The Not-So-Special Relationship: Why Obama Snubbed Gordon Brown
The essay seems to miss the ritual position that is the responsibility of the person holding the office to enact properly. Personal traits and peculiarities are not to be the presiding focus of gift giving between heads of states as long friendly as America and England. I am not a fan of Brown nor Obama, and all you have said of Brown’s misgiving may hold, however, as a first meeting between American and English heads of state (well I know its ‘Brittain’ now but I indulge fonder, more proper, times), the ritual significance cannot be allowed to fall due to personal issues. It was much the same with the booing at OBama’s innauguration. Glad to see BUsh go or not that is not a place where the personality of the individual takes precedence over the ritual of office changing hands. I would love to see Brown snub Obama in return during the G20 meeting, yet Brown is mush too yellow to do that I am certain. I would even more like to see Obama’s face the moment Brown should give Obama a set of DVD’s with Winston Churchill’s speeches! cordeliaforlear.blogspot.com
