Posted on 05/25/2011 3:24:59 PM PDT by Kaslin
I think the point is that these kinds of protocols are supposed to be worked out well in advance to at least try and keep the embarrassing moments to a minimum. Clearly there are no adults in charge and it shows, grossly...
It's a safe wager that both State Department and White House protocol officers told Obama exactly how to handle the toast.
Problem was, neither was authorized to program the Teleprompter. Which would have, upon the first few notes of "God Save The Queen" defaulted to "SHUT UP".
FWIW the queen didn’t drink either. Not sure what the protocol on the drinking is (maybe heads of states skip the toast?) but talking over the anthem is a major gaffe.
And if it were not bad enough that he’s a sad-sack dirt merchant who is embarrassing his country, the poor dumb sonofabitch still has to wake up next to Moose-shelle every morning...
Hussein is "The Gaffer".
Has it crossed the minds of the Lamestreamers that maybe he was briefed, and then did whatever he felt like instead?
Okie01, I expect that you are exactly right. I also expect that these protocol officers are among the most frustrated people in the country, because it's my belief that the Obamas either don't listen to the briefings or else blow them off, because they don't think all that stuff applies to them.
They are so very different and special, you know.
After all, isn't that how they have made their way through life to this point: the usual rules for most people don't apply to them???
So, you're saying he finally did something real, something from the heart, and dissed the Queen to her face?
Obama the Mau-Mau bastard and legacy punk. Who needs to be sitting in a rent-controlled one-bedroom co-op somewhere, joint in hand and glass of plonk at the ready, expounding the glories of Cloward-Piven to the brothers.
And this guy's got the codes, got the football, got the jet, got the Marine Corps Band. Our poor country -- dragged through the street by the hair like a Bowery whore by a Communist lawyer and his billionaire patrons.
She should put him in the Tower, on the rack and have his genitals soaked in lye.
Yeah, smartest guy in the world is a dimwitted national embarrassment
Resident Popinjay indeed. Wake me up when he retires back to his home country, wherever that is, it sure as he’ll ain’t here.
I wonder what William F. Buckley would have made of this? Thank God he went to his reward and never had to see this.
My parents, too -- decent people, fought the Big Show (he in Hap Arnold's Eighth Air Force, she in the British nursing cadre of a big London hospital), raised four kids to be honest, decent, and straight. She a British royalist, bled British royal blue to the last day of her life. They'd have been beyond humiliated by this spectacle.
That highly acclaimed movie Idiocracy comes to mind.
Yuppers - you sure nailed that one!
I honestly think he did not recognize the music - perhaps he thought it was meant to accompany his toast?
{{{shudder}}}
I can well imagine if H.W. or W. Bush was to visit the Queen.
To start with, they would bring a unique and valuable gift that had been created by American craftsmen, of historical and likely personal value to her, reflecting on a moment of British greatness.
As example, PM Gordon Brown presented Obama with “an ornamental pen holder made from the timbers of the Victorian anti-slave ship HMS Gannet, sister ship to British Arctic Exploration ship Resolute, from whose timbers a desk in the Oval Office was built, and presented as a gift from Queen Victoria to President Rutherford B. Hayes in 1880.”
That is the level of depth and class expected.
Obama then insulted the British government by giving Brown in return a “box set of classic American movies on DVD”. He also gave Brown’s children two White House gift shop models of the presidential helicopter.
As the Russians would say, Obama is nekulturny (uncultured).
That would not surprise me one bit
The idiot-in-chief didn’t understand that to add a flourish to the traditional toast, one puts the flourish BEFORE the traditional toast’s words.
“In the words of the immortal bard... To her Majesty, the Queen!”
Valerie Jarret and Chewie, I think.
IDIOCRACY is a documentary.
Any wonder they were NOT invited to the Wedding.
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