President Obama treated our dear British friends the way someone treats a relative they can’t stand but must visit once a year.
British PM Gordon Brown was treated like a disposable ally on his first trip to Obama’s America. First Obama snubbed him on the usual official rose garden press conference that our best friends usually get.
Then he made all of us look like assholes with the lame ass gift he gave. He gave Brown (who’s not a film buff) a boxed set of 25 classic American movies on DVD. Wow, he must have had that rushed from Amazon.com.
Michelle Obama gave Gordon Brown’s kids a plastic toy replica of Marine One from the White House gift store. Frankly, that’s almost too egregious for words.
Here’s what Gordon Brown gave to Obama:
Mr Brown’s gifts included an ornamental desk pen holder made from the oak timbers of Victorian anti-slaver HMS Gannet, once named HMS President.
Mr Obama was so delighted he has already put it in pride of place in the Oval Office on the Resolute desk which was carved from timbers of Gannet’s sister ship, HMS Resolute.
Another treasure given to the U.S. President was the framed commission for HMS Resolute, a vessel that came to symbolise Anglo-US peace when it was saved from ice packs by Americans and given to Queen Victoria.
Finally, Mr Brown gave a first edition set of the seven-volume classic biography of Churchill by Sir Martin Gilbert.
With all the wealth Obama is stealing from the American taxpayer you’d think he could’ve splurged a little for our greatest ally.
What a disgrace.
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