Why are we trying to buddy up with Russia and Iran while snubbing the UK?
I know this sounds like the start of a joke, but this a true story from earlier this week.
Barack Obama and Gordon Brown recently met and exchanged gifts. Mr. Brown gives the President "a pen holder carved from the timbers of the sister ship of the one the White House desk is made from and a first edition of a seven-volume biography of Winston Churchill"
Pretty thoughtful.
Obama's gift: 25 DVD's of classic American movies selected by the American Film Institute (AFI).
Don't get me wrong, I like old movies. But all I could find on Amazon and eBay was AFI's top 100 movies. What happened to the other 75? If I had to guess: The movies with Ronald Reagan and Charlton Heston were removed. After that went any movies that made capitalism look good.
But then again, what did Gordon Brown expect? A few weeks ago the President removed a bust of Winston Churchill from the Oval Office, loaned to the US from the UK after 9/11. It was another thoughtful gesture; a symbol of a man that stood for freedom and opposition to tyranny during some of the darkest days the free world has ever experienced.
Let's hope the Karl Marx bust hasn't yet arrived.
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