Posted on 05/24/2011 6:36:13 PM PDT by Steelfish
Dinner for 171! The Queen Treats The Obamas To A State Banquet... and Invites A Few Of Their Hollywood Friends By JESSICA SATHERLEY 25th May 2011
After a long day of public appearances, President Obama and US First Lady Michelle were treated to a state banquet at Buckingham Palace, hosted by the Queen tonight. The star-studded banquet saw 171 guests arrive, including Tom Hanks, Kevin Spacey and Tim Burton, who dined on lamb, roast potatoes and vanilla Charlotte. Also at Her Majesty’s banquet in honour of the Obamas were David Cameron, Nick Clegg and Boris Johnson.
Cheers! The Queen toasts the Obama's visit before they sit down to a dinner of lamb, roast potatoes and vanilla Charlotte
Former Prime Ministers Tony Blair and Gordon Brown also attended, as did Ed Miliband, Richard Branson and Helena Bonham Carter.
Hollywood actor Hanks sat next to Ffion Hague, the wife of the Foreign Secretary, while Kevin Spacey was beside Sophie, the Countess of Wessex – wife of Prince Edward.
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Please glaze your a**es for.... (in the words of Spooner)
Did the president fail to sip his champagne after toasting the queen? I don’t remember anyone commenting about it, so I thought I must have missed it.
Thanks for this post! Wish I’d read ahead before posting.
Do not get between Moochelle and a lamb chop.
Americans should be very proud to have such an elegant and classy couple in the White House and representing their country abroad. As a Canadian, I am definitely jealous. We haven’t had a Prime Minister with any class since Pierre Trudeau and, like Obama, he was reviled by a certain segment of the population. Mr. Obama is so intellectually superior to his critics that it’s almost embarrassing. These are the people who loved “Dubya” so what does that tell you?
- J. Ross, Coombs, B.C., Canada, 24/5/2011 17:07
She is dressed well. o’bama needs a new tailor. That jacket is too short. I can see wearing a flag pin on a business suit lapel, but it looks pandering on formal wear.
Thanks for that link.
Even for the Kenyan clown who is naught but a blunderer and a dunce, that was an astonishing pratfall. He sets new lows each and every day.
I think he is cracking. I think that perhaps there is some revelation that is percolating and has him in a tizzy.
Did you see Obama’s face after that? OMG!!!! He look like a humiliated ass clown!
Believe that Obama's signature is the latter and is confirms his 'past' denied; and the dishonesty that unfolds from such deceit; and of course; beyond the hypocrisy of his message; the conflict of Obama's history of dates and documents that have his name assigned, might add to the 'slip' here.
Did wonder too, if the glaring error of 'wrong date' carried it's own message. It does 'cancel' the moment, the one, where Obama puts in writing, praise to England, and signs his name to it.
As to next faux pas reported; surely Obama was advised that the England's anthem would be played before 'anything' began at the table; including toast; but then, Obama has shown, time and time, again; jos arrogant indifference to protocol - including his determined 'bow' - which he mistakenly offered on behalf of every American citizen.
No question; Obama, 'on his own'; is his own worst 'instant messenger' and certainly, America's.
(And while I'm at it. . .if Michele had been wearing more suitable attire i.e. a 'suit' - and only, perhaps; even a hat - her skirt, dress. . .hair. . .would not have made her a 'victim' of the wind.) She is as slow or just as reluctant a 'learner' as is her husband. We know for certain, anyway; she is 'as determined'.
Is it normal and ‘history’ that a President enjoys a banquet while a massive section of their country is dealing with major natural disaster?
His “praise to England” is also a faux pas. He is visiting the United Kingdom, not just England.
The Queen is also not the “Queen of England” either. She is the Queen of the United Kingdom. There hasn’t been a “Queen of England” for 400 years.
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