I think the Obama people just can't get out of their own way when it comes to working with our allies. First they embarrass us in front of the Queen of England:
By comparison, Obama was treated like royalty in Britain at the G-20. However, the gift he presented Queen Elizabeth, an iPod loaded with Broadway show tunes, left some scratching their heads.
Yes they gave the Queen of England an iPod. No that wasn't a gag gift. I can just picture Queen Elizabeth giving the iPod to an aide with a steely, teeth clenched command "dispose of this thing." First a DVD collection to the British Prime Minister that doesn't play in a British DVD player and then an iPod to the Queen. Maybe when Obama meets the Pope he will give him a Snuggy with a cross drawn on it with magic marker and a Slap-Chop (but unfortunately no Graty after all this is the Pope, not Jesus.)
The funny thing too is that Obama seems to be intentionally snubbing world leaders for some unfathomable reason. Take his poor attitude toward Sarkozy who was probably the most pro-US French Prime Ministers of all time.
Then president-elect Obama refused to meet with Sarkozy in Washington after his election. As president, Obama wrote to former French President Jacques Chirac and pledged that the United States would work with Chirac’s organization to “build a safer world,” words usually reserved for the current head of state. The insults culminated last week at the G-20, when Obama refused an invitation from Sarkozy to tour the American Cemetery and dine in Normandy on his way from London to Strasbourg for the NATO summit. The reason given for the refusal was that the Obama Administration did not want to upset the Germans.
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