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BeyondGeography

(39,374 posts)
Fri Sep 5, 2014, 04:38 PM Sep 2014

If you need a reminder how strange it must be to be Barack Obama sometimes

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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If you need a reminder how strange it must be to be Barack Obama sometimes (Original Post) BeyondGeography Sep 2014 OP
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

BrotherIvan

(9,126 posts)
1. Stonehenge is very cool
Fri Sep 5, 2014, 05:25 PM
Sep 2014

But I think the comment on the video was about the size of the motorcade, not the President. Europeans on the whole view President Obama favorably, or they did during his 2008 campaign.

BrotherIvan

(9,126 posts)
4. Sorry
Fri Sep 5, 2014, 05:35 PM
Sep 2014

So used to the terrible comments from Republicans. I was a little shocked by the motorcade myself! Not the security but there was a large entourage in those buses. I bet a lot of people wanted to be seen with the President.

lithiumbomb

(250 posts)
11. it's british slang
Fri Sep 5, 2014, 08:18 PM
Sep 2014

'sick' is the same as 'wow/cool' etc. Not a term of displeasure regarding the motorcade.

 

jberryhill

(62,444 posts)
3. He has the Area 51 files and knows how to use it to communicate with the ET's
Fri Sep 5, 2014, 05:32 PM
Sep 2014

This was no tourist trip.

Clearly, things have spun out of control so that he had to break cover, go to England, and use Stonehenge to summon otherworldly help.

Could this be true? And, if so, when will they be coming?

Perhaps we might find a clue 5,000 miles away in Mexico....
 

jberryhill

(62,444 posts)
6. Holy Shit!
Fri Sep 5, 2014, 05:46 PM
Sep 2014

I thought you were joking:



June 4, 2009 1:56 PM | CBS News

While Obama was in Egypt touring the pyramids, he visited the Tomb of Qar, who his guide, Dr. Zahi Hawass, described as a well-known priest, scholar and judge in ancient Egypt. On the wall were hieroglyphs of Qar, primitive images engraved in the stone. He was a thin man with big ears.

“That looks like me!” exclaimed President Obama. “Look at those ears.”

The president summoned to his top aides to take a look, and repeated his observation about the Qar hieroglyph.

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2009/06/04/obama_discovers_an_ancient_lik.html

Obama Discovers an Ancient Likeness at the Pyramids



Ancient astronaut theorists are unaminously convinced that this provides indisputable evidence of something that might possibly have happened.

 

jberryhill

(62,444 posts)
8. The legend of Qar...
Fri Sep 5, 2014, 05:52 PM
Sep 2014

Ancient astronaut theorists also point the the "Legend of Qar" which is a prophecy warning, "When the African born conqueror of the New Lands comes to the circle of stones, he will summon power to destroy the world."

We may have put this together too late!

lunatica

(53,410 posts)
9. Not to worry
Fri Sep 5, 2014, 05:55 PM
Sep 2014

Those prophecies are always dated badly. Doesn't Nostradamus have it in a quatrain somewhere?

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