Margaret Thatcher to Sarah Palin: don't bother dropping by

[Bilbo]

Sarah Palin wants to show to the Republican right that she is the true keeper of the Ronald Reagan flame by meeting the late president's closest ally on the world stage.

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This is what Palin told Christina Lamb in the Sunday Times:

" I am going to Sudan in July and hope to stop in England on the way. I am just hoping Mrs Thatcher is well enough to see me as I so admire her."

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This is what one (Thatcher) ally tells me:

"Lady Thatcher will not be seeing Sarah Palin. That would be belittling for Margaret. Sarah Palin is nuts."

Ok, aside from the fact that she's 100% correct about Palin, why are the British putting up a statue of Reagan in a London park on the 4th of July? Is he really that much of a hero over there?


http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/wintour-and-watt/2011/jun/07/margaretthatcher-sarahpalin

eta; oops, I guess this could have gone into the General Great British Thread

 

[a_unique_person]

Thatcher might have been many things I don't like, but she wasn't stupid.

 

[The Fool]

from what I read she may not be with us for much longer...

 

[Roadtoad]

Thank you, Mrs. Thatcher.

 

[Aitch]

Ok, aside from the fact that she's 100% correct about Palin, why are the British putting up a statue of Reagan in a London park on the 4th of July? Is he really that much of a hero over there?

To balance this?

 

[Undesired Walrus]

Someone needs to warn the British that the Palins are coming. Paul Revere, where are you?

 

[Bilbo]

To balance this?

That place seems only to have a Kennedy memorial...

Having never been to Grosvenor Square, I now realize (thanx wiki) that yawl have other statues there of our dead presidents. FDR and Ike for example. Why is that? Why don't you Brits put up a George Washington, or an Abe Lincoln? Surely they did more for the world than selling some guns to Iran.

Do we, (Americans) have statues in D.C. of dead foreign leaders? I don't recall seeing any there, but then I really wasn't looking...they could be hiding somewhere.

ETA: and why is FDR standing in his statue?

 

[CptColumbo]

To balance this?

Didn't they name that US territory?

 

[arthwollipot]

My understanding is that the Old Lady has severe dementia, and is unlikely to be taking visitors of any kind other than family.

 

[TubbaBlubba]

Didn't they name that US territory?

It says so on the stone, anyway.

 

[GreyArea]

Do we, (Americans) have statues in D.C. of dead foreign leaders?

Yes: Winston Churchill outside the British Embassy, and Mohandas Gandhi near Dupont Circle, for two examples.

You might find more at that site's index.

And some day, many years from now, there may be a statue of Barack Obama II. He's from Kenya, you know.

 

[Belgian thought]

That place seems only to have a Kennedy memorial...

Having never been to Grosvenor Square, I now realize (thanx wiki) that yawl have other statues there of our dead presidents. FDR and Ike for example. Why is that? Why don't you Brits put up a George Washington, or an Abe Lincoln? Surely they did more for the world than selling some guns to Iran.

Do we, (Americans) have statues in D.C. of dead foreign leaders? I don't recall seeing any there, but then I really wasn't looking...they could be hiding somewhere.

ETA: and why is FDR standing in his statue?

And this in Bond Street, London - http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=ch...a=X&oi=mode_link&ct=mode&cd=2&ved=0CA8Q_AUoAQ, and a Kennedy Bridge in Liege, Belgium - http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=e...=151175l155211l0l12l12l0l6l0l0l298l1149l1.2.3

 

[Jaggy Bunnet]

My understanding is that the Old Lady has severe dementia, and is unlikely to be taking visitors of any kind other than family.

Palin?

 

[aggle-rithm]

That place seems only to have a Kennedy memorial...

Having never been to Grosvenor Square, I now realize (thanx wiki) that yawl have other statues there of our dead presidents. FDR and Ike for example. Why is that? Why don't you Brits put up a George Washington, or an Abe Lincoln? Surely they did more for the world than selling some guns to Iran.

I heard that the British Navy fired off a salute to George Washington when news of his death reached them. Pretty extraordinary tribute considering he was a former adversary.

 

[CptColumbo]

IIRC there are Churchill and Roosevelt statues in Paris, near the DeGaulle one.

 

[CapelDodger]

I heard that the British Navy fired off a salute to George Washington when news of his death reached them. Pretty extraordinary tribute considering he was a former adversary.

Yup, we Brits have been sucking-up to the Yanks that long. In 1799 we didn't want them getting pally with the French, who'd had a real Revolution by that time. (By 1812 we were well enough ahead in that competition not to care, and the old lion's claws came out ...)

George Washington was a former British officer, so there was some justification .

 

[Garrette]

Yup, we Brits have been sucking-up to the Yanks that long. In 1799 we didn't want them getting pally with the French, who'd had a real Revolution by that time. (By 1812 we were well enough ahead in that competition not to care, and the old lion's claws came out ...)

George Washington was a former British officer, so there was some justification .

Meh. More like a disrespected Officer of Volunteers (then of Militia). Soon, though, he will return to pull the sword from the stone. THEN you'll see...

 

[CapelDodger]

Meh. More like a disrespected Officer of Volunteers (then of Militia). Soon, though, he will return to pull the sword from the stone. THEN you'll see...

If he doesn't surrender to the French first.

 

[a_unique_person]

My understanding is that the Old Lady has severe dementia, and is unlikely to be taking visitors of any kind other than family.

I was going to say she should get along famously with Palin, but she would probably still be too smart for her.

 

[Alferd_Packer]

Limbaugh is sputtering mad about this. LOL