posted on September 7, 2007 06:28:17 PM new Bush: OPEC or APEC
By TOM RAUM, Associated Press Writer Fri Sep 7, 1:10 PM ET
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.
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.
Even resettled, the audience remained quiet throughout the president's remarks, applauding only when he was finished.
A logistical glitch added to the woes.
APEC security workers would not allow the members of the media who travel in Bush's motorcade to enter the Opera House along with him. This even though the journalists allowed into the president's entourage are extensively screened and guarded by the Secret Service, which has more stringent security standards than about any operation in the world. And even though they always accompany him into public events.
As a result, while Bush spoke, the traveling media cooled its heels outside the landmark Opera House, shooting pictures and watching boats in the harbor.
posted on September 11, 2007 04:45:26 PM new
"At least he isn't surrendering like the rest of you demomorons."
They'll never have their priorities in order. The things that SO worry/bother them.....are NOT the issues the majority of Americans worry nor concern themselves with.
But these liberals here have to have something to whine about....it's their only form of entertainment.
posted on September 11, 2007 09:51:34 PM new
"A"?? slip of the tongue? Try thousands. He truly is either ignorant or brain damaged from his years of drinking and doping. He is a genuine embarrassment.
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posted on September 12, 2007 08:39:27 AM new
Stone: Sure, we all mis-type a letter now and then. Usually not important.
"Noun: slip of the tongue
1. An accidental and usually trivial mistake in speaking
Derived forms: slips of the tongue
Type of: misstatement
Encyclopedia: Slip of the tongue"
"Usually trivial." HOWEVER, Bush's mistaking Austria for Australia is a bit more important, especially when it's coming from the leader of the free world--and someone who's representing not only the educational level of the U.S. but all of us. Don't we expect more of our President than we do of each other here in the message boards, as we're hurriedly typing?
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posted on September 12, 2007 08:57:33 AM new
What we EXPECT is for our CICs to do what their job description calls for them to do, under our Constitution. Which is EXACTLY what he has done and what clinton FAILED to do...protect our Nation and its interests.
But the elite, perfect progressives have nothing better to entertain themselves with than bashing this President on each and every subject they can. They do so because THEY have NO solutions, NO answers, nothing to offer EXCEPT this type of nonsense.
I personally would rather have a President with GUTS who mis-speaks than one who speaks well and is too COWARDLY to take any action against AQ after FIVE attacks against our National interests/soldiers/etc.
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"While the democratic party complains about everything THIS President does to protect our Nation": "What would a Democrat president have done at that point?"
"Apparently, the answer is: Sit back and wait for the next terrorist attack."
posted on September 12, 2007 11:18:16 AM new
""What we EXPECT is for our CICs to do what their job description calls for them to do, under our Constitution.""
HA! Bushit has referred to the Constitution as nothing but a %&!%+#* piece of paper, he has trampled it into the mud, overroad it, ignored it....
And let's face FACTS...bushit is a puppet who has to be told when to pee, a laughable dolt who just does what he's told....but not always too well
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