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Contrary1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-02-09 11:17 AM
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Oh Noes! Michelle actually touched the queen...latest Freeper hissyfit
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"And The Queen was immediately healed of her leprosy"

"Michelle Obama KNOWS the etiquette rules but her personality did not allow her to follow them. Why would she...they follow no rules but make their own. She was sending a message....albeit rude one while in their country...but a message."

"Michelle really bugs me. Not only does she have no class, but she has no grace."

"Even somebody who is pretending to be president, as Obama is. And Michelle is low-class anyway, so we shouldn't expect her to know the proper protocol."


Ah...but it was not only appropriate, but classy when the boy king groped German Chancellor Angela Merkel with an unwelcome back rub, or repeatedly patted the bald heads of grown men.
They are in store for a very long eight years. :rofl:


Michelle Obama charms queen away from protocol

"LONDON (AP) — Michelle Obama has done what few others have managed — getting Queen Elizabeth II to break protocol.

The first lady arrived Wednesday with President Barack Obama. After separate meetings on the eve of the G-20 summit, the couple attended an evening reception for world leaders hosted by the queen.

Mrs. Obama clearly made an impression with the 82-year-old monarch — so much that the smiling queen strayed from protocol and put her arm around the first lady in a rare public show of affection.

It was the first time Mrs. Obama — who is nearly a foot taller — had met the queen. The first lady also embraced her.

A Buckingham Palace spokesman who asked not to be identified because of palace policy said he could not remember the last time that the queen had displayed such public affection with a first lady or dignitary..."

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iU2_BrNBSIf8q7Dpe7TZaCq11qeAD97ACKFG2



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