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Bush Insults Hosts, calling Australia 'Austria'

dailymail.co.uk — He continued his blunders by then confusing the organisations of APEC and OPEC. As the audience laughed at him, Bush attempted to cover up by claiming: "He invited me to the OPEC summit next year."

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  • 1laradream, on 10/10/2007, -10/+124*****! It's bad enough that Bush shows what an idiotic ***** he is to Americans, but now he's making us look bad to the rest of the world. Impeach the bastard, please!
    • disabled4diggin, on 10/10/2007, -7/+45Am I the only one that pictures Bush acting like Stifler from American Pie, when he goes to all these foreign events?
      "Hey all you silly Austrians! Glad to be at this event... the um... whatever the hell you call it, I don't really give a *****, I was lying anyways. Hey, why don't you all send some troops to Iraq like my other bitches do? Oh yea, and don't scratch my jet, it's worth more than your GDP."
    • whatthefu, on 10/10/2007, -27/+4I think he should be impeached, but your comment implies you want to impeach him because he confused the names of Austria and Australia.
      • Neiby, on 10/10/2007, -1/+17Not really. His comment implies that he wants Bush to be impeached and removed from office soon in order to limit the embarrassment he causes us.
      • Bartboy919, on 10/10/2007, -2/+8That alone may be reason enough to impeach
      • williamdyer, on 10/10/2007, -1/+16Dude, he's the Decider. Austria better have those kangaroos ready for his next visit or there's be hell to pay!
    • silversword990, on 10/10/2007, -33/+2He is not making us look bad, and he does not deserve to be impeached.
      • djSyndrome, on 10/10/2007, -0/+25You forgot the [/sarcasm] tag there, buddy.
      • sgtbutterscotch, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10maybe we should, i don't know, ask a common Austrian, er, Australian...
        • pandira, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2maybe ask the "Austrian" troops in Iraq who are putting their asses on the line what they think about it.
          • ShadowMerchant, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0The US state of Ohio has a much larger population than Austria, and only a few million less than all of Australia.

            I bet not one Austrian or Australian in fifty could find it on a map, or tell me how it differs in any significant way from the states of Iowa or Idaho.
      • rondeth, on 10/10/2007, -1/+9How does having a raging retard at the helm of our country not make our country look bad, again?
        • Lagstorm, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0lol he is severely raging too. ***** it is so sad its funny.
      • TLAKABM, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1No, he really is making you look bad.
    • thailand1972, on 10/10/2007, -2/+13Dugg for "*****".
    • DavidBGie, on 10/10/2007, -37/+2Give me a f****'n break! The countries almost sound the same! Just another retarded anti-Bush story on Digg! I challenge ANYONE to find a positive story about President George W Bush that made the "Top 10 of all topics" on Digg! You can't. Enough people like him to get him re-elected but not even one pro-Bush story made it! Amazing! Digg is just a left wing filter!
      • reed311, on 10/10/2007, -2/+13I wouldn't call Digg a left wing filter. Ron Paul stories make the front page every 5 minutes and Ron is about as far right as you can get.
      • williamdyer, on 10/10/2007, -1/+24I have been a registered Republican for over 25 years.

        George W. Bush is the biggest ***** in American history. Yes, including James Earl Carter.

        He has wrecked the Republican party for the sake of a war nobody wants. Who can support that?
      • WiseWeasel, on 10/10/2007, -1/+9That's only because everybody hates Bush... Maybe you misunderstand the way Digg works...
        • DavidBGie, on 10/10/2007, -16/+2"That's only because everybody hates Bush"
          He was elected twice! Think boy! The more you think the less liberal you will get!
          • geometry, on 10/10/2007, -2/+12That's because the red necks that voted for him don't know how to use the internets. And the others that voted him in, left wing religious freaks, think the internet is the gateway to hell so they avoid it.
          • pandira, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2could it be that the elections were fraudulent?
          • TLAKABM, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Maybe you misunderstand the way the US election system works.
        • NorCal05, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5note how the rural, arguably less connected, counties are the ones that elected him. Most of the well connected urban areas are blue:

          http://www.usatoday.com/news/politicselections/vote2004/countymap.htm
          • bugsy187, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1that's a lot of red.... very scary, imo.
      • rune420, on 10/10/2007, -1/+15"The two countries sound almost the same!"
        Please be sarcastic. You can't possibly think that it's acceptable for one of the top world leaders to confuse Australia and Austria (much less when he actually was in Australia when he messed it up)!
        • BufordT, on 10/10/2007, -5/+2I think is was more of a slip of words than being confused.
          • bugsy187, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3The guy waved back at Stevie Wonder at an event once. That's before his wife corrected him. Stevie Wonder.
      • rondeth, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7You're automatically assuming that everyone here chiming in is a "liberal" (and being quite a douche about it). Well, I see at least two Republicans-against-Bush in this browser window alone (williamdyer and myself). I know more than one fellow Repubs who feel the same way. This administration and this president is simply awful in multiple ways. This one just happens to illuminate one of the not-so-serious ways this administration is awful: that Bush is a complete and utter tard. The only person with (seemingly) any brains in this admin was Powell, and he's long gone.

        You'll probably respond with disbelief in my assertion that I'm Republican, but it's true. Placing exclamation points behind every sentence won't change that.
      • DavidBGie, on 10/10/2007, -10/+1Blah Blah Blah! None of you guys (including the "rebublicans") can find a popular positive Bush story on Digg. That's my point Period!
        • Blandyman, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6Find a positive Bush story at all you ***** moron!

          Stop talking ***** and do some work of your own! Find ONE THING he's done right since around 2002-2003. Hell, find me one positive thing he's done in his ENTIRE administration!

          And by "right" i mean, find something that was a good idea AND worked out (because going to war to find terrorists was a good idea... but now that we're fighting people we shouldn't even have been in the same country as, is NOT right).

          Also, I'm not attached to any political party, but currently, I think Ron Paul is the best candidate (that I know of). Yes, it is a popular opinion here on Digg, but then again, if you don't like the people, don't chill at our hang out. Ya dig?
        • DavidBGie, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1@atheinostic
          Didn't make the top 10. Try again.
    • qwerter, on 10/10/2007, -2/+6Care to bring to our attention any of these alleged "pro-Bush stories?"

      Anything by FOX News doesn't count.
    • NeoCortex, on 10/10/2007, -1/+22Maybe he just, like, needs to get some more maps. Then he could, you know, find the Iraq and stuff. For, like, the children.
      • geometry, on 10/10/2007, -0/+13You're right. I think Bush did tutor that Miss America hopeful. I think her answer was just slightly more coherent than what Bush would have answered.
      • Funktastic, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3such as
    • Arkonnan, on 10/10/2007, -1/+11Wait, NOW he's making Americans look bad to the rest of the world..?
    • derwarnochfrei, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Sorry to say that, no worries - we know that since long ago :)
    • hawkeye17, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3There are chimpanzee's smarter than our President. He's a disgrace to the country.
  • j1337, on 10/10/2007, -2/+67Sigh...
    • saleem, on 10/10/2007, -3/+19Honestly, how did a C-average spoiled brat from new england get to be the president.
      • Stradenko, on 10/10/2007, -8/+3...new england?
        • oddtom, on 10/10/2007, -0/+11He was born in New Haven, Connecticut.
          • Stradenko, on 10/10/2007, -1/+8I stand informed. But he sure talks weird for a Yankee.
          • consonance, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5He moved to Texas before he was three. That makes all the difference.
        • PoeticExplosion, on 10/10/2007, -2/+6New England by way of Texas.
      • Zeonix, on 10/10/2007, -3/+2Uh...yeah.....new england.....definitely NOT texas.
    • praisethelard, on 06/06/2008, -1/+12Austria! Well, then. G'day mate! Let's put another shrimp on the barbie!
      • sgtbutterscotch, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9With our lederhosen on.
      • ostracize, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2I promised myself I'd digg up the first Dumb and Dumber reference I saw.
    • biotch, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1haha inbred... oh how I wish this 8 year nightmare was all just a sequel to dumb and dumber
  • metapop, on 10/10/2007, -1/+24i'm not even sure what to say here.... just sheer disappointment.
    • Anub1s, on 10/10/2007, -1/+20Are you saying you weren't expecting this? Come on, Bush is the biggest idiot to disgrace this country with his leadership. Stuff like this is the norm anymore.
    • alpinecow, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Disappointment came back in 2001...this is just meeting expectations
    • nariposa, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Clearly he's just going through the motions at this point.
  • IbnDigg, on 10/10/2007, -4/+48This only tells half the story:

    Bushisms were famous before the man even entered the White House. But with his presidency entering its twilight phase, there is no end, it seems, to the steady supply of inadvertent slips of the tongue.

    Yesterday he had reached only the third sentence of his address to an audience at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum, when he committed his first gaffe.

    "Thank you for being such a fine host for the Opec summit," Mr Bush said to the Australian prime minister, John Howard, confusing two completely different groupings of nations. "Apec summit," he quickly corrected himself.

    He then joked that Mr Howard had invited him to the Opec summit next year (for the record, an impossibility, since neither Australia nor the US are members of the oil exporting cartel).

    That slip paled in comparison with the next gaffe - a slip of the tongue that placed Austrian, not Australian, troops in Iraq.

    Talking about Mr 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, with the official text released by the White House switching it to "Australian". Tapes of the speech, however, clearly show Mr Bush saying "Austrian".

    Then, speech done, Mr 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. Mr Howard and others redirected the president to where there were steps leading down to the floor of the theatre.

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,2164734,00.html
    • jdoggxperience, on 10/10/2007, -0/+24Darn, why'd they redirect him?
    • appetite, on 10/10/2007, -0/+16Is he really a 'recovered' alcoholic?
      • williamdyer, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7Seems like it. I mean he recovered his hip flask.
    • orxor, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5He obviously has a mental illness of some sort. He's been getting worse and worse for many years. If you watch speeches of his when he was running for governor he was pretty elequent and had no problems pronouncing complex words.
      • mirror4u, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0obviously somebody wrote it for him. now that guy just messing with him.
    • EbilPhish, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1They might have fixed Austria to Australia in the press release but they also released a press thing with Sydney spelt Sidney.
  • chicofaraby, on 10/10/2007, -3/+87The guy couldn't find oil in Texas. He's always been a dumbass.
    • arcooke, on 10/10/2007, -0/+12Yeah, there's a gas station on every corner.
  • datagod, on 10/10/2007, -15/+8I feel sorry for him. Perhaps he is suffering from Parkinson or something like that. Wasn't Reagan falling asleep at the switch wile Daddy Bush ran everything behind the scenes? Maybe Dork Cheney is poisoning Dubya for his own evil purposes.
  • apexim, on 10/10/2007, -26/+15IMPEACHMENT?
    NO he does not deserve such an honor
    zoo in Vancouver Canada expressed an interest in having him...
    Ron Paul 08 to restore the Constitution
    • 10001110101, on 10/10/2007, -2/+17K, I've got to ask for some proof.. Cause there's no way in hell any zoo in Canada would want that animal.
    • Bartboy919, on 10/10/2007, -6/+7Nice way to get that shameless plug in there for RP or should is say PR?
    • Zippo, on 10/10/2007, -2/+5That was a funny comment up until Ron Paul
  • ponerse, on 10/10/2007, -26/+3Dugg down for being old news
    • waynehoggett, on 10/10/2007, -0/+11Yeah, Bush has always been a retard...
    • Acewrap, on 10/10/2007, -1/+9What the ***** is going on in your reichtard head? THIS IS FROM YESTERDAY! Or, are you speaking about Bush being an idiot old news?
      • crackedplastic, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2I think he means that it's a dupe - there's another article about this on the front page currently.
        • ponerse, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1Yes, it had the same content as the article(s) yesterday.
  • OfF3nSiV3, on 10/10/2007, -5/+61why did you guys elected him? twice for that matter..
    • awtripp, on 10/10/2007, -5/+42Most of us didn't -- twice.
      • jbrown101st, on 10/10/2007, -11/+10Obviously most of you did, or he wouldn't be president now would he?
        • awtripp, on 10/10/2007, -1/+29Well, you should look at the numbers. Look at the court cases. Look at the eVoting fraud. You know the stuff that broke how the US elections were supposed to work. Which is why so many people are now left feeling disenfranchised.
          • licoricewhip, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1I know, with the court cases and evoting fraud under the Democrat's belt, you would think they could had turned it around.
        • darkspire, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Electoral_College
        • Radar3D, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7Bush received 51% of the 122 million votes cast. However, that was only 55% of the 221 million voting age population. So, really, only 28% of the eligible US population elected him.
          Which is also about what his approval rating is.
      • qwerter, on 10/10/2007, -0/+16To make matters worse (on many levels), most of our country doesn't even vote at all.
    • rudezombie, on 10/10/2007, -6/+18Obviously the people here rolling their eyes & groaning about what a dumbass the guy is didn't vote for him. It's not our fault almost the entire south & midwest is full of idiots. No offense to those of you who aren't idiots.. but c'mon guys.
    • Fratm, on 10/10/2007, -2/+24The election was fixed. (Both times!)
      • exentropic, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0Thanks Fratm. Someone had to say it. Whadyall think that whole AG scandal was really about?
    • AirRaven, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4*ELECT, damnit!
      • volonix, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Quite obviously isnt American, and probably not English either, so chances are English isnt his/her native language. Shut the ***** up with the grammar policing.
    • hellotyler, on 10/10/2007, -2/+9Pretty much all my conservative/republican friends now admit what a complete *****-up he really is, thankfully. They openly admit voting for him was a terrible, terrible idea and rightfully so. These people I know who have been voting republican for YEARS (15+!) are now going democrat. Thank god, people are finally starting to see the light...
      • pandira, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Out of the fryng pan and into the fire.
      • Vanadis, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Seeing the light? Both parties are terrible.
      • WaterDragon, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1Please tell your friends to forget the damn two-party- illusion-system...and start thinking and researching...and seriously look into Ron Paul, and read about his voting record!
    • loopyloopy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3what is that Obi Wan said about fool who follows...
      • sydseale, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Obi-Wan Kenobi? Obi-Wan... Now, that's a name I haven't heard in a long time... A long time.
  • Ellrick, on 10/10/2007, -8/+2I would bet a substantial amount of money that, sadly, he would be reelected if we didnt have term limits. And there isnt a strong enough emoticon in all of lolville to appropriately convey the sadness of this statement. But here goes... :(
    • WiseWeasel, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5I'd take that bet. I bet he'd lose the primaries... He has lost ALL his base at this point.
      • Damvan, on 10/10/2007, -2/+4One smalll attack, a few Americans dead, some fear mongering by the press, and the American people will be falling down at Bush's feet begging him to protect us. Even if that means revoking term limits.
        • williamdyer, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2Well, at least war with Iran. Might as well cancel the elections then because we're all ***** if that happens.
        • 2reflective, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Exactly. People have short memories - especially when they're scared.
  • petemcfraser, on 10/10/2007, -1/+59Now countries just let Bush come over for entertainment.
    • BossKey, on 10/10/2007, -0/+13World leaders love to have their people see Bush with them. It's great PR, especially if you're having image problems. When you're next to Bush, you automatically look like an intelligent, informed, and articulate leader - works every time.
    • geometry, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9The writers for Saturday Night Live couldn't write skits this good.
    • Rooster99, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Yeah its real fun being in Sydney when Bush comes over! He literally shut down the ENTIRE CITY!!! We have a giant fence surrounding the entire 'red zone' in the city, more police than have ever been seen before, and anyone who looks like the might possibly go to the city is treated like a criminal. You know there is something wrong when this has to happen.
      • SJKat, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0Well they have to lock in the criminals, don't they? But I'm not really sure why the americans call this criminal "a president".
  • rudezombie, on 10/10/2007, -1/+39Jesus, wasn't this a joke in Dumb & Dumber? And this is the president of our country.
    • OMGWTFROFLMAOx2, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2I would have more respect for him if he tried to scotch tape a the decapitated head of a blind kid's pet bird to it's body and pass it off as just being quiet.
  • kromagnon, on 10/10/2007, -8/+1Dugg down for blatant bad grammar in the first sentence of the article. How did they miss "waiting to happening"?
  • reeder, on 10/10/2007, -3/+63OMFG OMFG OMFG. Thank god I voted against him every ***** time, including his runs for governor in Texas. Everyone who did vote for him should have themselves neutered, for the sake of humanity.
    • makingme, on 10/10/2007, -27/+3You can lick my neutered nuts...
      • EarlOfLade, on 10/10/2007, -2/+9Well, nobody wants to lick your un-neutered nuts, so why do you think neutering would help?
    • TJATL, on 10/10/2007, -21/+4You expected me to vote for Al Gore and John Kerry? ROFLMAO@you!
      • antdude, on 10/10/2007, -6/+3See, that's the problem. Who to vote?
        • 2reflective, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Anyone who's not a CFR puppet. Simple.
      • hellotyler, on 10/10/2007, -0/+14You think gore or kerry could have been worse then Bush ? No...
      • Damvan, on 10/10/2007, -1/+12Are you can honestly tell us that things would be worse if either Gore or Kerry would have won?
      • williamdyer, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9The difference between me at TJATL is I used to think that. I may have been fooled, but I'm not a fool forever.
        • pkfx, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Fool me once . . . shame on . . . shame on you . . . . . . fool me, you can't get fooled again!
    • WaterDragon, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1yeah...too bad those sons of bitches didn't count the votes!
  • kelchm, on 10/10/2007, -2/+31Did you just insult Austria with that title?

    //just saying.
    • eimersaufen, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1As an Austrian, I really feel insulted...
  • macmonger, on 10/10/2007, -8/+0Bless his heart... sigh...
  • zackintosh, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3Goodnight funnyman
  • Frei, on 10/10/2007, -0/+16Wasn't it Ann Richards that said he was born with a golden foot in his mouth.
    • hmmmok, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9She said that about 41. Then lost her job to 43.
    • diggdallas, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10Actually, she said silver foot. Here's an excerpt from the speech, which sounds like it could have been written today. This is also a reminder that Saint Reagan wasn't the God that today's republicans see him as.


      "Now, in contrast, the greatest nation of the free world has had a leader for eight straight years that has pretended that he cannot hear our questions over the noise of the helicopter.

      And we know he doesn't want to answer. But we have a lot of questions. And when we get our questions asked, or there's a leak, or an investigation, the only answer we get is, "I don't know," or "I forgot."

      But you wouldn't accept that answer from your children. I wouldn't. Don't tell me "you don't know" or "you forgot."

      We're not going to have the America that we want until we elect leaders who are going to tell the truth. Not most days - but every day. Leaders who don't forget what they don't want to remember.

      And, for eight straight years George Bush hasn't displayed the slightest interest in anything we care about.

      And now that he's after a job that he can't get appointed to, he's like Columbus discovering America. He's found child care. He's found education.

      Poor George. He can't help it - he was born with a silver foot in his mouth.

      Well no wonder, no wonder he can't figure it out. Because the leadership of this nation is telling us one thing on TV and doing something entirely different.

      They tell us, they tell us that they're fighting a war against terrorists. And then we find that the White House is selling arms to the ayatollah (Ruhallah Khomeini, of Iran).

      They tell us that they're fighting a war on drugs, then people come on TV and testify that the CIA, and the DEA (Drug Enforcement Administration), and the FBI knew they were flying drugs into America all along. And they're negotiating with a dictator (Panamanian strongman Manuel Antonio Noriega) who is shoveling cocaine into this country like crazy. I guess that's their Central America strategy.

      Now, they tell us that employment rates are great and that they're for equal opportunity, but we know it takes two paychecks to make ends meet today, when it used to take one. And the opportunity they're so proud of is low-wage, dead-end jobs.

      And there is no major city in America where you cannot see homeless men sitting in parking lots holding signs that say, "I will work for food."

  • lhbaker, on 10/10/2007, -1/+33This is why parodies of Bush aren't really funny; you can't beat the real thing for genuine amusement.
  • ashlvsya, on 10/10/2007, -0/+25He's a great guy, and I'm a liar...
  • saiyanate, on 10/10/2007, -1/+49Worst president ever.
    • rondeth, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Y'know, alot of people would say that's a prime example of the recency heuristic...but I think you may be on to something.
  • notelse, on 10/10/2007, -7/+12The caption on the photo calls John Howard the 'premier'. He is in fact the Prime Minister. Whoops. Shame on you daily mail, outing the president when you can't even get the facts right yourself!
    • IlMagnifico, on 10/10/2007, -2/+12prime ministers of countries with parliamentary governments ARE called premiers.

      You must be one of the 29 per-centers
    • bruce89, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1Not that the Daily Mail would get it right anyway.
    • mindsnare, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Yep Daily Mail just put their foot in it. If only John Howard was a premier of a state, more small fry.
  • Damhna, on 10/10/2007, -0/+24This is not at all uncommon , everywhere you go in Austria you see this sign :
    http://img62.imageshack.us/img62/756/dddddol9.jpg

    They are well used to that mistake in Österreich.
    • sakuraz, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Funny, we don't have anything about austria here...

      Hey, what's famous from Austria? I'm genuinely interested!
      • Damhna, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Schwarzenegger ?
        Hitler ?
        Frued ?
        Strauss ?
        Mozart ?
        Mozart Balls (Yum!) ,
        Wiener Schnitzel ,
        Strudels ,
        Brown paper packages tied up with strings.

        It a country where you feel the centuries of civilization and culture everywhere and it is singularly beautiful.
        Oh to drive again through the wienerwald to have lunch on leopoldsberg and spend the night at a heuringer in Nussdorf !
  • vwvan, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10I feel so sorry for him trying to be president and cover the obvious brain damage from years of drinking too much and snorting God knows what at Camp David. Silver spoon cowboy made a fool of us all. Only 16 more months till Christmas. He wrecked a company, now he's wrecked a country. Make that two.
    • unknownpoltroon, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Well, the brain damage might clear up if he stopped drinking. Don't all of his actions make a lot more sense if you just think "Hes hammered"?
  • BostonMa, on 10/10/2007, -1/+21He can't open his mouth without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge.
  • thailand1972, on 10/10/2007, -0/+16I'm not from the US. My political leanings are toward Republicans though two party races are never nuanced enough to represent my beliefs. Anyway, I just want to say that George Bush is an embarrassment to the modern era.
  • jonessodaholic, on 10/10/2007, -1/+9On the bright side, only 500 more days left of his administration.
    • theredheaddiva, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3And lucky for us, he'll probably spend the rest of it on vacation!
    • WaterDragon, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1That's like saying....."You are out of oxygen, but it is only 500 more feet up to the surface of the ocean."
    • EbilPhish, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Unfortunately 500 days is plenty of time to nuke several of those pesky countries.

      And 'liberate' some more.
  • Vodka2389, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6That's ol' Bush for ya. YEEEEHAAAAAAA!!!
  • Ebacherville, on 10/10/2007, -4/+5this is a dup, but still BUSH is a IDIOT
  • Piedramente, on 10/10/2007, -21/+1Wrong. He just mangled Australia and it *sounded* like Austrian. And the same for OPEC vs. APEC.

    Nice attempt to slam Bush, but this one is obviously a lie.
  • LiquidFusion, on 10/10/2007, -3/+23I know people make mistakes, but he's the ***** PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA!!! This is just embarrassing.
  • FLLawLibrarian, on 10/10/2007, -5/+5Are we sure he said "Austrians"? ... you know how he mumbles. Bush not being able to find his way off the stage, now that is a different story all together.
  • jakem1, on 10/10/2007, -15/+5Give the guy a break. Most of his fellow American's don't even know where Australia or Austria are and the ones who do don't even believe that they exist because they're not mentioned in the bible.
    • xornor, on 10/21/2007, -0/+12Idiocy is tolerated in this country because it is in the majority. Unfortunately, people chose to elect someone who represented themselves. It's normal for idiots to have an inferiority complex. This prevents them from promoting someone who is smarter than themselves.
      I'm not going to give this guy a break just because everyone who voted for him is a moron. Shouldn't our president be held to a hire standard than Joe working at the car repair shop??
    • qwerter, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6I wouldn't elect most Americans to be president, either.
  • InSectWar, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5This guy just can't win can he
  • TJATL, on 10/10/2007, -16/+2Like none of you ***** have any problems speaking to large groups of people? Not to mention the flashing lights of photographers and knowing that your words are heard by millions if not billions of people? Is this really the only thing the left can come up with? Jesus Christ y'all are grasping at straws.
    • xornor, on 10/10/2007, -0/+11If we chose our president using a lottery system I would agree with you. In fact, we'd probably be better off if we did :)
    • WiseWeasel, on 10/10/2007, -1/+14Gee, yeah, it's too much to ask that the man we elect as our leader be articulate enough to avoid embarrassing us abroad. We should be content with any old blithering idiot to handle our foreign relations.

      Interacting with the world at large is one of the chief roles of our president, and if he makes our country look like *****, then that's a problem for our foreign interests.
      • TJATL, on 10/10/2007, -7/+1We elect a President, not a public relations representative.
        • williamdyer, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Yeah, how's that President thing working out? The PR dude from pets.com could do better.
        • losjax, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Actually you couldn't be more wrong about that. Most parliamentary governments have a prime minister and a president. The president is the Head of State and mostly does all the PR crap, while the Prime Minster is the head of the government and leads the country. Here in the US the roles are held by one office, POTUS. So yes we do elect a PR rep.
    • NorCal05, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Funny you should mention straws, because you just gave a 'straw man' argument
    • javip, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I love it when people like TJATL make comments such as these.
      They think they're making a valid point, but it actually does the opposite of it's intended effect.. by allowing everyone to respond and prove it wrong =)
  • Trublmakr, on 10/10/2007, -2/+17C'mon America,. can you not - in a country of 350 million people find a decent enough ventriloquist to cover for this guy when addressing the public?
    • NorCal05, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Nice! Reminds me of the great movie 'Dave"
  • soot, on 10/10/2007, -1/+25"Thank you for being such a fine host for the OPEC summit."

    Oil on the brain, mister President?
  • Veurruckte, on 10/10/2007, -9/+4Comment FTA "The man is an incompetent buffoon. An embarassment to this once great country and an embarassment to the human race, which I don't even think he is a member of."

    While I agree Bush is a moron, people like this piss me off. "Once great country". America still is a great country, regardless of our government. I invite him to go live in China, and work 14 hours a day. Yeah, I'd say America is in a slump, but we still have it better than the majority of countries in the world.
    • xornor, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8Traveled much? Most bushies I've met haven't left North America.
    • Damvan, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6Just because you can mention a place that is worse doesn't change the fact that America is going downhill.
  • need4speed, on 10/10/2007, -0/+11come on people.. bush doesn't have map at home.. lol.
  • lostradamus, on 10/10/2007, -0/+30As a wise woman once said: "Some people in our nation don't have maps"
    • WaterDragon, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I'm amazed you can still get away with comments like that.
      Keep the meme alive!
  • Bleekster, on 10/10/2007, -0/+18Some people in Australia call a guy like this...a wanker.
    • chicofaraby, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4We call them "jackoffs" here. Ain't international culture fun?
  • Midvicious, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6*sigh* ... For *****'s sakes, man...
  • anarchytv, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2Newsflash. Kangaroos just spotted in Austra. And suddenly the new Austrailian word for beer is no longer "Fosters!", but "Eggenberger!" http://anarchy-tv.com
    • eurofooty, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Yeah, they are all here: http://www.vienna-kangaroos.at.tt/
    • redwolf, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1You do know Australians wouldn't be seen dead drinking Fosters, don't you? That's the crap we export.
    • eimersaufen, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1anarchytv: I'm surprised you know Eggenberger beer, even most Austrians outside Upper Austria (where Eggenberger is from) don't know it. But go for Stiegl Bier from Salzburg instead, it's much better.
  • CrispyOne, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7Holy God... it's like he's the only drunk, obnoxious dude at the world party.
  • MusicMagi, on 10/10/2007, -1/+13The guy almost choked to death on a pretzel.. Are we really surprised?
    • williamdyer, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4It was much worse than that. He passed out drunk. How many people "choke on a pretzel?" A pretzel is not big enough to choke an infant much less a full sized buffoon.
    • EbilPhish, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2That pretzel has my sincere gratitude, even if it wasn't successful.
  • Inspiron700m, on 10/10/2007, -0/+11How can this guy be leader of the USA? It's incredible really...I'm speechless.
  • superfusion, on 10/10/2007, -0/+12Wasn't this a joke in dumb and dumber? Like, I laughed a lot in 1994 when a comic buffoon made such an obvious mistake. Well, I'm not laughing now. If you voted for this piece of *****, please go hang yourself right now.

    (okay, there I was kidding).
    • StringyLow, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1It's true: G. W. Bush is a living Lloyd Christmas.
  • TheRedCoat, on 10/10/2007, -2/+1Come on, if he really wanted to insult them he would have called them French, or Welsh...
  • MYarms, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9No wonder why people in other countries see us as idiots.
  • phidgt, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4With his term so close to being done, is it too much to ask that they keep Bush locked up in his ranch? Is it really necessary for him to keep making an ass out of himself in public? Haven't we suffered enough?
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