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.
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....should have taken the teleprompter.....
How can he further insult the British,
Let us count the ways.....
LOL!! Couldn’t happen to a more pompous guy.
Any clarification yet from his handlers as to why he thought it was 2008 earlier today?
I just saw the video and he looks TICKED OF like an evil minion used to getting his way. Even when he toasted the queen after the song he was pissed the way he said TO THE QWEEN.
And LOL Camilla seems to tell someone he effed up.
what a classless act!
He thinks he is Reagan. Arab spring for terrorists is more like it. How dare he defame Reagan’s name
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.
Maybe Obama didn’t drink the wine because Muslims don’t drink alcohol.
They should have found him a toastaprompter. The Radical Communist Muslim in Chief is absolutely lost without a teleprompter.
I think he thought the music was an appropriate accompaniment to his brilliant elocution. I think he’s going to have an orchestra to accompany all his speeches from now on so the soaring notes can enhance his soaring rhetoric.
He was READING that toast!
He looked completely pissed off over the gaffe.
He is a complete and utter loser!
hEY qUEENIE.....DON'T INVITE THEM BACK...THAT REALLY ARE LOW CLASS.
“I think he thought the music was an appropriate accompaniment to his brilliant elocution.”
LOL—that’s what it looked like to me, too!
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.
Jet lag
Obama = permanent fail.
Hahahahahahahahaha!
I really did LOL!
I noticed his signature, too. Surely FR has a handwriting analyst who can give us an interpretation. Those ostentatious initial letters and minimalist letters following surely tell us something.
EXACTLY what I was thinking!!!
It would have qualified as major news for days and days while we would be forced to watch it replayed and analyzed.
Zero proves once more that he’s a total and complete idiot! LOL!
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