Barack Obama or Gordon Brown

[FabulousBakerGirl]

I have just been watching the D-Day speeches. GB went on too long, read from notes and was applauded for about a minute.

Barack I could have listened too all day, read without notes and was giving a longer applause and a standing ovation.

I asked DH if we could move to America.

I had tears when Obama said about a veteran who died last night having travelled to France for the commemerations.

What does the D stand for in D-Day please?

[moopymoo]

I know- I looked for Obama on the voting paper the other day but no . We have nobody who can hold a candle to him. I too have been watching and Brown is so difficult to watch now. Obama has some sort of other worldly statesman like quality that is awesome.

[littlelamb]

I thought this would be some kind of smutty poll
In which case, Obama of course

[MaggieBee]

I do love BA I do, I do, but remember how we all loved tony blair?. I would hold off on moving countries tbh!!

[FabulousBakerGirl]

I never loved TB.

[courtneylovescox]

d-day

[FabulousBakerGirl]

Thank you courtneylovescox.

[HeadFairy]

The D in D-Day just stands for Day. A bit disappointing really...

Obama was reading from autocue. Hate to disappoint, I love him too, but the man's pretty busy, can't expect him to memorise a 15 minute speech.

[MaggieBee]

I read that and understood it to stand for Variable!!! D denotes variable!

[FabulousBakerGirl]

Thank you HF. I didn't even think of that with it being outside.

I still like him.

[HeadFairy]

Yeah, on the wide shot you can see the screen. He's very good at reading it though, looks like he's not reading at all.

[LadyGlencoraPalliser]

Obama of course.
Oh, you mean as head of government.
Well, still Obama.

[SomeGuy]

Brown was a twat and referred to 'Obama beach' instead of 'Omaha beach'. Sounded like he had a prompt in his ear because he corrected himself.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-RNqD-gO9w

He apparently excluded The Queen because he wanted the photo op next to Obama.

[knockedgymnast]

Yeah, I heard him say 'Obama' beach and though WFT?

I felt a tad sorry for GB though, at one point, I really thought he was going to collapse . He must be having some sort of breakdown at the mo.

I preferred Gordon's speech, my children could understand it - Whereas Barrack's speech got me lost a couple of times.

Felt awful when people were booing GB

[mayorquimby]

meh obama reads from autocue the whole time. don't see how that is more impressive than reding from notes.