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#2

re: michelle obama doesn't even know when to touch the queen

Posted: 4/2/09 at 10:18am

Well, seeing as how the Queen has her hand on Michelle's ass, I guess she didn't mind it too much.
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#4

re: michelle obama doesn't even know when to touch the queen

Posted: 4/2/09 at 10:23am

According to everything I've read regarding this, since the Queen put her arm around Michelle first, it was perfectly appropriate for Michelle to reciprocate.
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#8

re: michelle obama doesn't even know when to touch the queen

Posted: 4/2/09 at 11:40am

The big deal the press has made over this non-issue. Unbelievable. The Queen had to put out a statement saying that it was okay. Christ!
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#10

re: michelle obama doesn't even know when to touch the queen

Posted: 4/2/09 at 12:10pm

"At least neither Obama winked at her."

Or massaged her shoulders for that matter.
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#12

re: michelle obama doesn't even know when to touch the queen

Posted: 4/2/09 at 12:28pm

I'll always remember Joan Rivers's line about meeting the queen, and not knowing how to act:

"I'd only ever seen her on a postage stamp. So I went over and licked the back of her head."
#13

re: michelle obama doesn't even know when to touch the queen

Posted: 4/2/09 at 12:28pm

Reg, when you mentioned winking, I thought you meant the other kind...Britney style.
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re: michelle obama doesn't even know when to touch the queen

Posted: 4/2/09 at 12:51pm

"the Queen touched her hand to Michelle Obama's back, and the gesture was then returned. Royal etiquette dictates that the Queen not be touched unless she reaches out first."

Madbrian already touched on this, but it seems as if Michelle was within etiquette guidelines.
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#16

re: michelle obama doesn't even know when to touch the queen

Posted: 4/2/09 at 12:52pm

Hey, at least no one was fingered.
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#18

re: michelle obama doesn't even know when to touch the queen

Posted: 4/2/09 at 2:09pm

i've never known a queen who didn't like to be touched.
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#19

re: michelle obama doesn't even know when to touch the queen

Posted: 4/2/09 at 2:35pm

This is such a non-story.

The queen has been man-handled in public by an Australian prime-minister many years ago.

I suspect his intentions were rather more cynical and self-serving than those of Mrs Obama, who was merely reciprocating a gesture already made.

Could this be a case of the American media playing to national prejudices?



#20

re: michelle obama doesn't even know when to touch the queen

Posted: 4/2/09 at 2:40pm

i think it's more the british press. they were the ones who went ape over obama's treatment of gordo and the gifts and the link listed here goes to the daily mail. so before you go blaming the american media, maybe you ought to see where the story comes from, f***-o.
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#21

Michelle Obama charms queen away from protocol

Posted: 4/2/09 at 2:47pm

"Mrs. Obama clearly made an impression with the 82-year-old monarch ? so much that the smiling queen strayed slightly from protocol and briefly wrapped her arm around the first lady in a rare public show of affection."


Michelle Obama charms queen away from protocol
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#22

Michelle Obama charms queen away from protocol

Posted: 4/2/09 at 2:49pm

The link goes to The Huffington Post.

"i think it's more the british press. they were the ones who went ape over obama's treatment of gordo and the gifts."

Separate story.

Separate thread.

Nothing to do with protocol.

And as such completely irrelevant to my comment.

Updated On: 4/2/09 at 02:49 PM

#24

Michelle Obama charms queen away from protocol

Posted: 4/2/09 at 2:55pm

It goes right to the story which isn't on the Huffington post.
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#25

Michelle Obama charms queen away from protocol

Posted: 4/2/09 at 3:16pm

"It goes right to the story which isn't on the Huffington post."

The article in The Huffington Post offers quotes from the Daily Mail and offers a link to the Daily Mail, just as it also does for an article in Time magazine.

A wider search of the media on both sides of the Atlantic will give a more balanced view of the differences of international interpretation afforded to this story.

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