Obama in Europe: More DVDs for Gordon Brown?

Sure they burned down the White House. But that's water under the bridge. It's Churchill and Roosevelt. Reagan and Thatcher. McCartney and Jackson.

They deserve something substantial. Like maybe they could have one of the original 13 colonies back. Is anyone really going to miss Rhode Island anyway? No offense.

The envelope please

So with history recording every move, President Barack Obama presented Prime Minister Gordon Brown with.....25 DVDs.

And not just any DVDs. But really good ones. Psycho was on one of them. And Star Wars. And E.T.

"Harumph!" said the the snooty British press.

"A gift about as exciting as a pair of socks," wrote one reporter at the Daily Mail.

Broken

And then there was that other problem. The DVDs didn't work.

"Alas, when the PM settled down to begin watching them the other night, he found there was a problem," reports the Telegraph. "The films only worked in DVD players made in North America and the words "wrong region" came up on his screen."

"He mournfully had to put the popcorn away," they added.

He wasn't the only one mourning.

"British diplomats in Washington are still answering more than 2,000 letters of apology from American citizens for Mr. Obama’s alleged insult to the Prime Minister when he visited the White House this month," the London Times reports.

Come on!

To be fair, it's not like Obama gave Brown 25 Ben Affleck movies. That would truly be horrific.

The good news is that our president can redeem himself and perhaps offer up Rhode Island as a gift. Throw in Vermont too. And do we really need Nebraska?

The two leaders meet for three hours Wednesday. First they have breakfast, then a formal bilateral meeting and a press conference.

Note to our British friends: Based on what we've seen so far at the White House, you might want to request that the fake President Obama from Madame Tussauds House of Wax participate in the press conference instead of the real deal. He would probably be more interesting.

We'll try live blogging it tomorrow if we can stay awake.

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