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2009-03-07 Britain

President Barack Obama dislikes Britain, but he's keen to meet the Queen

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Posted by Omoter Speaking for Boskone7794 2009-03-07 00:19|| || Front Page|| [11127 views ] Top

#1 I wouldn't mind a DVD collection including ET, the Wizard of Oz and Star Wars.

Posted by Cherelet and Tenille1095 2009-03-07 06:11|| 2009-03-07 06:11|| Front Page Top

#2 Simple explanation for the rudeness: Obama thinks of himself as African, and Africans don't like the UK.

Posted by Cynicism Inc 2009-03-07 07:28|| 2009-03-07 07:28|| Front Page Top

#3 He best just go and solve the Middle East problems

Bite your tongue, blue man---we've enough trouble as it is.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2009-03-07 07:34|| 2009-03-07 07:34|| Front Page Top

#4 Well, Wizard of Oz and Star Wars are good movies. But as the gift to a head of state, a pile of DVDs you could find at Wal-Mart is pretty ghetto. But that's our Prez!

Posted by Scooter McGruder 2009-03-07 07:45|| 2009-03-07 07:45|| Front Page Top

#5 Barry briefly discusses his paternal grandfather Hussein Onyango Obama's imprisonment in his 'memoir' Dreams of My Father. Onyango became a British army officer's cook but later got involved in the Mau Mau guerilla movement. He was arrested in 1949 and jailed for two years as the British struggled to quell "The Kenyan Emergency" one of Africa's bloodiest rebellions against colonial rule. Tribal grudges are an institution in African and they live on among many in the Lau and Kikuyu of Kenya. I'm certain a Chinese made helicopter from the White House gift shop was seen by Michelle as quite enough.

Posted by Besoeker 2009-03-07 07:56|| 2009-03-07 07:56|| Front Page Top

#6 Maybe serving Zero a McDonalds Happy Meal at the Queens state banquet might be apt?

Posted by Bright Pebbles the flatulent 2009-03-07 09:43|| 2009-03-07 09:43|| Front Page Top

#7 ...and perhaps a couple of Buckingham Palace snow globes for the kids.

Posted by Bulldog 2009-03-07 09:57|| 2009-03-07 09:57|| Front Page Top

#8 Maybe serving Zero a McDonalds Happy Meal at the Queens state banquet might be apt?

Actually the worse revenge they could have is serving him British food.

Posted by JFM">JFM 2009-03-07 11:30|| 2009-03-07 11:30|| Front Page Top

#9 PM Brown's reaction caught on Secret Service surveillance.

Posted by ed 2009-03-07 12:10|| 2009-03-07 12:10|| Front Page Top

#10 Another Obama Gift

Posted by Bright Pebbles the flatulent 2009-03-07 12:44|| 2009-03-07 12:44|| Front Page Top

#11 I think it's probably just a matter of the Obamas having no class, no manners, no civility. They're just rude, crude Chicago hustlers who don't know any better.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2009-03-07 13:53|| 2009-03-07 13:53|| Front Page Top

#12 Abu, however, they should have access to the best and brightest who can help them choose gifts and to teach them how to be polite to foreign heads of state.
Hmmm. I wonder what kind of gift O will give Ahmedinnerjacket when he comes to accept the United States' surrender? I'm sure it won't be a pile of DVD's, since DVD's are unIslamic.

Posted by Rambler in Virginia">Rambler in Virginia 2009-03-07 14:24|| 2009-03-07 14:24|| Front Page Top

#13 Maybe serving Zero a McDonalds Happy Meal at the Queens state banquet might be apt?

I think that gloppy shit y'all have for breakfast over there would be more fitting. Poridge?

Posted by Mike N. 2009-03-07 14:52|| 2009-03-07 14:52|| Front Page Top

#14 Give Hussein a meal of Spotted Dick and Kippers.

Posted by Shieldwolf 2009-03-07 17:33|| 2009-03-07 17:33|| Front Page Top

#15 they are classless, respectless tools. Hope and change, baby!

Posted by Frank G 2009-03-07 17:40|| 2009-03-07 17:40|| Front Page Top

#16 Whatta jackass. Perhaps next time he needs to take a weekend off he could come out here and take some lessons from the belles in the retirement home. Apologies visiting Brits, I swear this 'ugly American' behavior is not the norm.

Posted by swksvolFF 2009-03-07 18:11|| 2009-03-07 18:11|| Front Page Top

#17 Coming out of the Chicago political machine as they do, the Big O and his aides are probably unfamiliar with the idea of gifts that don't involve envelopes of cash.

At least they had the presence of mind to get a set of DVDs in Region 2 PAL format rather than the American Region 1 NTSC. Uh, didn't they?

Posted by SteveS 2009-03-07 18:12|| 2009-03-07 18:12|| Front Page Top

#18 No, the cheap gift was a calculated insult. Remember, just a few days previous to Brown's visit Obama also sent back the bust of Churchill that Blair had given.

Petty, thinskinned and utterly lacking in either class or subtlety.

Posted by lotp 2009-03-07 21:31|| 2009-03-07 21:31|| Front Page Top

#19 Petty, thinskinned and utterly lacking in either class or subtlety.

AKA Ghetto.

Posted by Mike N. 2009-03-07 21:39|| 2009-03-07 21:39|| Front Page Top

#20 just remember: we've got a thin-skinned, angry, no-accomplishment racist redistributionist elitist in the White House - and her husband is even worse

Posted by Frank G 2009-03-07 21:41|| 2009-03-07 21:41|| Front Page Top

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