Obama Also Insults the UK
Tuesday, April 7th, 2009The United States isn’t the only country that President Obama has been insulting. He also recently insulted the UK, one of our closest allies. Maybe Obama should speak for himself when he calls Americans “arrogant.”
In a customary gift exchange, Prime Minister Gordon Brown gave Obama a pen holder fashioned from the anti-slavery ship HMS Gannet, a framed commissioning paper from the HMS Resolute (the Resolute desk is in the Oval Office), and a first edition biography of Winston Churchill. Needless to say, these are all priceless gifts.
What did Obama give to Brown? A box of 25 American DVDs. And they were region 1 encoded so Brown won’t even be able to play them on his DVD player in the UK! Traditionally, such gift exchanges are thoughtful, but the amount of thought that went into this gift is embarrasing.
Obama gave Brown a very nice bust of Winston Churchill as well.. which was originally given to the United States from the UK on 9/11 as a symbol of unity. And Obama gave it back! This isn’t a Seinfeld script, it really happened!
Obama also gave the Queen of England an iPod. She already had one.
