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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIf you need a reminder how strange it must be to be Barack Obama sometimes
Here's a clip of his ("this is sick!" arrival at Stonehenge today:
Not that he hasn't gotten used to the whole deal:
"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
BrotherIvan
(9,126 posts)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.
BeyondGeography
(39,374 posts)BrotherIvan
(9,126 posts)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)'sick' is the same as 'wow/cool' etc. Not a term of displeasure regarding the motorcade.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)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....
lunatica
(53,410 posts)LOL!
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)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.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)jberryhill
(62,444 posts)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)Those prophecies are always dated badly. Doesn't Nostradamus have it in a quatrain somewhere?