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April 01, 2009
Baby Steps
Today, President Obama and his wife met the Queen of England. It seems he has learned something from the embarrassment of giving PM Gordon Brown a few DVDs in the wrong format. The Obamas presented the queen with a songbook signed by Richard Rodgers of Rodgers and Hammerstein fame, a classy gift for a music lover.
The other gift? An iPod. With, um, his own speeches pre-loaded.
The iPod also included a selection of American show tunes. A decent list of songs, although I have to take issue with using Aretha Franklin's terrible version of "I Dreamed a Dream" instead of the original, or even the Mandy Patinkin version. Aretha has a great voice for R&B, but introspective ballads aren't really her thing.
Without the speeches, the gift of an iPod would have been just a bit tacky. Including the speeches makes it unbelievably so.
Heh - It's comments like this that make me wish Dave at Garfield Ridge were still blogging.
Posted by slublog at April 1, 2009 10:02 PM
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His ego knows no bounds, does he give credit to his speechwriters? or his teleprompter?
Without those things, he's just um...
um...
I'm still waiting also.
Posted by: coldmexican at April 5, 2009 09:29 PM