Obama And The Queen

Barack Obama is stepping into overdrive and going on the re-election campaign early. On the back of the killing of Bin Laden he briefly made a visit to Ireland, for it seems no other reason than to get the American-Irish vote. He went to the place where one of his ancestors lived and then drank a pint of Guinness (of course, its mandatory). The push for the American-Irish vote ticked alongside the African-American vote.
He’s now London with the Queen, who’s also hardly been out the news lately. BBC Royal correspondent Nicholas Witchell is clocking in some hours overtime. First the Royal Wedding, then the dull blanket news coverage on her state visit to Ireland where there was live coverage of her doing such interesting things as waving and laying down a reef. I know it‘s her fist visit there due to political tensions but did it really need to be taking up the whole of BBC Wold News for four days?
Why didn’t I watch something else? Well because I was on holiday in Italy and that was the only English channel in the hotel room. So I flicked between the news and various football matches on the Italian version of Sky Sports.
Now Obama is here in the UK. I wonder what he and the Queen are going to talk about? Most old lady’s her age talk about the weather, their next doctors appointment, the health of people they know but you don’t, and the price of a lamb chop.
I imagine out of these things the Queen can only talk about the weather.