The Blogshevik

PM Gordon Brown and "He who must not be named"

The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom visited ZERO the other day to lobby and ideally to forge a global financial pact to counteract a worldwide economic downturn. That’s all fine and dandy and probably deserves a blog of its own, but I’m not going to cover that here. Apparently, Barack Hussein Obama started the visit with a jolly good slap to the British Prime Minister’s face. I don’t know if the rumors are true or not, but instead of meeting the prime minister with pomp and circumstance, which is the normal protocol for visits such as this, Obama met him at a local Starbucks. (Zero’s favorite: a hot tall skinny upside down with whip caramel macchiato or a hot tall wild orange tea with chocolate sprinkles teamed with a buttberry scone) Like I said, I don’t know if that’s true…but ya know, it was all very hush hush.

President Bush welcomes the UK's PM Gordon Brown

HMS Gannet

To further humiliate the British people who are amongst our only allies, Obama brought together some of the nations most gifted intellects, formed a committee and came up with the perfect gift, which we’ll get to later. When heads of state visit each other its common for them to exchange gifts. Prime Minister Brown apparently spent a great deal of time thinking of what to give the new president and apparently struck a home run. PM Brown gave Zero three presents that were obviously given from the heart of one people to another. One gift was a pen set made from the oak timbers of the anti-slavery ship HMS Gannet, a late 19th century sloop tasked with battling the evil forces of slave trading. A very thoughtful gift, considering Zero is the United States first executive officer elected of African decent. A very touching gesture in my opinion.

The second gift PM Brown gave Zero was the framed commission from the HMS Gannet’s sister ship, the HMS Resolute.

HMS Resolute

The HMS Resolute figures into relations between our two countries as the HMS Resolute was lost in ice flows back in 1855, abandoned by Queen Victoria but rescued a year later by the United States and returned to Queen Victoria and the people of the UK. The timbers from the HMS Resolute, which was broken up in 1879 were used in the construction of the desk that now sits in the Oval Office. Queen Victoria commissioned a desk to be built from the salvaged timbers and presented the desk to President Rutherford Hayes in 1880.

The third and last gift given to the “Dear One” was a first edition of a 7-volume biography of Winston Churchill, by Martin Gilbert, a lovely addition to the bust of Sir Winston that sits in the Oval Office, on loan from the British since 2001.

As you can obviously see, a wonderful gesture by the people of the United Kingdom. As a resident of the UK for many years in my youth, it doesn’t surprise me.

Nice Toy

Like Prime Minister Brown, our chief executive, ZERO also thought long and hard of what to gift the British people. With hundreds of years of history between our two countries, some good and some bad, the chief executive decided upon a “collectors box” of classic American films. It’s not known what that box contained at the time of this writing, but it probably included classics like Toy Story and ironically enough, Forrest Gump.

But wait! There’s more. The chief executives wife, ZEROETTE, apparently gave Mrs Gordon a pair of toy Marine One models for her two children. I imagine its the same kind you can find on Amazon.com.

Wow…

Mrs Brown on the other hand gave Zero’s and Zeroette’s two children 6 copies of books from British authors that will be published in the US shortly. In addition, Mrs. Brown also gifted each of Zero’s children with an outfit from a recently opened British store here in the US.

Remember that bust of Sir Winston I mentioned earlier? The one loaned to us following the attacks of 9/11 and a very thoughtful gesture by the people of Britain. Apparently, ZERO sent it packing.  The Right Honorable Sir Winston Churchill, a hero to the western world best known for his leadership during World War II while serving as the British Prime Minister, a Nobel Prize winning writer, an officer in the British Army and probably not as well known as it should be, the son of a British father and American mother; the Lady Randolph Churchill of Brooklyn, New York.

When our British friends offered ZERO the opportunity to keep the bust for another 4 years, the “Dear One’ said thanks, but no thanks. Was it because the Lady Randolph Churchill (Jennie Jerome) was the daughter of a New York financier and capitalist, or was it because Sir Winston Churchill wrote unfavorably about the Muslim faith? We’ll probably never know since ZERO’S “transparent administration” is rather opaque these days.

Go figure…

All I can say is….way to go Zero, dumbass.