Obama, Cameron and Denmark Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt take a selfie

[dipsydoodle]

forgot link : http://www.usatoday.com/story/theoval/2013/12/10/barack-michelle-obama-david-cameron-helle-thorning-schmidt/3951041/

[TwilightGardener]

1. I don't know why, but I like that photo.

[dipsydoodle]

2. Me too which is why I searched for it.

Actually picked that up from Sky News on tv. That will be all over the world soon I guess.

[aristocles]

3. At a memorial service?

Some will consider this inappropriate.

[madaboutharry]

4. It was a celebratory atmosphere.

People there were singing and dancing.

[Cirque du So-What]

11. Fuck some & the horse some rode in on

Sanctimonious scolds contribute to worldwide suckage.

[lightcameron]

5. Michelle looks cheery.

[dipsydoodle]

6. But Helle looks happy.

I'd noticed her at EU meetings and wondered who she was. Now I know.

[muriel_volestrangler]

12. Daughter-in-law of the Kinnocks

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helle_Thorning-Schmidt

I can't help wonder if that influenced the introduction of a British boyfriend in Borgen.

[dipsydoodle]

13. Yes I wiki'd her out of curiousity earlier.

Do you know if the title gets passed on ?

[muriel_volestrangler]

14. No, there's barely been any hereditary lordships created in the last couple of decades

I think the Earl of Stockton, ie Harold Macmillan, was the last (there was the Thatcher baronetcy - so that spiv fool Mark is 'Sir', officially. At least when they sucked up to Thatcher by creating that, they knew they still had to keep him out of the Lords).

[monmouth3]

7. You can tell Michelle is the grown-up in this happy little group...LOL...n/t

[TwilightGardener]

8. You can tell it's her task to look appropriately somber. The Prez has to meet and mingle.

[monmouth3]

9. Absolutely. Also, these are people he doesn't get to see all that much, he likes them, they have a

camaraderie going and I love it.

[Nye Bevan]

10. K&R

[nyquil_man]

15. I'm embarrassed to say this but,

when I first saw those pictures, I thought that was Stephanie Cutter.