{"id":6619,"date":"2015-06-09T07:34:12","date_gmt":"2015-06-09T11:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=6619"},"modified":"2019-10-22T15:07:43","modified_gmt":"2019-10-22T19:07:43","slug":"the-queen-and-president-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=6619","title":{"rendered":"The Queen and President Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. President Barak Obama was visiting the Queen. During the meeting, he asked the question, &#8220;Your Majesty, how do you run such an efficient government? Are there any tips you can give me?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Well,&#8221; said the Queen Elizabeth, &#8220;The most important thing is to surround yourself with intelligent people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Obama frowned, and then asked, &#8220;But how do I know if the people around me are really intelligent?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Queen took a sip of champagne. &#8220;Oh, that&#8217;s easy; you just ask them to answer an intelligent riddle. Watch.&#8221; The Queen pushed a button on her intercom. &#8220;Please send Prime Minister David Cameron in here, would you?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>David Cameron walked into the room and said, &#8220;Yes, your Majesty?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Queen smiled and said, &#8220;Answer me this please David. Your mother and father have a child. It is not your brother and it is not your sister. Who is it?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Without pausing for a moment, David Cameron answered, \u201cThat would be me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yes! Very good.&#8221; said the Queen.<\/p>\n<p>President Obama went back home to ask V.P. Joe Biden the same question. &#8220;Joe, answer this for me.&#8221; &#8220;Your mother and your father have a child. It&#8217;s not your brother and it&#8217;s not your sister. Who is it?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m not sure,&#8221; said Biden. &#8220;Let me get back to you on that one.&#8221; He went to his advisors and asked everyone, but none could give him an answer. Frustrated, Biden went to work in congressional gym and saw Paul Ryan there.<\/p>\n<p>Biden went up to him and asked, &#8220;Hey Paul, see if you can answer this question.&#8221; &#8220;Shoot Joe.&#8221; \u201cYour mother and father have a child and it&#8217;s not your brother or your sister. Who is it?&#8221; Paul Ryan answered, \u201cThat&#8217;s easy, it&#8217;s me!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Biden smiled, and said, &#8220;Good answer Paul!&#8221; Biden then, went back to speak with President Obama. &#8220;Say, I did some research and I have the answer to that riddle.&#8221; &#8220;It&#8217;s Paul Ryan!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Obama got up, stomped over to Biden, and angrily yelled into his face, &#8220;No! You idiot! It&#8217;s David Cameron!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>(ed. &#8211; This joke and a hundred like them can be found in <strong>Keep &#8216;Em Laughing<\/strong> &#8211; the By George collection of election campaign guffaws. You can obtain a copy of the e-book by ordering on-line here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?page_id=4603\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Our E-Bookshelf<\/a>.)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. President Barak Obama was visiting the Queen. During the meeting, he asked the question, &#8220;Your Majesty, how do you run such an efficient government? Are there any tips you can give me?&#8221; &#8220;Well,&#8221; said the Queen Elizabeth, &#8220;The most important thing is to surround yourself with intelligent people.&#8221; Obama frowned, and then asked, &#8220;But&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[46,30],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6619"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6619"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10724,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6619\/revisions\/10724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}