British Prime Minister Brown wanted to make a good first impression in his first meeting with President Obama. So he gave him an ornamental penholder hand-carved from the timbers of a Victorian anti-slave ship once called the HMS President.
President Obama reciprocated by giving Brown a handful of DVDs. Seriously. President Obama gave the prime minister of our closest ally, a nation that reveres the “special relationship” between our two countries, a bunch of DVDs.
In Obama’s defense, they were all classic American films. And they came in a special boxed set. And Michelle was probably up half the night making sure the ribbon looked real pretty. Unfortunately, it turns out Brown isn’t much of a film fan.
Britain’s Daily Mail reports that Brown could have gone to the Blockbuster store down the road from 10 Downing Street and picked up the same DVDs for about $352 (plus tax).
As they say in Hollywood, “Take two.”
And as we say at IHateTheMedia.com, “Aw, crap.”
Link: Daily Mail
This post was last modified on March 6, 2009
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selected, not elected... by the power of the secret organizations of the wealthy.
Obama is an educated fool, & he's not alone. There has been an explosion of people coming out of elite eastern schools, I.E, Ivy League & Georgetown, who go into gov't work straight out of college. The problem is almost all of them have no actual private sector experiance & know how to run nothing. Obama & Biden know nothing but elected offices, & they know how to run nothing. We are seeing that right now.
The man is an idiot.
Calling Obama an idiot is giving a bad name to idiots.
Who the hell voted for this guy?! You deserve to be slapped...
Billions of $$$$ to Hamas....bunch of dvds to America's loyal friends.
BO has been claimed to be the smartest man on the planet from all the BS that the media have been flinging like monkeys throwing poop!
Not to mention they DVDs are probably NTSC and wont run in a PAL player. Smooth move, Barry.
They were region 1 discs, so they could not be played in PAL players.