Bush Still A Moron After All These Years

Although we are talking about George Bush, you'd think or hope that after eight years as the leader of the (less) free world he'd know more about his job than when he came in. Despite his failures as President (and there are many) it might be possible that he was aware of the world institutions that he screwed over on an usual basis. Though not surprisingly, he still is oblivious to groups like the G20 and acts like a petulant child when confronted about his ignorance.

From ThinkProgress:

During a telephone call last month, President Bush told Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd that he thought the global financial crisis ought to be handled within the G7 framework. But Rudd advised that the plan was “out of touch” and that it “made no sense…to take action on the crisis without engaging China.”

Instead, Rudd insisted that the best response should involve the broader G20 — which includes China — in order to harness China’s role as an emerging economic power and “to prevent the Chinese using the global crisis to make political points about the failure of Western capitalism.” But according to The Australian newspaper, Bush had no idea what the G20 was.[...]

Well the G20 met this past weekend in Washington and the President showed his pettiness in rare form:

First there was the cool personal reception — now Kevin Rudd has been left out of the official White House photograph album.

Snaps on the White House website show George W Bush greeting 17 world leaders at the weekend G20 summit.

But his photo with Mr Rudd, who received a visibly frosty reception from the President, has somehow gone missing. The move appears to confirm a presidential snub of Mr Rudd over the leaking of a phone conversation he had with Mr Bush.

I know I've said it a million times already since Bush was re-elected, but I seriously wish it were January 20, 2009 so we as a nation can act like adults with the world again. I'm almost positive Kevin Rudd was thinking the same thing when talking to George. Well Prime Minister Rudd, only sixty-three days and change to go!