The crew of the Queen Mary congratulated the president-elect with signal flags that spell out "It's Obama" from its mast head and plans to keep the flags flying through Veterans Day.
"The Queen Mary is an iconic image to America and the world," QM General Manager Jay Primavera said in a statement. "We felt it was appropriate that this historic ship send out its own message of congratulations on this historic occasion to the President Elect."
Primavera also extended an invitation to the first-family-in-waiting.
"Knowing that President Elect Obama's chance of taking an extended holiday in the next few months is going to be difficult, we want he and his family to know that they are most welcome stay aboard the Queen Mary as our guest if they would like the chance to take a cruise without having ever to leave the harbor."
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You have to be joking...as broke down as the Queen Mary is these days....why would anyone want to stay there! The GM Jay Primavera should just let her sink, as he's driven this once beautiful ship to ruins.
What's funny about this is that the Queen Mary, back in the early 2000's at least, was a workplace that suffered from racism on the part of some in upper management. Oh they hired every type of person. But upper management's overall attitudes and treatment of every type of person was not all on one level.