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To: pepsi_junkie
Anybody remember if Obama was ever invited to meet the queen and the royal family?

Yeah....and he "toasted" the Queen at an inappropriate time.

The setup: The president was finishing his remarks at Tuesday’s dinner at Buckingham Palace when he set down his note cards and picked up his glass. “Ladies and gentlemen, please stand with me and raise your glasses as I propose a toast: To Her Majesty the Queen, . . ”

The screwup: At this point, the band launched into “God Save the Queen” — but Obama continued speaking over the music: “. . . for the vitality of the special relationship between our peoples, and in the words of Shakespeare, ‘To this blessed plot, this Earth, this realm, this England.’ To the Queen.” She gave him a look, he set down his glass, and then stood motionless until the music stopped. Then everyone picked up their glasses. Oops.

15 posted on 11/23/2016 9:44:45 AM PST by spokeshave (In the Thatch Weave,..Trump's Wing Man is Truth.)
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To: spokeshave
In an effort to be nice in advance of Christmas (Santa, I'm trying over here!) I will say in Obama's defense that the etiquette rules of dealing with royalty are not known to Americans, who neither have royalty nor routinely observe ceremonies in which royalty participate. He should have had a protocol person lay this all out for him in detail.

Now to be not so nice. He probably did have such a protocol person and flubbed it anyway.

25 posted on 11/23/2016 10:09:01 AM PST by pepsi_junkie (ui)
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