Michelle Obama Touches The Queen, Apparently Sets Off International Incident

I’m not sure why anyone would care about this.
Chuckling about Obama giving the queen an iPod, or giving the British Prime Minister some DVD’s, is one thing but who cares whether or not Michelle touched the Queen?
Yeah, the Queen is royalty and all that. No, it’s not protocol. So what? We’re American. And I’m pretty sure we kicked the Brits’ butts back across the Atlantic over the idea of monarchism.
I enjoy laughing at the Obamas and their escapades as much as the next guy, but this is pretty stupid.
Of course, if Sarah Palin had done it we’d hear nothing but mocking from self-righteous liberals looking down their noses at the illiterate rube from out in the sticks who doesn’t know how to behave around her betters.

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  • http://sayanythingblog.com/ likwidshoe

    crshedd – i don’t know about obama’s speeches, but i do know he gave her an ipod filled with pictures of her visit to the states along with a rare signed songbook.

    if this is the kind of stuff conservatives have to go on and on and on and on about, maybe you’re doing too much.

    You’ve got some serious comprehension problems. That’s a few times now that you’ve commented at a story where Rob has said, “I don’t know what the big deal is” and you come back and act as if he made a big deal about it.

    Learn to read, dude.

    michelle and the queen put their arms around each other, george bush gives angela merkel an unwanted (remember the recoil?) massage. which one is worse?

    If this is the kind of stuff you have to go on and on and on and on about, maybe you’re doing too much.

    It’s called logic and consistency, crshedd – try it!

  • Buzz

    Looks like the Queen of England really warmed up to First Lady Michelle Obama.

    Michelle Obama and Queen Elizabeth actually hugged! And — according to the Daily Mail — the Queen made the first move!

  • Steve Davis

    I don’t see what the big deal is. I mean, Michelle Obama embraced another human being, just like we do in our everyday lives. Everyone is making a big deal about this.

    It’s not like Mrs. Obama was hugging the Queen of England or something… oh wait…

  • http://firstconservative.com/blog MAS1916

    Oh Man… Maybe the Queen was just looking to see Michelle’s arm strength.

    And giving the queen an iPod with His speeches on it? Unbelievable.

  • crshedd

    let’s see,

    michelle and the queen put their arms around each other, george bush gives angela merkel an unwanted (remember the recoil?) massage. which one is worse?

    i don’t know about obama’s speeches, but i do know he gave her an ipod filled with pictures of her visit to the states along with a rare signed songbook.

    if this is the kind of stuff conservatives have to go on and on and on and on about, maybe you’re doing too much.

  • carrick

    Er…. the queen put her arm around Michelle, who just reciprocated the gesture..

    Not even sure where to file this story.

  • Mickey

    Looking at that picture, one can’t help but notice that Michelle Obama has a gigantic head. She almost looks Neanderthal standing next to the queen. What a heffer.

    Ahhh shucks, she is the first lady, big bones and all.

    Whatever.

  • Prairie

    I’m still laughing about the show tunes given to a “queen” – anyone else see the connection??

  • http://www.twitter.com/OneAndOnlyZel QueenZel

    Mickey:

    Looking at that picture, one can’t help but notice that Michelle Obama has a gigantic head. She almost looks Neanderthal standing next to the queen. What a heffer.

    I got a funny joke through email: PLAYBOY offered Sarah Palin $1MM to pose naked … NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC offered Michelle Obama $1MM to pose naked.

    (We can tell jokes like this now because WHITE GUILT is DEAD – DEAD, DEAD, DEAD! We now know that white people are definitely not the racists in the country.)

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/readers/entry/homosexuality_is_wrong_-_a_compendium move_zig

    We should be thankful.

    At least Michele didn’t give the Queen Mother noogies.

  • http://suitepotato.blogspot.com/ sayanything-4808

    Protocol should be honored out of propriety, diplomacy, and interest in maintaining an even interaction to prevent distracting emotional issues. A touch like this will distract the press and populace of the UK and is counterproductive to the needs of the US and UK in having such meetings.

    I thought Obama and company were going to be so much more conscious of and sensitive to foreign nations. Evidently the Foggy Bottom lifes have been frozen out and Hillary is oblivious to the job she’s supposed to be doing and that vaunted consciousness and sensitivity is quite selective, being aimed largely at America’s enemies like the PLO, Iran, North Korea…

  • http://suitepotato.blogspot.com/ sayanything-4808

    Returning the hug is not necessarily protocol and the length of contact and pressure are important. I don’t blame her for returning it if it was offered, as being an American civilian she doesn’t know these things, but BO should have. This though shows the wife might know more than the husband of propriety and respect:

    Mrs. Obama curtsied to the Queen when she first met her and Prince Phillip in the royal’s private apartments.

    Such an act of deference shows respect to the UK whose head she still is.

    BTW libtards, why so defensive? When Bush made what you believed was the slightest of slights to foreign nations, you went completely berserk. Maybe you can’t take the same level of scrutiny you put the other side to? Suck it, kids, you made an artform of microanalysis and inference in mass media politics all the way back to Reagan and yup, you all whined like whipped dogs when anyone questioned Clinton. Have fun being “in charge”. They don’t call it the hot seat for nothing.

  • http://suitepotato.blogspot.com/ sayanything-4808

    Lifes should read lifers. Typing way too fast again.

  • http://sayanythingblog.com robport

    Not even sure where to file this story.

    In the “we’d rather report about this than what Obama’s budget will do to the national debt” file.

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/readers/author/sparkiearbuckle sayanything-81

    Protocol should be honored out of propriety, diplomacy, and interest in maintaining an even interaction to prevent distracting emotional issues. A touch like this will distract the press and populace of the UK and is counterproductive to the needs of the US and UK in having such meetings.

    Oh, but if Pelosi covers her head in Syria, that the end of the world.

    F*ck the Queen. Antiquated English royalty-worshipers. Fuck em.

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