The Mayor of London Says Obama Is a Part-Kenyan Hypocrite

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London Mayor Boris Johnson has published a long, boring op-ed in British tabloid the Sun, airing as many personal and political grievances as possible with President Barack Obama, who's visiting his city this week.

At least a third of the goofy diatribe—which makes abundant plays on Obama's "Yes We Can!" 2008 campaign slogan—rehashes the weird myth about the outgoing US president removing a Winston Churchill bust from the Oval Office when he took power.

"Some said it was a snub to Britain," Johson writes. "Some said it was a symbol of the part-Kenyan president's ancestral dislike of the British empire—of which Churchill had been such a fervent defender."

Despite what the British tabloid columnist might have you believe, the reality is that the bust, loaned to George W. Bush in 2001, was scheduled to be returned before Obama took office, and its removal was not part of some angry revenge plot against his African ancestors' colonial overlords.

In fact, the real story here is that Johnson is super miffed about Obama's position on the "Brexit," or the prospect that Britain might leave the European Union. POTUS has been urging the UK to remain in the troubled confederation, arguing it's best for regional stability and economic growth. Johnson and some of his fellow conservatives, as well as third-party firebrand Nigel Farage, are done with the Eurozone and ready to move on, and don't like the Yankee telling them what's good.

But embracing a weird, vaguely colonialist (and arguably racially tinged) line of argument is unlikely to win the Brexit cause any new converts so much as piss off admirers of Obama on both sides of the Atlantic.