Posted on 03/09/2009 12:38:39 PM PDT by keep your powder dry
...So what does Gordon Brown do? He comes to meet with the president and he gives him a set of pens made from the wood of the USS Resolute to match the desk that should be in a museum. He gives him a matching set of pens. Barack Obama hands him a basket -- I'm not kidding you, hands him a basket of DVDs that he can't play....Michelle Obama goes downstairs, grabs a couple of boxes of Marine One helicopter models and gives them to Mrs. Brown: "Here, this is for you." ....And the worst part of it is the bust of Winston Churchill, there are two of these. England's working in twos: The HMS Resolute desk and the bust of Winston Churchill. This is the most famous bust of Winston Churchill. England gave this bust to the president for the White House right after 9/11 as a sign of standing together: We will stand together united as one. They gave us this historic bust of Churchill. It has been sitting in the oval office since 9/11. Barack Obama says we're going to box this back up and you guys can take it home with you. Gordon Brown says, "No, no, no. Mr. President, that was a gift from the people of England after 9/11. If you want to keep that in one of your museums, you may keep it in one of your museums but please, no, no, that was a gift. That wasn't to borrow. We didn't just lend that out to you. That's a gift from us." He said, "No, that's okay. We don't want it." And he's sending the bust of Winston Churchill back to England...
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yeah Obama just hated that Churchill qoute about never surrendering
Ya know, I never thought about the fact that Mr. Brown likely couldn’t play those DVDs once he got back home. I was just stunned on the complete and utter lack of class in giving them to begin with. Double face-palm.
should be HMS Resolute
disregard my previous post - “USS Resolute” was corrected further down in the piece
I think Obama hated the fact that Churchill stood against socialism.
Ya know, I never thought about the fact that Mr. Brown likely couldn’t play those DVDs once he got back home. I was just stunned on the complete and utter lack of class in giving them to begin with. Double face-palm.
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Make that a ‘triple face-palm’. Gordon Brown’s eyesight is failing, from what I’ve read.
Class is something you just can’t learn on the job...
Interesting extra details about the ice pack.
Glenn mentions the court-martial of the captain - this was common procedure for any captain who lost his ship, just as it is today.
How very appropriate. Brack IS the Grand ReGifter of the world.
HE is the “change” the world has been waiting for. Of course he is also a lightweight, tin-eared, narcissistic Kenyan, but who’s counting?
the Obamas: lots of $$$ but zero class
Is this for REAL? I mean, the idea of a US president giving Britain back the bust of Churchill?????
WTF? So what if Obama is sleep deprived. What a corker.
Later Prez B0Z0 will ask for a bust of Neville Chamberlain....
Actually the HMS Resolute desk is probably the most popular item of presidential furniture in the White House. You can order an exact copy if you’ve got the dough.
Since it was given to Prez Hayes, every president except LBJ, Nixon and Ford has used it.
What an A-Hole!
I’m surprised that madam Hitlery didn’t clue in the presidential imposter that gifts are exchanged during state visits.
Maybe he should have signed a basketball as a memento.
Total complete clueless idiot!
Maybe 0bama didn’t care for this Churchill observation:
“How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects are apparent in many countries. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live. A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity.
“The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property, either as a child, a wife, or a concubine, must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men. Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities, but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it.
“No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilization of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilization of ancient Rome.”
— Winston Churchill
That’s so embarrassing. I’m ashamed of this prez. He’s as bad as Jimmah Cahter & the tuxedo incident. EEEwwww!!!
I thought all US Presidents knew to keep “gifts” on hand for dignitaries. It’s as appropriate as having hand towels in the guest bathroom.
Where are these folks from?
It could have been worse. Obama could have given him a gift basket with Citicorp, GM, GE, Sprint, and Starbuck stock in it.
“We have people in the State Department, this is all they do is come up with gifts. “
Like the “Overcharged” button!
Fast times at Ridgemont High in the White House.
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