President Obama Gives Queen Elizabeth iPod Loaded With Videos, Pictures from Her 2007 Visit, Some Brits Upset

It seems that some Brits have a problem with President Barack Obama's gift to Queen Elizabeth II. The iPod is loaded with video footage and photographs from her 2007 United States visit to Richmond, Jamestown and Williamsburg in Virginia. In return, the Queen gave the President a silver framed signed photograph of herself and the Duke of Edinburgh - apparently a standard present for visiting dignitaries. So she already has an iPod, big deal. Okay, I'll admit, that's a little embarrassing. According to the U.K. Telegraph, pool reporter Richard Wolf of USA Today says that an Obama aide told him the President also gave the Queen a "rare songbook signed by Richard Rogers."

As you will recall, there was widespread criticism in Britain and from Anglophiles in the United States of Mr Obama's recent present to Mr. Brown of a box set of classic American movies on DVDs that were not compatible with British DVD players. Whose fault was that? What I find utterly ridiculous is that they can spend the time complaining about this iPod instead of focusing on the issues at hand. Matt Drudge of the Drudge Report has this story prominently featured on his website. Is this supposed to be a goof by the President? Didn't President George H. Bush throw up in the lap of a president? Wasn't that far worst a faux pas than this? Come on people, worry about what's going on globally and not what President Obama gave the Queen. If you ask me, her gift wasn't so great either.

On a lighter note, I wonder if First Lady Michelle Obama did a curtsy for the Queen when they met this morning.