HEY BIG SPENDER! Obama gets the queen … an iPod »
Posted By pc25 7 months, 1 week ago in NewsBecause, after all, nothing says “ special relationship” like a gadget you can buy in every mall in the western world. What’ d he get Prince Philip? An Xbox?
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mesodude7 months, 1 week ago
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I don't know which iPod he purchased but Apple releases new products here all the time before introducing them to the international community. Her fellow If that's the case here, the Queen's countrymen are probably green with envy right now.
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pc257 months, 1 week ago
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http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/toby_harnden/blog/200...
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Barack Obama's gift for the Queen: an iPod, your Majesty
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fiftynine7 months, 1 week ago
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nostalgia7 months, 1 week ago
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That is the only thing on the iPod - the Queen's visit here
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It also included:
# Audio of then-state senator Obama's speech at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, and
# Audio of President Obama 2009 Inauguration Address
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pc257 months, 1 week ago
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVG1BNsi0ow
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mesodude7 months, 1 week ago
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Update for clueless cons who are no doubt hoping they'll one day market a television which only gets FOX News:
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"The Politico reported that President Obama presented Queen Elizabeth II with "a personalized iPod," and noted criticism of the gift by an "etiquette expert," but did not mention that the White House reportedly said Queen Elizabeth asked for the iPod."
"This evening, the president visited Buckingham Palace for a private audience with the queen and husband Prince Philip. Mr. Obama's gift for the queen? A video iPod with footage of her 2007 trip to Washington -- a gift that "officials say she requested."
--Get that, cons?! She ASKED for the freaking iPod. Now STHU and get a life. Thanks.
Politico cited criticism of Obama's iPod gift by "etiquette expert," but WH says queen requested it
http://mediamatters.org/items/200904020002?f=s_sea...
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Klarissa7 months, 1 week ago
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vor7 months, 1 week ago
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Remember Klarissa you have little to no credibility after the election! You and your trolls are merely sore losers. Lashing back at Obama for the indiscretions visited on your beloved GW.
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In all of this you miss the fact that this IPod was loaded with images the Queen might really enjoy. How dare he give her something sentimental! And whoever bought her the other IPod she has is probably feeling pretty low now. I believe that was Charles. But of course the Queen will dismiss your nonsense. This was not an official visit, it was a visit at the request of the Queen. No matter what Obama presented her you would be tearing into the gift. It is just the sort of people you have become. Angry, pathetic losers. Sure there were Dems in '00 and '04 who behaved irrationally post election but this is mass hysteria. And the funny part is your side is throwing around rhetoric that sounds like it came from Sarah Palin's stump speeches. Didn't the American voter teach you anything? The one thing that really should not fly in the next election cycle is negativity. Keep it up!
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mesodude7 months, 1 week ago
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""Inexperience in the real world, showing just what a clod he is.
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So much for change and Hope??"
---This will probably sound like a weird concept but maybe we should wait to find out what the queen actually thinks of the gift before we decide Obama is a clod. ;-P -
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nostalgia7 months, 1 week ago
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Under the direction of the Acting Chief of Protocol Gladys Boluda the office is responsible for activities including the planning, hosting, and officiating of ceremonial events for visiting chiefs of state and heads of government, as well as coordinating logistics for the visits; managing Blair House, the President's guesthouse; and overseeing all protocol matters for Presidential or Vice Presidential travel abroad, working alongside the White House.
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http://www.state.gov/s/cpr/
Of course nothing says that the administration is consulting her on these matters
Maybe Obama is consulting one of the Chicago thugocracy he took to Washington with him-
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mesodude7 months, 1 week ago
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"Of course nothing says that the administration is consulting her on these matters
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Maybe Obama is consulting one of the Chicago thugocracy he took to Washington with him."
--Personally, I think Obama should have saved his money and just greeted the Queen with "Amigo, Amigo!" After that maybe he could've winked and leered at her repeatedly and then forced himself upon her with a surprise backrub. Queens usually like that sort of thing... And to round out his virtual gift, he could've pretended to look for WMD under tables and chairs at the palace. Meanwhile, Michelle could've just smiled gamely and nicknamed the Queen "whitey." ;-P
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Wolfie20077 months, 1 week ago
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I wish I hadn't watched the video. Embarrassing. One thing though, did you notice the Queen was carrying her purse on her arm. Do you think she said after the camera's were turned off, "We're really sorry but you caught us at a bad time as we have and emergency errand we have to attend to and we have to leave." Wouldn't that have been sweet? lol
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vor7 months, 1 week ago
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Wolfie the D.A.! As you might not be aware (since this article doesn't bother to mention such facts) this was not an official visit it was a visit made at the request of the Queen. She wanted meet America's charming young President and his lovely wife. You will learn (it may take awhile) that this sort of fact twisting should be left to the experts like Rush or O'Reilly. They are professionals, not the rank amateurs we see on Propeller from the Right. Keep your day job.
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mesodude7 months, 1 week ago
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"I wish I hadn't watched the video. Embarrassing."
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--I know, right? And us crazy liberals actually had the gall to be ashamed and outraged that our former President tortured, spied on Quakers, and couldn't speak English properly. Talk about your misplaced priorities.... ;-P -
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fiftynine7 months, 1 week ago
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Probably bigger than yours waggie...I'm sure she has a bigger set than you do also..but then again so does my neutered rat...
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You are a pathetic sock puppet master with out a life,that is unless your foot fetish made you make such a stupid comment...moron.
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k9kssr7 months, 1 week ago
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Wolfie,
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The Queen has probably heard how Obama likes to give other people's money away, ya know redistribute the wealth, and that's why she wanted to keep a close eye on her purse.
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icono17 months, 1 week ago
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may be a reason for that. according to some sources around the financial world our 'financial system' may become subject to the IMF organization. if so America will have to play nice and be gracious with the rest of the world to keep borrowing all that money for all of those crazy stimulus bills that congress keeps pumping out when ever the tingle messiah has a financial vision of the future.
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but other than that; the gaffs and socially clumsy situations just keep on rolling from one public meeting to another.
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vor7 months, 1 week ago
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Shall we go back and review GW 's first months? Someone who had been a glad hander all his life. Who had executive experience?
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But it is good to see that you may have a shred of dignity left! It isn't the politics I object to here it is the absolute stupidity and the inaccurate reporting of the days events. -
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frctm57 months, 1 week ago
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Okay what would anyone suggest as a gift for the queen? Lets face it, it is very unlikely she really wants or needs anything. When George Bush jr was at a state diner with the queen while his father was president, he told the queen that he was the black sheep of his family and asked Elizabeth who was the black sheep in hers. I am not saying protocol is not unimportant, but its hardly the most pressing issue right now.
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k9kssr7 months, 1 week ago
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"Okay what would anyone suggest as a gift for the queen? Lets face it, it is very unlikely she really wants or needs anything"
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Frctm5, well, personally, I would give her something about Pembroke Welsh Corgis.....she has a fondness for them. Or I might give her a Peggy Bang original of a cocker. We'd talk about dogs, and Crufts dogshow, and Westminster dog show and I'd kiss up to her about all the wonderful breeds that originated in England like the English cocker, and the English Setter, the corgis both Pembroke and Cardigan, the English Toy Spaniel, the King Charles Spaniel, the Welsh terrier, the Fox terrier both wire and smooth, etc. We'd get on famously and we'd be so engrossed in our conversation about dogs and dog shows we wouldn't notice that Brown or Obama or that Chinese dude was choking and almost unconcious at the next table until the paramedics came in to do the Hindlick maneuver on them. I know, because this actually happened, except I wasn't talking to the Queen and it wasn't Brown or Obama who was choking to death and it wasn't in England that this happened. -
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not2needy7 months, 1 week ago
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What do you buy for a person who can have anything they want at their fingertips 24/7/365?????
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What would you have bought her, another castle or a few new crowns?? lol
You need to learn how to pick your battles, at least President Obama didn't say she was 200 yrs old then wink at her in front of the whole world! -
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fiftynine7 months, 1 week ago
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Wow PC2.5 just when i think you have posted the most stupid thing you can find...you go one better.
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Face it loser,you and klarissa and waggie,with his foot fetish, lost..Get it?
WE now have a president with a brain that doesn't act like a spoiled child,actually knows the names of the foreign dignitary's that he meets and has ten times the poise and class that the azzhole that just left could ever have...It just makes me feel good to watch you reach for every broken straw you can find in your quest to discredit the president....lolol -
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NoWayMan7 months, 1 week ago
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what do you give the woman who (literally) has everything?
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the IPod is uniquely american in conception, design and innovation. and it points to the future. so at least there was some thought behind it.
it coulda been A LOT worse people.
this story is akin in importance to stories about what Michelle Obama wore to meet the queen or Gordon Brown and his wife.
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Hhussk7 months, 1 week ago
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I don't intend to spend a lot of time focusing on what our President gives out as presents.
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It was a terrible gift and showed little in terms of forethought.
Although the President was "rude" in terms of protocol towards the Queen, I won't hammer at him. He hasn't been trained in etiquette.
The biggest problem I have with an iPod as a gift is 1) It lacks ceremonial (sentimental) value and substance, and 2) The Queen already had one.
Folks....She already had a iPod.
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mesodude7 months, 1 week ago
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"It was a terrible gift and showed little in terms of forethought."
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--But I think that's for the Queen to decide.
"Although the President was "rude" in terms of protocol towards the Queen, I won't hammer at him. He hasn't been trained in etiquette."
--First, he's not a seal. And if you're someone who is used to greeting people a certain way, it's perfectly understandable that one might slip up. I know doctors and musicians who don't shake hands because they fear having their hands (livelihood) injured by someone who grasps it too hard.
"The biggest problem I have with an iPod as a gift is 1) It lacks ceremonial (sentimental) value and substance, and 2) The Queen already had one."
--Again, it's for the Queen to decide if the gift was or wasn't appropriate. AFAIK, we don't know what she thinks of her gift. I have two iPods myself (many people have more than one) and as the technology is updating all the time, I'm sure I'll buy more. So what if she had one already? For all we know, she could be a collector.
Now, if you're worried about how Obama's gift could hurt international relations, just remind yourself that we *could* do (and *have* done) far worse (our former most recent former President being a prime example) in choosing a leader. And I happen to think Obama is doing a great job so far. Not bad at all
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mesodude7 months, 1 week ago
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"It was a terrible gift and showed little in terms of forethought.."
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--Again, I can't help but marvel at cons deciding what's a "terrible gift" (at the very least that's for the *recipient* to assess) or what's good "protocol" or "etiquette" vis a vis the international community. Do you cons simply *not* remember who and what you supported for the last 8 years? GET SERIOUS, clowns. ;-P-
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Hhussk7 months, 1 week ago
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Once again you, a liberal, fails to understand what etiquette means. When Obama grabbed the Queens hand with both of his, that was a breach of etiquette. Nothing more, nothing less. I'm sure the Queen was quite forgiving and let it pass. The British media will probably latch on to it for a few days - much like the Gordeon Brown DVD incident - but it will eventually pass.
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And the situation really only passes for humor, not real news. You see, had George Bush given the Queen an iPod, or PM Brown a set of DVD that didn't work, you'd be calling him a 'moron' immediately and stating 'how bad a job he is doing representing this country' and how 'no other country can take this buffoon seriously'. The only problem is....and calm down....this isn't Bush doing idiotic things. This is Obama.
Swallow your pills.
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Wolfie20077 months, 1 week ago
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Well, I heard this morning the Obama's did give the royal couple a songbook signed by Richard Roberts. The Queen is presumed to be a fan. That was nice and thoughtful and a step up from their usual tasteless gifts. Wonder who in the administration thought of it, he or she should get a promotion maybe to Treasury Secretary. lol
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mesodude7 months, 1 week ago
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"The liberal progressives seem to be enraged about this, gee, I love the block. LSHIPMP!!"
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--I'm just amazed cons still think these lame smear attempts will resurrect their sad, disgraceful agenda that was REJECTED on this past Election Day. But keep dreaming and replacing the batteries in your plastic "personal massagers." You'll get there sooner or later, wolfie. ;-P
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