Working for an "Goodbye from the world's biggest polluter."
He then punched the air while grinning widely, as the rest of those present including Gordon Brown and Nicolas Sarkozy looked on in shock.
Uncouth.
Josh at Thoughts from Kansas also on it
PS: Interesting additional summit report from the IHT - "...For four exceedingly enlightening minutes, the world was treated to an unvarnished view of the American president as he expounded on everything from his penchant for Diet Coke to his long-winded fellow leaders.
"I'm not going to talk too damn long like the rest of them," he said."
- apparently "live mic" accidents keep happening at G8 summits.
Techies have sense of humour, apparently.
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Posted by: Tegumai Bopsulai, FCD | July 10, 2008 4:21 PM
Uncouth.
The guy's never had a mannerly moment in his life, so that's not exactly news...
Posted by: Interrobang | July 10, 2008 4:28 PM
*hangs head in shame* I am so, soooo tired of being embarrassed by my country's president.
Posted by: Jennifer Ouellette | July 10, 2008 7:02 PM
This will get worse before it gets better. The impacts of his foolishness will take decades to arrive. But by the time they do, school-children will grow up learning of his infamy.
Posted by: llewelly | July 10, 2008 7:38 PM
He really does not give a damn.
It's a disgrace and it further stains the good image America used to have in the world, something he has specialized in for 8 years.
Posted by: yogi-one | July 11, 2008 3:11 AM
Unbelievable. In four minutes he covers fireworks, his birthday, and the health of his mommy and daddy. Toddlers can wax more eloquently on these topics.
Posted by: ngong | July 11, 2008 7:49 AM
Now matter how many Dem voters I have ferried to the polls, called on the phone, emailed, and cajoled around the water cooler for the past six years, I still keep paying my taxes rather than taking up torch and pitchfork. So I must bear a little responsibility for my country's president, and I ask your forgiveness on that point. I'm trying to make it better.
And llewelly--check out what's happening this very day, with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, as an example of why we won't have to wait decades for the impacts to arrive. What will take decades to arrive is the extinguishment of his impact.
Posted by: Andrew Foland | July 11, 2008 3:43 PM
Honestly you guys, some people have no sense of humour.
and clearly president Bush is one of them. ;)
Posted by: Richard Eis | July 30, 2008 7:48 AM