Dazed Bush Forgets What Country He's In, Which Summit He's At

[MiaCulpa]

President Bush's trademark struggles with the finer points of public speaking were on full display Friday, when he thanked his "Austrian" hosts for inviting him to this year's "OPEC" summit.

The Language Mangler-in-Chief was in Australia attending the APEC (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation) summit. Along with misidentifying his host country and the name of the summit, Bush struggled to leave the lectern, trying to exit the stage the wrong way.

"Thank you for being such a fine host of the OPEC summit," Bush said to Australian prime minister John Howard. He quickly corrected himself, "APEC summit," and joked Howard "invited me to the OPEC summit next year. (Such an invitation would be impossible because neither the US or Australia are members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries.)

Later in the speech, Bush can clearly be heard on tape thanking Howard for visiting "Austrian troops" in Iraq last year, but White House scrubbers fixed that gaffe for him, changing the official government transcript to "Australian," the Associated Press reported.



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[whistle]

1. Did this happen following his consumption of vast quantities of Fosters Beer

[KurtNYC]

5. which is made in Canada btw

at least the stuff which is "imported" into the USA. If they really wanted to can a beer they could be proud of they should put Boreal in those cans.

[Blashyrkh]

2. It's been all over the new here. He seriously looked messed up.

Like he was struggling so bad he just wanted to implode into nothing just to get away from it.

[ccpup]

4. "just to get away from it"

I strongly suspect that the ultimate ne'er do well is secretly sprinting for the finish line. In truth, I honestly think he doesn't like being President. Well, the Dick Tater (a la MadTV) part is nice, but the work part and the meetings and the boring speeches other people make and the travel and having to answer for yourself in the Press (sometimes) and people disagreeing with him, well, that part sucks. But being important and "better than everyone else" is pretty cool.

He SOOOOOOO wants to be done with this job, I think. Gotta get them coffers filled, you know.

[saltpoint]

3. Such a charmer, that Dubya.

[The Count]

6. OPEC was a Freudian slip - he was thinking of the "ol coffers"