Posted on 03/06/2009 8:25:26 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
When colonial mariners landed on distant shores to be greeted by "natives", the Europeans gave cheap glass beads or brass trinkets, and took gold and silver in return, not to mention slaves. When feudal tenants paid homage to their liege lords, they promised services to be rendered.
And when Gordon Brown pays his first visit to President Barack Obama at the White House, the prime minister gives his liege lord a present of great value, and receives a stack of DVDs. It was an exchange encapsulating the emptiness of that "special relationship" of which Brown still forlornly boasts.
Someone in Downing Street had come up with an imaginative gift for the president. A desk sits in the Oval Office made of oak taken from HMS Resolute, one of the ships with which the Royal Navy conducted its campaign against slavery. Last week, Brown gave Obama a penholder carved from the timbers of HMS Gannet, Resolute's sister ship.
Although the set of famous American movies on DVD that Brown was given at least includes things worth watching, from Citizen Kane to Raging Bull, what was so wonderfully pointed was the sheer off-hand casualness of a present that anyone could order online. Even the exchange of children's presents summed up the one-sided relationship. Young Sasha and Malia Obama were treated to outfits from Topshop; Fraser and John Brown got models of Marine One, the presidential helicopter, which must be worth several dollars each.
Nor was the penholder the only thing Brown presented in return for his trinkets. He also gave Obama Martin Gilbert's seven-volume biography of Winston Churchill, even though there's very likely a copy already in the White House, and it's very unlikely that the president will find time to read it.
(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...
“Nor was the penholder the only thing Brown presented in return for his trinkets. He also gave Obama Martin Gilbert’s seven-volume biography of Winston Churchill, even though there’s very likely a copy already in the White House, and it’s very unlikely that the president will find time to read it.”
Obama won’t read it because it was written by a great leader of men, something of course, which Obama is not.
The Guardian (source) called American voters in 2004 idiots for voting him in, and was the only known Brit newspaper which took 3 pages of ass-kissing propaganda when O won.
The article basically is a “buyers remorse’ read, even from these hardened lefties.
Did Gordie get any discount video rental coupons?
You can imagine this scene....Gordie, for those who don’t know this...has lost about half of his vision and stumbles or bumps into doorways, furniture or people on a routine basis. He’s only able to be as good a speaker as he is....by memorizing the text and really delivering this entirely without any ‘help’. For this...I admire the guy because he’s doing pretty good with very limited vision.
So he’s got a bunch of videos that he probably can never watch and will likely toss into some waste basket.
You have to wonder...how Putin will handle his gift episode, and if he tosses the gift into a garbage can in the room...to make his point during their initial meeting?
>Ouch!! And they have the nerve to claim President Bush was a moron!
President Bush respected people, you could tell from the way he conducted himself... before this presidential term is over, I think MANY people would agree that is far better to have in your president than the lack thereof which has been shown by the current president.
The world will come to miss George W. Bush more and more in a short time!
Whaddya want to bet those DVDs were NTSC format rather than PAL as is the standard for DVD players in the UK? Not to mention being Region Coded for the US. In other words, not just cheap, but trashcan material as well.
(As if the Prime Minister had time to sit around watching movies, anyhow).
Obama is doing the one thing no one would have dreamed he would do: he’s making George W. Bush look like a genius.
Now I see on Drudge that O wants to meet the Queen. Well, who really cares if he’s rude to her too?
Snub of snubs, the Obamas got the Browns a discount-table collection of DVDs as a gift to the head of state of our best ally.
(I wonder, after all this attention, if our alleged president Marxist Obama is wondering if he really should have gotten the Browns a set of Snuggies and a Sham-Wow.)
Why would Obama want a massive biography of Churchill, a man he hates. He already sent back the bust of Churchill that was on loan in the Oval Office.
For Obama, whose Kenyan ancestors were Mau Mau terrorists who fought against the British under Churchill, the Brits are colonialist oppressors, and that’s all there is to it.
End of story. The Guardian usually takes that point of view, too, so they have to focus on more trivial issues like the gift exchange.
[BRITISH PRIME MINISTER GORDON BROWN IS SHOVED THROUGH OVAL OFFICE DOOR BY SCOWLING SECRET SERVICE AGENT]
Brown: Good lord! How very-- [STANDS UP STRAIGHT, ADJUSTS TIE & SMOOTHS OUT WRINKLED SUIT, WALKS TOWARD OBAMA SITTING AT DESK] I'm afraid I wasn't expecting such treatment. But no matter. Good day to you, Mr. President.
Obama: [STARES DOWN AT PAPERS ON DESK]
Brown: Uhm. [CLEARS THROAT] I'm very sorry to bother you, Mr. President, but--
Obama: What? What is it? [LOOKS UP, NOT QUITE MAKING EYE CONTACT] Oh. It's you. Great! [RETURNS TO STARING AT PAPERS]
Brown: Hurm. Yes. Well. Have a seat, should I? [INDICATES CHAIR BEHIND HIM, WAITS FOR SOME SORT OF ACKNOWLEDGMENT, FINALLY SITS DOWN ANYWAY] So. It's. Did you, did you get the gifts I brought? The pen set is composed of wood from the sister ship of the one that was used to make the desk you're--
Obama: [STILL NOT LOOKING UP] Yes. Yes, I saw it. Alright? Jeez... [UNCOMFORTABLE SILENCE] Oh yeah. Forgot. [DIGS THROUGH PAPERS, FINDS DVD CASE UNDER ONE STACK, TOSSES IT INTO BROWN'S LAP]
Brown: Oh! Very, uh, very nice. [PICKS IT UP, PULLS READING GLASSES FROM SHIRT POCKET] It's, let me... Yes We Can! The Barack Obama Story. Ah. That's. Uhm. Well, I certainly--
Obama: [SIGHING LOUDLY, STILL NOT LOOKING UP] Will there be anything else? I don't know if you noticed, but I'm kind of the President?
a ticket to the NCAA finals would have really made an impression.
Hell, I miss Bill Clinton.
And when Gordon Brown pays his first visit to President Barack Obama at the White House, the prime minister gives his liege lord a present of great value, and receives a stack of DVDs.......
Man O Man! Prez Zer0 has "Class"! I mean a "class act"! WoW! Color me impressed!
</sarcasm>
I’m of two minds about this:
On the one hand, there’s some truth here.
On the other, just about anything that appears in the Guardian is designed to undermine America; from when they used to publish Soviet propaganda now to their Islamist propaganda and demonization of Israel.
“Hell, I miss Bill Clinton”
best go to bed now and sleep it off!!
tomorrow will be a better day, I promise!!
“(I wonder, after all this attention, if our alleged president Marxist Obama is wondering if he really should have gotten the Browns a set of Snuggies and a Sham-Wow.)”
LOL! When I heard about the DVD’s on Hannity, I didn’t think I heard it correctly. Add Michelle’s fashion choices to their gift choices, and I’m pretty embarrassed for our country....
Obama is a pathetic, pathological, boy in man’s clothing fool. How disgustingly selfish of him to demean the office of the President and our allies like that. He’s certainly a moron in chief.
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