The Idiot Bush made what was described as a “terrible” appearance at the APEC conference in Sydney, Australia.
Who knows what to blame it on? Damaged brain cells from decades of alcohol and drug abuse? Inbreeding? The effects of Lyme Disease? Alzheimers? Take your pick but one thing’s for sure: Bush needs a permanent vacation at the pig farm in Crawford.
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.
Of course, he meant APEC (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation) and 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). Even his lies are failing him.
The president’s next goof went uncorrected. 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.
He strode away from the lectern on a path that would have sent him over a steep drop. Howard and others redirected the president to center stage, where there were steps leading down to the floor of the theater.
The event had inauspicious beginnings. Bush started 10 minutes late, so that APEC workers could hustle people out of the theater’s balcony seating to fill the many empty portions of the main orchestra section below which is most visible on camera.
From the Left 
The Aussies have excellent beer. I’m sure Bush learned this upon his arrival.
What a clown. This man is the leader of the free world and represents the USA when he travels to foreign countries?
We would be better represented by Alfred E. Newman.
Christopher, this picture is truly frightening. I check-in a couple of times a day and it wasn’t here this morning. Maybe you should warn your readers first so we’re not sent running from the room screaming?
Pardon me but, isn’t the USA at war?
Everytime I turn on the TV they’re announcing Bush is off to who knows where attending some sort of conference or summit. Isn’t his place at the White House while American soldiers are fighting and dying in Iraq?
Send Cheney. He’s free.
Did you notice that same arrogant smirk when the pigface called Australia Austria?
Richie,
Thank you. I was going to say the same thing.
That picture freaked me the fuck out.
I’d like to know who redirected him and kept him from walking off the stage.
Send them to Gitmo OSAP, er…uh…huh…eh…I mean ASAP.
George Bush makes me ill. But, remember back in 2000 when the most important attribute of a presidential candidate was whether the sheeple wanted to have a beer with you? Bush was the hands down winner over Gore. Well, I hope his supporters are happy.
Bush was drunk. I mean come on, we saw the pictures of him throwing back beer while he visited Europe a few months ago. I mean, is there any doubt he a drunkard?
“What, me worry?”
Give this ape a banana!
Pres Bush obviously is suffering from the long term effects of lyme disease. He is showing many of the symptoms. Mental confusion, word finding difficulty, exhaustion, etc. All of the “vacations” he takes are because he is sick with lyme. It’s so obvious to anyone who has lyme. He needs to act to revise the ISDA guidelines that state there is no such thing as chronic lyme.
Joalo has it right. I’m no Bush fan, but I know that Lyme can be a chronic, horrific brain infection that robs people of the ability to find words, finish sentences and generally make sense among many other things. Lyme is a cousin to syphilis (both are spirochetes infecting nervous system and brain).
Lyme disease is also highly controversial thanks to the insurance industry and others with financial stakes of interest, who are desperately trying to promote the idea that Lyme is no big deal and easily treatable. As a result, there’s an ongoing Lyme-focused investigation of the Infectious Diseases Society of America by the CT Attorney General.
Ask yourself why the White House took so long to tell the public about contracting Lyme?