Barack Obama: Classy guy

Acid King · Post by **Acid King** » Sat Mar 07, 2009 3:15 pm

Gordon Brown gives Obama a pen holder made from a historic anti-slave ship and a first edition biography of Churchill, Obama gives him... DVDs. I don't know what's worse; the bomber jacket that Bush gave him last year or a box set of DVDs half the world has already seen. In the words of a random italian mafioso in the Sopranos: "...and you thought the Greeks were classless pricks."

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldne ... rd-Oz.html

maxlords · Post by **maxlords** » Sat Mar 07, 2009 3:23 pm

Wow....I'm surprised Obama would do that. Maybe I believe too much hype.

jpj · Post by **jpj** » Sat Mar 07, 2009 3:24 pm

pfffffffff .... pen holder ..

Post by **BulletMagnet** » Sat Mar 07, 2009 4:31 pm

Anything fancier than those would have been lambasted as "yet another example of wasteful entitlement spending and pet projects (and support for a 'Socialist' nation)." Heck, the DVDs themselves are probably going to be put forward as grounds for impeachment (no Reagan films!).

LaserGun · Post by **LaserGun** » Sat Mar 07, 2009 4:36 pm

The DVDs were probably shit the Bush family left behind.

PC Engine Fan X! · Post by **PC Engine Fan X!** » Sat Mar 07, 2009 4:39 pm

LaserGun wrote:The DVDs were probably shit the Bush family left behind.

Could be, could be...you never know. ^_~

Pixel_Outlaw · Post by **Pixel_Outlaw** » Sat Mar 07, 2009 5:01 pm

1 Question burns in my mind. How bout that region coding eh?

FIL · Post by **FIL** » Sat Mar 07, 2009 5:37 pm

What a crappy selection of movies, it doesn't even have Police Academy in it.

PC Engine Fan X! · Post by **PC Engine Fan X!** » Sat Mar 07, 2009 5:42 pm

Pixel_Outlaw wrote:1 Question burns in my mind. How bout that region coding eh?

Could it be a region 2 DVD set?

professor ganson · Post by **professor ganson** » Sat Mar 07, 2009 5:45 pm

What gifts to give-- surely Obama's staff worries about that sort of thing, not Obama himself. And why are lame DVDs worse than a book one won't read and a pen holder? A pen holder?

Twiddle · Post by **Twiddle** » Sat Mar 07, 2009 6:01 pm

what an ungrateful nigger, surely us kind conservative folk would pay more respect in remembrance of how the US got so rich before the industrial revolution

wait, no (makes nigger joke on public radio, supports apartheid for free market reasons, claims persecution while supporting harsher penalties for minor crimes on lower class citizens)

Zeether · Post by **Zeether** » Sat Mar 07, 2009 6:06 pm

It's just you.

Tempest · Post by **Tempest** » Sat Mar 07, 2009 6:26 pm

I suppose if he'd spent any more money on his gift than that we'd be hearing about irresponsible spending.

Republicans: Classy politics.

BryanM · Post by **BryanM** » Sat Mar 07, 2009 8:15 pm

Why blame the dude just because we don't have any holy relics? What the hell else was there to give the guy:

Ketsui PCB: Not american.

Piece of the cross Jesus was crucified on: Not american. Also phony.

F-22: Awesome fighter jet that takes out other guys miles before they even know you're there. A little over the gift cap unfortunately.

Blindly giving gifts is bullshit anyway. Since when did you get something (that wasn't food) you liked from someone that you didn't tell you wanted that thing. It's like a coincidence of wants groping for each other in the dark.

szycag · Post by **szycag** » Sat Mar 07, 2009 10:31 pm

Classic case of utilitarianist vs. sentimentalist gift giving. I'd be way more disgusted by the bomber jacket. A lot of the movies in that set are really good... I still need to see Raging Bull, a good percentage of those movies I'd love to watch again and again. I guess I'm a bit more receptive since I like movies a lot.

What could Obama have given Gordon Brown as far as something "priceless" like a penholder made from Victorian anti-slave ships? How do you top something like that? This was a bit embarrasing maybe but far from completely tasteless. A collection of films that define America as sanctioned by the American Film Institute and the White House. Some of the commenters on that article were acting like he gave him fucking Along Came Polly or something.

maxlords · Post by **maxlords** » Sat Mar 07, 2009 11:01 pm

Should have given him something from the Revolutionary War

GaijinPunch · Post by **GaijinPunch** » Sun Mar 08, 2009 1:29 am

LaserGun wrote:The DVDs were probably shit the Bush family left behind.

My Name is Earl Season 1

Acid King · Post by **Acid King** » Sun Mar 08, 2009 3:00 am

I've loved watching the response to this story. When Bush pulled a similar gaffe, liberals were all over him for being a frat boy and out of touch and now it's the exact opposite. I wonder how long the Republicans will harp on this. I think it's better this time though because we get Twiddle's ironic racism.

I'd definitely prefer the DVDs though. The best thing to come of this was finding this website while searching for stuff about this story.
http://o.bamapost.com/obama_inverted_pe ... video.html

Ed Oscuro · Post by **Ed Oscuro** » Sun Mar 08, 2009 9:22 am

I've been pretty critical (although not posting a lot about it here) about Obama's Administration teething troubles.

But hell, the man's not made of money, and too busy to go shopping for that special something. The Brits were also mad about there not being enough flags on show - again, they're busy at the White House right now; take a number!

What I'm wondering about is whether Obama likes Churchill or not. He turned away the bust of Churchill that Bush left him in the Oval (the British loaned it), and now he gives some DVDs in return for a package that includes a seven-volume biography of the man.

I don't get it - the major American partner of Lend-Lease and FDR's closest ally in the war (and thus something of a player in the whole issue of deficit spending), and a guy with American blood - and who does Obama talk about? President Reagan.

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until Christmas.

JAPJAC · Post by **JAPJAC** » Sun Mar 08, 2009 10:07 am

With a silly name like that, Brown was lucky not to of been given a turban and a copy of Bomberman.

Ed Oscuro · Post by **Ed Oscuro** » Sun Mar 08, 2009 10:10 am

Aren't you supposed to be telling us what the games were in your contest? Or which one of your people won the cabinet. Get to work!

The n00b · Post by **The n00b** » Sun Mar 08, 2009 3:50 pm

A pen holder? What the hell are you supposed to do with that? Nobody uses pen holders. They are like paper weights. Might as well be platinum dick holder, am I rite folks? Plus there were a lot of old historic anti-slave ships. Are we supposed to let out a cheer that one of them found a way to make money by scrapping his ship to make collectible pen holders and other types of kitschy hallmark store crap?

A churchhill biography? This is pure nationalistic garbage.

Seriously next time Obama should get this guy a paperweight made from the scrapped remains of a WW2 carrier and a first edition biography of Ronald Reagan. Then we'll see some nice euro whining...

Lordstar · Post by **Lordstar** » Sun Mar 08, 2009 3:51 pm

Well i dont care if he got him a greetings card. All the gifts have likly been bought with Tax payers money so its all shit whatever way you look at it

Post by **BulletMagnet** » Sun Mar 08, 2009 4:21 pm

Acid King wrote:When Bush pulled a similar gaffe, liberals were all over him for being a frat boy and out of touch and now it's the exact opposite.

I'm afraid that this doesn't hold a candle to Bush's impromptu massage of Angela Merkel (or his use of the word "Crusade" to describe our Mideast operations, for that matter). Though truth be told, filthy gay pot-smoking Commie that I am, I was never even aware of the supposedly infamous flight jacket gift before it was mentioned here - seriously, it's not like anyone, liberal or otherwise, needs to look to such superficial piffle to criticize Bush (as opposed to building a campaign on the fact that Obama mentioned arugula or that John Kerry windsurfed).

Super Laydock · Post by **Super Laydock** » Sun Mar 08, 2009 5:01 pm

whatever happened to the phrase :

"don't look a given horse in the mouth"?

If I were either of them I wouldn't care a bit bout the gift.

At least the dvd's won't go to a national museum or the likes and are actually useful...
unless they feature Nicolas Cage!

Acid King · Post by **Acid King** » Sun Mar 08, 2009 6:30 pm

BulletMagnet wrote: I'm afraid that this doesn't hold a candle to Bush's impromptu massage of Angela Merkel (or his use of the word "Crusade" to describe our Mideast operations, for that matter).

I forgot about the Angela Merkel thing, that was classic.

Fenrir · Post by **Fenrir** » Sun Mar 08, 2009 7:40 pm

yes but were they sealed?

Stormwatch · Post by **Stormwatch** » Sun Mar 08, 2009 8:03 pm

Super Laydock wrote:At least the dvd's won't go to a national museum or the likes and are actually useful...
unless they feature Nicolas Cage!

Could be worse. An Adam Sandler DVD would be grounds for a nuclear strike.

UnscathedFlyingObject · Sun Mar 08, 2009 8:10 pm

Gift cards next time!

BryanM · Post by **BryanM** » Sun Mar 08, 2009 8:52 pm

Super Laydock wrote:Nicolas Cage

What is that man's appeal, aside from his uncle being a bigshot hollywood guy.

They might as well get that hairy guy who wandered onto the set of Ghostbusters as a lead actor man.