Our new President has already set about repairing the damage caused by the Bush Administration's disastrous foreign policy. As such, he's already reaffirmed our "special relationship" with the UK....by, uh, well, by giving the Prime Minister a really nice box set of DVDs.
I mean Raging Bull and Casablanca are great movies, of course, but are you fucking kidding me?
Luckily, Gordon Brown's gift was equally lame. You know, just an "ornamental pen holder made from the timbers of the Victorian anti-slave ship HMS Gannet", "a framed commission for HMS Resolute, a vessel that came to mark Anglo-US peace when it was saved from ice packs by Americans and given to Queen Victoria", and "a first edition set of the seven-volume classic biography of Churchill by Sir Martin Gilbert."
(HT: TigerHawk)
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I think Obama's operating under the assumption that if we're even close to losing Britain then we might as well just shut down the whole foreign policy thing anyway, so might as well just get them something from Amazon . . .
Of course, where was Tigerhawk's feigned outrage when W gave the same guy a leather jacket? That's one of my problem's with blogs like that. Sure, its a stupid gift, but it gets blown up into a major event when done by a lefty, but ignored when done by a righty . . .
Think he'll put together a Jerry Lewis fun pack to give to Sarkozy?
Another outrage!!! W would never have given the queen an iPod. He would have given her something respectful like a mini-skirt she could wear clubbing.
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