Obama’s new concerns about Cameron

by Newswire
5:49 pm - August 5th 2009

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A new report in this week’s New Statesman magazine, which hits the news-stands tomorrow, highlights fresh concerns by the Obama administration over Cameron.

The article, by political editor James Macintyre, will say:

Most recently, Obama’s aides have been alarmed by Cameron’s new European alliance with Michal Kaminski, the former member of the neo-Nazi National Revival of Poland party (NOP). I have learned that a column last week by Timothy Garton Ash in the Guardian – echoing my own report of Jewish concerns over Kaminski – has been circulated inside the Obama camp.

One Democratic party source close to the administration confirmed to me: “Your assumptions about the beliefs of Obama’s foreign policy team are correct – there are concerns about Cameron among top members of the team.

It follows his widely covered report last year revealing that Obama regards Cameron as a “lightweight”.

Tomorrow’s article goes on to say:

And since my original report on Obama’s view of Cameron last year, I have been contacted by a senior figure at one highly respected newspaper with a separate account from an Obama aide. The source says the account was withheld from publication after a last-minute appeal from the aide.

According to this account, after taking breakfast with Blair, visiting Brown in Downing Street and meeting Cameron in Parliament, Obama is said to have given the following verdict: Blair, he said, was ‘sizzle and substance’ . Brown was ‘substance’ . Cameron was merely ‘sizzle’.

NewStatesman.com

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6:26 pm, August 5, 2009

1. RobertD

Siince when has a junior writer for a minor foreign journal had the access to get seriously indiscrete comments from serious players in the US Administration. Nothing attributable, nothing capable of verification. Sounds more like a McBridie than an authentic story.

9:49 pm, August 5, 2009

2. Tom

Cameron being Blair without the substance sounds perfectly credible to me. I’m just off to roll up into a ball.

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