I am afraid, Mr/Ms Stinger, we have different ideas about Mr. George W. Bush. I give him all my respect and consider him being a serious and wise statesman and a real patriot of his great country.
I had a pleasure listening his public speeches on TV, and I did not find there anything unreasonable or eccentric. And about slips of tongue: well, who is free from making some?
Anyone who wins an election with less votes than the 'loser', gets my respect too.
This pertains to the specific of electoral procedure in the USA, when the President is being elected indirectly. This was not Mr. Bush, as far as I know, that established such rules.
Yes, steissd, he really is not a professional geographer. But if someone has earnt an academic degree ....
("The only thing I know about Slovakia is what I learned first-hand from your foreign minister, who came to Texas."?-To a Slovak journalist as quoted by Knight Ridder News Service, June 22, 1999. Bush's meeting was with Janez Drnovsek, the prime minister of Slovenia.
"I was raised in the West. The west of Texas. It's pretty close to California. In more ways than Washington, D.C., is close to California."?-In Los Angeles as quoted by the Los Angeles Times, April 8, 2000
"Neither in French nor in English nor in Mexican."?-Declining to answer reporters' questions at the Summit of the Americas, Quebec City, Canada, April 21, 2001
"We spent a lot of time talking about Africa, as we should. Africa is a nation that suffers from incredible disease."?-Gothenburg, Sweden, June 14, 2001)
About "Mexican language". I am sure, it is a slip of tongue. Mr. Bush is fluent in Spanish, and I cannot imagine that he does not know the name of the language he is able to speak and read.
Slovakia is a relatively young independent nation; for centuries it was a part of Austro-Hungarian empire, then it was a part of Czechoslovakian federation. When Mr. Bush was a student, there was no independent Slovakia on the political map of Europe.
Africa, surely, is not a nation, it is a continent hosting dozens of different nations. But, in this case, I also consider this being a slip of tongue: I cannot imagine that anyone may not know such a thing.
About Texas, California and Washington, D.C. Well, technically Mr. Bush is right: Texas is much closer to California than D.C.
Mr Bush to the president of Brazil:
"Do you have blacks in your country as well?"
It's interesting to learn that GWB is fluent in Spanish, because fluency in English seems so far to have eluded him.
Late here but -- Welcome McTag & Roz to Able2Know!
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