Posted on 07/21/2010 6:49:46 AM PDT by Stoutcat
Hoo boy, times sure have changed, haven’t they? Time was, when heads of state went to visit each other, they presented each other with meaningful and symbolic gifts, embodying not just the bounty and artistic abilities of the country bestowing the gifts, but also the importance and significance of the relationship between the visiting countries and their leaders.
Possibly the best known gift of this type is the Resolute desk, a gift from Queen Victoria to President Hayes in 1880...
Possibly the best known failure of this type of gift was President Obama’s gifts in kind to PM Brown...
Which brings me to today. In an act which could be described as poetic justice ... Prime Minister David Cameron has presented Obama with a painting by local graffiti “artist” Ben Eine.
(Excerpt) Read more at grandrants.wordpress.com ...
That thar’s funny!
I think it would have been even better if he had given Obama a bust of Churchill.
A gift by a thug vandal to a thug vandal - couldn’t be more appropriate.
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He should have given Zero a photoshopped picture of Churchill giving him the finger.
LOL! I love Cameron already! If Obama screws him over in the Falklands, I’m getting out the pot for cooking the pitch....
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