President Obama was excited when he heard he was going to meet the queen, disappointed when he found out it wasn't Elton John.
Looks like newspapers on the other side of the Atlantic didn’t get that “laudatory coverage only” memo from the White House. The President and everyone around him have been sliced and diced by The Telegraph this week.
The paper’s latest article starts off by reviewing all the president’s gaffes – his poorly thought out choice of gifts, his insulting return of the Churchill bust, his hastily-prepared joint press conference with Gordon Brown. Then things got really nasty:
“Something, suddenly, seems to have made the Obama White House perk up and start to take an interest in the Brits. The Queen has invited the President to tea when he’s here for the G20 in April. And he’s in through the front door of Buckingham Palace faster than a Harley Davidson roaring along Route 66.”
“Note how the coolness of Team Obama disappears when a bit of regal glamour is introduced into the equation. He might not like the Brits, but he can recognise a global superstar when he encounters one. He wants to be associated with her. He’s shameless.”
“If Obama, or someone in his inner circle, had spent two minutes thinking about what present to get Brown then they could easily have come up with something appropriate. He likes books. He loves American history. Get him a signed first edition of a good Robert Dallek book such as the brilliant Flawed Giant on LBJ. Come to think of it, Obama should read it too, if he hasn’t yet, as it reveals a great deal about how a Presidency can go so wrong.”
We’re surprised Obama didn’t schedule tea and crumpets with Prince Charles since they have so much in common:
They both have two kids. Both believe in global warming, yet whip around the world in private jets. And both have domineering wives who make them jump through hoops like trained chihuahuas.
Link: Telegraph
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Wow, good to hear some truth about this charlatan President.
Europe is finally noticing what 47% of American voters knew before the election. Obama is a no-talent rookie without the class that most of us attain at a much younger age. I wish his lack of manners and basic decency was his biggest flaw, but etiquette is actually his second greatest strength – behind delivering an empty but beautiful speech that someone else writes for him. Everything else about the socialist in the White House is even worse. We’re in for a rough four years, and I just hope that Europe doesn’t need any help from the US in that time period.
Kansas girl – charlatan? Suggest you go study up on your school board members – I left Kansas yrs. ago – seemed almost anyplace would be a better place to live. The state that wants to teach creationism and throw out science – you come out of those schools????No doubt