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Topic: Bush - America's Great Embarassment?
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| Iron Eagle | Posted – 9/7/2007 10:00:06 PM | show profile SYDNEY, Australia ? President Bush had a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day at the Sydney Opera House. He'd only reached the third sentence of Friday's speech to business leaders, on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum, when he committed his first gaffe. "Thank you for being such a fine host for the OPEC summit," Bush said to Australian Prime Minister John Howard. Oops. That would be APEC, the annual meeting of leaders from 21 Pacific Rim nations, not OPEC, the cartel of 12 major oil producers. Bush quickly corrected himself. "APEC summit," he said forcefully, joking that Howard had invited him to the OPEC summit next year (for the record, an impossibility, since neither Australia nor the U.S. are OPEC members). The president's next goof went uncorrected _ by him anyway. Talking about Howard's visit to Iraq last year to thank his country's soldiers serving there, Bush called them "Austrian troops." That one was fixed for him. Though tapes of the speech clearly show Bush saying "Austrian," the official text released by the White House switched it to "Australian." Then, speech done, Bush confidently headed out _ the wrong way. Huffington Post |
| UGoGirl | Posted – 9/8/2007 9:38:54 AM | show profile Oh, if only Bush was just an embarassment. Embarassment belongs for a president who trips and stumbles all over the place, or who has unsavory affairs with interns. Bush makes me want to scream to the world "NOT MY President". |
| LotusBlossom | Posted – 9/8/2007 11:24:27 AM | show profile I Do Wonder what exactly is wrong with him? Some kind of aphasia? |
| Iron Eagle | Posted – 9/8/2007 11:38:12 AM | show profile I don't think he works well in these situations. Changing a tire or clearing brush gives him more time to figure out what he's doing. |
| Nikongirl | Posted – 9/8/2007 12:23:27 PM | show profile He knows he is a fraud, therefore he cannot have real confidence in his own leadership abilities, his insecurity as a world leader has thwarted any and all attempts at public speaking. He knows that everyone else knows he is a fraud, a buffoon, and idiot rancher in job way over his head. |
| Iron Eagle | Posted – 9/8/2007 12:34:29 PM | show profile Whoa Nikongirl.. I'm feeling your disdain. He may not be Churchill or even Dan Guayle but he's all ours! |
| Nikongirl | Posted – 9/8/2007 1:03:42 PM | show profile Speak for yourself Crimedoggie...he is NOT mine, I did NOT vote for him and cannot take any responsibility for this mess. My absentee ballot was most likely never counted. Besides, I have my own idiot leader here in Oh Canada by the name of Harper. Stephen Harper, from the oil rich land of the praries, a rightwingnut not unlike GWB whi is in fact, a GWB wannabe. I have my own cross to bear. |
| Iron Eagle | Posted – 9/8/2007 1:15:05 PM | show profile Or bear to cross? GW is your president and you can't run from that. He's bold - decisive - walks tall in a cheap suit - knows where Austria is - never second guesses himself - big fan of pimento cheese sandwiches - can hold his and hers liquor - rides a BMX over dirt piles - kicks Iraqi ass! That's your man in a nutshell... Harper? I thought was a Paul Newman movie. |
| Newzaroo | Posted – 9/8/2007 9:18:04 PM | show profile Bush: America's Great Embarrassment? Nope, you R... Let's spell the headline right next time. |
| Iron Eagle | Posted – 9/8/2007 10:14:04 PM | show profile what's a newsaroo ... a neutered wallaby? |
