Truemors
You know, sometimes this stuff just writes itself.
Perhaps proof Politicians Open Mouth, before engaging Brain.
I think Bush should have just stated "Look, how about we start all over again okay"? Hi, I'm Quagmire!
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA -- President George W. Bush had a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day at the Sydney Opera House.He'd only reached the third sentence of yesterday's speech to business leaders, on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum (APEC), when he committed his first gaffe.
"Thank you for being such a fine host for the OPEC summit," Bush said to Australian Prime Minister John Howard.
Oops. That would be APEC, the annual meeting of leaders from 21 Pacific Rim nations, not OPEC, the cartel of 12 major oil producers.
Bush quickly corrected himself. "APEC summit," he said forcefully, joking that Howard had invited him to the OPEC summit next year (for the record, an impossibility, since neither Australia nor the U.S. are OPEC members).
The president's next goof went uncorrected -- by him anyway. Talking about 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. The official text released by the White House switched "Austrian" to "Australian."
Speech done, Bush confidently headed out the wrong way. He strode away on a path that would have sent him over a steep drop. Howard and others redirected the president.
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