Obama Cuff(link)ed the Dalai Lama
Commenter Steve asked for a new post. Here it is.
President Obama met with the sleeveless Dalai Lama and presented him with cuff links. The he snuck him out the back door so his parents wouldn’t find out.
Discuss.
You would think after the first few screw ups the person who is making our President and the rest of us for that matter, look so foolish would have been fired by now. Of course it could be Joe Biden picking out these gifts.
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on February 21, 2010 at 2005 hrs
I wonder if BO gave him a backrub, or held his hand as they walked through the rose garden. Don’t you miss the hands-on diplomacy of GWB?
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on February 21, 2010 at 2043 hrs
Sixty years from now, Democrats, when faced with any criticism, will point to something George W Bush did as an excuse for why they’re excused from doing idiotic things.
In an effort to move the discussion into the present, I’m going to say this: Ok…George Bush was an idiot. Barack Obama is simply a bigger one.
There…happy now?
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on February 21, 2010 at 2101 hrs
George Bush was an idiot. Barack Obama is simply a bigger one.
Not true - Bush may have been an idiot, but the evidence is overwhelming: Obama’s a clown.
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on February 21, 2010 at 2144 hrs
so clever.
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on February 21, 2010 at 2218 hrs
Compared to the utter deceit this administration has shown the American people, yes, I miss the hands-on diplomacy of GWB.
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on February 21, 2010 at 2225 hrs
O——-M——-G! We have a total dunce for a president. Pray for our country.
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on February 21, 2010 at 2230 hrs
yah - those robes look great with cuff-links.
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on February 21, 2010 at 2350 hrs
I’m not able to find a verifiable news source confirming the cufflink story. Anyone have a link (not to a blog or discussion board, but a news story with sources).
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on February 22, 2010 at 0035 hrs
Don’t know about linking to the cuff links, but here is a good visual of how respectful Obama wasn’t.
So honestly, in light of the other moronic “gifts” he’s given to heads of state along with this photos… it wouldn’t surprise me in the least.
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on February 22, 2010 at 0726 hrs
I’m not able to find a verifiable news source confirming the cufflink story. Anyone have a link (not to a blog or discussion board, but a news story with sources).
I can’t find anything other than blog posts either…
However the pictures of the Lama being dragged out a back door through piles of trash is a pretty good one for the administration….
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on February 22, 2010 at 0734 hrs
Not true - Bush may have been an idiot, but the evidence is overwhelming: Obama’s a clown.
I do find it interesting that despite the irrefutable fact that Obama-Biden have been just as if not more of a gaff factory than Bush-Cheney, yet I don’t see too much about it on the news… in any of the 57 states.
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on February 22, 2010 at 0737 hrs
I looked a little for an independently confirmable source on the cufflinks fiasco. Still haven’t found one. Lots of other talk about it, though.
Posted by Mike on February 22, 2010 at 0814 hrs
Thanks Wendy…..
Here’s a link and photo relating to the NBC news story about him having to go out the back entrance.
I can’t find anything on the cufflinks either. I’d hope someone could source that.
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on February 22, 2010 at 0827 hrs
Miss me yet?
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on February 22, 2010 at 1022 hrs
So (gasp) Owen is just blindly repeating the same unverifiable bullshit that people who disagree with the President like to slew to get folks all fired up.
Love the level of discourse here. Intelligent, reasonable, honest.
Bullshit.
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on February 22, 2010 at 1109 hrs
Um, Owen had nothing to do with this post. A commenter asked for a place to comment on it, and I provided it. Leave Owen out of it.
If you don’t like it, leave.
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on February 22, 2010 at 1125 hrs
Yeah, well, mistakes get made. No need to blow it outa proportion… the rest of the right wing(nut) blogosphere is already doing a pretty good job of that. Everybody makes mistakes. Big deal.
Posted by Mike on February 22, 2010 at 1125 hrs
Further, I’d say that “intelligent, reasonable and honest” generally characterizes the tenor of the host and his wife here, if not always all of the commenters. It might do me well to be able to write them (Owen and Wendy) off as shrill screamers, but to do so would be wrong. They are indeed intelligent, reasonable and honest.
I just hope that occasionally they are wrong about substantive issues.
Posted by Mike on February 22, 2010 at 1132 hrs
All Owen notes is that someone asked for a new post, and then Owen posted this unverified piece of propaganda. He doesn’t indicate that the content actually came from the other person. And even if it did, Owen must take responsibility for what he posts on his blog.
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on February 22, 2010 at 1215 hrs
So (gasp) Owen is just blindly repeating the same unverifiable bullshit that people who disagree with the President like to slew to get folks all fired up.
Love the level of discourse here. Intelligent, reasonable, honest.
Bullshit.
Jeez George, this is a blog site, not the NY Times. Stop taking yourself so seriously… It is a story that is out there, it is not Wendy or Owen’s fault that this President has given inappropriate gifts to every foreign dignitary he has so far met. No need to be an asshole about it.
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on February 22, 2010 at 1223 hrs
Just GTFO George. You’re a masochist if you stay and read and post any longer based on what you’ve shared with us in #20 and #16. It takes a really passive-aggressive asshole to critique blogs.
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on February 22, 2010 at 1225 hrs
George seems to have a problem with reading comprehension as well if you look at post # 20… Because Wendy clearly states that she posted this in # 17.
I’m sure he’s all over policing all of the uncited shit on the lefty blogs too though, right?
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on February 22, 2010 at 1232 hrs
I’m sure he’s all over policing all of the uncited shit on the lefty blogs too though, right?
Yeah, he’s partnered with scott to “Get the Truth Out” on both sides!
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on February 22, 2010 at 1242 hrs
Her’s the thing…. true or not, it is believable. This amateur White House has bumbled it’s way from one foreign policy faux pas to another. That’s the real issue here. The man is a nit wit at the head of a staff of nit wits. To quote Dark Helmet “I knew it. I’m surrounded by assholes!”
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on February 22, 2010 at 1249 hrs
Surprised that Obama didn’t bow to the Dalai Lama. He’s bowed to everyone else but his own country.
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on February 22, 2010 at 2020 hrs
Does anyone here argue that he wasn’t shown out the side door past the trash so as not to offend the Chinese? That was reported on NBC news.
I still haven’t found the cufflinks part although Rush reported it. Nonetheless, it is plausible since we gave Gordon Brown those Netflix DVD’s that don’t play in the Euro zone. I mean Obama has developed a reputation of giving dignitaries crap gifts.
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on February 22, 2010 at 2224 hrs
Rush made a joke, and now people think it’s true because the WH is full of idiots.
Here’s the real gift…a recalled Toyota. Kidding.
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on February 23, 2010 at 1019 hrs
A vast majority of Obama criticism is based on lies. Or as the right calls them, “jokes.”
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on February 23, 2010 at 1221 hrs
Wow… know your history, or at least research it like I did. The President gave the Dalai Lama a replica of the letter that Roosevelt sent him when he was 7 years old.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100219/ts_alt_afp/uschinatibetdiplomacyrightshistory
And along with that original letter came a gold rolex. IF the President gave the Dalai Lama cufflinks, maybe it was a humorous gag to go along with the replica letter. What use does the Dalai Lama have for a Rolex or cufflinks? But, there is NO evidence that he actually gave him the cufflinks anywhere other than a random blog entry that has gained a TON of momentum from idiots and people looking to bash our President. If he DID give him the cufflinks, I think it would be pretty funny and shows a good sense of humor for our President and the Dalai Lama.
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on February 23, 2010 at 1340 hrs
A vast majority of Obama criticism is based on lies. Or as the right calls them, “jokes.”
Actually, the vast majority of criticism comes from his abject failure to govern successfully. The only joke is that he was elected at all. Of course, according to the polls, people are starting to realize that by the millions. I suspect that this will turn out like the Carter Presidency, or the Perot campaign… at the end, only the few ideologues will even admit to having voted for out nit wit in chief, and Dr. Utopia will just become a bad memory.
Of course, his debt will likely stay with us for the next 50 years..
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