If Obama were British...

[CitizenX]

In fairness a place like England would NEVER have Sara Palin as a prime minister.  They would NEVER let someone that dumb be the head of a major political party.  She can't last 10 seconds with Katy Couric (a blond former cheerleader!).  Can you imagine prime ministers questions?  

Hysterical. I often thought the same when W. was president. And Reagan too....

I doubt many Presidents, even the best, could've done PMQs very well.

I dunno about that my friend.  I refer you to Obama's  200,000 campaign rally in Berlin!  I don't think there would be too many British prime minister hopefuls that could pull that off  I would love to see some backbencher stand up and say you ain't $h-t to his face in the Commons after that performance.  You should check out the White House correspondence dinner too.  Ok, ok even a backbencher is a more worthy adversary than Donald Trump but that week was beautiful.  Releasing the birth certificate, dismantling Trump at the White House correspondence dinner and then dropping the coup de grace by having SEAL Team Six pop Bin Laden in the face and his b-tch in the leg.  Game, set and match!  And all with a laugh track.

Now Sara Palin... well her grade would be somewhere south of an F-.

But anyway I get your point.  Prime Minister's Questions is a Tour de Force for which our system simply does not prepare.

[Franzl]

I doubt many Presidents, even the best, could've done PMQs very well.

I agree. It requires a level of debating skills that practically don't exist in the U.S. A massive political rally such as in Berlin as a laughable comparison and is nothing like a parliamentary debate.

[Joe Republic]

Teleprompters are not permitted at PMQ's, for one thing.

[Badger]

In fairness a place like England would NEVER have Sara Palin as a prime minister.  They would NEVER let someone that dumb be the head of a major political party.  She can't last 10 seconds with Katy Couric (a blond former cheerleader!).  Can you imagine prime ministers questions? 

Hysterical. I often thought the same when W. was president. And Reagan too....

I doubt many Presidents, even the best, could've done PMQs very well.

I disagree vehemently. Remember Obama's live tete a tete with GOP House members? He utterly tore them a new one to the point Fox (unlike the other networks) cut it off midway to return to the studio. Clinton? The man was and is as sharp a mind and debater as you could find.

[CitizenX]

Teleprompters are not permitted at PMQ's, for one thing.

Yes, but there are libel laws in the UK.  You can't just wake up one day and say so and so wasn't born in the USA.  Trump, Bachmann , Fox News, Huckabee would have all been hauled into court a long time ago if they were in the UK.

Obama is actually a very good debater.  Unfortunately we live in a country where you can just make up nonsensical stuff and repeat it over and over again.  This type of behavior is simply against the law in other countries.  If there wasn't the rampant misuse of sound bites I'm sure you would see much more free flowing conversations.

[Lief 🗽]

Didn't Obama take questions from Senate Republicans once? He did pretty terrifically.

[Franzl]

Teleprompters are not permitted at PMQ's, for one thing.

Yes, but there are libel laws in the UK.  You can't just wake up one day and say so and so wasn't born in the USA.  Trump, Bachmann , Fox News, Huckabee would have all been hauled into court a long time ago if they were in the UK.

I take it you aren't familiar with the  British press

[UpcomingYouthvoter]

Obama would be lib-dem.

[Username MechaRFK]

2012 U.S. Presidential Candidates:

Democratic:

Obama - Mainstream Labour
Grayson - McDonnell/Corbyn/Skinner, etc wing of Labour
Gravel - Libertarian wing of Liberal Demcorats

Republican:

Romney - Cameronite Conservative
Pawlenty - Cameronite Conservative
Huntsman - One Nation Conservative
Gingrich - Thatcherite Conservative
Palin -  NO party
Bachmann - Same as above
Santorum - Same as above
Johnson - Either on the Libertarian wing of the Liberal Democrats or an Alan Duncan Conservative
Paul - Either a David Davis Conservative or in the UKIP
Cain - Thatcherite
Roemer - Not sure; probably a Conservative of some kind
Giuliani - One Nation Conservative
Pataki - Same as above
Bolton - Same as Roemer
Perry - UKNP

Independent/Third-Party

Nader - Green
Root - Alan Duncan Conservative
Ventura - Libertarian wing of Liberal Democrats

And some more American politicians:

Russ Feingold - Simon Hughes wing of the Liberal Democrats
Hillary Clinton - Blairite Labour
Scott Brown - John Bercow Conservative
Marco Rubio - Thatcherite Conservative
Joe Lieberman - Blairite Labour or Conservative

FYP

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

Labour.

[Username MechaRFK]

I forgot to change Giuliani and Pataki to Carmonite conservatives.