Posts Tagged ‘politics’
Sarah is one of the most popular female names in the western world and because it’s such a common name there are quite a few “famous Sarahs” out there. In this post I take a quick look at three of the most famous Sarahs in the world!
#1 Sarah Palin: Due to John McCain’s choice of Palin as his VP candidate during the 2008 presidential election she may currently be the most famous Sarah in the world. And because it looks likely that she will run for the Republican Presidential nomination in 2012 I don’t think that will change in the near future.
Palin was a bad joke to many Americans because of her obvious lack of experience and intellectual prowess but among the “stupid is good” crowd that makes up the core of the GOP she was and is quite popular. Basically she’s very popular among those who still think that George W. Bush was a great President!
Luckily for the rest of the country the amount of people who hold this view is not nearly as high as it used to be and it would take a miracle (or a tragedy depending your point of view) for her to get elected as President of the United States in 2012.
#2 Sarah Silverman: Yes the character she plays in her TV shows and in her movies is an act. She’s not really like that. While Ms. Silverman’s schtick can get a little old sometimes, overall I find her quite refreshing and very funny. She’s certainly among the best Sarahs in the world in my opinion. It doesn’t hurt that she’s hot.
#3 Sarah Connor: Unlike the other Sarahs on this list, this is a fictional character. She’s John Connor’s mother in the Terminator movies. And she’s the main character in the television program Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles where she’s played by Lena Headey. In the original Terminator movies she was played by Linda Hamilton. Of course the Terminator himself was played by the future Governor of California, Arnold Schwartzeneggar.
According to the new upstart pseudo religion known as The Collective Sarah Being everyone is actually a Sarah in some way. I don’t know exactly what that’s supposed to mean but I find it quite interesting anyway.
The American president, Barack Obama has been quite criticized by his our press after he decided to give the Queen an iPod. The gift was given during a meeting held at Buckingham palace. The idea of giving the iPod was that of getting the Queen back some memories from her visit done in the USA a couple of years ago, but also to familiarize her with new policies and ideas of the USA, through the numerous speeches the American president included on the device.
Officials in the White house claim that Obama made another gift for the Queen, which consist in a rare audio book of Richard Rodgers. He received a gift from the Queen as well, but sadly it was nothing special, just a plain photo of her and Prince Philip, framed and signed, the usual gift she gives to all foreign presidents and officials that visit the palace.
Because the American president really tried hard to provide a special and priceless gift to the Queen, and he got in return just a simple photo, he must’ve felt pretty bad. Still, he remained happy-looking and no one suspected anything about the uncomfortable situation.
The American press claims this is the second inappropriate present Obama gives. A few weeks ago he gave to another Britain official, Gordon Brown, a set of 25 classic movies on DVD. Nice present, but too bad they were only fit for American video systems and don’t really work well on European players. Let’s only hope that Obama remembered to include an ipod mini battery , so that the Queen doesn’t have to go out and buy one herself if she wants to listen to anything on the device.
Obama was not the first person in the world to get the Queen an ipod. Sources say that she has one already, also received as a gift in an official meeting, full of classical tunes she like so much. Even if the situation at this official meeting was a bit odd and many newspapers commented on it, it looks like both the Queen and Obama were having a wonderful time.