The Obamas: When Insulting a World Leader, Closest Ally & Wife Aren't Enough...

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

...go for their kids:

Like all good guests, Sarah Brown arrived bearing gifts for the children, Malia and Sasha. And they were really nice presents. A bit of thought had clearly gone into choosing them: Top Shop dresses (with matching necklaces) and a selection of books by British authors. Lovely.
Mrs Brown may have two boys but she certainly knows the way to a little girl’s heart. These were gifts chosen in the true spirit of present-giving: to please the recipient, not the giver.

In return Mrs Obama gave the Brown children, Fraser and John, two toy models of Marine One, the Presidential helicopter. Fair enough on the helicopter part, always a popular choice with small boys; but Marine One? It’s not as though anyone needs reminding that Barack Obama is President or that he has his own helicopter. Short of giving the boys Action Man models of her own husband smiting the evil forces of neoconservatism, Mrs Obama’s gesture could not have been more solipsistic or more inherently dismissive of Mrs Brown.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article5848073.ece

The capper: the toy helicopters can be had from the WH gift store for $15 a piece.

So basically Michelle had some unpaid intern run down to the WH gift store and pull a couple of toys off the shelf to rub it in the face of the Brown family what a big-shot L'il 'O is supposed to be.

I bet Bill Ayers' kids got better gifts. Probably some stuffed plush toy of Che or Marx made in a Vietnamese sweatshop.

"Deliberate" is the only word that can explain this insult.

[thundley4]

I am sure that he will put more thought into gifts when he meets with "his" allies , you know, Iran , North Korea, Raoul Castro, etc.

[Ree]

it's just freakin tacky...hell he gave Brown DVDs....somethin ya could pickup a blockbuster... unfreakinbelieveable.....

[RightCoast]

it's just freakin tacky...hell he gave Brown DVDs....somethin ya could pickup a blockbuster... unfreakinbelieveable.....

Rush read off the stuff that Brown gave to barack - clearly priceless objects to be treasured forever - the obama's are trash.

[Splashdown]

On another note, when was the last time you saw a newspaper article with the word "solipsistic" in it?

 

[Texacon]

'O' took some pieces out of the models before they were given to the children.  That way he can PROVE beyond a shadow of a doubt that he needs a new $400 million helicopter.

KC

[Lacarnut]

All I can think of is cheap, cheap, cheap and low class.