[GOPJ]

British prime minister Gordon Brown thought long and hard about what gift to bring on his visit to the White House last week. Barack Obama is the first African-American president, so the prime minister gave him an ornamental desk-pen holder hewn from the timbers of one of the Royal Navy’s anti-slaving ships of the 19th century, HMS Gannet. Even more appropriate, in 1909 the Gannet was renamed HMS President.

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.

[DDLL]

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.

[Recovering_Democrat]

Obama, you're like school on Saturday...no class.

[neverdem]

That’s why he’s indifferent to the plummeting Dow. The president has made a strategic calculation that, to advance his plans for socialized health care, “green energy,” and a big-government state, it’s to his advantage for things to get worse.

Diplomatic skills are lacking, but that's what I'm afraid of.

Apres Obama, Le Deluge!