October 15, 2011 by Don Surber
I was going to title this “Today In Smart Diplomacy.” Once again, Michelle Obama is vacationing on the public’s dime (the Obamas are worth over $10 million), this time in Cape Town, South Africa, with her daughters — or as the official manifest described them, senior advisers. (Her husband stayed home to declare another war on another Third World nation, this time Uganda.) Missus Obama ticked off the British again.
From the London Daily Mail:
A British Royal Navy ship was ordered to turn its guns around because they were parked pointing at a hotel room Michelle Obama was staying in.
Fearing the First Lady might be in danger, minders ordered the captain of the HMS Edinburgh stationed in Cape Town, South Africa, to switch them away from her five-star suite.
The U.S. agents have since been accused of overreacting after it emerged the Sea Dart missiles were, in fact, loaded with blanks having been used during a ceremony in honor of a sailor who had died.
Former Royal Navy officer Mike Critchley told the Daily Mirror: “This is typical American Secret Service going over the top. I would have thought that they could trust their British allies to not put a missile through the bedroom window of the First Lady. It is unfortunate that this happened at an extremely sad time for the ship.”
Mrs Obama was on an official visit to South Africa in June and was staying in a luxury suite at the five star Table Bay Hotel.
The guns were fired in honor of Lieutenant Sara Hellawell, who died aboard the ship a few days earlier. But if all you think about is you, then everything is about you all the time. Queen Elizabeth is not this regal. Heck, Kim Kardashian isn’t this high maintenance. I do not think the British are going to start firing missiles at Missus Obama. But keep pushing it, lady. Keep pushing it.
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