It’s painful, isn’t it? The BBC, who are probably the last surviving global cheerleaders for The One, have gone completely overboard trying to force his visit to the UK down the gagging throats of us unwilling ‘license fee’ taxpayers.

Sycophantic interviews and wall-to-wall coverage. It’s been – frankly- embarassing. They’ve probably had to laminate photographs of him at Broadcasting House to get maximum wipe-clean usage.

It’s the ‘unique way we’re funded‘, don’t you know? Yes, unfortunately we do.

The way that the BBC are carrying on, anyone could be mistaken for thinking there was a US Presidential election in the offing and that British citizens had a vote. Which is great because the last time the Guardian newspaper played that trick it backfired horrendously.

Remember August 2004 when they bought a voter list from Clark County for $25 and asked readers to write to people listed as undecided in the election? They  gave a twisted impression of the international view of the ‘importance’ of voting against President Bush. The paper scrapped “Operation Clark County” after first publishing a column of complaints about the campaign under the headline “Dear Limey Assholes” and the US public backlash against the campaign contributed to Bush’s victory in Clark County.

Obama will lecture the Commons and the Lords about something we’ve done wrong somehow tomorrow (the 25th). Probably Kenya-related. It was all our fault, you know.

Last September, Pope Benedict XVI became the third foreign dignitary to address both houses in Westminster Hall since World War II, following French president Charles de Gaulle in 1960 and South African president Nelson Mandela in 1996.

Which is nice. So in that exclusive club the socialist jug-eared embarrassment joins an ex Hitler Youth apologist for church kiddy-fiddling cover-ups, a Frenchman who wouldn’t stand and fight a Frenchman and an ex-terrorist a man with horrible taste in shirts. Who is a stunt double for Morgan Freeman.

Obama and his wife are in London from May 24 to 26 in the first state visit by a US president since that of George W. Bush in 2003. Bush was to have addressed Parliament but cancelled the speech due to anti Iraq War protests.

Former US presidents Bill Clinton and Ronald Reagan gave speeches in the Royal Gallery in 1995 and 1982 respectively.

Now at least one of those men was a really great President.

There was a reason that TheEye began this post. Can’t remember what it was now…