Heh. The DVD thing was a non-issue, only the permanently irate Daily Mail made any mention of it in the UK, if I remember correctly. I’d rather receive the DVD collection than a pen holder and a 7 volume Churchill collection (:rolleyes:, seeing as it came across as a way of getting Churchill back into the White House, after the removal of the bust).
Anyway, the DVD collection sounds better than what Bush gave Brown: a leather bomber jacket with his name emblazoned on it. Yes, Gordon Brown, who’s permanently suited, given a leather bomber jacket!
The pen holder was pretty cool, if useless. But as a movie lover, I’d rather get the DVDs too. I still think it was a unique and innovative way to pass along and focus on American film culture, which is so often reduced to big-budget shit-blowing-up-real-good to denigrate it. To reduce the interesting gift to “buncha DVDs” denigrates American film culture too.
Bwahahahahahahahaha you’ve got nothing to be proud of being a sniveling syphilitic right wing anal cyst before fellow cysts like Beck and Hannity came along. You’re worthless and stupid and I hope every hateful jackass of a candidate you vote for loses.
A: Bush’s name, or Brown’s name emblazoned on it? Because I can totally see Bush giving Brown a jacket with a big “Bush” in Ronco Be-Dazzler sequins on the back.
So what this thread boils down to, is that some members of the American Right would like to see a square, a compass, and a protractor added to the Official POTUS Protocol Toolbox®. Otherwise the security and integrity of the very US of A is in peril.
Well, I for one would like to thank the OP for bringing this important matter to our attention, as it’s now clear that without said tools the very future of Humanity is at stake.
PS-Is there a consensus on the exact degree of the perfect bow? If so, I suggest Smiling Bandit get in touch with the WH ASAP in order to provide such critical information.
Incidentally, this is an issue that concerns me a little bit. I rather like the idea that the US flag is lowered for no monarch, and all that. I don’t know to what degree it’s the same for bowing, and what sort of cultural context it has and what sort of history it has among US presidents. I would be willing to consider that Obama really did fuck up here, except…
Right wing punditry (and really, the average person nowadays) is always dialed up to 11. Everything Obama does is an UNSPEAKABLE OUTRAGE! They have diminished their credibility by overreacting to stupid shit, so it’s hard to take them seriously. So good job guys - I’m willing to be swayed that something bad actually happened here, except your nutjobbery shot you in the foot, so you won’t be able to convince anyone except the people who think a Kenyan alien antichrist is in the oval office anyway.
Actually, your post did give me an idea for an invention: the Bowsensor - an iPhone app that senses the angle of your bow, and vibrates when you reach the correct angle.
Remember: When your nipples tingle, you’ve bowed just enough!
I forgot to mention that putting Masonic symbols like that in the Official POTUS Protocol Toolbox® would cause such a rash of Right-Wing head explosions that we’ll never get the carpet clean.
That wasn’t sexy, holding hands with a Saudi Arabian prince is sexy. No, that was treating a world leader like a fellow good old boy.
And yeah, this thread is absolutely hilarious. The wingers have cried “WOLF!!” so often that they’re just parodies of themselves now. They really need to read this. It was written before this latest Manufactured Outrage (I think we should use MO, just like we do RO), but it still could be useful: