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"Solipsistic" Michelle Obama spends $15 on Gordon Brown children in diplomatic humiliation
FREE REPUBLIC WORLD EXCLUSIVE ^ | March 5, 2009 | Freeper "Spiff"

Posted on 03/05/2009 3:08:45 PM PST by KayEyeDoubleDee

Obama's blockbuster gift for Brown: 25 classic films
Joe Murphy
March 5, 2009
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23657981-details/Obama's+blockbuster+gift+for+Brown:+25+classic+films/article.do

...Sarah Brown gave Sasha and Malia Obama an outfit each from Topshop, which has just opened its first American store in New York. She also picked six children's books by British authors which are shortly to be published in America.

In return, the Obamas gave the Browns two models of the presidential helicopter, Marine One, to take home to sons Fraser and John...

 



 

http://whitehouse.merchantcart.net/mainshopping.cfm?icg_id=10&showsku_ID=434&Show=PURCHASE

 

Screen Capture of 'whitehouse.merchantcart.net' aka 'www.whitehousegiftshop.com'


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; United Kingdom; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: bho44; bhomarineone; bhouk; cheap; first100days; flotusmichelle; gaffe; giftgate; gordonbrown; kenya; noclass; snub; typical
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To: KayEyeDoubleDee

Update from the daily Mail now. The list of movies Obama gave them: LOL..Brown gave them to charity!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1159627/Just-wanted-Barack-Obamas-blockbuster-gift-25-DVDs-Brown-reaffirm-special-relationship.html

“Not surprisingly, it later emerged that the PM had decided not to keep the gift. Instead, he gave it to charity.
Movies in the box-set produced for the White House by the American Film Institute:
1. Citizen Kane
2. The Godfather
3. Casablanca
4. Raging Bull
5. Singing In The Rain
6. Gone With The Wind
7. Lawrence Of Arabia
8. Schindler’s List
9. Vertigo
10. The Wizard Of Oz
11. City Lights
12. The Searchers
13. Star Wars: Episode IV
14. Psycho
15. 2001: A Space Odyssey
16. Sunset Boulevard
17. The Graduate
18. The General
19. On The waterfront
20. It’s A Wonderful Life
21. China Town
22. Some Like It Hot

23. The Grapes Of Wrath
24. ET: The Extra Terrestrial
25. To Kill A Mocking Bird.


61 posted on 03/05/2009 3:35:49 PM PST by penelopesire ("The only CHANGE you will get with the Democrats is the CHANGE left in your pocket")
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To: KayEyeDoubleDee

I REALLY could care lessabout this and I think it makes conservatives look like idiots if we discuss it

The boys probably love the helicopter too- i know I want one


62 posted on 03/05/2009 3:36:08 PM PST by Mr. K (physically unable to proofreed (<---oops))
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To: KayEyeDoubleDee

I don’t think the two are connected.

This wasn’t a slap because of their Britishness.
It was a slap in general.


63 posted on 03/05/2009 3:36:17 PM PST by netmilsmom (Psalm 109:8 - Let his days be few; and let another take his office)
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To: KayEyeDoubleDee

Bump for later.


64 posted on 03/05/2009 3:39:17 PM PST by Right_in_Virginia
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To: penelopesire
Brown gave them to charity!

That is freakin' hilarious.

65 posted on 03/05/2009 3:39:48 PM PST by jennyjenny
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To: KayEyeDoubleDee
Anyone know of an organized effort to send the Browns an apology from the real America for the disgusting behavior exhibited to our guests by the clowns occupying the White House? We could pool funds to obtain a worthy and meaningful gift for them. It wouldn't have to cost much more than a box set of DVDs, come to think of it. Surely there is some item of immense symbolic value that could be respectfully presented. Probably something that captures the shared sacrifice our people made during World War II. My job was recently zeroed out, but I would still contribute.

Who knew when the libs go on about restoring America's image in the world they meant make our enemies like us and kick our friends in the teeth.

66 posted on 03/05/2009 3:39:49 PM PST by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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To: KayEyeDoubleDee

“Michelle Obama spends $15 on Gordon Brown children ...”

Spend?! There is no way in the world Aunt Esther paid for the toys. We paid for those, just like we paid for the wagyu beef, the Valentine’s Day in Chicago, the 37 minute Air Force One flight to Williamsburg...


67 posted on 03/05/2009 3:40:47 PM PST by Tex Pete (Obama for Change: from our pockets, our piggy banks, and our couch cushions!)
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To: KayEyeDoubleDee
(having an aide pop to the White House gift shop for a piece of merchandising does not imply a great deal of thought)

I'll bet there's a lot of truth to this. Bet she had an "oh, $h!t" moment. Something along the lines of "what do you mean I'm supposed to have a gift for his wife and kids? quick get something from the gift shop."

68 posted on 03/05/2009 3:41:10 PM PST by Hoffer Rand (There ARE two Americas: "God's children" and the tax payers)
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To: KayEyeDoubleDee

Jackie she is not.

Jackie Kennedy would never have made such a gaffe.

You can buy your way into the White House as Soros did putting in his little Barak and wifey, but you can’t buy class or taste or anything else requiring effort.

Well, we just have to put up with President Barak O’Nixon and his wife, Tacky M, for less than four years.


69 posted on 03/05/2009 3:41:16 PM PST by OpusatFR (We can give up any pretense of having a government for and by the people after Coronation Day.)
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To: penelopesire

I believe that is a packaged set- I’ll start looking at DDDVD for it. I expect that someone will have “My Parents visited the President and all I got was this crappy toy helicopter” t-shirt for sale on CafePress before long...


70 posted on 03/05/2009 3:42:08 PM PST by philled (This 'stimulus money' will stimulate just as 'protection money' protects. -- Rei Shinozuka)
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To: KayEyeDoubleDee

When I first got into DVDs a few years ago, I purchased a 50 Movie Pack by this company of Mystery Classics. There were some good choices on there, but some real duds as well. Worst of all, it looks like the movies may be public domain, and the source material has not been remastered. The film sources are shaky and certainly have not been cleaned. Thus the price...18 cents a film. An iffy gift at the office grab bag, much less for a world leader!

And considering the thought that seems to have gone into the gifts Brown brought to Obama, “diplomatic insult” is not too strong of a phrase. This story is Onion or Scrappleface material...but it is true. How sad for our nation.


71 posted on 03/05/2009 3:44:38 PM PST by LostInBayport (When more than 98% of the Republicans on Capitol Hill vote against a bill, it is not bipartisan.)
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To: tractorman
Are they really for him or against him? Hmmmm

Or are they just as classless? They are all dims afterall

72 posted on 03/05/2009 3:54:36 PM PST by YellowRoseofTx (Evil is not the opposite of God; it's the absence of God)
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Cool, it seems this thread got pulled, then un-pulled. First I’ve seen that.


73 posted on 03/05/2009 4:00:00 PM PST by loungitude (The truth hurts.)
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To: KayEyeDoubleDee

What else could be expected of the present “First Female”?


74 posted on 03/05/2009 4:12:17 PM PST by GladesGuru (In a society predicated upon freedom, it is essential to examine principles,)
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To: KayEyeDoubleDee

John Brown is about 3, and his brother James is a 1-year-old baby. They are both too young for model airplanes, which were probably selected by a staffer anyway.


75 posted on 03/05/2009 4:17:52 PM PST by tvdog12345
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To: NonValueAdded
Obamateurs

Good one!

76 posted on 03/05/2009 4:20:46 PM PST by Churchillspirit
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To: KayEyeDoubleDee

MADE IN CHINA!


77 posted on 03/05/2009 4:21:39 PM PST by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: penelopesire

You just know this DVD set was just an unopened gift from some friend or something that got regifted.


78 posted on 03/05/2009 4:23:23 PM PST by jdub (A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.)
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To: mkjessup
I loved little black Sambo books as a kid.....never thought of them as insulting or racist. You need to be taught that by the PC police.
79 posted on 03/05/2009 4:23:45 PM PST by Churchillspirit
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To: bigbob
You’ve got to love a country where the newspaper can use “solipsistic” and someone might actually know what it means.

They just put that in there to keep from getting Michelle pee'd off.
She thought they just mis-spelled "sophisticate".
.

80 posted on 03/05/2009 4:24:45 PM PST by Iron Munro (Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.)
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