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Posted on 03/07/2009 5:55:47 AM PST by kellynla
And then a few days later our great ally from the media rich state of Hollywood, Mr. Brad Pitt, came in to town to great fanfare.
Hmmm, I hadn't heard that one either. (Wonder why??!! </sarc>)
Very interesting. But the treatment of the PM is a deliberate snub, and it isn't being reported as such on this side of the Pond. Anyone notice that?
Wonder if Obama deliberately snubbed the Brits because they're just sooooo white?
Oh, but of course he wouldn't ......
</more sarc>
The president’s guest also presented him with the framed commission for HMS Resolute, the lost British ship retrieved from the Arctic and returned by America to London, and whose timbers were used for a thank-you gift Queen Victoria sent to Rutherford Hayes: the handsome desk that now sits in the Oval Office.
And, just to round things out, as a little stocking stuffer, Gordon Brown gave President Obama a first edition of Sir Martin Gilbert’s seven-volume biography of Winston Churchill.
In return, America’s head of state gave the prime minister 25 DVDs of “classic American movies.”
Our narcissist in chief gave the finger to our best and oldest friends. Ping.
Thank you, America, for putting a fool in the White House. Had Bush done this the MSM would be all over it, declaring how embarassing this was, how crude it was of Bush to have done such a thing. But of course we cannot criticize our first black president, especially since he’s so busy implementing hope and change for the country.
I can see why Charlie Gibson of ABC news loves this guys so much ( and hates Sarah ) - cut from the same “looking their noses down on everyone” cloth.
This deserves it’s own post - I’m sure there are other pictures that read his visage well...
If the US is not the dynamic economy that climbs out of the downturn in a big enough way to pull the other economies out with us, then it will have to be China or India. I don’t think they are big enough yet to do it — and everyone else is too “European” in the way they run things (read “socialist”).
The simpler explanation, which I find more persuasive, is that he's just too narcissistic: He's the star and these foreign prime ministers are rather dreary extras. And unfortunately he's not a good enough actor to conceal his lack of interest in them. And his courtiers take pretty much the same line, which is why it never occurred to them that some no-name Brit would be insulted at not getting the multi-flagged joint presser.
A couple of weeks ago, the Fox TV show Lie to Me featured some great pix of celebs expressing contempt (like Condi Rice at a press conference -- as well she should). One of the video clips was of Obama subconsciously "flipping off" John McCain after a McCain challenge during one of the debates. Tim Roth's character explained that such gestures are more common than one would think, and showed another example featuring another celeb.
But the clip nailed Obama as into contempt, waaay into contempt, in a venue in which contempt had no place, where he was asking the American People for the most powerful job in the world.
There's also an e-mail going around I haven't been able to either validate or evaluate, in which "someone" claims that Obama is clinically narcissistic. As in, David Koresh and Jim Jones.
“...whose timbers were used for a thank-you gift Queen Victoria sent to Rutherford Hayes: the handsome desk that now sits in the Oval Office....”
Obama couldn’t give a rats-ass about history or tradition in this country. He sees no value in it, even sin.
That is why we are in deep trouble.
“I’ll be interested to know if Mr. Brown has anything to play the films on back home, since U.S.-format DVDs don’t work in United Kingdom DVD players.”
With the level of thought put into that “gift”, it is virtually guaranteed that they are encoded for the wrong region.
I am more and more impressed by Gordon’s gifts every time I hear about them. Literally nonesuch gifts, perfectly matched to the office of the recipient: a real compliment.
Unfortunately, when choosing a gift for a guy like Obama an immense rose-tinted mirror with “I AM THE GREATEST” written on it would have been more appropriate.
It is absolutely not being reported. As my father said when I told him “It must not be too big of a deal, they aren’t talking about it on the news”. And I think YOU are the typical American. If it isn’t in your face on your TV, it doesn’t exist. Or it doesn’t matter.
Ugh.
Regarding the symbolic gesture of giving a pen from an anti-slavery ship: I guess the brits didn’t get the memo that Barry isn’t really an “African American” with no history of slavery in his ancestery. Though Barry allows the “African American” deception to be perpetuated, he probably doesn’t even qualify to be classified mulatto (white/black) He’s white/arab .. with a pinch (6%-12%) of african black. As usual, Barry relies on the ignorace on his fan club.
Therein lies the rub. He was raised and educated in his formative years in a Muslim country and later mentored by an avowed communist in Hawaii. I'm sure everyone recalls the production of "Roots" that catapulted Oprah into stardom. Well because of Obama's formative years and background, he has no "Roots," or love of this country, the Constitution nor the reasons for our country's success.
That's why we are soooooooo screwed!
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