As for the mess of gift-giving on both counts, it is just unbelievably, gobsmackingly bad. The sheer incompetence of it all is just . . . There are no words. It's like a scene right out of Monty Python. I'm cringing now just thinking about it.
Anyway, the Russian incident will now be used endlessly in Russian language classrooms all over the world as a lesson in what happens when you don't check your homework.
Also: how bad have things become that I feel sorry for Gordon Brown?
Oh, and here's the list of the 25 DVDs that Obama gave UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown. You've got to be kidding me about some of those choices. By the way, American-made DVDs won't play in British DVD players; the DVDS are encoded differently (same issue for Asian DVDs). Upshot: if you want to play international DVDs, you need an all-region DVD player. There's your public service announcement for the day too. (The Cine-Sib and I are all about international DVDs.)
I guess it could all be much, much worse. Obama could have given Brown a gift certificate to Olive Garden or a Chia Pet. Pffffft!
PS: Maybe the clueless clowns in the State Department could use THIS button.
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So Hillary and the State Department think "pressing the red button" has evolved into some sort of joke? (We used to aim nuclear warheads at each other, now we just harmlessly reset our computers?)
On the other hand, when Hillary hits the "overcharge" red button, I can't help thinking about the "hard rain" of new taxes about to fall on us! That is a kind of red button, isn't it?
Ah, you do know Monty Python ...
Quite Rightly is quite...er...right! Pushing red buttons with the Russians isn't a joke, even a botched one.
And, Brian, I think we're in for plenty more Monty Python moments out of DC.
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