Barack Obama Archives - Richard M. Langworth

It’s Baaaack! The Epstein Churchill Bust Kerfuffle, Round 4

20 November 2024 Comments 0 Comments

Since 1965 has been an Epstein Churchill bust at the White House, uninterrupted now for six decades. Current media confusion surrounds the SECOND Epstein, which makes regular visits on loan from the British Embassy, where it is in the Embassy’s art collection. Epstein #1 is part of the permanent White House collection. Epstein #2 is an “optional extra” at the White House, depending on the whim of the occupant. Every President is entitled to the totems of his choice.

Stop the Churchill Comparisons! (Part #1,234)

10 November 2024 Comments 0 Comments

Really, these Churchill comparisons need to stop. We cannot postulate what Churchill would do about any issue or problem today. It doesn't seem far-fetched to suggest that in today's Middle East. his focus would be on the main danger. Figure out what that is, and you too can may find comparisons Winston Churchill. But, in a larger sense, there is nobody so far in the 21st century who is comparable to WSC. Nobody.

More Obama and the Churchill Bust

6 March 2009 Comments 2 Comments

First and foremost, the Daily Telegraph did not connect Obama's grandfather's jailing with the Mau Mau rebellion. The Telegraph report is very careful on this point: "It was during Churchill's second premiership that Britain suppressed Kenya's Mau Mau rebellion. Among Kenyans allegedly tortured by the colonial regime included one Hussein Onyango Obama, the President's grandfather."