Lunchtime mikes strike again at G-8 (Bush in high chit-chat mode)

[sabra]

Source: IHT

RUSUTSU, Japan: It wouldn't be a G-8 summit meeting without a microphone mishap.

When leaders of the world's richest nations, the so-called Group of 8 - the United States, Japan, Britain, Germany, France, Italy, Canada and Russia - gathered two years ago in St. Petersburg, President George W. Bush was caught using some blunt, colorful language as he munched on a roll during lunch.

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.")

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The life-of-the-party president waxed eloquent - O.K., maybe not so eloquent, but at least there was no profanity this time - on the health of his parents, his birthday and the corruption charges facing one of his best buddies in Europe, Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi of Italy, among other matters.

"Amigo! Amigo!" Bush called out cheerily - in Spanish - when he spotted Berlusconi. "How you doing, Silvio? Good to see you!"

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"I read the courts are after you again," he told the prime minister, a note of outrage in his voice. "It's unbelievable. I've never seen anything like it. Constantly after you."

Read more: http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/07/09/business/noteboo...

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edit: blunt and colorful language was from 2 years ago.

[babylonsister]

1. Gawd, he's out there embarrassing us- - again? nt

[That Is Quite Enough]

2. ...

[grasswire]

3. he thinks the Italians speak SPANISH as their tongue?

He's stupider than I even thought.

[ForrestGump]

17. Well, they do

in Sergio Leone films.

[high density]

4. As much as I hate Bush...

It would be nice for the audio engineers to do their job and filter this shit out.

[Ian David]

8. No. No it would NOT be good. n/t

[spartan61]

5. Did he really say that???

If so, he is even more stupid than I thought.

[Psephos]

6. Weak tea next to Jesse Jackson's "microphone moment" with Faux News

He wishes he only sounded as stupid as Boooosh.

http://cnnwire.blogs.cnn.com/2008/07/09/jackson-apologi... /

I'm sure the audio clip will be all over the net in three...two...one...

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[Psephos]

19. Are you the "thread decider"? lol

[Ian David]

7. Why does Bush think Italians speak Spanish? n/t

[Indenturedebtor]

11. Do you even have to ask? n/t

[FreepFryer]

9. "Amigo?" What an idiot. (n/t)

[Ian David]

10. Apparently, Andrea Merkel is closer to George H, Bush than George W. is.

And Babara Bush made sure that George H. got BOTH his knees operated on at the same time, so she would only have to rehab him once.

You know.

Make it convenient for Barbara.

So she doesn't miss too much golf.

[cyclezealot]

12. Bush had empathy for his amigo , Silvio

cause he is probably worried the prosecutors will next be at his door.

[MaineDem]

22. Interseting considering the press briefing the White House put out on Silvio

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph...

[bulloney]

13. I thought one of Bush's strengths was his ability to speak Spanish fluently.

In fairness to Bush, was he actually yelling AMIGO, or AMICO, which is Italian for "friend?"

[Nihil]

16. Only when he's sober ...

... which is pretty rarely these days ...

[PfcHammer]

14. holy shit. can we return this asshole from where he came from

and get our money back ?

[rainbow4321]

18. So he has to rely on Merkel to see how HIS OWN father is doing??

From the OP:

"How did he feel?" the president asked. "How did he look? Can he walk O.K.?"

"The walking is difficult for him," Merkel, who had met with the elder Bush in Berlin, replied.

"Yeah, I'm worried about him," Bush said.



Way to keep up with his father's health. "Can he walk ok??" Has he not been around him since April??
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[dysfunctional press]

20. babs the hut had her knees replaced- those suckers have been over-stressed for years.

"The talk turned to the president's mother, who had knee replacement surgery last month.

"Two knee operations, two knees at the same time," Bush said, "because she didn't want to rehab but once."



come to think of it- i didn't even know that she had knees.

and poppy had hip replacement...

"The elder Bush, 84, has been slowing down since his hip replacement surgery last year. His son looked concerned.

"How did he feel?" the president asked. "How did he look? Can he walk O.K.?"

"The walking is difficult for him," Merkel, who had met with the elder Bush in Berlin, replied."

here's hoping they have as much trouble finding the pain meds as i do some mornings.

[alcibiades_mystery]

21. "The courts are 'after'" Berlusconi because he wants to codify a state of exception

No prosecution for four government functionaries under any circumstances, period. Needless to say, Berlusconi is himself included in this group of four.

You heard that right: NO LEGAL ABILITY TO PROSECUTE THEM FOR ANYTHING, PERIOD. That's what Berlusconi is trying to get done in Italy: complete immunity from prosecution for himself. Now I ask you, would you trust somebody who even WANTED such a thing? In the US, we're told that if we've done nothing wrong, we shouldn't mind the CIA snopping through our bookstore receipts. But for Bush's friends, even demanding blanket immunity from prosecution doesn't warrant even a raised eyebrow.

State of Exception, people.

[bdamomma]

23. what an arrogant POS he is.

[BreweryYardRat]

24. I'm cynically amused by his Tanabata writing.

The host of the meeting, Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda of Japan, asked each leader to write personal wishes, to be hung from a bamboo tree as part of a traditional Japanese Tanabata ceremony. Tanabata, known as the "star festival," occurs each year on the seventh day of the seventh month, when, according to legend, two stars ordinarily separated by the Milky Way finally meet.

Bush's wish, typeset rather than written in his own hand, had its own starry quality - a parting missive, perhaps, from a president who will not be back when the Group of 8 meets in Italy next year.

"I wish for a world free from tyranny: the tyranny of hunger, disease and free from tyrannical governments," the president wrote. "I wish for a world in which the universal desire for liberty is realized. I wish for the advance of new technologies that will improve the human condition and protect our environment. I wish God's blessings on all. George W. Bush."

Talk about blatant hypocrisy under the public eye.

[Nihil]

25. Obvious reason why it was "typeset rather than written in his own hand" ...

... can you imagine the hilarity when people see how he would
try to spell "tyrannical" or "technologies"?!

Come on ... four sentences strung together with no crossing out?

[Riddler]

26. This embarassing piece of shit of a human went straight from Delta House to the White House

without growing up and still thinks he's in Delta House.