We all know Obama is a cool kinda guy. I mean, just look at the suits he wears and how he talks and you can see The Fonz (hmmm...new nick?)has nothing over him. But how much class does he have?
First thing the maestro of mouth does is return the bust of Winnie back to the Brits as tho it has no meaning and is no longer good enough to be placed somewhere in the White House. Who cares that Britain is (or was, who knows now)one of our best allies. Then when Gordon Brown comes bearing a nicely thought out gift (a wood pen set, wood from the ship the Resolute) what does Emily Post give in kind? Why a nice cheap DVD collection of classic American movies. Kinda sounds like a last minute decision that someone had to run down to the corner Walmart to get.
I'm wouldn't be surprised if Obama gives the Statue of Liberty back to the French prior to when Sarkozy comes to visit.
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A expanded version from the Telegrah co.UK:
\"President Obama has been rudeness personified towards Britain this week. His handling of the visit of the Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, to Washington was appalling. First Brown wasn't granted a press conference with flags, then one was hastily arranged in the Oval office after the Brits had to beg. Obama looked like he would rather have been anywhere else than welcoming the British leader to his office and topped it all with his choice of present (*) for the PM. A box of 25 DVDS including ET, the Wizard of Oz and Star Wars? Oh, give me strength. We do have television and DVD stores on this side of the Atlantic. Even Gordon Brown will have seen those films too often already.\"
\"This was coupled with Michelle Obama's casual choice of gifts for the Brown sons - matching models of the helicopter which ferry her husband around. While Sarah Brown had spent time choosing gifts for the Obama girls, Michelle had clearly sent an aide to the White House gift shop at the last moment.\"
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/iain_marti ... _the_queen
\"President Obama has been rudeness personified towards Britain this week. His handling of the visit of the Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, to Washington was appalling. First Brown wasn't granted a press conference with flags, then one was hastily arranged in the Oval office after the Brits had to beg. Obama looked like he would rather have been anywhere else than welcoming the British leader to his office and topped it all with his choice of present (*) for the PM. A box of 25 DVDS including ET, the Wizard of Oz and Star Wars? Oh, give me strength. We do have television and DVD stores on this side of the Atlantic. Even Gordon Brown will have seen those films too often already.\"
\"This was coupled with Michelle Obama's casual choice of gifts for the Brown sons - matching models of the helicopter which ferry her husband around. While Sarah Brown had spent time choosing gifts for the Obama girls, Michelle had clearly sent an aide to the White House gift shop at the last moment.\"
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/iain_marti ... _the_queen
