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Obama's British 'Gift Gaffe' Not Reported By U.S. Media
Publius' Forum ^ | 3/8/09 | Warner Todd Huston

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...

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TOPICS: Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: barackobama; giftgate; gordonbrown; michelleobama
No class at all with this guy. NONE!
1 posted on 03/08/2009 6:20:38 AM PDT by Mobile Vulgus
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To: Mobile Vulgus

Of course the media won’t report it. He is their messiah after all.


2 posted on 03/08/2009 6:21:59 AM PDT by pnh102 (Save America - Ban Ethanol Now!)
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To: Mobile Vulgus

I mentioned it to my mother last night. She hadn’t heard a word. She gets her news from Katy Couric.


3 posted on 03/08/2009 6:23:36 AM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of the Masses Coulds be Farts)
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To: Mobile Vulgus

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.


4 posted on 03/08/2009 6:25:04 AM PDT by Bulldawg Fan (Victory is the last thing Murtha and his fellow Defeatists want.)
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To: Mobile Vulgus

But of course. The MSM is the Obama admin’s propaganda arm. Joe Goebbels would’ve been flush with admiration.


5 posted on 03/08/2009 6:26:03 AM PDT by Mr. Mojo
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To: Mobile Vulgus

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.


6 posted on 03/08/2009 6:34:52 AM PDT by Eye of Unk (How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words! SA)
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To: Mobile Vulgus
We need to copy and paste these articles to emails. That seems to be the only way most people get this type of news. The left uses these tactics, we should implement them as well.

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.

7 posted on 03/08/2009 6:37:58 AM PDT by ThreePuttinDude (o) ..junior senator... add fertilizer ... wait awhile... up sprouts a Jr. President..(o)
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To: Mobile Vulgus

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.


8 posted on 03/08/2009 6:57:32 AM PDT by angcat ("When the strong man, fully armed, guards his own dwelling, his goods are safe".)
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To: Mobile Vulgus

That website is dead. I wonder why?


9 posted on 03/08/2009 7:02:45 AM PDT by CanaGuy (Go Harper!)
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To: CanaGuy
I got to Publius Forum, no problem-is that the website you had trouble with?

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?

10 posted on 03/08/2009 7:15:30 AM PDT by Republic (Jedem das Seine)
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To: Mobile Vulgus

At least British Socialist Liberals have class. Not so with American Social Liberals.


11 posted on 03/08/2009 7:20:47 AM PDT by BerryDingle (I know how to deal with communists, I still wear their scars on my back from Hollywood-Ronald Reagan)
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To: Mobile Vulgus

The Obamas are takers, not givers.

They will take your money and give it away. They just won’t given it themselves.


12 posted on 03/08/2009 7:22:35 AM PDT by dforest
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To: Mobile Vulgus

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.


13 posted on 03/08/2009 7:41:53 AM PDT by Grammy
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