END OF THE SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP? - AT 8:57 A.M. ET:  President Obama is going out of his way to snub Great Britain, our closest ally.  First, he unceremoniously returned a bust of Winston Churchill that Britain had loaned to President Bush, even though the Brits never asked for it back.  According to some accounts, Obama still can't get over Churchill's affection for the British Empire.

Now Prime Minister Gordon Brown is in Washington, and is getting less than the full treatment, as The Telegraph explains:

Strange goings on surrounding the programme for the first day of Gordon Brown's visit to Washington.

No sooner had the Prime Minister's plane touched down at Andrews Air Force on Monday evening when word was passed to travelling Westminster correspondents that the press conference they'd been told to expect had been called off "because of snow."

Someone apparently left the windows open at the White House.  They're still digging out the East Room.

Mr Brown might lament that despite the so-called "special relationship" Britain is now getting the same treatment as the President of Uruguay, but he need not despair. I'm told there's a chance he might get drinks with Vice President Joe Biden on Tuesday evening.

COMMENT:  One thing about Obama - he's sensitive and seems to hold grudges.  Thus, he won't even give President Bush credit for the success of the surge in Iraq.  If he still harbors resentment over Britain's colonizing of Kenya, land of his father, that's too bad.  We were able to reconcile with Japan and Germany after World War II.  Maybe it's time Obama understood the relationship between Britain and America, and how important it's been to the very system that made Barack Obama possible.  No such luck.

March 3, 2009