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[Nihil Obstat]

[quote name='philothea' post='1823210' date='Apr 2 2009, 11:39 PM']Anyone that fit your description wouldn't even want to run. [/quote]
Let's nominate a Phatmasser, then pool our resources and start a giant viral campaign.
(I'm leaning towards Winchester, off the top of my head.)

Edited April 3, 2009 by Nihil Obstat

[philothea]

[quote name='Nihil Obstat' post='1823235' date='Apr 3 2009, 01:05 AM']Let's nominate a Phatmasser, then pool our resources and start a giant viral campaign.
(I'm leaning towards Winchester, off the top of my head.)[/quote]
Hah, good idea!

I'd go with Catherine, myself.

[Archaeology cat]

[quote name='CatherineM' post='1823001' date='Apr 3 2009, 02:01 AM']The big flap today here wasn't over the gift, it was over the pictures of Michele Obama putting her arm around the Queen. Protocol is that you never touch the monarch of another country. I'm starting to wonder if the Protocol department had a big turn over, or if the Obama's don't want their briefing/input. That's the department in our government that is supposed to brief all diplomats, not just the President and his wife about appropriate gifts and conduct. The whole thing is reminding me of Goldie Hawn's movie Protocol.[/quote]
It's not just a foreigner who isn't supposed to touch the queen - no one is without express permission. Or so I've read, so let me know if I'm wrong, please.

[Madame Vengier]

[quote name='Resurrexi' post='1823073' date='Apr 2 2009, 11:02 PM']President Bush wasn't much better. He called the Pope "Your Eminence" lol. I have to admit the ipod loaded with showtunes is really corny.[/quote]


It wasn't filled with showtunes.

[Lounge Daddy]

According to ABC News, the Obama team confirmed that [url="http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2009/04/what-does-one-g.html"]it had showtunes[/url], as well as pictures and videos of President Obama's speeches. The showtunes included the following:

[indent] "Oklahoma!"
"If I Loved You," Jan Clayton, "Carousel"
"You'll Never Walk Alone," Jan Clayton, "Carousel"
"There's No Business Like Show Business," Ethel Merman, "Annie Get Your Gun"
"Once in Love with Amy (Where's Charley?)," Ray Bolger
"Some Enchanted Evening," "South Pacific"
"Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend," Carol Channing, "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes"
"Getting to Know You," Gertrude Lawrence, "The King and I"
"Shall We Dance?" Gertrude Lawrence, "The King and I"
"I Could Have Danced All Night," Julie Andrews, "My Fair Lady"
"I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face," Rex Harrison, "My Fair Lady"
"The Party's Over (Bells Are Ringing)," Judy Holliday
"Maria," "West Side Story"
"Tonight," "West Side Story"
"Seventy Six Trombones," "The Music Man"
"Everything's Coming up Roses," Ethel Merman, "Gypsy"
"The Sound of Music"
"Try to Remember," Jerry Orbach, "The Fantasticks"
"Camelot," Richard Burton
"If Ever I Would Leave You," Robert Goulet, "Camelot"
"Hello, Dolly!" Carol Channing
"If I Were a Rich Man," Zero Mostel, "Fiddler on the Roof"
"People," Barbra Streisand, "Funny Girl"
"On a Clear Day (You Can See Forever)," John Cullum
"The Impossible Dream," Richard Kiley, "Man of La Mancha"
"Mame," Charles Braswell
"Cabaret," Liza Minnelli
"Aquarius, Ronald Dyson, "Hair'
"Send in the Clowns," Judy Collins, "A Little Night Music"
"All That Jazz," Chita Rivera, "Chicago"
"One," "A Chorus Line"
"Tomorrow," Andrea McArdle, "Annie"
"Don't Cry for Me Argentina," Patti LuPone, "Evita"
"And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going," Jennifer Holliday, "Dreamgirls"
"Memory," Elaine Paige, "Cats"
"The Best of Times," George Hearn, "La Cage Aux Folles"
"I Dreamed a Dream," Aretha Franklin, "Les MisDerables"
"The Music of the Night," Michael Crawford, "The Phantom of the Opera"
"As If We Never Said Goodbye," Elaine Paige, "Sunset Blvd."
"Seasons of Love," "Rent" [/indent]

[CatherineM]

[quote name='philothea' post='1823249' date='Apr 3 2009, 01:04 AM']Hah, good idea!

I'd go with Catherine, myself. [/quote]

I seriously hate politics. I'm married to a man who has written a couple of dozen books on the subject, and I infuriate him by my disdain of it. I am taking over as President of the Catholic Women's League at our church in January. That's about as far as I am willing to go in the politics department. I got voted in as president-elect because I didn't show up for a meeting a year ago right after I had dislocated my knee. That will teach me to miss meetings.

I do agree that the kind of people who are true leaders, and would make great Presidents, will never run. If this was the year for our first black president, I wish it could have been Powell. His wife wouldn't let him run. She didn't want their lives turned upside down. Can't say I blame her.

[Madame Vengier]

[quote name='CatherineM' post='1823443' date='Apr 3 2009, 01:24 PM']I do agree that the kind of people who are true leaders, and would make great Presidents, will never run. If this was the year for our first black president, I wish it could have been Powell. His wife wouldn't let him run.[/quote]


Even though he supports baby-killing? Not to mention, he apparently lacks personal conviction and integrity such that he openly supported the likes of Barack Obama.

Edited April 4, 2009 by Madame Vengier

[Madame Vengier]

[quote name='Lounge Daddy' post='1823440' date='Apr 3 2009, 01:21 PM']According to ABC News, the Obama team confirmed that [url="http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2009/04/what-does-one-g.html"]it had showtunes[/url], as well as pictures and videos of President Obama's speeches. The showtunes included the following:[/quote]

HIS SPEECHES? You gotta be kidding! He's been president for 2 months and he has SPEECHES he deems worthy to give a monarch who has been reigning for 57 years--longer than Obama has been alive?? He kills me.

[Madame Vengier]

[quote name='Archaeology cat' post='1823266' date='Apr 3 2009, 05:13 AM']It's not just a foreigner who isn't supposed to touch the queen - no one is without express permission. Or so I've read, so let me know if I'm wrong, please.[/quote]


I just read this afternoon that the Palace issued a statement that they do not issue a protocol on touching the Queen. They seem okay with it, so why should we care. There's a deeper concern with Obama bowing to the Saudi King that Michelle hugging the Queen.

[Saint Therese]

[quote name='CatherineM' post='1823087' date='Apr 2 2009, 10:19 PM']Saying that Obama is inexperienced and in over his head isn't saying I want Bush back. Neither was the brightest bulb. I guess the difference is that W knew he wasn't too bright.

I'm just holding out hope that one day I will get to vote for a presidential candidate who is a truly experienced, seasoned statesman, bright, and pro-life.[/quote]


He did go to Yale, you know. And I'd say that so far Obama makes Bush look like Einstein.

[Archaeology cat]

[quote name='Madame Vengier' post='1824091' date='Apr 4 2009, 03:59 AM']I just read this afternoon that the Palace issued a statement that they do not issue a protocol on touching the Queen. They seem okay with it, so why should we care. There's a deeper concern with Obama bowing to the Saudi King that Michelle hugging the Queen.[/quote]
Thank you, I hadn't seen that, so I stand corrected.