If you aren't embarrassed to be an American citizen yet, you haven't been paying attention. And get the last line of this article wherein his aides describe his obvious behavior from either drugs, alcohol, or the residual mind numbing effects of snorting cocaine as "folksy" and "endearing to Middle America." Oh God, there goes that vomit taste in my mouth again. He sure knows what he is doing when he is condoning and ordering torturing and maiming people and lying to them.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070907/pl_nm/apec_bush_gaffe_dc_3;_ylt=AsJN2dGZjFFlKo8DYTy3JVhNYhAFBush shows gift of gaffe at APEC summit Fri Sep 7, 12:23 AM ET
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Even for someone as gaffe-prone as U.S. President George W. Bush, he was in rare form on Friday, confusing APEC with OPEC and transforming Australian troops into Austrians.
Bush's tongue started slipping almost as soon as he started talking at a business forum on the eve of an Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Sydney.
"Mr. Prime Minister, thank you for your introduction," he told Prime Minister John Howard. "Thank you for being such a fine host for the OPEC summit."
As the audience of several hundred people erupted in laughter, Bush corrected himself and joked, "He invited me to the OPEC summit next year." Australia has never been a member of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries.
Later in his speech, Bush recounted how Howard had gone to visit "Austrian troops" last year in Iraq. There are, in fact, no Austrian troops there. But Australia has about 1,500 Australian military personnel in and around the country.
Upon finishing his speech, Bush took the wrong way off-stage and, looking slightly perplexed, had to be re-directed by Howard to a centre-stage exit.
But not before a veteran White House correspondent seized the opportunity to ask Bush whether there had been any new message in his speech. Apparently misunderstanding the question, he bristled and asked, "Haven't you been listening to my past speeches?" before turning away.
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Bush's sometimes muddled syntax and mispronunciation of words like nuclear ("nukular") have long been fodder for late-night TV comedians. But aides say his folksy style has helped endear him to Middle America.