Reply #26: Barack Obama apparently does not think much of WC

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Shortly after taking office, he had a bust of Churchill removed from the Oval Office and returned to the British Embassy in Washington.

The reason may have been:

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Maybe it's no surprise that Obama wouldn't want Churchill watching over his shoulder. After all, it was Churchill who, in 1952, ordered a crackdown on the Mau Mau rebellion against British colonial rule in Kenya, Obama's ancestral homeland. Obama's grandfather, Hussein Onyango Obama, was labeled a subversive during the uprising and spent months in detention.

http://www.newsweek.com/2009/02/20/busted-the-churchill-flap.html

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My vote: Favorable for Churchill's WWII leadership when England stood alone.