What a Tacky Present

Obama majorly snubbed G.B. Prime Minister Gordon Brown during his first U.S. visit during the Obama administration last week. A scheduled joint press conference was canceled "due to snow". Brown brought Obama an ornamental pen holder made from the timbers of the Victorian anti-slave ship HMS Gannet (oak from its sister ship was used to make an Oval Office desk), a framed commission for HMS Resolute and a first edition of the seven-volume biography of Churchill by Sir Martin Gilbert. Obama gave Brown a set of 25 DVDs (as mom said, if you can buy it at Wal-mart, it's probably not a good enough gift for the Prime Minister). Brown also didn't get a state dinner, as is customary. You can read more about it here.