Obama had no business being there. He's the first US president whose family had absolutely no personal stake in WWII, and it was an embarrassment to have him standing there, speaking as though he even cared. Yet Queen Elizabeth, who personally participated in the war, was not even invited.
These are the times that try Gordon Brown's soul. His Freudian Slip suggests that Brownie's trying to borrow some of Obama's glory for the coming row with Labor. Even Silvio Berlusconi, apparently, is coming to the Whoite House on Monday for a photo op to bask in the warm light of President Obama's soft power.
You all know that I'm not a huge fan of Obama, but if he manages to annex a chunk of France, well he may just get my vote in 2012. You're all right, Gordon Brown.
Like all other overseas American cemeteries in France for WW I and II, France has granted the United States a special, perpetual concession to the land occupied by the (Normandy) cemetery, free of any charge or any tax.
If Obama can score a winery or three, or some of that truffle-bearing land, I might vote for him as well. The French are welcome to the rest.
Just continuing the grand tradition of PMs going weak-kneed around American presidents... who can forget Tony "The Poodle" Blair pretending to be a cowboy at GWB's fake ranch? And, of course, Thatcher wanted to fuck Reagan.
Gordy B's puppyishness around BO has always struck me as an underachieving son trying to please his father, rather than "creamy pleasure." Also, with that, Letts is the new Babs Cartland.
why the hell are the brits getting their panties in a bunch? obama gave the queen a lovely personalized gift of an ipod with footage of her on it and a collection of broadway show tunes (was it "don't cry for me argentina" that miffed them? "if i were a rich man"?), while the queen tossed a signed picture of herself at his head. a signed picture. of herself.
screw you, DM. she ain't no human being. and leave poor gordon brown alone, because let's face it, we all look at obama that way.
Hey, I'm just tickled to see Gordon looking so damn happy. It's been an annoying decade or so for him, so it's nice he got a chance with a non-jerk president.
I am possibly too invested in Gordon Brown's happiness.
@pufflehuff: Ha! I am not Alistair Darling, though I admit to having a secret desire to marry him and thus acquire his last name, because as a kid I thought that "Mrs Darling" in Peter Pan was a sweet name.
I will warily accept a stake in David Cameron's happiness. Though he makes my loony Middle England uncle waaaay too happy.
@limber: I'm voting Lib Dem. Got no other choice. Clegg is barely an entity, which is a minus. I just want to kick George Osborne though! Gah, British politics.
Of Obama, Quentin Lett's had this to say: "Some might say that he was thoughtful and professorial. Others might call his manner circuitous, even yarny. Am I saying that he was a bore? Oh dear. I find that I possibly am."
Oh, is that so, mister Letts? Well I find you to be a bit of a bounder. Perhaps I find that there is even a whiff of the cad about you!
Fisticuffs it is. Marquis of Queensbury rules. I and my second shall meet you on the south lawn no later than two o'clock.
@Master Billy: Just so you know, here is your opponent. I fear that cad and bounder are not the words that are commonly used to describe Mr. Letts. I have, however, heard "odious little twat". If that helps.
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Like all other overseas American cemeteries in France for WW I and II, France has granted the United States a special, perpetual concession to the land occupied by the (Normandy) cemetery, free of any charge or any tax.
If Obama can score a winery or three, or some of that truffle-bearing land, I might vote for him as well. The French are welcome to the rest.
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screw you, DM. she ain't no human being. and leave poor gordon brown alone, because let's face it, we all look at obama that way.
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I am possibly too invested in Gordon Brown's happiness.
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I will warily accept a stake in David Cameron's happiness. Though he makes my loony Middle England uncle waaaay too happy.
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Oh, is that so, mister Letts? Well I find you to be a bit of a bounder. Perhaps I find that there is even a whiff of the cad about you!
Fisticuffs it is. Marquis of Queensbury rules. I and my second shall meet you on the south lawn no later than two o'clock.
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Just so you know, here is your opponent.
I fear that cad and bounder are not the words that are commonly used to describe Mr. Letts. I have, however, heard "odious little twat". If that helps.
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