We are told that President Obama didn’t watch election night coverage last night of the bad results from Virginia, New Jersey and elsewhere.
Instead he was apparently tuned to a two hour long HBO documentary about how he stormed to electoral triumph this time last year.
I was watching it too – so was everyone else in the C4 Washington bureau.
We were all enjoying reminiscing about the campaign and our small part in it. Even if we didn’t learn much that we didn’t know at the time. There were very few revealing moments.
We never saw the Obama facade crack.
Either this was the most disciplined, best run and resolutely self confident political campaign in history or this was the best controlled behind the scenes access in history.
But there was one glimmer of revelation – right at the end.
Soon after Obama was declared the winner but before he’d made his acceptance speech in Grant Park in Chicago a junior aide took a call on his cell phone.
We heard him brushing off the caller saying “The President Elect is keen to talk to the Prime Minister too – but he’s a bit busy right now”.
We can only assume it was Gordon Brown on the phone. Getting his first taste of how UK – Obama relations were to proceed.
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So Obama seems to represent the British people too. Nice one Barrack…!
Angela Merkel’s speech to the US Congress yesterday has had no coverage in the UK media. It’s content and the repeated standing ovations that she received show where the US sees the future. Of particular interest was her repeated emphasis on the “special relationship” between the United States and Europe. That’s the future – get used to it.
I hope that was true.Perhaps Obama realises that Gordon Brown is the Perkin Warbeck of modern Britain
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