How many of you recall the glee with which the left celebrated the election of Barack Hussein Obama, gushing that it would be wonderful to once again have an intelligent president who could speak proper English and who would restore America's image in the world?
Not being a nit-picker, I won't bother to mention the number of glaring grammatical errors Obama has made or the fact that he's hard-pressed to construct an intelligent sentence when no teleprompter is available to tell him what to say. Today, I'll only discuss the President's embarrassing rudeness to the prime minister of one of our closest allies.
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown paid Obama the honor of an official visit to welcome the new president — and was roundly snubbed. Obama's deplorable lack of manners has infuriated our British friends. One British spokesperson complained that Obama treated their prime minister as though he were nothing more than a "tinpot third world dictator".
Prime Minister Brown presented Obama with thoughtful, expensive, suitable gifts, which included a pen made from the timbers of a British warship which fought the slave trade off the coast of Africa and whose sister ship provided the wood for the desk in the Oval Office.
In return, Obama gave the Prime Minister a box of 25 DVDs of "classic American movies". Do you suppose Obama actually thought this was an appropriate gift for a foreign head of state?
Not to be outdone, First Lady Michelle presented the Browns' two young sons with toy models of the presidential helicopter which, the British press complained, were "no doubt plucked from the White House gift shop at the last minute." She is being portrayed in the British press as Lady Macbeth.
Oh, yes. . . Obama did give the prime minister something else. He removed from the Oval Office and returned to the British Embassy the bust of Winston Churchill which had been gifted to the United States by Prime Minister Tony Blair shortly after the attacks of September 11 as a symbol of solidarity and of the "special relationship" between our two nations. Certainly, Obama may have wanted to move the bust to a less prominent spot — but to return it? I cannot even imagine what Obama was thinking!
Obama did not bother to fete the British PM at a state dinner, and he refused to hold the traditional joint press conference with the visiting head of state. In short, President Obama behaved like an ignorant lout and offended one of our closest allies. The British people and press are so infuriated by Obama's treatment of their prime minister that one news commentator has urged the American people to send letters of apology to the British Embassy in Washington, DC. If you would like to do so, you may write to:
My question to Bush bashers and Obama supporters is this: Can you cite one time when President George W. Bush behaved in such a deplorable manner that it was necessary for the American public to apologize for him?
My next question is this: Is Obama so arrogant that he doesn't care about anything but himself and his own agenda? Or is he simply stupid and ignorant? You decide.
Not being a nit-picker, I won't bother to mention the number of glaring grammatical errors Obama has made or the fact that he's hard-pressed to construct an intelligent sentence when no teleprompter is available to tell him what to say. Today, I'll only discuss the President's embarrassing rudeness to the prime minister of one of our closest allies.
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown paid Obama the honor of an official visit to welcome the new president — and was roundly snubbed. Obama's deplorable lack of manners has infuriated our British friends. One British spokesperson complained that Obama treated their prime minister as though he were nothing more than a "tinpot third world dictator".
Prime Minister Brown presented Obama with thoughtful, expensive, suitable gifts, which included a pen made from the timbers of a British warship which fought the slave trade off the coast of Africa and whose sister ship provided the wood for the desk in the Oval Office.
In return, Obama gave the Prime Minister a box of 25 DVDs of "classic American movies". Do you suppose Obama actually thought this was an appropriate gift for a foreign head of state?
Not to be outdone, First Lady Michelle presented the Browns' two young sons with toy models of the presidential helicopter which, the British press complained, were "no doubt plucked from the White House gift shop at the last minute." She is being portrayed in the British press as Lady Macbeth.
Oh, yes. . . Obama did give the prime minister something else. He removed from the Oval Office and returned to the British Embassy the bust of Winston Churchill which had been gifted to the United States by Prime Minister Tony Blair shortly after the attacks of September 11 as a symbol of solidarity and of the "special relationship" between our two nations. Certainly, Obama may have wanted to move the bust to a less prominent spot — but to return it? I cannot even imagine what Obama was thinking!
Obama did not bother to fete the British PM at a state dinner, and he refused to hold the traditional joint press conference with the visiting head of state. In short, President Obama behaved like an ignorant lout and offended one of our closest allies. The British people and press are so infuriated by Obama's treatment of their prime minister that one news commentator has urged the American people to send letters of apology to the British Embassy in Washington, DC. If you would like to do so, you may write to:
British Embassy
3100 Massachusetts Ave. NW
Washington DC 20008
3100 Massachusetts Ave. NW
Washington DC 20008
My question to Bush bashers and Obama supporters is this: Can you cite one time when President George W. Bush behaved in such a deplorable manner that it was necessary for the American public to apologize for him?
My next question is this: Is Obama so arrogant that he doesn't care about anything but himself and his own agenda? Or is he simply stupid and ignorant? You decide.
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