to have a small crush on Gordon Brown?

[InMyLittleHead]

My friends assure me I am in a minority of one, and possibly mad to boot. But I do quite fancy him.

This might put you off

err, is that website meant to be a spoof, catinthehat2?

Can we get this thread back on my track by posting nice Obama pictures please?

My absolute pleasure to do so Ninks

ooh, this is nice

[http://politicaldemotivation.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/obama_foreign_affairs.jpg sighs]]

whoops sighs

You know how you look at your own offspring and think how proud you are to have produced something so beautiful/ lovely/ clever (I could go on)?

Obama's mama must be literally exploding with pride every single day.

MMH - don't think so. Its been doing the rounds in the last few days.

So the Spectator quote is true, then? I'd find that a more reliable source of information.

Interesting about the Asperger's thing - I'd never heard about that before. I shall ask a friend who is an expert on these matters for her opinion.

DD just saw a picure of Obama on my laptop and said "Daddy"

I hope GB is tidier these days.
I cleaned his flat 22 years ago and it was in a right state.
To be fair though, he was quite busy and was on his way out to an interview when I arrived.

Hm. YABU. You need a real man like this who has even written his own book on his hobbies. I mean, how can you compare? (first Obama picture ... swoon)

If he does has Aspergers, surely he should be admired, rather than vilified?

Putin - no. Even I am not that weird.

Admitting to fancying GB is worse than fancying Justin from Cbeebies. Professional help needed.

Interesting article CatintheHat.

So the writer is saying that if you suffer from depression, for which you have sought help, and are losing your sight, you should be sacked from your job.

Personally I think little of Brown as PM. But that article is outrageous.

BTW it was certainly in the Times recently that Brown delayed a press conference because he had dropped his contact lens. They mentioned that even with it his eyesight is so poor that his speeches have to be printed in enormous type, and without it he cannot manage at all.

Well bloody good on him for coping with a job like that while being almost blind. Maybe his depression might be linked to his deteriorating sight?

What does the writer think of Roosevelt's refusal to be shown on camera using a wheelchair? Or of Churchill's suicidal depressions? Presumably the fact that they are of a much higher calibre than poor old bumbling Gordon, they are "allowed" their disability or depression in the writer's view.

• not ranting at you Catinthehat, but at the spiteful article. If he's crap - yes get rid of him, but not because he's struggling with his sight and depression.

John O'Farrell says Gordy is hilariously funny in private, which always makes me wonder a bit, as I trust John implicitly....bit like when Saint Bob said Mrs T was "all right really" (or something) all those years ago. Didn't make me want to shag her, but it did make me jiggle my mindset a bit.
(not as much as the jiggling that had to go on over John Major and Edwina at it, mind you)

John O'Farrell would say that, Bucharest. He used to be Gordon Brown's joke writer.

Roffling at Rindercella's DD

at Rindercella getting into bed with Obama-like every night!

Very very unreasonable - please get help !

BallonSlayer- yes, I read that in one of J's books- but apparently, most of the ideas came from Gordy himself- and JoF just sexed it up a bit...
I wouldn't be able to read my speech without my lenses in either...

I agree that article was a bit harsh. So, if someone has depression/bad eyesight/potential OCD ... they have to be fired? It's a bit harsh and takes the whole accepting people with depression back decades. If someone so high profile is attacked and basically told to be resigned because they have depression, what example does that set? People who are suffering will not inform their employers or reach out for help, for fear of losing their jobs. A sad sad state of affairs. I mean, one of the world's greatest (fictional) leaders had MS.

Was only joking about Putin. He looks too much like Daniel Craig for me.