Obama Gives Queen of England an iPod

Rumored to have loaded it with 80's & Heartbreak....

By Fred Mills

Okay, so we at BLURT drank the Obama Kool-ade. We admit it. But it doesn't mean we're blinded by the light (check our Obama-is-not-the-liberal-messiah op-ed piece in the new print edition of BLURT for proof), and it definitely doesn't mean that we get up each morning and scour the media for news about our betrothed, er, our beloved, er, the President.

Just the same, this kinda caught our eye when we were scrolling through news feeds late last night: during his trip to the G20 summit in London, Mr. Obama gave the Queen of England an iPod. Hardly earth-shattering news of course; visiting dignitaries have been gifting each other since the dawn of time. But since this is the modern era, the days of one head of state giving another head of state a gift of, say, a large saber, or a portrait of himself astride a noble steed are long gone. (Hold that thought: the Queen's gift to Mr. Obama was apparently an autographed photo of herself and the Duke of Edinburgh. The gal is old-skool.)

The Obama-pod (which it will henceforth forever be known as) is said to have been loaded with videos of the Queen during her American sojourn in 2007. No word on whether or not they'd been able to digitally edit out images of George Bush from the vids.) But the mind just boggles as to what else he might have uploaded to the music player section of the gadget - some Kanye? Outkast? Lil' Wayne? Al Green for those moments when she's had a few nips and feelin' smooooov? How about a Motown medley, or a palace-party-startin' roundup of classic Stax? Maybe even some Dre and Eminem joints to blast out the windows when the protesters outside are just a little too damn loud?

Mr. Obama was quoted as saying this about the Queen at a press conference: "There's one last that I should mention that I love about Great Britain, and that is the Queen. And so I'm very much looking forward to meeting her for the first time later this evening. And as you might imagine, Michell as been really thinking that through - because I think in the imagination of people throughout America, I think what the Queen stands for and her decency and her civility, what she represents, that's very important."

Well, all right then!