Why you don't want Barry as your secret Santa

After flubbing the gifts to Gordon Brown and family during the Prime Minister's visit to DC, there was no way team Obama was going to botch a gift to the Queen; right? Wrong!! He got her an iPod (even though she already has one).

It is clearly a special gift to celebrate the "special relationship" between the nations. You know, it's not like you could just walk into any mall and get one.

In fairness, there was some though put into the gift as this iPod came with songs already uploaded as well as:

Photos from the Queen's 2007 White House State Visit
Photos from the Queen's 2007 Jamestown, Va., Visit
Photos from the Queen's 2007 Richmond, Va., Visit
Video from the Queen's 1957 Jamestown Visit
Video from the Queen's 2007 Jamestown Visit
Video from the Queen's 2007 Richmond Visit

But to make it extra special it also had:

Photos from President Obama's Inauguration
Audio of then-state senator Obama's speech at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, and
Audio of President Obama 2009 Inauguration Address

There has not been so much selfless thought put into a gift since I was nine and wanted to buy my mom a catcher's mitt for her birthday -- she didn't have one. And more importantly, neither did I.