Obama's Gift

Somehow, everyone has decided that President Barack Obama's gift to the Queen of England is a really, really big deal. Now, I never considered myself a tech-geek, but nevertheless, ladies and gentlemen, this was a total no-brainer.

People have decried Obama's ipod gift as impersonal, even though the Queen's gift of an autographed pic is beyond lame. But let's be real. Are we that dumb, folks?

First of all, read the journals. The ipod was personally engraved and had footage of her "majesty's" visit to the United States in 2007.

But more importantly, and to get to a point that I am quite sure that Obama and her majesty did not miss, this was a perfect gift on a more (what I thought was an obvious) technical level. Jonathan Ive, a British man who works for Apple, was the designer of the Ipod. He was actually recongnized by the Queen with the CBE title. I didn't realize that this was such an unknown occurance. Damn.

So everyone who wanted Obama to be wrong just four the sake of it, damn, you wrong again.

It's a long slow road, but we are on the right curve, ladies and gents.