Posted by
EWRoss on Saturday, May 30, 2009 8:00:00 AM
What is it with the White House? First President Obama takes office and returns the bust of former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, whose mother was an American, to the British Embassy. Then someone in White House protocol decides an appropriate gift for current British PM Gordon Brown is a set of DVDs containing classic American movies. Problem is, no one noticed that they weren’t compatible with the PAL system used in Europe. If that weren’t classless enough the protocol office has Obama give the Queen an iPod with Obama’s speeches on it. Now it turns out that the Queen, the only living head of state who served in uniform in World War II, has been left out of the D-Day 65th anniversary ceremony. Even if someone else had made the decision not to include her, the White House should have insisted that she participate. Americans have no better allies than the British and the Australians. Whatever you think about Queen Elizabeth she represents 65 years of US-UK shared sacrifice. EWR