PSYCHO AND 24 OTHER DVD'S BRAND NEW IN BOX SET - UNWANTED GIFT
Posted on 03/07/2009 10:23:52 AM PST by AJKauf
The exchange of gifts seemed to say it all: for Barack Obama, an ornamental pen holder carved from the timbers of the HMS Gannet, a British naval vessel that took part in the battle to end the slave trade; for Gordon Brown, a box set of classic American movies on DVD.
Personally, I’m a big fan of giving DVD box sets as presents. Not only are they cheap, but they look impressive on a bookshelf and can be handily purchased at short notice, due to the fact that they’re piled high in stores that can’t get rid of them. In other words, they’re the perfect last-minute gift for someone you can’t be bothered to expend much time, money or effort on.
Maybe it was laziness on the part of the White House, or maybe it simply reflects the fact the Obama belongs to a generation that attaches more historical and emotional significance to movies than to antiques, however symbolic. Nonetheless, the British press, eager to latch on to any evidence of Obama delivering a “snub” to Brown, was suitably miffed....
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0bama might as well have found an old concert t-shirt in the back of his closet that he hadn’t worn in a while and given that to the PM.
While his destruction of our society to build his marxist utopia is deliberate, his handling of foreign affairs is just downright ignorant.
The answer is simple. Hussein has no class.
He just sent an aide to the White House gift shop.
Obama was originally planning to give him a document signed by Benjamin Franklin, but he was outbid.
Ignorant and naive, for sure. Then Clinton gives a “Reset” button gag give to the foreign minister of Russia, implying everything done before was wrong. Reagan destroys communism, helps free enslaved Eastern Europe, gets the Berlin Wall torn down and helps Russia get launched toward a democracy. And she delivers a childish gag gift.
Like the Clinton administration, this one is run by inexperienced juveniles and the adults are nowhere to be found.
How could you possibly expect Barack Hussein to give up one of his prized Micheal Jackson T-Shirts.
does anyone know what the dvd set was? The Complete Hogan’s Heroes? Season 2 of “Small Wonder” or “Saved By The Bell”?
Because Gordon Brown’s just a “typical white person.”
One would have to know what class is to have it. One would also need to have it to lose it. Urkel has neither. Nor do his jackbooted goons. You can dress up a pile of crap but underneath it is still a pile of crap...no I didn’t intend to be refined.
Urkel is as shallow as a piece of paper. Someone was trying to understand the symbolism of the “gift” to PM Brown...there was none, no thought and not symbolism at all, just a random empty gesture.
The British are offended and should be.
Let’s be honest...it’s not Barry going to the store and picking this crap out..it’s his people. His people are clueless and classless...Hey, this is what America wanted..CHANGE.
But, I am not surprised that Obama would give such a gift...after all...it was the Hollywood set of movie stars that gave him such support! That's the crowd he thinks are important...thus, he gave what he thought was an "important" gift. What a demonstration of low-class values!
Heeee Heeeee Heeeeee!
Maybe they had the full collection of “The Fresh Price of Bellaire” and “The Jeffersons.”
He and Michelle have large chips on their shoulders.
Gordon Brown is, also, nearly blind.
To me, this was a deliberate insult.
Brown is nearly blind.
You know what gets me? George W. Bush was supposed to be the biggest foreign policy dummy of all time, what with not knowing the name of the prime minister of Turkey off of the top of his head and all. But the foreign policy A-Team we have now can't stop making gaffes and engaging in juvenilia . It is to laugh.
Zero’s roots are showing.
BINGO!
Re: “does anyone know what the dvd set was? The Complete Hogan’s Heroes? Season 2 of “Small Wonder” or “Saved By The Bell”?”
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How about “The Jeffersons?”
25 DVD’s of classic American movies (which probably will not play on British DVD players...different format). But I can’t tell you what the 25 movies were.
The worst is Obama got the DVDs from Columbia House under Gordon Brown’s name. He’ll be getting five more every month for ever and ever and ever...
Can you even play them on Brit DVD players? I know there are some that are country specific.
movin’ on up to the sky, we finally got our piece of the pie!
very powerful, very deep.
I wouldn't count on it. baraq needs all those world leaders more than they need him. baraq is the one, after all, who said he'd restore all those partnerships W "destroyed". One of the pivots of his lying campaign was that US prestige and esteem would be brought back on his watch. So for him and his state dept to be running around gaffe-ing on a daily basis gives a hollow ring to those promises. But that's nothing new with this guy.
I'm surprised he didn't get creative and have the Engraving Bureau print up thousands of airmail stamps with upside-down biplanes on them, you know, to give as gifts to dignitaries. After all, the one that exists is valued upward of a million $. Ergo, according to his thinking, printing lots of them would be good, b/c that's a way of sharing the wealth so that all prosper. Isn't that right?
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Hey! It's a wonder he didn't give him THAT boxed set.
I have seen this from the start as a deliberate insult. I didn't know Brown was nearly blind. That makes it even more despicable.
Maybe it was laziness on the part of the White House.....
I hope to be excused if I digress from the subject at hand. I believe it is pertinent though.
To present an object from a British ship that was used to intercept Slavers, was an act of the Kow Tow. Simply put he, Brown was saying "See how good and kind we were". This Kow Tow seems to be the lot of many people, who cannot accept that the perpetrators of that kind of inhumanity are long gone from the White Man's world.
Now, what is important is the reaction of important Black people, who are simmering with some sort of resentment. Tavis Smiley was on the Detroit network and a eager young white fellow, approached Smiley. He then said in his Kow Tow, to this effect. He said eagerly, "knowing that the builders of the White House were slaves" and now the very President of the United States is Black.
Smiley, who is refined and educated, a genial person, suddenly changed. His face turned hard. He rasped "That is just a down payment".
People should be educated, Brown included, that to patronize and offer these depreciating comments about the wicked past, will do them no good. Some Black people will get even more annoyed, they often follow up with a put down. I do not include Black people of success who are confident within their own person. People like Walter Williams and Thomas Sowell, it is beneath them.
For the life of me, these putdowns of those who Kow Tow, I cannot understand why.
Ignorant and naive doesn’t cover it. As it happens, the “reset” button didn’t say reset, after all. It translated to “overcharged” or something equivalent.
So nix on naive. Go straight to stupid.
LMFAO that rules
Small wonder -- he's dang-near blind.
Yes indeedy! The Obama’s got their PIE!! LOL!!!
Call him Sir Ted Kennedy: Senator will be knighted by Queen Elizabeth
United States Constitution
Article 1, Section 9. No title of nobility shall be granted by the United States: and no person holding any office of profit or trust under them, shall, without the consent of the Congress, accept of any present, emolument, office, or title, of any kind whatever, from any king, prince, or foreign state.
The Federalist Papers : No. 84
Nothing need be said to illustrate the importance of the prohibition of titles of nobility. This may truly be denominated the corner-stone of republican government; for so long as they are excluded, there can never be serious danger that the government will be any other than that of the people.
So the Queen is going to disregard the Constitution as well? That's cheeky!
Funny...that was a cool gift.
Shopping list:
1. Buy guns.
2. Buy Ammo.
Get used to it world.
We have to.
The "Obama snub" ( Google it) and you will see what I mean, its his only diplomatic skill and soon that will be worn out.
Typical technique of fascists. Obama shouuld not have showed at all in Britain, leaving the work to professionals.
Brown is lucky OIbama originally wanted to give him a box set of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s best racist rants.
“I’m Gonna Git You Sucka”
Agree, in a way, but it’s 0 who picked the clueless and classless people, so it is his fault. Plus, he should have realized it was an inappropriate gift and had them get something else.
The gift was not unintentional or not thought out. The gift was meant of a rejection of the old meta narrative and a statement that American culture has been redefined by the Obama administration as technologically advanced Hollywood hip.
How about giving him something that is pure Obama: some home-grown Acorns.
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