My favorite part was Obama’s Shakespeare quote getting mangled over. Here is a credentialed but uneducated man attempting to fake culture with a Shakespeare quote (which I’m sure involved a 2 minute googling of ‘Shakespeare, England’ on his speechwriter’s part). It is the essence of the fauxlitists (as opposed to elites, who are authentic in their education and culture, are well-versed, top-notch, and humble). There’s no reason to feel pity for Obama here. He is not some innocent who found himself the victim of circumstance. Here we saw a fauxlitist who 3 years ago loitered a fake sense of culture and refinement over America — aided by the American press who never questioned him. The champion of those liberal arts grad professors who finally had their professorial philosopher president.

Question: how would Barack Obama, Sr. have felt seeing his son pretend to give a warm-hearted toast to the Queen of England? His blood must be boiling from his grave, and Junior knows it too.

CompassionateFascist: If Churchill’s bust is sent to you, please re-gift it to me so a century or so from now, my heirs can sell it to a museum for BIG $$$s.

Bill Meyer: AGREED, but turn-around is fair play and the Brits have been doing it far longer than us Colonials.

Myron Pauli: No truly “free people” need the RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS…but it can’t hurt to remind government their attacks upon that inherent right will not be tolerated and we will, through the legal system, be aware of their attempts to do so.

HAPPY MEMORIAL DAY !!!

He double downed on his boorishness (what would the press say if he talked through our national anthem?) and then double downed again by picking up his toast immediately after the anthem was over.

The Queen graciously ignored protocol and raised her glass to him nevertheless, extending the courtesy you wanted earlier.

One does not humor a petulant child. Especially when you’re the Queen.

This is only the 2nd time I have seriously disagreed with your views. The queen has lived her whole life according to a set of protocols that are hundreds of years old. These protocols are no state secret and it would be polite to learn about and adhere to such when meeting with the lady under her own roof. She is after all a monarch and will remain so until she either dies or abdicates, unlike US presidents which in relative terms are “flash in the pan”. I am sure that a lady of her majesty’s caliber would do the same for the obamanation should she pay a visit!

Anyone think she is still learning how to work the Ipod she received from the Prez back in 2009 and that was her distraction?

ps: Sooner or later I suspect that the bust of Chamberlain will be RE-GIFTED to the White House.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heil_dir_im_Siegerkranz

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjJa3_dR5Ac

or were they playing “My Country ‘Tis of Thee”?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Country,_'Tis_of_Thee

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0ywDLpfBHg

or some other random ditty:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_Save_the_Queen

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tN9EC3Gy6Nk

One important difference between us rude Americans and the other funny speaking blokes I have been dealing with is over that silly ole 2nd Amendment where the folks up North consider guns hush hush while I am saying “but you can buy all that stuff at a dozen gunshops within 20 minutes of here” (Huntsville AL) to the Canadians. So vive le difference and aux armes cityonens (des Etats-unis) – celebrate our gun rights.

And why do free people need the RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS? This can be seen in another “National Anthem You Tube” recorded 20 April 1945 for the BBC – no grammy winning singing but a cynic like me was weeping:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syUSmEbGLs4