Hey, I took a picture with President Obama!

There was a news orgy about Obama snubbing British Prime Minister Gordon Brown in both coasts of the Atlantic. It's said Obama refused to meet with Brown while he had meetings with Hu, Medvedev and other leaders. They questioned the spokespeople for White House and Mr Brown himself. Both governments seemed impatient for those questions and reiterated the special relationship between them.

The media suggested this was a result of U.S. anger over Britian's decision to release to supposedly main plotter of Lockerbie. This is very unlikely that U.S. government would try to display its anger by this kind of ignorance. Expressing disatisfaction to the most important ally can only be done by closed-door way in order not to be explosed to the enemies and the media. An open argument or embarassment would only hurt both sides. And what's more, I believe before releasing the Libyan, UK government had consulted the Obama administration and got a green light, but they simply cannot admit that for fear of angering those victims' families.

This incident also shows how desperate Brown's situation is right now. He is very likely to leave the office in the next election before June 2010. The media would very much like to make fun of this lame duck cabinet. Simply seeing the once-proud British PM trying to maintain his relationship with Pres Obama and claiming they had a meeting even if they only had a short chat and exchanged pleasantries is really funny.

But more importantly, this shows those 24-hour news networks really lacks substantial contents to report. Probably next time they will report the homosexual tendency when Obama spends too much time with David Cameron.