Posted on 03/04/2009 8:09:34 AM PST by Reaganesque
Strange goings on surrounding the programme for the first day of Gordon Brown's visit to Washington.
No sooner had the Prime Minister's plane touched down at Andrews Air Force on Monday evening when word was passed to travelling Westminster correspondents that the press conference they'd been told to expect had been called off "because of snow".
Hours earlier, at around 4pm EST on Monday, a British official had told me that there would be a "press conference" after the PM and President Barack Obama had met in the Oval Office and before they had their working lunch in the Old Family Dining Room. Exact timings, however, were vague
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Mr Brown might be forgiven for thinking that his friend, rival and predecessor Tony Blair would not have been treated the same way by his bosom buddy President George W. Bush. After all, there are 132 rooms in the White House at least some of which, presumably, are currently free of snow.
On the other hand, President Obama is terribly busy this Tuesday. The White House schedule tells us that he is delivering remarks at the Department of Transportation to deliver remarks about the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and is also speaking at the Department of Interior to mark its 160th anniversary.
There's a conflab with Pentagon chief Bob Gates. Oh, and Mr Obama will also meet "a delegation from the Boy Scouts of America and receive their 2008 Report to the Nation". in the Oval Office.
Mr Brown might lament that despite the so-called "special relationship" Britain is now getting the same treatment as the President of Uruguay but he need not despair. I'm told there's a chance he might get drinks with Vice President Joe Biden on Tuesday evening.
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I do so love the British sense of humor!
Because of snow? Indoors? I guess it’s difficult to be messianic when you’re constantly sniffling throughout a press conference.
The Brits have “their nickers in a twist.”
Course the Brits are blaming Americans for using too much toilet paper - is our effort to destroy the world so I am lacking any compassion for them any longer.
England is 200 years of history, unhampered by progress.
I would hate to see the headlines when another Katrina hits....”White House Shuts Down! Will Wait Until Storm Over!”
I’m sure all the other press conferences in DC will be cancelled toady as well...NOT!
While I don’t much care for Gordon Brown, he is the Prime Minister of the nation that’s stood by our side pretty much since 1941. Now 0bama treats him like his monkey boy on an official state visit. This is disgraceful.
Isn’t this the same Chicago president who mocked the closure of DC schools due to snow?
“On the other hand, President Obama is terribly busy this Tuesday.”.....
You bet he’s busy!....busy dismantling America!
Now he's letting a little snow outside, prevent him from having a meeting inside.
Obama's a tool.
The WH in an effort to be GREEN, has removed the roof of the WH, thus allowing the elements of weather to interfere with the scheduled activities inside the WH....
“I’m told there’s a chance he might get drinks with Vice President Joe Biden on Tuesday evening.”
Gee what a treat to look forward to.
Contract to what Zero said back on January 30th about DC folks and snow:
“”My children’s school was canceled today,” the president lamented to reporters. “Because of what? Some ice? . . . We’re going to have to apply some flinty Chicago toughness to this town.””
yes, the very same one.
Hee hee.
2nd article today I’ve seen where the brits are dissing the treatment of PM Borwn.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2198933/posts
Must be something to it.
How thin was the snow?
The official state dinners are no longer for the heads of state from Britain, France, or Russia - they are now reserved for Castro, Ahmedini-nut-job, and Chavez.
He looks like a sock monkey to me
Dude, America is about 200 years old. England is about 1000 years old.
And it's only your homegrown economaniacs who care about how much toilet paper you use. Nobody over here cares.
Basically: your post was a display of bitter ignorance.
I thought that was about as rude as it gets.
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