OofPoj3BMg8p0MQng~~_12.JPG)
PUTZ!
Posted on 05/24/2011 5:00:58 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Awkward Moment During Obama Toast to Queen
May 24, 2011 5:32 PM
The president and the orchestra at Buckingham Palace this evening were a bit out of synch.
When the president toasted the Queen the orchestra misunderstood a pause and what seemed to be a cue from the president for “God Save the Queen” to begin playing.
“Ladies and gentlemen please stand with me and raise your glasses as I propose a toast,” the president said, putting down his note cards and grabbing his glass. “To her majesty the Queen.”
The president paused, the guests stood, and the orchestra prepared to play.
But the president wasn’t done speaking.
“The vitality –“ the president said before the orchestra began.
Then the familiar tune – you might know it better as “My Country ‘Tis of Thee” – started up.
The president kept going: “ -- of the special relationship between our peoples and for the words of Shakespeare to this blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England,” the president said as the awkward moment played out.
The Queen looked ahead as the UK anthem played.
“To the Queen,” the president finally said.
He lifted his glass to her, she smiled a bit uncomfortably.
But because the song was playing, no one drank from his or her glass, including the president, who put his glass down on the table.
(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.abcnews.com ...
And a better-than-average major league umpire.
He must have left his teleprompter back in the states. He is an idiot without it.
Perhaps that’s his favorite day in history because it was his last fling with Larry Sinclair.
Saturday Night LIve could never write comedy as funny as Hussein Obama’s reality.
The orchestra didn’t screw up. Obama did. A Loyal Toast is not a speech. It is a simple sentence.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loyal_toast
So if a foreign Head of State is in our country, at a State Dinner, and AFTER everyone has already shown the proper respect for their anthem, it would be OK with you if they talked most of the way through our National Anthem just because they were finishing a thought?
I am just a parrot, not my original stuff
This media is corrupt beyond anything many of us could ever have fathomed!
Obama WH adds position to deal with bad press online
Snip: The post is a new one for this White House. Rapid response has been the purview of the Democratic National Committee (and will continue to be). Lee’s hire, however, suggests that a portion of it will now be handled from within the administration. It also signals that the White House will be adopting a more aggressive engagement in the online world in the months ahead.
Soviet propaganda would fit in with USA of today
Snip: Today, the Obama administration is inserting federal government dictates into major aspects of life and the economy in the USA. In the USSR, the governing Communist Party directed and controlled all aspects of life and the economy.
Hmmph! Obama is America’s awkward moment.
“Ladies and gentlemen please stand with me and raise your glasses as I propose a toast,” the president said, putting down his note cards and grabbing his glass. “To her majesty the Queen.”As they wouldThe president paused, the guests stood, and the orchestra prepared to play.
Throughout the Commonwealth realms, the Loyal Toast is most commonly composed solely of the words "ladies and gentlemen, the Queen," en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loyal_toast
The only thing the village is capable
of raising is “the village idiot”.
PUTZ!
Look. The bottom line is that rather than being the “smartest man ever born” that the libtards keep pushing, Stroker is dumber than a bag of hammers.
And so are the idiots and morons that elected him in the first place.
Yeah, but Obama KEPT TALKING through the music.
The Commonwealth customs and orchestra didn’t skroo up. Obama did.
That’s what makes it so funny.
Did Queen Mum tell him to set it down? Little slap by her majesty.
God Bless our Troops
Somebody tell me why he did not drink the toast as did the Queen. It looked like an insult to me. The Queen lifted her glass to her lips and he set his glass down on the table.
Good point, you rearely see people fall asleep during a toast.
Pray for America
Did you see his poor puppy hang dawg look after she told him to “set it down” Me thinks he finally realized he was a doofus, but then again probably not!
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.