British Prime Minister David Cameron steered clear of jumping into the American presidential election, saying it was in his country’s best interest to work with whoever wins. But, he acknowledged he holds America’s current leader in very high esteem.
“I work very closely with President Obama. I admire him a huge amount and I enjoy working with him,” Cameron told TODAY’s Matt Lauer.
Cameron also called Obama’s rival, Mitt Romney, “a very capable man.” The Republican presidential hopeful ruffled feathers last week while in London when he questioned whether Brits were prepared to host the Olympics, citing potential security concerns he witnessed as “disconcerting.”
Cameron told Lauer he plans to cooperate with whoever wins the November contest.
“I will work with whoever the American people elect as your president, and I will be straight in there wanting to work with you because we’ve got so many things we need to do together,” he said.
He acknowledged it helps to have personal chemistry between leaders.
“You want to have a personal relationship because you’re talking about some deep problems, you’re talking about some big challenges and you want to have trust,” he said.
Trust proved to be critical during Cameron’s discussion Thursday with Russian President Vladimir Putin. The two had a “frank conversation” over the best way to curb the escalating violence in Syria.
Russia has been criticized for refusing to back a United Nations resolution last month intended to get Syrian President Bashar al Assad to resign.
“The best interest of the Syrian people cannot be best provided by Assad staying in place. We need to turn the pressure valve up,” Cameron said. However, he admitted that “the Russians aren’t at that place yet.”
The British and Russian leaders met as news emerged that Kofi Annan, the U.N. special envoy to Syria, had quit.
Cameron said he opposes military action in Syria, but “we should send a very clear warning to the Syrian leadership that if they on any scale use chemical or biological weapons, very severe consequences could follow.”
After their meeting, Cameron and Putin took in an Olympic judo competition. It was a chance for the prime minister to lift the so-called “Cameron curse.” Wags have noted that British athletes always appear to lose every time he appears at a game.
But Cameron noted that Brit Gemma Gibbons earned a silver medal in the judo match they watched. Although she lost the gold to American Kayla Harrison, Gibbons defeated Audrey Tcheumeo of France to secure the second spot on the medals podium.
“I’m not sure it was ever there in the first place,” he said of the curse. “But I want to be there to cheer on some of our athletes and do what I can to support them.”
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Mr. Cameron dear,
You have absolutely no choice "OLD CHAP". You will have to work for the American Empire regardless who is going to occupy the "WHITE HOUSE"! No need to declare your devotion and loyalty to the USA foreign policy.
What are you on about? Take your pills and relax.
Would that be the American Empire that currently owes 105% of GDP (just marginally less than destroyed Eurozone economies Ireland [bailed out] and Portugal [soon to be bailed out])?
And would that be the same American Empire that is projected to owe 115% of GDP within the next four years - taking it ahead of Ireland, Italy and Portugal and placing it as 6th most indebted nation, sorry, Empire - up from its current tenth placing. Who knows.... if you work really hard by the end of the decade you could be the world's number one debter!
And, lastly, would that be the American Empire that seems to have most of its markers held by the Chinese?
Better start learning Mandarin just in case they call them in.... OLD CHAP.
He wrote then: "Due to government secrecy, our citizens are often ignorant of the fact that our garrisons encircle the planet. This vast network of American bases on every continent except Antarctica actually constitutes a new form of empire -- an empire of bases with its own geography not likely to be taught in any high school geography class. Without grasping the dimensions of this globe-girdling Baseworld, one can't begin to understand the size and nature of our imperial aspirations or the degree to which a new kind of militarism is undermining our constitutional order."
The above quote is from David Vine's: US Empire of Bases Grows
The pathological liars at NBC are at it again.
Note that this article states that Romney "ruffled feathers" in England by citing security concerns that NBC says "HE WITNESSED".
That's a LIE, of course.
Romney specifically stated that the concerns were due to MEDIA REPORTS of the security problems. Naturally, since NBC was the "official" network covering the show in London, much of the narrative about the "security concerns" were NBC reports.
I have to wonder why it is that NBC now wants to claim that what they called "Romney's gaffe" was the result of what HE "witnessed" instead of what THEY reported.
Their is no depth to which NBC and the rest of the liberal media wh0res won't sink to serve their agenda.
This is a one term loser to another. Cameron is as dead in the water as Obama.
Well said Roy. And, ignore anyone who tells you Fuhrer Obama is leading in the polls. Because American pollsters only sample registered Democrats and no one else. Because all American pollsters, are the lap dogs of the Democrat Party.
Believe it of not, in the UK newspapers they are reporting that Romney is a point or two ahead of Obama - maybe they're asking different pollsters! What several articles are asking is why, when Obama is so unpopular, Romney is not doing far better.
However, what are you implying when you call Obama 'fuhrer'? Has he been gassing Jews, gypsies and homosexuals; killing communists, Catholics and socialists; generally declaring war on the rest of the world?
And I thought this was a very liberal, socialist president!
Actually Roy Obama still leads Romney by 2.7% in the RCP poll average and more in swing states like Ohio.
Labour may presently lead in the UK, but Cameron still outpolls Miliband as preferred PM!
Isn't it, "whomever"?
Even if the USA elects the "Antichrist" cult leader?
Translation to American dialect: "I will only work with my man, President Obama. I think Romney is a f**king twit."
You're right. Obama is a f**king twit. I'm glad you can see that.
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See D.Mail's p2 photos of Cameron's Olympian & Fawning yet Self-Triumphant glad-handing with Prince Harry showing what a great admirer he is of one of those who helped to back and put in the gene-engineered Swine Flu from the Singleton Lab in Swansea Wales as a test-bed for H5N1 which they hope will have an 80% human mortality rate but why should Harry care he'll be in a "non-textile" bio-filtered place of safety by the time they put in the real thing which H1N1 was itself chanced at.
The Crick Centre from 2015 is where they'll try worse from in future as I got the old Lab from the louts' control to give IBM control of it by persuading them to get a Welsh Assembly grant to do so.
byeeeeee!!
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See D.Mail's p2 photos of Cameron's Olympian & Fawning yet Self-Triumphant glad-handing with Prince Harry showing what a great admirer he is of one of those who helped to back and put in the gene-engineered Swine Flu from the Singleton Lab in Swansea Wales as a test-bed for H5N1 which they hope will have an 80% human mortality rate but why should Harry care he'll be in a "non-textile" bio-filtered place of safety by the time they put in the real thing which H1N1 was itself chanced at.
The Crick Centre from 2015 is where they'll try worse from in future as I got the old Lab from the louts' control to give IBM control of it by persuading them to get a Welsh Assembly grant to do so.
byeeeeee!!