Obama For Queen (for shizzles)
Was the lack of an invitation to the Royal British wedding not a snub, but an actual a carefully planned arrangement to make a future ex-President Obama royalty? Wacky premise for sure, but Geoffrey Robertson over at The Daily Beast lays out the funky possibilities:
…it is an open secret (and one recently revealed by WikiLeaks) at the Commonwealth Secretariat that many countries do not want Charles to be the next head of the Commonwealth when the queen retires—they are looking for someone more inspiring. Nelson Mandela, once the favorite candidate, is now too old, so the crown may be offered to his wife, Graca Machel, or, more inspiringly, to Aung San Suu Kyi. (Burma was once part of the empire.) But there is a better candidate that the palace fears will unseat its favorite son and heir: In a few years’ time, the role of head of the Commonwealth could well be offered to ex-president Barack Obama, with hisKenyan ancestry. The refusal to invite the Obamas to the royal wedding may not have been either an oversight or an over-slight, but a deliberate decision taken by the royal family concerned that Barack and Michelle would appear to the “black commonwealth” (the majority of its members) as providing much more satisfactory leadership than Charles and Camilla.
