To the people of Great Britain:Please accept my apologies for the boorish behavior of Mr. Obama, my President. His astonishingly downmarket gift to your Prime Minister is truly embarrassing. Mr. Obama should have treated Mr. Brown with far more respect than he did, not least because Mr. Brown represented the people of your nation.Sadly -- for us -- it seems that no one ever taught Mr. Obama good manners or how to be a proper host. Worse, Mr. Obama apparently is ignorant of the history of your people and the lasting gifts that you have given to America.Please let me thank you for those precious gifts.Thank you for your gift of radical and dangerous ideas of freedom for which your people have fought and died.Thank you for your gift of your navy's bringing to an end the Atlantic slave trade -- the first use of a nation's navy for a solely moral purpose.Thank you for your gift of standing fast while standing alone against the terrible, murderous onslaught of...(Read Full Post)