Posted on 03/08/2009 6:20:38 AM PDT by Mobile Vulgus
The Obamas, Barack and Michelle both, pretty much diplomatically botched the recent visit of British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and his wife. Oddly enough, the U.S. Old Media seems uninterested in the story that is a hot topic in England, a story that's left many Brits a bit miffed.
As the visit of the national leader of our closest ally began, the President informed the Brits that he wouldn't be attending the joint press conference that was planned to be held once PM Brown's plane touched down. This threw the visiting delegation into a tizzy leaving them scrambling to explain the sudden change in plans to the folks back home. Still, meetings were had and things smoothed out. Eventually the visit seemed to right itself... then came the Obama's gift gaffes.
It is well understood that visiting diplomatic delegations come bearing gifts and gift giving is returned in like fashion by the host country. It is an ages old human practice in diplomacy after all. Usually the gifts are valuable, representative of the products of the nations involved, or at least symbolic of the history of those nations...
Read the rest at Publiusforum.com...
Of course the media won’t report it. He is their messiah after all.
I mentioned it to my mother last night. She hadn’t heard a word. She gets her news from Katy Couric.
Our Dear Leader will suffer no bad news in the American press, afterall, many of the American press work for the White House now. Who wants to reflect badly on themselves?
Absolute incompentence.
But of course. The MSM is the Obama admin’s propaganda arm. Joe Goebbels would’ve been flush with admiration.
Everyone should try something, for at least one day if not a couple make an effort to ignore, turn off or tune out any MSM from within the US,
Get your news from the UK, Japan, Israel even from Pravda, look at America through another countries eyes.
And grab some hankies, you will need them.
I've copied the complete article, and sent it to all in my address book. I've also included a link to the original site for verification. It seems we need to start doing this and keep on the offense with these articles.
Didn’t Mr. Brown give President Bush a hard time? If I remember correctly he did, so I could care less how B. Hussein treated Brown.
That website is dead. I wonder why?
Gish...............DID OUR PRESIDENT REALLY GIVE THE BRITISH PRIME MINISTER a SET OF DVDs??????
That is SO SICK when you read what the British gave to him by way of gifts.
Do we have baboons in our WH?
At least British Socialist Liberals have class. Not so with American Social Liberals.
The Obamas are takers, not givers.
They will take your money and give it away. They just won’t given it themselves.
I have been reading about this for days, and everyone keeps making statements about how “classless” and “clueless” these people are. I agreed for a while, but have now changed my mind.
These gifts are mind numbingly inappropriate! There are long term people who work at the State dept. and in the White House who would have pointed this out in order to save the pres__ent from embarrassing himself and the country. And we all know how large the ego of “the one” is, and how he needs to look good.
Therefore, the choice to give them could not have been accidental.
So, considering that our pres__ent’s chief of staff sent someone a dead fish in the mail, I have to conclude that these gifts were purposeful, and the current occupier of the oval office is merely a street thug.
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