Remember when the media would continually gaff at President George W. Bush's every move, waiting for a slip of the tongue, a trip of the words, or even the throwing of a shoe! They couldn't WAIT for him to make a move, in hopes it would lead to "News". They would love to say how unpolished and embarrassing he was.
Entering from stage.......well....LEFT, of course....comes President Barack Obama. Didn't see this on NBC....or CBS....and it received a parting comment from ABC.... but it is certainly on the blogs and overseas newspapers! Let me paint the picture for you:
Three weeks ago, the Prime Minister of United Kingdom, Gordon Brown, met with President Obama for the first time since his election. During the normal pleasantries, it is traditional for each allied leader to present gifts to each other; a symbolic gesture of good will, have you. PM Brown, understanding the gravity of the history related to President Obama's rise to power, pulled a good one out of his hat. He presented President Obama with a pen holder, hand carved out of the wood that once made up the Victorian anti slave ship H.M.S. Gannet. A wonderful and thoughtful gift as is, but also historic since the H.M.S Gannet is a sister ship to the H.M.S Resolute, which infamous history most kids remember from the movie "National Treasure". For those of you who don't watch movies, the timbers from that ship were used for a very ornamental desk that was given to the United States and has been residing in the Oval Office since 1880!
But wait! There is more! PM Brown also gave the President a framed commission for the H.M.S. Resolute as well as a first edition 7 volume set of the Biography of Winston Churchill. All in all, quite a thought out and appropriate gift from your number one ally....in the WORLD!
I am sure that our President was adequately prepared and ready to provide a gift to a world leader that would sum up his respect for PM Brown and the United Kingdom. Why, yes he was......
President Obama (join me now with wild cheering and trumpets piping off in the background) gave PM Brown................25 DVD collection.
Are you kidding me? 25 DVD collection? Don't you think that the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom has the power to navigate his computer to bestbuy.com? Or Amazon.com? C'MON! That is utterly embarrassing! Simply embarrassing! What a joke! Did I mention that they were NTSC formatted, unable to be played on a U.K. DVD player? P.S. They were not Blue Ray either....
Now, I could list them to you, but that is a whole other article in itself. Look it up for yourself....and be prepared to laugh.... (ex. Star Wars Episode IV.....just Episode IV).
I could also rant about the exchange between first ladies, where First Lady Brown gave the Obama girls dresses from famous U.K. store along with 6 children's books.....not yet released in US. First Lady Obama..........yeahhhhhhh... gave two models of Marine One to the Brown boys. Strike Two!
Enough there.....Let's step into the present, shall we?
G20 summit. Goin' ON! Representin'! President Obama gets to hang with the Queen, which he said a few weeks ago, "What I love the most about Great Britain is the Queen!" Awkward....anyway....the President's wish of meeting the Queen is coming true. They meet...they shake hands....our First Lady steps in front and blocks Prince Phillip to glad hand and have pictures with the Queen.....smooth....and places her hand on the Queen's shoulder.....oopsie! Prince Phillip and the Queen overlook this of course, with Prince Phillip stepping back and nearly disappearing from frame. Then comes the gift exchange.
Now, few weeks have past, the President was throttled in the British Press for his DVD boo boo. He also has a staff of 500 people with him in the U.K. 500.....500 people to help. Surely one of these buffoons could gently remind the President, "Um, Sir... DVD's.....NO! Bad President! The Queen, sir! The Queen. Thoughtful. Let's recover, shall we?" That...however....wasn't the case.
The Queen of England gave our President a silver framed photograph of herself and her husband, a standard dignitary gift from the Queen.
Drum roll please..... President Obama gave the Queen.....an iPod. Yes..... an iPod. With footage on it from her last visit to the U.S.......yup.....he did it again......
Did I mention that the Queen already had an iPod? Yes, on recommendation from Prince Harry. Purchased back in 2005. Of course I am sure this was a closely guarded national secret and caught President Obama off guard.
Man...I don't care how great this guy may be.....he really needs to fire EVERYONE in his staff. Start from scratch. Might as well get the rest of the Clinton Staffers, you have most of them anyway.....Might want to leave off the "dry cleaner" guy......
by Das Goob! Now listen!
-"Life is hard. It's harder if you are stupid" John Wayne
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