Seriously. "The Gift"

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WTFH?

25 majority American-made movies should be a splendid gift.


(Plus the packaging!)


ISTG, are people really that bored?

[rcrush]

1. Heads will rollllll

They are rolling right now!

[islandmkl]

2. well, ain't no young blondes been abducted lately...

and OJ is incarcerated and Paris and Britney are behavin' themselves...

well, shit...the Prez is bound to f*** up in this environment...

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3. Cinema is a very American endeavor

nt

[FrenchieCat]

4. That's American Culture.

Movies, music, coca-cola

(edited to add....) and Jeans!

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5. Which makes it a very American gift

And I don't think it was inappropriate at all.

[FrenchieCat]

6. Those who do, don't know what America is known for in the world....

or was, before Bush Jr. royally fucked it up!

I was born in Paris and raised there. I know what Europeans like about America.

I just named them.

[One Taste]

9. hey (off topic)

great looking springer! have one myself, 14 years old.

[islandmkl]

7. i would relish 25 movies....

i didn't see the list...but i hope some Capra was included...

We Got Us Bunch of Hee-lots around here...

Walter Brennan (the Colonel, Long John Willoughby's (Gary Cooper) sidekick) to Irving Bacon (Beany-another of the guys) in "Meet John Doe":

Beany: What's a hee-lot?

The Colonel: You've ever been broke, sonny?

Beany: Sure, mostly often.

The Colonel: All right. You're walking along, not a nickel in your jeans, your free as the wind, nobody bothers ya. Hundreds of people pass you by in every line of business: shoes, hats, automobiles, radios, everything, and there all nice lovable people and they lets you alone, is that right? Then you get a hold of some dough and what happens, all those nice sweet lovable people become hee-lots, a lotta heels...they begin to creep up on ya, trying to sell ya something: they get long claws and they get a stranglehold on ya, and you squirm and you duck and you holler and you try to push them away but you haven't got the chance. They gots ya. First thing ya know you own things, a car for instance, now your whole life is messed up with alot more stuff: you get license fees and number plates and gas and oil and taxes and insurance and identification cards and letters and bills and flat tires and dents and traffic tickets and motorcycle cops and tickets and courtrooms and lawers and fines and... a million and one other things. What happens? You're not the free and happy guy you used to be. You need to have money to pay for all those things, so you go after what the other fellas got. There you are, you're a hee-lot yourself.

[rcrush]

8. Did he give them V for Vendetta?

That woulda been funny.

[DrDan]

10. and would be for your sister at Christmas - but not for a head-of-state

[amandabeech]

11. Thanks for being sane.

As I've posted elsewhere, I assume that Obama's protocol staff will come up with something nifty when the Obamas make the first state visit to the U.K.

I suggest something with an FDR motif.

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[spiritual_gunfighter]

13. This is the biggest "non issue" made into an issue by DUers

I have seen since I have been coming around here a couple of years ago. I call this "playing right into the right wing's hands". Let's pick apart everything the President does including what he decides he wants to give for a gift.

[WinkyDink]

14. No, just the people who continue to START THREADS about it.

[tekisui]

15. Watch the sales of those 25 movies jump.

President Obama is a walking stimulus package.