I'm sure if George W. Bush was the one behind the story it would not have been a boring, pointless story to you.

This is what it gets to me, Bush foibles where magnified and exploited to no end by the MSM while Obama's are swept under the carpet.

The "Messiah" can do no wrong, he's the untouchable that walks on water.

What a load of bullshit if you ask me.

great job Jake Tapper for downplaying the central part of the gift. And Drudge Report for hyping up an already boring, pointless story.

But the know it all in chief knows better than the Office of Protocol. He who will not be disagreed with chose this inane gift just as chose DVD's - which won't play on UK players - for Gordon Brown. One may recall Brown wasn't even given a two-bit hooker's sendoff, i.e., "finish your baked potato and get the hxxx out" - he and his entourage were denied lunch, not even a bag of Chee-tohs and sent packing.

But Brown apparently likes being mistreated by minorities. According to the UK Daily Mail today, the UK PM publicly gushed and swooned over the one the way Frank Booth mooned over 'Ben', played inspiringly by Dean Stockwell, in David Lynch's 1986 film, "Blue Velvet".

What was on those DVD's? "Scream, Blackula, Scream!"? "Superfly"?

Nah, probably some 50s 'classic' scripted by commie blacklist Clifford Odets.

This country seems to be in the hands of Frank Booth and his gang, out for a joyride.

Paul Vincent Zecchino
Manasota Key, Florida
02 April, 2009