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First stop the Palace for Tea with the Queen: The Obama show comes to town [Tea Party Alert!]
dailymailonline.co.uk ^ | 3/31/09 | James Chapman and Rebecca English

Posted on 03/31/2009 9:48:39 PM PDT by melt

President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle arrived in Britain last night to bring some glamour to the G20 summit of world leaders. The Presidential plane, Air Force One, touched down at Stansted just before 8pm for Mr Obama's first official visit to Europe. A crowd of well-wishers, many waving U.S. flags, had gathered in the cold to welcome the couple

Hand in hand, they waved from the steps of the Boeing 747, the First Lady wearing a bright yellow dress and the President in a dark suit and spotted tie.

They were greeted by Chancellor Alistair Darling - and tight security - before travelling on to London

Selected members of the President's 500-strong entourage were airlifted to London in American military Chinook helicopters. Later today Mr Obama will go to Buckingham Palace for a real British welcome - a cup of tea. He will be offered it at a meeting with the Queen and Prince Philip in their private apartments

The 'getting to know you' session - which will probably last about 25 minutes - is something of a break with protocol because visiting heads of state normally meet the monarch only if they are on an official state visit, whereas Mr Obama will be in town as one of a number of leaders. After the meeting, the couple will be taken to a reception to welcome the heads of state of the G20 and other nations attending. Most senior members of the Royal Family...

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: bho44; bhouk; bhovisit; g20summit; obama; qe2; royals; taxes; teaparty
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To: Miss Didi

The QUEEN’S train - not safe??? Is she KIDDING??? Just another snub.

Dear Britain, This idiot usurper doesn’t belong in the White House, much less speaking for our country and meeting with all of you. My suggestion would be to put him in the corner and just ignore him.


81 posted on 04/01/2009 9:34:43 AM PDT by LibertyRocks ( http://LibertyRocks.wordpress.com ~ ANTI-OBAMA STUFF : http://cafepress.com/NO_ObamaBiden08)
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To: FarRightFanatic
Don't insult King Hussein!

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82 posted on 04/01/2009 10:22:34 AM PDT by americanophile
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To: melt

From the BBC. Another great gift from our President:

1750 The BBC’s Peter Hunt says: President Obama has given the Queen an Ipod during their private meeting at Buckingham Palace. It contains footage of her state visit to the US in May 2007. The Queen has given the president a silver framed photograph of herself and her husband. The official picture is what she gives all visiting dignitaries.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7973178.stm


83 posted on 04/01/2009 10:26:51 AM PDT by chpmass
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To: melt

84 posted on 04/01/2009 11:13:09 AM PDT by Albion Wilde ("Praise and worship" is my alternate lifestyle.)
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To: melt

He gave her an Ipod...She already has one... “And so I’m very much looking forward to meeting her for the first time later this evening. And as you might imagine, Michelle has been really thinking that through — because I think in the imagination of people throughout America, I think what the Queen stands for and her decency and her civility, what she represents, that’s very important.” http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/toby_harnden/blog/2009/04/01/barack_obamas_gift_for_the_queen_an_ipod_your_majesty


85 posted on 04/01/2009 11:20:36 AM PDT by PghBaldy (We will default on our debt soon enough. Obama gave the Queen an IPOD!!!!)
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To: PghBaldy

Where’s the teleprompter? He needs that more than the two limos.


86 posted on 04/01/2009 12:00:29 PM PDT by Mad-Margaret
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear
Ur doin' it wrong.

It does appear that Obama is sniffing the tea. Maybe he thinks it is something else that he used to/still does(?) sniff.

87 posted on 04/01/2009 1:24:55 PM PDT by CitizenM ("An excuse is worse than an lie, because an excuse is a lie hidden." Pope John Paul, II)
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To: CitizenM

Maybe the tea was made with Quat leaves.


88 posted on 04/01/2009 2:12:09 PM PDT by spokeshave (homeless people can just buy a share of Citibank instead of a lottery ticket)
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To: melt
Here's an actual picture of the meeting with the Queen (IPod not pictured). And Michelle's celebrated "fashion sense" is blinding in its awesomeness, of course.

The President Meets The Queen

89 posted on 04/01/2009 2:31:27 PM PDT by browardchad
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To: malkee
“In the United States the meeting of President Obama, the world’s most famous celebrity, with the world’s most photographed woman, will be the enduring image of the summit. President Obama is acutely aware that being photographed side by side with the Queen, who is hugely respected in the US, will help to burnish his credentials as a major international statesman.”

No, it won't.

90 posted on 04/01/2009 2:39:00 PM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: icwhatudo

BO and MO are so out of their Chicago thug element and in over their heads they just look ridiculous. I would love to know what Lillibet and Phillip said after they left.


91 posted on 04/01/2009 5:19:40 PM PDT by dandiegirl
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To: 1035rep

“Say, Lizzie mama, what’s shakin’? This one happenin’ crib y’all got here!”

MO can say she’s her baby mama or whatever that tacky thing she said. What an embarassment.


92 posted on 04/01/2009 5:21:43 PM PDT by dandiegirl
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To: cricket

I don’t see photos of MO. Princess Di still holds that title and rightly so as she was beautiful and aristocratic as well as funny and well-liked. She had her problems though. MO will never be anything like the most photographed woman in the world.


93 posted on 04/01/2009 5:27:30 PM PDT by dandiegirl
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To: whatshotandwhatsnot

He must get some serious threats as his security always seems to be over the top.


94 posted on 04/01/2009 5:29:00 PM PDT by dandiegirl
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To: browardchad

OMG, will she even wear one of her blasted sweaters to visit the Queen of England? (hitting head on desk)


95 posted on 04/01/2009 6:31:58 PM PDT by ottbmare (Ein Reich, ein Volk, ein Obama!)
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To: melt

TELL ME they did not let him in the presence of the Queen showing his hairy freaking forearms.


96 posted on 04/01/2009 7:01:00 PM PDT by ponygirl (Scooby Doo Generation: Behind every supernatural mystery is a disgruntled former employee.)
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To: freekitty

Michelle’s dresses always look like something the cat yacked up on the bedspread.


97 posted on 04/01/2009 7:02:53 PM PDT by ponygirl (Scooby Doo Generation: Behind every supernatural mystery is a disgruntled former employee.)
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To: browardchad

Dayum... how’d they get Shaquille O’Neal to put on that dress?


98 posted on 04/01/2009 7:10:53 PM PDT by ponygirl (Scooby Doo Generation: Behind every supernatural mystery is a disgruntled former employee.)
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To: Kirkwood

“Somebody run over to the White House and change the locks!”

It wouldn’t help—he’d just try to get in a window! (I’m just sayin’...)


99 posted on 04/01/2009 7:16:23 PM PDT by GWMcClintock ("When the foundations are being destroyed, what can the righteous do?" Ps. 11:3)
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To: ponygirl

They sure do.


100 posted on 04/01/2009 7:49:01 PM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote.)
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