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Barack Obama 'will repair image of US in UK'
America needs to work hard to regain the trust of the British public following the Iraq war and the Bush years, a senior adviser to Barack Obama says today.

In an interview with The Daily Telegraph, Samantha Power, who is a key member of the Presidential hopeful's foreign policy team, ...
... not anymore she's not ...
says anti-Americanism is now "vehement" in the United Kingdom. "A restoration of trust will have to occur between the US Government and the British public," she says. "There is a sense of disappointment but people still want to believe in the USA."

The "special relationship" between Britain and America would, she believes become stronger if Mr Obama won the White House because he would make voters in this country warm to the United States. "Any British leader is harmed domestically in terms of public standing by association with President Bush, the reverse will happen with President Obama. Obama reminds people of Jesus Oprah the better angels of America."

Mr Obama would also try to heal the divisions between Europe and America, caused by the war in Iraq. "Obama can go door-to-door in Europe and say, 'Look like you I opposed the war in Iraq but what are we going to do together about Al Qaeda?'"
*Ding-dong*
"Who is it?"
"O-BA-MA! O-BA-MA! O-BA-MA!..."
"Bloody 'ell!"
The United States must show more respect for international institutions, she adds. "We have to show that we know we can't do it alone. It matters not just intrinsically that we close Guantanamo, it matters because we need to be credible at the UN. You can't be against genocide on a Monday and for water boarding on Tuesday, then on Wednesday show up at the UN."
"To show up at the UN you must support Oil for Genocide on a Monday and condemn Israel for building a wall against those who celebrate the holocaust on Tuesday. Make sure to bring plenty of cash when you show up on Wednesday."
Miss Power is the self proclaimed "genocide chick", who won the Pullitzer Prize for her reporting from Bosnia. She plays basketball with George Clooney and is the inspiration for the latest David Hare play.
Punched her ticket all the right ways, did she ...
This auburn haired Irish journalist is a professor at Harvard, the founder of a human rights think tank and was cited by Men's Vogue as one of the most beautiful women in the world. She is also one of Mr Obama's most trusted advisers on foreign policy. The would-be President of the United States texts her with, "O-BA-MA!" "It's Obama, call me" in the middle of the night. Sir Nigel Sheinwald, the British Ambassador to Washington has already called on her three times.

Neither she nor Obama have met Gordon Brown or David Cameron. Their main point of contact is Mark Malloch Brown, the Prime Minister's agent provocateur eminence grise in the Foreign Office. "David Miliband seems impressive to me. I am confused by what's happened to Gordon Brown. I thought he was impressive."

In America, Miss Power has been compared to Condoleeza Rice. "I'm nothing like her," she says. "I don't have any conventional political ambition."
"I'm simply pro-human . . . like the UN."
Nope, no political ambition at all, that's why she hangs around Senators and works on a political campaign ...
But if Mr Obama wins the Presidential race she is likely to remain a powerful force. "I'd do anything he asked me to do. It's not about working for the next President of the United States, it's Obama. If he ran General Motors I'd be working for him."
Posted by: ryuge 2008-03-07
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