Comments on: President Obama gives PM Brown… DVDs.

By: JustLeaveMeAlone

JustLeaveMeAlone — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 18:23:46 +0000

Sending a staffer to the White House giftshop for el cheapo plastic model helicopters is NOT thoughtful.

There’s low class… then there is NO class.

As an aside, here’s my prediction: the Obama Enemies list is gonna make Dick Nixon look like a jolly and forgiving fellow. And apparently the UK is on it.

By: Tbone

Tbone — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 18:15:42 +0000

By: mbecker908

mbecker908 — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 12:40:20 +0000

a King. Not to mention the founder of the Church of England.

Every once in a while the Brits stumble over their heritage.

By: kyle8

kyle8 — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 10:55:11 +0000

When I started my graduate level history classes I encountered the left’s hatred for Winston Churchill. They hate him very much, He was the guy who first sounded the alarm against soviet expansionism. and he initiated a “red Scare” in Britain when he (rightfully) called out some ministers and politicians for being communists.

By: chrisie

chrisie — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 07:27:32 +0000

Obama’s Kenyan grandfather, Hussein Onyango Obama, was tortured and imprisoned by the British in the Mau Mau uprising. Churchill was behind the movement to stop the uprising.

By: Rapunzel46

Rapunzel46 — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 05:25:09 +0000

Kennedy is a murderer and he gets a knighthood!!!!!!

By: Rapunzel46

Rapunzel46 — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 05:22:54 +0000

the Brits were so hot to trot over Obama I think they got what they asked for and on the other hand this and Michelle giving plastic helicopters from the WH gift shop to the Brown sons is so embarrassing it makes me want to bury my head and come out in four years to see if this entire nightmare is over.

By: skorrent1

skorrent1 — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 03:54:32 +0000

Am I the only one who remembers the King and Queen , of Spain, I think, standing outside the White House side door, waiting for the always late Billy Boy to let them in??

By: Achance

Achance — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 01:41:25 +0000

they deserved to be villanized.

By: bs

bs — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 01:35:30 +0000

I was in the UK last year and wanted to buy a DVD (that I have NEVER found over here) but it was a Europe region.

Region codes are evil.

By: EmilyM

EmilyM — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 01:27:23 +0000

I immediately thought the same thing when I first read it. :\

By: EmilyM

EmilyM — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 01:26:05 +0000

I think my mouth dropped open when I read that one, haha. The British are absolutely villianized in that movie (not surprisingly).

By: Moe Lane

Moe Lane — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 00:48:58 +0000

After all, I am the Chief Protocol Officer for RedState.

No, really, I have it on my RS business cards and everything.

By: Lammo

Lammo — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 00:42:18 +0000

Unless PM Brown has a Region Free DVD player, or The One went to extreme effort to acquire Region 2 DVDs in a Region 1 county, then BROWN WILL NOT BE ABLE TO WATCH THE DVDs WHEN HE GETS THEM HOME!

Go here for the low down on the region thing:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD_region_code

By: Doc Holliday

Doc Holliday — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 23:45:49 +0000

and someone who knows that land well, and has spent a lot of time there, I say to them “get stuffed”. They wanted Obama and vilified Bush and McCain, they don’t like America in polling, so they will get dvd’s and like it!

I do mourn for the Special Relationship and the shared values and purpose that are now in the dust bin of history.

By: Tbone

Tbone — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 23:22:08 +0000

is Larry the Cable Guy.

By: Icythus

Icythus — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 23:08:20 +0000

He probably already has that one.

By: red4ever

red4ever — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 21:17:10 +0000

Doesn’t the White House have a protocol officer anymore? Someone who can tell these lacking in the social graces folks that it isn’t polite to leave a guest standing in the snow or it is the thought that counts as a gift (unless the DVDs were ones not available in Great Britain or through Amazon, not much thought went into this gift?). Surely even in the Clinton State Department there was someone who could brief the President on the US’s special relationship with Great Britain and the importance of maintaining it.

Even if we did “save” them in WWII, if not for them letting us use Britain as a launching pad, D-Day would never have happened. It has always been a mutually beneficial relationship (after 1812, of course).

We really should send a gift from the grateful American people to PM Brown.

By: Sharp_Right_Turn

Sharp_Right_Turn — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 21:06:49 +0000

here’s what my Top Ten DVD list would consist of :

1. Bullit
2. The Complete Dirty Harry Collection
3. The Complete Death Wish Collection
4. The Complete Rambo Collection
5. The Complete Works of Seka
6. WWF Classic Bouts: Sgt. Slaughter vs. The Iron Shiek
7. One Million Years BC
8. Team America: World Police
9. South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut
10. 24: Season 3

And unlike Obama, I’ll make sure they’ll play in a Region 1 DVD player. Better to have 10 kickass DVDs that play than 25 that won’t.

By: Sharp_Right_Turn

Sharp_Right_Turn — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 20:51:19 +0000

Surely the Brits will be grinding their soft, brown teeth over President Obama’s Netflix queue offer to PM Gordon Brown. If Obama really wanted to perform a noble gesture to Great Britain he should have offered them 25 tubes of Colgate Maximum Fluoride Protection, Crest Whitening Strips and Dental Floss made in the good ol’ USA!