Well at least Mooch was better dressed than usual.
Posted on 05/25/2011 6:07:49 AM PDT by markomalley
President Obama’s lack of experience with royalty was on full display today in England as he mistakenly began a toast to the Queen of England at the wrong time, resulting in “God Save the Queen” blaring over his words and no one getting to drink what was in their cups. Awkward.
“And now I propose a toast to the Queen,” President Obama began in London today, but only got as far as “To the vitality of the special relationship” before “God Save the Queen” cut him off. He kept reading the toast, however, and finally raised his glass to her. No one drank out of their glasses afterwards, however. The Queen herself looked over at him with a hint of contempt (confusion?) in her face, while the other members of the royal family stood stoically around them.
Many may see not knowing the tedious etiquette of proposing a toast to an ornamental political figure a “gaffe,” but isn’t the entire point of America not bothering to care about royal etiquette? Allahpundit at Hot Air has some (rare) praise for the President:
Protocol, apparently, requires the toastmaster to wait until after “God Save the Queen” plays and then begin the toast. But the almighty O waits for no sovereign, so he launched straight into his shpiel. To which I say, good for him. What else was the American revolution about, if not the right of the president to half-ass some formulaic niceties about the British monarch? He should have punctuated it with a weary “whatever” and downed the glass in one gulp.
Video via ABC News below: (video at link)
Obama really has some problems. He doesn’t know what year it is. Given he can read a teleprompter fairly well, but beyond that SCARY!!!!!
Yes, you described it perfectly. Sullen, angry. A charming smile and a little joke afterwards and no one would be talking about it (and the press would be saying how wonderful he was).
Who is Jesse?
Maybe but I don’t think so, I think he looks honestly and truly angry, barely suppressed.
What do expect from someone who doesn't even know what year it is !!!
What an embarrassing day to be Irish.
Schadenfreude!!! Obama reaps the benefits of an affirmative action protocol office. Fans of irony ecstatic!!!
Speaking of charming smile, did you happen to catch a glimpse of Moochelle? Slumped and sullen would about cover it.
To be fair to BO, this is an irrelevance.
Nobody was insulted. Just more embarrassed for him than anything else.
Too late!
Camilla was enjoying being the prettiest girl at table!
We have a fu^%ing ill-bred moron for a “President”. Period!!
He’ll blame his error as a mistake of the Protocol Officer not explaining it correctly, for it is never Ubama’s fault.
That's all I need to know about her.
BS. He was representing our nation and, as always, did a bad job of it. The man is a disaster.
When you politicize the Office of Protocol with Chicago thugs, you get thug protocol. These are most likely people who were socially promoted through school, supported the community organizer, and were rewarded with their sinecures. Now we all look like this unfortunate group of Americans.
We are being dumbed down, in fact and in appearance.
We are being “leveled.”
Obama is such a shameful face of America.
Remember, his actions are a continuing show of disrespect for our allies, and in particular Israel and Great Britain. It is purposeful, planned, and lauded in private.
It didn’t go down bad in the UK. No big deal there.
Is that according to the socialist press?
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