By Mark Hensch
A leading figure in the British push to exit the European Union says President Obama accidentally helped the Brexit cause.
Nigel Farage on Friday said Obama’s calls for the United Kingdom to stay in the EU caused people to vote to leave.
“Threatening people too much insults their intelligence,” the United Kingdom Independence Party head said.
“A lot of people in Britain said, ‘How dare the American president come here and tell us what to do?’ ” Farage continued on Sirius XM’s “Breitbart News Daily,” citing Obama’s U.K. trip in April.
“It backfired. We got an Obama-Brexit bounce, because people do not want foreign leaders telling them how to think and vote.”
Britain on Thursday voted to leave the EU in a move experts predict will lead to worldwide financial uncertainty.
British Prime Minister David Cameron promptlyresigned Friday morning.
https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/284790-nigel-farage-obama-helped-force-brexit
Finally, it’s Obama’s fault! And not Bush;s. Change is sweeping the globe.
I did not think that voting to exit was the smart thing to do. They did not think it through and went with their gut. There is a heavy price to pay for that stupidity.
You insult their intelligence to imply that Obama caused them to vote to exit. . They are not that weak minded.
Comes a time, 10:33am, when the long train of outrages and usurpations becomes too much to bear. A charge of stupidity seems too pat. If Obama were asked he probably wouldn’t hesitate to say he agrees with you. But because his reputation for sagacity has become tarnished beyond all recognition most would presume the opposite is true.
Are they really that stupid?