British Gift Fail

This last week, British Prime Minister and fellow socialist Gordon Brown, paid a visit to the Obama White House for his first talks with the new president. And the White House failed in it's first foreign leader visit.

No state dinner. No major press conference. Brief meeting with President Obama.
But those weren't even the biggest failures. That happened during the gift exchange. Gordon Brown brought the following thoughtful gifts for President Obama and his family -

• an ornamental pen holder made from the timbers of the Victorian anti-slave ship HMS Gannet
• a framed commission for HMS Resolute
  
• a first edition of the seven-volume biography of Churchill by Sir Martin Gilbert
• to the girls - an outfit each from Topshop
• six children's books by British authors which are shortly to be published in America

And what did America's pride and joy give Gordon Brown in return for such splendid and special gifts -

• A collection of 25 American movies on DVD

Great. Just what he wanted. Did he stop at Target or Best Buy on the way home to pick that up? Geez Mr. President, how kind of you to take the time to put such thought into your gift. The White House offers up the excuse that President Obama is so tired from the economic crisis he is trying to solve and the amount of work that crosses his desk that he just wasn't able to do what was expected with Prime Minister Brown.

This administration continues to act like it has no clue as to what it is doing, that it bit off much more than it can chew and now is floundering. The vetting process for Cabinet picks is non-existent, nobody wants to work for Treasury Sec. Timothy Geithner as he continues solo in his job, and the Dow, which predicts future trends, is plummeting. Why? The plan is to spend us out of this recession and Obama is campaigning to sell this snake oil to the American people by creating fear. He doesn't have time for silly things like foreign relations, that is why he has Hillary Clinton.

My question - was 'The Patriot' included in the collection? Perhaps 'Pee Wee's Big Adventure'? Just wondering . . .