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BeyondGeography

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Fri Sep 5, 2014, 04:38 PM Sep 2014

If you need a reminder how strange it must be to be Barack Obama sometimes [View all]

Here's a clip of his ("this is sick!&quot arrival at Stonehenge today:



Not that he hasn't gotten used to the whole deal:



After wrestling with threats ranging from Russia to Islamist insurgency in the Middle East, U.S. President Barack Obama took a break from a NATO summit to visit Britain's prehistoric Stonehenge monument on Friday.

"How cool is this?" Obama said as he wandered starry-eyed in his shirt sleeves among the towering stone megaliths.

"It's spectacular," said Obama, as he gazed at the circle of towering megaliths while sheep grazed in a nearby field. "Knocked it off the bucket list," he said, using a term for must-do experiences before one dies.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/09/05/us-nato-summit-obama-stonehenge-idUSKBN0H021W20140905
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Stonehenge is very cool BrotherIvan Sep 2014 #1
Yup...didn't mean to create any confusion there BeyondGeography Sep 2014 #2
Sorry BrotherIvan Sep 2014 #4
it's british slang lithiumbomb Sep 2014 #11
He has the Area 51 files and knows how to use it to communicate with the ET's jberryhill Sep 2014 #3
Yea, one of the pyramids has this exact picture in it. lunatica Sep 2014 #5
Holy Shit! jberryhill Sep 2014 #6
Well it is pretty close to Kenya isn't it? lunatica Sep 2014 #7
The legend of Qar... jberryhill Sep 2014 #8
Not to worry lunatica Sep 2014 #9
Sweet! elleng Sep 2014 #10
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