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Obama's Greatest Fear

/ Wrote: Jul 23, 2010 9:19 PM

Cameron is not a conservative in the American sense of the term. Cameron would be either a RINO or ConservaDem. He believes in global warming. He has ring-fenced spending on health care and foreign aid. He has raised taxes. On the other hand, Labour is unabashedly socialist. Whenever anyone says that Obama is not a socialist, I only have to point out that he would fit right in with Blair, Brown, Darling, Balls, the Milibrand brothers, and the rest of the crew.

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Obama's Greatest Fear

WASHINGTON -- The chilliness is understandable. When David Cameron, Britain's new conservative prime minister, met with Barack Obama this week, the president was also encountering his worst political nightmare. If Cameron succeeds, he will do more than save his ancient island from the economic fate of Greece -- he will provide a model for Republican victory in the 2012 U.S. presidential election.

In his passion for fiscal austerity, Cameron resembles the new breed of Republican governors for whom the art of governing begins with the discipline of accounting. He is a taller Mitch Daniels, a svelter Chris Christie. During the...

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