April Fool's Day
Today was spent reading online blogs and posts. The Telegraph.co.uk got alot of my attention.
It began for me when I read a story about President Obama's gift to Queen Elizabeth II.
He gave her an iPod.
It really seemed like an April Fool's Day story. I mean, after the fiasco last month when President Obama gave British Prime Minister Gordon Brown a 25 DVD set of American Movies.
In the world of Political gift giving, it was less than the best chosen. And the set wasn't even formatted to play on DVD players in Great Britain.
Now, to be fair, I didn't even know that DVD players in Great Britain played in a different format. Well, I think that is just plain stupid. A different format!
The Prime Minister gave President Obama a pen carved from the mast beam of an old British sailing ship. The ship was last used in the service of freeing slaves, (or some sort).
As I said, this was last month.
It raised a giant scandal.
Add to this a few other perceived slights made during the Prime Minister's visit by the White House. It is enough to say that more than a few of us began to wonder if, (or what) slight the Obama's might make during their G-20 visit to London, U.K.
It was all the talk today.
Many wondered if it were not an April joke.
Sadly it was not.
Our President, Barack H. Obama, and his wife, Michelle graciously gifted Queen Elizabeth II of England... with an iPod.
Shocking!!...........Scandalous!!
This story topped and ousted one of the best April Fool's stories I had seen in a while. (This one had me researching!):
President Obama Tells GM and Chrysler: No More NASCAR
That story, posted by Car and Driver Magazine was all the buzz..........until Obama gave the Queen an iPod.
30 at last count the pages of comments about the iPod gift at http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/toby_harnden/blog/2009/04/01/barack_obamas_gift_for_the_queen_an_ipod_your_majesty?com_num=20&com_pg=1
Many blasting Obama. Others using the comment board as a forum to snipe. Some saying the most ugly things about Obama. Now, I will be one of the first to tell you that I did not vote for him, but he is My President.
I do not have to agree with him, and doubt that I will very much if these last few months are any indicator.
I draw the line at making slinging racial slurs and posting stinging "us" against "them" rants. (Yes, I know, the Democrats won.)
Mud slinging and name calling are easy and do not take much thought.
IMHO these are the bastion of the truly misinformed. The idiots.
So, if only the Obamas could have stopped at the ill considered gift. But No!
Later I decided to view a youtube video of the President and Mrs. Obama greeting the Queen and her husband, Prince Phillip.
Did you watch the video?? I gasp in horror as I saw the First Lady push Prince Phillip out of the photo. In the video you can clearly hear and see the Prince show Michelle where he wanted her to stand and also tell her to stand there.
I had to look at it again. Then I saw the handshakes. Barack Obama just consumes the Queen's hand with both of his. The look on her face said it all.
You simply DO NOT DO THESE THINGS!
If I had not caught the tweet about the video I would have only known of the photo. The photo shows President Obama, Queen Elizabeth II, and Michelle Obama. Poor Prince Phillip was cropped right out of the photo.
As a photographer I say: How Rude!
Needless to tell, but my day was spent surfing the web, reading articles on the visit.
(did you know that some people think that Barack Obama is not a U.S. Citizen...that he was not born in the U.S.?? I didn't until today.)
Later I found a story on Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's visit to Mexico. Her faux pas at the Shrine to the Virgin of Guadalupe two days ago...........but that will be for another day. My head hurts
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