Blair rues the day Bush was elected.
The Observer | Comment | It wasn't the 'Yo' that was humiliating, it was the 'No' ... When Tony Blair offers himself as a Middle East peace envoy, he is casually rebuffed by the American President between bites on a bread roll.Told by Bush that 'Condi is going', the normally fluent Blair is reduced to inarticulate jabbering.
'Well, it's only if, I mean, you know, if she's got a... or if she needs the ground prepared as it were... Because obviously if she goes out, she's got to succeed, if it were, whereas I can go out and just talk.'
Yeah, just talk.
It was awful for Tony Blair to be caught asking for permission to go to the Middle East. It was dire to hear George Bush saying he wouldn't let the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom go out - not even on a pointless trip. It looks even more humiliating when the French Foreign Minister is going.
youch. There's more:
The only favour done to the Prime Minister by the broadcast of his rap with George Bush has been to illustrate a little of what he has been up against over the past five years in dealing with this American President. We have been frequently told by his defenders that, whatever verbal dyslexia he may display in public, the private Bush is as smart as a whip, with a sophisticated grasp of the complexities of the geopolitical situation. Analysing the carnage unfolding in Lebanon, the view of the American President is this: 'What they need to do is to get Syria to get Hizbollah to stop doing this shit and it's over.'The unguarded mic also picked up the American President saying he didn't want to prepare any closing remarks for the G8 Summit. 'Just gonna make it up,' he shrugs. To the Chinese premier, he remarks, 'This is your neighbourhood.' They are in St Petersburg. Continuing his conversation with the Chinese leader, President Bush goggles: 'Russia's a big country and you're a big country,' like a seven-year-old who has just discovered them in the atlas.
yes, smart as a whip - if you consider someone with a double digit IQ qualified to be President of the US. And doesn't seem to be doing any favors for Blair, who one commentator calls the catamite to the Republican Party.
Tags: GWB, /Worst_President
