Quote:Barack Obama met the Queen at Buckingham Palace today and gave her a gift of an iPod loaded with video footage and photographs of her 2007 United States visit to Richmond, Jamestown and Williamsburg in Virginia. In return, the Queen gave the President a silver framed signed photograph of herself and the Duke of Edinburgh - apparently a standard present for visiting dignitaries.
It is believed the Queen already has an iPod, a 6GB silver Mini version she is said to have bought in 2005 at the suggestion of Prince Andrew
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There was widespread criticism in Britain and from Anglophiles in the US of Mr Obama's recent present to Mr Brown of a box set of classic American movies on DVDs that were not compatible with British DVD players.
(This post was last modified: 04-01-2009 02:18 PM by GGniner.)
If it's an iPod made for America how is she going to recharge it? Do they make chargers that will fit into Euro wall outlets and work on 240v or did Obama just pull another boner? Worse yet, what if before they put the Queen's videos on the iPod Obama forgot to erase all his porn?
They sell adapters all over the world. The question is, is he so arrogant that he thinks IPods are only available in the States? Or that the QUEEN of ENGLAND couldn't obtain one on her own?
(04-01-2009 08:53 PM)smn1256 Wrote: If it's an iPod made for America how is she going to recharge it? Do they make chargers that will fit into Euro wall outlets and work on 240v or did Obama just pull another boner? Worse yet, what if before they put the Queen's videos on the iPod Obama forgot to erase all his porn?
- - The Queen has already tossed that worthless sucker in File 13.
(NO, not Bauwnee Fuwank Queen, but the British Queen - - Bauwnee wouldn't get rid of his Obambi IPod for all the Fisting in the world ... well on 2nd thought ...)
(04-01-2009 08:59 PM)Rebel Wrote: They sell adapters all over the world. The question is, is he so arrogant that he thinks IPods are only available in the States? Or that the QUEEN of ENGLAND couldn't obtain one on her own?
(04-02-2009 06:10 PM)Rebel Wrote: He kissed the GDamn Saudi king's ring? WTF?
People, this is a sign of weakness and servitude in the Muslim world.
Great going, you fookin' idiot.
Who knows where that ring has been? For all we know OBL kissed it yesterday. But you're correct, that was a sign of weakness, he's giving away our credibility and getting nothing in return.
Quote:It wasn’t a bow, exactly. But Mr. Clinton came close. He inclined his head and shoulders forward, he pressed his hands together. It lasted no longer than a snapshot, but the image on the South Lawn was indelible: an obsequent President, and the Emperor of Japan.
Canadians still bow to England’s Queen; so do Australians. Americans shake hands. If not to stand eye-to-eye with royalty, what else were 1776 and all that about? …
Guests invited to a white-tie state dinner at the White House (a Clinton Administration first) were instructed to address the Emperor as “Your Majesty,” not “Your Highness” or, worse, “King.” And in what one Administration aide called “some emperor thing,” an Army general was cautioned that he should not address the Emperor Akihito at all as he escorted him to the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington National Cemetery.
But the “thou need not bow” commandment from the State Department’s protocol office maintained a constancy of more than 200 years. Administration officials scurried to insist that the eager-to-please President had not really done the unthinkable.
Note the silence from the NYT's, 15 years later.
this probably deserves its own thread.
(This post was last modified: 04-06-2009 03:45 PM by GGniner.)