This is your leader ?

[kentuck]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/07/AR2005050700702.html

Bush Won't Take Backseat in Latvia Meeting

That made for some awkward moments at a news conference Saturday with Bush and the leaders of three Baltic republics. Host President Vaira Vike-Freiberga of Latvia invited her counterparts from Lithuania and Estonia to make opening statements, but forgot Bush before opening it up to reporters' questions.

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US President George W. Bush, right, is introduced by Latvian President Vaira Vike-Freiberga, before the start of his press conference at the Riga cultural center Saturday, May 7, 2005 in Riga, Latvia. Bush said the Soviet domination of central and eastern Europe after World War II will be remembered as "one of the greatest wrongs of history" and acknowledged that the United States played a significant role in the division of the continent. Bush interjected, and she demurred to her high-profile visitor.

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After Bush finished, Vike-Freiberga then explained that they would take four questions _ one for each president. Again, Bush tried to interrupt, saying, "Or you can have all four questions to me," knowing that foreign reporters usually want to use the opportunity to probe the U.S. president.

Vike-Freiberga ignored the remark as she called on a Latvian journalist, and Bush threw his arms up and looked to help from aides offstage. The Latvian journalist said he would prefer to question the U.S. leader, and Bush responded, "Yeah, I thought that might be the case."

[Occulus]

1. Wow.

Simply incredible.

He thinks he rules the world.

[eleny]

2. Grrrrrrr...

[Dervill Crow]

3. You can dress him up, but you can't take him out.

Yeah, he's really restoring dignity to the White House. Just one embarrassment after another.

[kedrys]

4. He's not *my* leader, but I'm mortified anyway. n/t

[notadmblnd]

5. oh.. he's such a funny little man

NOT!

[acmejack]

8. Funny as in odd, weird, strange, etc

Certainly not as in amusing

[fryguy]

6. four questions but no answers - n/t

[Clark2008]

7. F*kin' jerk

:eyes:

[mhr]

10. There Are No Words To Describe This Man

He is an embarrassment to the country and the world.

[atommom]

9. He's just a big obnoxious toddler with a God complex!

And having dealt with LITTLE obnoxious toddlers, that scares the crap out of me. :scared:

[soleft]

11. He went to all the trouble of inserting the ear piece

didn't want it to go to waste

[kliljedahl]

12. Once a douche, always a douche

Keith’s Barbeque Central

[Journeyman]

13. It's called "humility." I know it's a foreign concept to Shrub, but. . .

since he was in a foreign land, you'd think maybe someone could have clued him to basic polite behavior.

Didn't Barbara at least prep the boy for cotillion?

[Vickers]

14. "Look at me, look at me, mommy, mommy, look at me!!!"

:rofl:

What a fucking douchebag!