[UPDATE]: Moe Lane here, with a question.  If this latest in what have been a series of snubs doesn’t persuade you that the current administration simply doesn’t like the British very much, I have a question: what will?

That’s a serious question that you should be asking, even if it’s just to yourself.

It seems like very bad form and a serious breach of diplomatic protocol to not invite the only Head of State still living to have served in the Allied military in World War II to commemorate the 65th anniversary of D-Day with you.

I mean, after all, her country staged the invasion and her troops fought along side yours.

Rather selfish.

Consider this an open thread.

One at a time, President Barack Obama is alienating America’s European allies. First there was the embarrassingly crude snub of Prime Minister Gordon Brown of Great Britain, who was denied the courtesy of a joint press conference with the president on his recent Washington trip and was sent packing with a disastrously cheap official gift: a DVD collection that Brown cannot even view in London. By comparison, Obama was treated like royalty in Britain at the G-20. However, the gift he presented Queen Elizabeth, an iPod loaded with Broadway show tunes, left some scratching their heads.

But if the president’s behavior toward America’s best friend is a scandal, then his treatment of the president of America’s oldest ally is an international incident. Obama has publicly snubbed French President Nicholas Sarkozy three times since being elected, and now it is coming back to bite him.

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