Posted on 05/25/2011 3:24:59 PM PDT by Kaslin
Just imagine if President Bush would have done this the LSM would have been all over it and you would still hear about it today.
Protocol is for squares.
Hey Mediots!
Maybe they should have had George and Laura Bush tutor him on the proper way to behave in the various venues of our best allies.
I am curious what is protocol when an error starts to occur. When the band is listening for the words “To the Queen!” and they hear it, they are not exactly wrong, are they? So they start in to play.
At THAT point what is the correct protocol? I do not know queenly etiquette but of course National Anthem etiquette is the same in both our countries — YOU DO NOT SPEAK. So Obama in my belief should have, even as he was continuing with his toast, lowered his glass, mumbled “Sorry,” and stood at attention.
I do not think the band would have been able to STOP the national anthem, so that takes precedence to me.
Can anyone correct my impression? What should a head of state have done? Everyone else put down their glasses. Why did he insist on speaking through the national anthem?
Also, there was a famous example of the queen doing something at a royal dinner with one of our leaders, years ago, where in order to make the guest feel comfortable, she copied his faux pas. She was highly praised for this. I do not remember what it was but it was a dining error.
But how could the Queen, if she had wanted to, help out Obama in this incident last night? She can’t exactly disrupt her own country’s national hymn.
Well, she could have helped us.
Since he is a British subject, she could have had him thrown in the dungeons for insulting the crown.
“Just imagine if President Bush would have done this the LSM would have been all over it”
Yes, we all know there would be endless jokes with alcohol, ignorance and cowboy themes. The left wing TV hosts would have a field day with it.
It was a priceless moment...just another in the line of dumb and dumber, and totally disrespectful.
The man simply has no idea about nationality, national pride, patriotism, tradition, or protocol. Because he has no nationality, he thinks patriotism and national anthems are bellicose and fake. He was raised with loyalty to nothing but himself. Remember he’s the citizen of the world. The communist who believes only in the collective citizenery of which HE shoul be king, because he’s the briliant omnipotent genius and smarter than everybody else.
This whole thing, once again, was a disgusting embarrassment to Americans. Especially in light of the fact that this is the Queen, who put on her boots and drove an ambulance in WWII, always gracious and respectful of the step-child country that came to her country’s rescue and fought off her cousins from the north who came to confiscate and murder her citizenery.
I don’t believe in monarchism or totalitarianism, and disagree with many things about Europe’s governance. But THIS woman of strength and dignity, and great good humor, who could crack jokes with President Bush and treated him with great respect, has earned the dignity accorded her.
As each day goes by, Obama is becoming more frustrated and angry at the failure of the world to realize what a gift to mankind he is. I predicted, and still predict, he will not complete his run for a second term. He’s there because a lot of Chicago thugs and socialists wanted to put him there - but he himself hates the job - you can tell by his uncaring, his frequent golf trips, his overseas trips, his lack of leadership on the budget. The man is an acute failure.
Holy cow!! I just looked up the video,
How Embarrassing!!!!
Why would a person who pays no respect to our national anthem, pay any to that of another nation?
That fat little Lefty, Leno, and the elderly Lefty cadaver, Letterman, would be doing Bush toast jokes for two or three weeks, and their terminally dense audiences would have laughed uproariously, as though they were funny.
I don't watch either one of them, but I think it would be great to have some funny looking guy do a youtube stand-up routine of marginally humorous Letterman bashing jokes, making fun of his family and abusive personality, and have it go viral.
Doesn’t anyone give him advise?
Hillary maybe. ;)
All the fawning media makes excuses for this idiot meanwhile in the video I didn’t see another guest bobble about anything, Obama was OBVIOUSLY screwing up, everyone else knew what to do, how to act during this moment. Not only that but he reads like a gradeschooler.
This guy is such a fraud, a hoax perpetrated on us by communists, Marxists, the nation is toast if it tolerates such things and I see no opposition doing its duty. Lawlessness abounds, we are going to pay for this big time, it’s only begun.
Everywhere I look I see gutless, clueless RINOs stabbing each other in the back prancing around like the girly-men they are, nothing more than faggots looking for air time.
No no the band didn’t start to early. Like Rush said the traditional toast to her majesty is essentially, “To Her Majesty the Queen.” That’s it
I was astounded to see Obama continuing to blather over “God Save the Queen”.
The dope Obama probably thought it was the song “America” played in his honor~a back-up to a stupid toast, so to speak~
IMO
After all, isn’t it all about Obama~~~(sarcasm)
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