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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Our President either a.) wasn't listening or b.) couldn't organize his thoughts without a Teleprompter.
Exactly. He also needed a Teleprompter to remind him of the year. LOL.
Blundering Bush makes ANOTHER gaffe as he winks at the Queen
did ya see the crotch grab after he put the glass down. same as the crotch grab he did during our own national anthem when even hildebeest knew basic flag etiquette.
I had to replay it and crank it up.
YOU’RE ABSOLUTELY RIGHT! “SET IT DOWN” she said to him with clear irritation in her voice!
HAHAHA! HAHA! OH MAN! I CAN’T WAIT TO RUB THIS IN WITH THE OBOTS AT WORK!!
IMHO...
The yapper in chief is unaware that during any national anthem one shuts one’s yap out of respect.
Before the music started, he kept trying to make eye contact with her during his toast, as if he was speaking to her.
He is less than clueless on formal events, let alone protocol for interacting with heads of state. The toast is spoken to the guests, it is rude to try to get a reaction from the person you are toasting unless the toast is informal - let alone the fact that it is a head of state in this case. For the Queen to react with eye contact and a smile at him while he is toasting her, she would be showing him a courtesy or preference that she shows no one, since she represents the United Kingdom; as a symbol, she is the state. Her husband the Prince walks behind her because he is not head of state. You will never see the Queen be “folksy” and start hugging people, or smiling and giggling with them. She has to reserve her personal feelings and only interact in a polite fashion, not in a “chummy” or “friendly” fashion. She is not a politician. A Prime Minister or President is head of state or head of government (a politician) depending on the situation, and, for the most part, they act accordingly. She must above all be dignified and noble. Her “friendships” are formal, as they all have symbolic implications.
He simply should have immediately shut his yap, waited a big pause to get attention back to himself after the music stopped, then briefly concluded as he did. He did not take a sip, that was rude. One can only assume that he was trying to signal to muslims that he is not taking the alcohol. It is difficult to imagine giving a toast to a head of state and then not drinking whatever was in one’s glass.
About the only thing he does with royalty and heads of state is bungle - and he seems to take delight in it, other than this time, when I think he was really hoping he would shine with his brilliant toast. Narcissist that he is, he could not help but detract attention from the object of his toast - another head of state - and draw it to himself. One can’t learn narcissism like that, one has to be born with it. He truly is one of a kind, except for his attitude and fantasy ideologies, which are all too typical of the far left.
The disdain between obama the communist and any symbols associated with Western civilization other than rap music and basketball is palpable whenever they are juxtaposed.
If his toast was shorter, simpler and made more sense, perhaps it would not have been so confusing and he could have finished prior to the British national anthem.
Funny thing is he’s not even respected at all by the Russians. How funny is that. He’s simply a useful idiot like oswald. If he visits Russia, I can just see Putin at the end joking with his minions, get this dufus out of here, send him to America where he can help us by being their President.
Well, he certainly is making good on his campaign promises to his core supporters, all the America-haters. He’s trying for all he’s worth to be disrespectful to all things Western. Try as he might, I would venture a guess that every thinking person in the world knows that he only shames himself.
Thank you Mr. President, YOU MADE MY DAY!
That ‘set it down’ remark from the queen was icing on the cake!
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Um...actually...the prisoner had actually ripped pages out of his Koran stuffed them down the toilet in an attempt to flood his cell. Since the act was committed by a pot-bellied savage, it's acceptable.
<”He's still be #2”<
Man, you're tougher on that guy than I am. LOL
If Michelle goes in there to help him wipe, you might be right though.
oclueless
Duh.....he was just in Ireland slopping up the Guinis.
Would you hold down your wife for a rapist? The left are not your friends. Treat Obama as they would have treated a GOP President.
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That’s what happens when you LIE all the time—he drank beer in Ireland, remember, he’s Irish now! What a creep.
I assume that would be his Irish name.
Suggestion. List all of Obama’s funny/false/fatuous phrases and for each one make decals/bumper stickers/billboards and use his signature. Need to give this man all the publicity due.
LOL Yes
I think the protocols, in this situation, are available for study. So one would think his aids, or himself, would have bothered to look them up. Ubama, and his aides, are indeed amateurs on the world stage. But, lest we forget, Ubama knows socialist community organizing protocol in Chicago, and, he has has a passion for the “sweet sound” of the muslim call to prayer.
Still, the Britons missed a prime opportunity. Since this would have been an opportune moment, to yet again, offer the bust of Churchill, to be displayed in the oval office. Which as everyone knows, one of his first acts as muslim in chief, he rejected, to send it packing back to the UK.
Although, I am experiencing a little difficulty empathizing with the Brits. After all, they are ceding English law to islamic law, allowing muslims to have their own courts, and judges.
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