Conservative Rumblings

You know, we knew that Obama was anti-England since he insultingly sent back the Winston Churchill bust that the Brits GAVE us after 9/11 as a show of solidarity, but this is simply stunning. This newest disaster illustrates one of two things: Obama’s UTTER AND COMPLETE ineptitude when it comes to foreign affairs or his completely arrogant view that we don’t really need to be nice to our allies. After all, we have The Messiah running our country so what does he care? He can single-handedly save the world, didn’t you know?

I guess it could illustrate a third thing too: he’s a clueless bum from Chicago whose lack of class is being exposed on the national stage.

Britain is our staunchest ally in the world, our sister country, and a country that we need to remain in our corner. What do Chicago city-slicker Obama and his classless wife do to welcome British PM Gordon Brown to the country? Read on, but prepare to be disgusted by their sheer arrogance and lack of respect.

First, he canceled the joint press conference that he was going to have with Brown:

No sooner had the Prime Minister’s plane touched down at Andrews Air Force on Monday evening when word was passed to travelling [sic] Westminster correspondents that the press conference they’d been told to expect had been called off “because of snow”. [sic]

Hours earlier, at around 4pm EST on Monday, a British official had told me that there would be a “press conference” after the PM and President Barack Obama had met in the Oval Office and before they had their working lunch in the Old Family Dining Room. Exact timings, however, were vague.

By 8pm, the press conference - if there’d ever been one planned - was officially off. The White House press schedule stated: “There will be a pool spray of the meeting.” .

Rude, but not the worst of it. That’s coming.

It is well understood that visiting diplomatic delegations come bearing gifts and gift giving is returned in like fashion by the host country. It is an ages old human practice in diplomacy after all. Usually the gifts are valuable, representative of the products of the nations involved, or at least symbolic of the history of those nations.

For his part, PM Brown gave two symbolic gifts and one that expressed national pride. Brown came bearing a pen holder carved from the timbers of the sister ship of that which gave the wood to create the famous “Resolute Desk,” the desk that has been in America’s charge since 1880. He also gave Obama the framed commission for that famous ship, the HMS Resolute. His third gift was a seven-volume biography of one of England’s greatest leaders, Winston Churchill.

Those are some damn good gifts. How did Barry and Michelle respond? With garbage.

So, what did President Obama give the British PM? 25 movies on DVD. Yeah, that’s it. Brown gives a symbolic gift like the pen holder fashioned from a famous British warship and Obama responds by sending a staffer to WalMart to pick up a few quick movies.
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Worse, no one is 100% sure that Obama was smart enough to know that DVDs made in America don’t play on European DVD players. American DVDs are created in the “Region One” format while those in Europe play in “Region Two” format. A U.S. DVD just won’t play on a machine made for the English market.

Not to be out done in tastelessness by her husband, Michelle got into the act, too. Mrs. Brown came bearing two outfits for the Obama girls from Topshop, one of Britain’s trendiest and expensive women’s wear retail outlets.

In return, Michelle apparently had a staffer run down to the White House gift shop and grab two toy Marine One helicopter models for the Brown’s boys.

Unbe-FREAKING-lievable. Are these low-class people SERIOUSLY the face of America? Never in their lifetime will these idiots be able to compete on the level of dignity that George and Laura brought to the White House. Regardless of your opinion of Bush’s policies, no one can argue with the character and respect they carried with them throughout their eight years in the White House. This latest act by Obama is disgusting; Brits have a right to be offended.

DVDs that you can get at Wal-Mart? From possibly the wrong region so they can’t be watched? Models? These are commercially available items that convey no deeper meaning than, “Look, here’s some crap! Now go away so I can get back to ruining my country!”

I think I’m going to go with what Glenn Beck said and sent a letter of apology to the British Embassy. They should know that all of America does not stand behind this arrogant twit.

The address:

British Embassy
3100 Massachusetts Avenue, NW
Washington DC 20008

I’m still in shock over this. The lack of respect just isn’t something I am prepared to accept.