche can’t be bothered with anyone or anything when he’s campaigning or playing golf. Which pretty much is all the time.
apple pie
September 28th, 2012
all of these narcissistic sociopaths are Nero fiddling while the world burns.
we turned our backs on God Almighty’s Commandments and we wonder why things are imploding??? please.
66chevelle
September 28th, 2012
It’s cool, Dave…Barry was probably calling you from the golf course anyway.
dba_vagabond_trader
September 28th, 2012
Oh he11, I’d be taking out the garbage, cleaning the cat box, unclogging the toilet…. You get the idea.
Stirrin the B.S.
September 28th, 2012
That’s about the level of respect that I would expect to be afforded the Loser-in-Chief.
Mark Zist
September 28th, 2012
Let me translate:”Ï’m so great, that the Prime Minister of Britain will put the President of the USA on hold just to have a chance at beating me in tennis” “I am the worlds most interesting wanker”
Tim
September 28th, 2012
Is the British PM sposed to fall all over himself like some schoolgirl cuz BO calls?
Especially after the insults BO has thrown at the limeys?
Alxandro
September 28th, 2012
I smell a Liberalogist at work here.
This claim was started by the Obama White House to draw attention away from his own propensity for snubbing world leaders.
berlet98
September 28th, 2012
Interpreting Four Winkers
A knowing wink can denote many things and connote far more.
Drudge.com recently featured an un-related collection of four notable winkers– President Barack Hussein Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, Barack’s wife First Lady Michelle Obama, and Russian tyrant Vladimir Putin, all of whom share the common trait of being proven dissemblers.
Now, interpreting the meaning–if any–behind a wink or a nod is an iffy proposition but making educated guesses on what the winker was contemplating based on his or her past history, future aspirations, and known personality is very possible and not mere idle speculation.
It’s not known to or at whom the president was winking in his Drudge picture but, considering his ambitions and constant campaigning and fund raising, he is clearly reflecting approbation or agreement probably with someone on the Obama re-election team since winning four more years has been Obama’s fixation for the past 3 3/4 years.
Still, it’s a grimacing wink, possibly indicative of his awareness that he has screwed up royally and that his background primarily as a radical community organizer hardly qualified him for the presidency in the first place. It certainly couldn’t reflect Obama’s discomfort with his plans to sell out our country to the Russians when he has more “flexibility” because that realization would make him grin, not grimace. (See below)
Hillary Clinton is famous for a number of questionable accomplishments but friendly winks aren’t among them. In fact, her Drudge-photo is more suggestive of a grandmother in urgent need of Gas-X than it suggests any degree of friendliness.
Hillary’s gastrointestinal issues may be attributable to a grudging acceptance that daughter Chelsea will never bless her with a grandchild or, more likely, to a gnawing regret that she now works for a man both she and her hubby consider incompetent and that, in 2016, she will be almost as old as John McCain was in 2008.
Maybe poor Hillary would have been better off had she “stayed home and baked cookies and had teas,” as she said 20 years ago. It’s conceivable that she might have been able to protect Bill from the sexual ravages of that orally-obsessed tart Monica Lewinsky. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=28208.)