Well, are the Obamas deliberately snubbing the Brits? Or are they clueless about our true friends across the pond??
Wait a minute? You’re telling me that Michelle Obama only cares about herself? I’m shocked.
Sounds like Michelle doesn’t know the first thing about etiquette maybe a visit from Miss Manners is needed here.
Low brow trash
The Obama clown car rolls on. Obviously they picked Rahm Emanuel’s sister to head the protocol office.
We wonder why kids are spoiled brats today ...
It’s a gift and the Brown kids should thank Mrs. Obama for it.
I feel weird defending the First Lady, but the British media sound like a bunch of whiners who are instilling an ungracious entitlement attitude in our youth.
What REALLY happened:
Michelle and Barry were all busy making hors douvres and canapes for the Earth,Wind & Fire conga party blowout the next night and with the constraints of time “forgot” to go to Tysons Corner Mall and buy gifts for the Browns. So Michelle called down to the WH slaves .. er .. staff, and asked them if there was any leftover WH crap that she could slough off on the First Family of the UK. Apparently, they ran out of the “HONK IF U HATE W” bumper stickers.
We no longer have a First Lady.
She is many things, but First Lady isn’t one of them.
OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Could Gordon Brown’s first visit to the Obama Administration gone any worse? If they had tried they couldn’t have mucked this up any worse than they did — both MO and BHO screwed the goose and the Brits are the one’s printing it! Bush was hated by the Brits and he was nothing, if not very gracious to Blair AND Brown!
It sure looks like they are snubbing. What the Obamas seem to have never had and probably never will is class and manners. Only low rents snub so everyone will know.
Done passive-aggressive style!
The Brits have a right to be peeved. Just wait till Kenya’s dictator visits DC. He’ll be treated like royalty by the 0bammys
No coincidence that 0 dissed a white European nation. It’s the politics of racial resentment. Done passive-aggressive style!
They just have no class.
Well, I hope Mrs. Hussein at least showed her guests her bare arms!
I don’t blame the Brits for being annoyed. This is just the sort of crude amateur mistake these neophytes and their entire unsophisticated entourage would make. As the article points out, this isn’t really about the children at all, but about unspoken signals between the two nations. The Brits went to a good deal of care and expense choosing gifts for the girls, while the Americans gave some cheap plastic models from the White House gift shop. Tactless and clumsy, like all of the diplomacy they have so far essayed.
Bwahahaha! Hey, Prez, ya shouldn’t have kicked old Winston’s bust out of your office that way... now the British press (at least some of them) are going to have it in for you. I can’t believe this reporter is actually complaining about what gifts Mrs. Obama chose for Mrs. Brown’s children. Good grief.
Reminds me of when the Queen visited the White House and Carter served them hot dogs on paper plates.
We thought we were getting this:
But instead, we got this:
Ms. Vine is so drammatic about the whole meeting. What’s wrong with giving a boy a helicopter? More evidence that we humans tend to engage in trifles when facing large,looming disasters.