Posted on 04/18/2012 5:25:55 PM PDT by Kaslin
OK, picture this: President George W. Bush, he of the cast-iron Texas tongue, at a news conference concluding an international summit.
He's asked about a dispute involving Argentina and Great Britain, our closest overseas ally, the one that's lost 408 soldiers by our side in Afghanistan, where we've fought a decade together to prevent a second 9/11.
In his answer, Bush refers to the disputed territory by the wrong name, misplacing the islands by some 8,000 miles. Worse than his geographic ignorance, instead of backing Britain, whose prime minister he just buddy-buddied at an NCAA game and White House state dinner, Bush says, Well, that's not really something he thinks the United States would take sides on.
Britain?
Or Argentina?
Seriously?
Do you think there might be some prolonged outraged news coverage back home about the latest Bush blunder, this time a two-fer?
Well, Bush never did that. But Barack Obama did last weekend.
We've seen ample coverage of the Colombian prostitute situation since. But have you been impressed by the media mockings of this latest international stupidity by the 44th United States president, who's previously talked about such things as the Austrian language, the president of Canada, E Pluribus Unum the national motto and traveling all 57 states?
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The reports on Obama’s superb intelligence are MUCH overstated.
This gaffe has so many levels I’m not sure which to be pissed the most about.
The shovel ready president.
If the GOP can't beat this loser what will that say about them?
Bush-meh. Imagine if Palin had made the same error.
It was irksome as Brits to watch Jeanne Fitzpatrick try to be even handed at the UN.
Secretly though, the US was helping the UK.
What’s with Obama? He’s STOOPID.
But he’s also pretty arrogant, having cruised up the affirmative action pipeline all of his life - well, probably except for the phase during which he was milking the foreign student thing - and doesn’t believe he needs to learn anything about anything.
Also, he despises Latin Americans and despises the English, so why should he bother to learn the name of the islands these despicable peons were fighting over?
The only good thing is that he’s probably admiring Argentina for doing what he’d like to do (seize an oil company or two), and his ignorance has probably even made him the laughing stock of Buenos Aires.
It was irksome as Brits to watch Jeanne Kirkpatrick try to be even handed at the UN.
Secretly though, the US was helping the UK.
It wasn’t a gaff, Odumbo is just that “F”ing stupid! FUBO!
What would one expect from an ILLEGAL?
Only the ignorant would believe that
Any more questions?
Newt would not have said it.
BUMP
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The man is the shame of Kenya.... or Indonesia... or Hawaii... or Chicago... of the whole country
Bingo
That's true and for what it's worth the American people were 100% behind the Brits.
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