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Obamas reap windfall in diplomatic gifts

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Posted by Steve White 2011-01-19 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 Anyone know what the royal couple (Bama and the Wookie) gave to the Saudi King?

DVD of Bama's speeches?

Posted by CrazyFool 2011-01-19 00:13|| 2011-01-19 00:13|| Front Page Top

#2 Now I understand why Obama bowed so low before King Abdullah.

Posted by Swamp Blondie 2011-01-19 00:25|| 2011-01-19 00:25|| Front Page Top

#3 Something about dignitaries receiving gifts, payoffs, or something.

Never mind, look at the campaign contributions.
Obama is POWNED.

Posted by newc 2011-01-19 02:24|| 2011-01-19 02:24|| Front Page Top

#4 It's good to be a King!

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2011-01-19 08:14|| 2011-01-19 08:14|| Front Page Top

#5 Presidents don't keep such gifts, which are made to the US proper.

Posted by lotp 2011-01-19 09:03|| 2011-01-19 09:03|| Front Page Top

#6 Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas offered the U.S. leader $521 in gifts, including the least expensive item listed by the State Department: a $75 bottle of olive oil.

Oh, shit! Mahmoud! Run down to duty free and grab something! And a carton of Newports.

Posted by tu3031 2011-01-19 09:46|| 2011-01-19 09:46|| Front Page Top

#7 The gifts have all been turned over to the National Archives.

Then this is a non-story. I was ready to get pissed for a moment there.

Posted by Mitch H. 2011-01-19 09:48|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/ 2011-01-19 09:48|| Front Page Top

#8 History and US policy on diplomatic gifts.
I think a lot of them end up in the presidential libraries.

Posted by tu3031 2011-01-19 09:57|| 2011-01-19 09:57|| Front Page Top

#9 If Obama were doing his job he'd be getting bags of $hit from a lot of these countries.

Posted by gorb 2011-01-19 10:56|| 2011-01-19 10:56|| Front Page Top

#10 Last spring I went to the Reagan Library in Simi Valley, CA. You should see the gift that the Soddies gave him, a solid gold water pitcher with solid gold cups. (Well, knowing the Soddies, you wouldn't expect it to be intended for margaritas.) But it's in the library now. I don't think Reagan ever got to use it. Kind of a shame, really. Somebody should have been allowed to drink water out of it at least once. There were all kinds of other gifts there too.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2011-01-19 16:05|| 2011-01-19 16:05|| Front Page Top

#11 If Obama were doing his job he'd be getting bags of $hit from a lot of these countries.

Instead, we're getting the shizzle from him ... at taxpayer expense ... and we have to bag it ourselves.

Hey! I said 'shizzle'!!
*turns baseball cap ~~backwards~~ sideways all crooked with a bandana underneath*

Posted by ryuge 2011-01-19 16:36|| 2011-01-19 16:36|| Front Page Top

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