President Bush & British Queen: Did He Do It?

Did President George W. Bush wink at Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II of Britain, and did she, in return, frown at him?

“That’s what happened yesterday after George Bush mangled his greeting to the Queen on her state visit to the U.S.,” reports The Daily Mail.

“Stumbling over his words, he came perilously close to suggesting that the monarch had toured the States in 1776.

“And although the President’s following wink was initially rewarded with a regal glare, the Queen did at least seem to see the funny side of the blunder.

“After the blunder the President paused and turned to the Queen to acknowledge his gaffe, joking that she ‘gave me a look that only a mother could give a child.’

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While on this subject, let us have a look at an old but interesting article on “What the British think of America”. To read this BBC story please click here…

Excerpts:

“Once upon a time the Americans were the British, lost on the narrow lip of a distant continent, clutching their faith, songs, customs and memories; they were 17th Century space travellers, cut off from Planet Europe with its corruptions and tyrannies.

“Today, the British sometimes seem more like strayed Americans, islanders who speak American, watch American, eat American and increasingly think American too.

“Looking at us, a visiting anthropologist from Mars might conclude that we must be a tribe of migrants from Pennsylvania who ended up, for obscure reasons, squatting off France…”

The Times carries a story “Oops, he did it again . . . President rewrites American history.”

And to look at a discussion at a mundane level please click here…