Flashback: In his last year in office, Bush still didn’t know what the G20 was.

[babylonsister]

Stunning, appalling, embarrassing...

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/04/02/bush-g20/

Flashback: In his last year in office, Bush still didn’t know what the G20 was.


President Obama — in a departure from President Bush — has made a point during his G20 visit to emphasize that the economic crisis demands a collective global response. Indeed, in a phone call with Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd last October about the financial collapse, Rudd told Bush that the best response should involve the broader G20, including China — while Bush wanted response to be handled within the G7. Bush, however, reportedly didn’t have a clue what the G20 was:

Informed sources have confirmed the discussion took place on a speaker telephone with a Rudd staffer taking notes.

After the President explained the pressure from Europe for a G7-brokered action on supporting the credit sector and reforming regulation, Rudd immediately insisted the G20 was the solution.

Rudd was then stunned to hear Bush say: “What’s the G20?”

[benld74]

1. Bush thought is was another way of saying 20G, which is chump change to him!

[tanyev]

2. He was disappointed to learn that it was nothing like Colt 45.

[babylonsister]

3. !

:spray:

[Enrique]

4. he said, I only buy American cars

none of that Jap crap.

[RaleighNCDUer]

5. C'mon, give him a break. He just learned what the G7 was, and

was wondering where the other 12 came from.

[babylonsister]

6. Is this not jaw-dropping? I wonder if the rumors of mental

incapacitation were true. This is ridiculous.

[RaleighNCDUer]

7. It truely is jaw dropping -

but not really surprising.