Obama: Insulting our longest and closest ally

[North Carolina Tentmaker]

As long as we still have your support Matt!

 

[Revmitchell]

Storm in a teacup. Obama knows that Brown is a washed-up lame duck and won't be around in 14 months maximum, so what's the point of the VIP treatment? Thank you for writing to the British Embassy but I don't know anyone over here who is angry about it apart from Brown and his immediate hangers-on; most people dislike Brown heartily and are if anything mildly amused by him being put in his place like this.

And how is it you know what logic or considerations Odrama used in this event.

 

[LeBuick]

I don't think there was anything intentional in this on Obama's part. Its just part of the learning curve of a new administration. It is not the right here in America that is making a big deal out of it, it is the UK press (which has been a lot better at covering Obama than the US media).

The other part, you know he has staff who picks these gifts and I trust they did their research and found Brown would appreciate this gift.

 

[JustChristian]

not really covered by the MSM in the US, of course...

Below is snipped. The whole story is on the link below, a history lesson which explains the significance of the Resolute.



http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/198/22474/

There was no state dinner for our visiting friend. There was no joint press appearance in the Rose Garden as the usual protocol has been done by administrations going back to ??? None of that. But there have been plenty of parties at the WH with Stevie Wonder and Earth, Wind, & Fire, but the social calendar is so full that we treat the PM from England in such a shabby manner? Give us a break!!

So, if you, too are embarrassed and upset at the shabby way Prime Minister Gordon Brown was treated by the Pres. Obama and would like to apologize Obama's ignorant and ill-mannered insulting treatment of our longest and closest ally, you can write to the British Embassy here:

Sir Nigel Sheinwald, Ambassador
British Embassy in Washington DC
3100 Massachusetts Ave NW
Washington, DC 20008

I am getting my letter to them in the mail this week. And I am also emailing everyone in my address book. Feel free to copy this and paste it in your address book, also. Let's let our friends in the UK that this was unacceptable treatment and the sitting president does not represent us.

This is the first part of this article.


GLENN: We mentioned it last week. Nobody in America is upset about this. You remember last week we told you that Barack Obama, when Gordon Brown came into town, he decided that he wasn't going to have a press conference. He also decided that there wouldn't be any British flags in the press conference, when they met, there wouldn't be a British flag. What are you even thinking? So there's no British flags. They met in the oval office.


This guy makes no sense. First he criticizes Obama for deciding not to have a press conference. Then he criticizes him for not having British flags in the press conference he decided not to have.

 

[LeBuick]

LE... Play this clip... Doesn't this look like a press conference to you?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/mar/03/gordon-brown-barack-obama-washington-white-house

 

[Matt Black]

As long as we still have your support Matt!

Of course!

 

[LadyEagle]

LE... Play this clip... Doesn't this look like a press conference to you?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/mar/03/gordon-brown-barack-obama-washington-white-house

From your link:

And then there was the key question: would there be a full, formal joint press conference, in the traditional location, as reporters travelling with Brown had been led to believe? There would not. The White House, it soon became clear, had never actually promised him the Rose Garden.

What I originally said on page 1:

There was no joint press appearance in the Rose Garden as the usual protocol has been done by administrations going back to ???

It was a nice try to defend your man, tho, LB.

 

[LeBuick]

From your link:

What I originally said on page 1:

It was a nice try to defend your man, tho, LB.

So the complaint from the right is the hair splitting difference between a "formal press briefing in the usual location" and the one Obama had? I'll have to repeat, he is doing great if this is where the right has to stoop to find fault... :thumbsup:

 

[LadyEagle]

So the complaint from the right is the hair splitting difference between a "formal press briefing in the usual location" and the one Obama had? I'll have to repeat, he is doing great if this is where the right has to stoop to find fault... :thumbsup:

Whatever.....