Germans Say “Nein!” To Obama…

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"Making friends wherever he goes.

"Via Yahoo:

Tens of thousands of opponents of a proposed transatlantic trade deal poured onto German streets Saturday on the eve of a visit by US President Barack Obama.

A loose coalition of trade unions, environmentalists and consumer protection groups in the northern city of Hanover said they drew a crowd of 90,000 to a march and rally outside the city’s opera house.

Police mobilised a large force to keep the peace and put attendance at 35,000.

Obama’s trip — to open an industrial technology fair and hold talks with Chancellor Angela Merkel and other European leaders — was intended to lend momentum to flagging efforts to see the world’s biggest trade pact finalised this year.

On a visit to London on Saturday, Obama sought to address sceptics’ fears head-on, admitting that some past trade agreements had “served the interests of large corporations and not necessarily of workers in the countries that participate in them”.

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Obama infuriates the Brits as he threatens to send UK 'to the back of the queue' if they vote to leave the European Union

DAILY MAIL COMMENT: This President is last man we should heed

"Mr Obama’s grasp of history is shaky, too, if he believes the EU can take credit for seven decades of relative peace."

"The tone was patronising, the language menacing – and the message not only hypocritical but, frankly, insulting.

"Certainly, Barack Obama has every right to say he thinks it’s in America’s best interests for Britain to remain in the EU, if that is what he believes.

"But he has no business to come here and preach that submission to Brussels is good for the people of the UK." . . .

"By arguing that a Britain outside the EU would be at the ‘back of the queue’ for a trade deal, to Number 10’s delight, Mr Obama displayed contempt for voters and left little doubt that he sees the special relationship as a one-way street.

"Has he forgotten he leads a nation founded to proclaim independence from overseas control, whose citizens died for the right to make their own laws?

Which brings us to Mr Obama’s own sorry record as Commander-in-Chief and architect of America’s foreign policy.This is the man who made way for the rise of IS by his reckless withdrawal from Iraq. He has failed even to honour his pledge to close Guantanamo Bay. And his chief foreign policy ‘success’ has been a deal with terrorist-sponsoring Iran.

Obama's amazing THREAT to Britain: UK would be at the 'back of the queue' after Brexit

"Obama threatens the British if they dare vote for Brexit, with trade. So much for special relationship."

Hunter Objects To US Navy Ship Named For Carl Levin

“If you want to make an exception, justify it,” Kasper said. “Maybe there is a perfectly good explanation for why Secretary Mabus circumvented the rule book. But this name in no way fits the Navy’s ship-naming convention for destroyers.”

Defense News  "Sen. Kelly Ayotte, R-N.H., echoed Wicker’s approval.

“Let me just add my congratulations to Senator Levin,” Ayotte said. “I can't think of a better person to name the ship after. That's great.”

"But at least one prominent Republican in the House begs to differ with the choice.

“I would like an explanation as to how this decision properly reflects Navy ship-naming rules,” Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., wrote Tuesday in a letter to Navy Secretary Ray Mabus, who oversees the service’s ship-naming process.

“ 'It is important that the Navy adhere to its own ship-naming rules and take every effort necessary to avoid politicization of this process,” Hunter wrote.

. . . 

"Hunter is a long-time critic of Mabus’ choices for ship names, in particular the secretary’s 2011 choice to name a support ship after union organizer and activist César Chavez, a selection that annoyed many conservatives. Hunter raised enough of a ruckus that the Navy and the Congressional Research Service (CRS) each produced reports on current and past ship-naming practices.

"Hunter, in his letter, took pains to note this most recent objection was not directed at Levin personally, rather it’s aimed at the choice of the name of a non-veteran for a destroyer.

"Such ships, the Navy notes in its online explanation, are “named for American naval leaders and heroes.” The Navy and CRS also note that exceptions to the rule are not unusual." . . .