Bush Stuffs his Face

This morning CNN aired a recording of Bush once again forgetting the mic is on, but this time at the G8 summit in a conversation with Tony Blair.  I'm posting the transcript below, but to hear it is to really experience the horrific shame for our nation this fool for a President inspires.  Throughout he is eating and he discusses matters of life and death and world war with his mouth full.  The image of this has brought me to a state of seething mourning today.  I cannot believe this is what is leading my beautiful country.  

While Tony Blair tries to discuss matters of importance with him, he sounds like a teenager who has only learned one or two facts for an oral exam and ignores the question, offering only what he can parrot.  He uses the word "shit" and at no point reflects the solemnity of the situation in which more and more people are dying.  But really, I ask myself through my seething anger this morning, what did I expect?  Did I expect he dealt with other world leaders in a way that made him appear more intelligent and of better character than the way he addresses the people of our nation?  Did I expect someone who has shown no concern for the tens, maybe hundreds of thousands of innocents dead since he took officeto do so now?  Did I expect him to suddenly grow a spirit and a brain?

In addition to that, there are some parts of the conversation that CNN is of course missing the implication of.  The WH spokesperson says Bush's words speak for themselves.  Read on:  

Hello, Ed.

ED HENRY, CNN CORRESPONDENT: That's right. Good morning, Miles.

The Mideast dominating this agenda right up literally until the final moments. An open microphone capturing a rather frank and dramatic exchange between President Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair. That highlight some of the tensions among world leaders about the way forward in Mideast stands in sharp contrast to the united front that was publicly presented yesterday by this joint statement among the G-8 leaders about the Mideast and the way forward.

What happened first this morning, to give you some contest, is Mr. Blair and U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan went behind closed doors for a meeting and then spoke to reporters and jointly called for an international stabilization force to end the violence in the Mideast. But such a force might require a cease-fire, which is controversial because President Bush has not supported a cease-fire on the grounds that the White House doesn't believe Hezbollah would necessarily follow it.

So after meeting with Mr. Annan, Mr. Blair sat down for lunch with President Bush, the other G-8 leaders as well. And the president, in this conversation, expressed his frustration that the U.N. should be doing more to pressure Syrian President Assad to get Hezbollah to stop the violence. We need to be clear that the leaders knew that this was a photo opportunity. Mr. Blair eventually turns off the microphone that was on the table, but not before this.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: What about Kofi Annan? (INAUDIBLE) I don't like the (INAUDIBLE). Well, because his attitude's (INAUDIBLE) cease-fire and everything that's happened. You know what I'm saying?

TONY BLAIR, BRITISH PRIME MINISTER: Yes, no, I think this (INAUDIBLE) I think is really difficult is we can't stop this unless you get international agreement. Now (INAUDIBLE) what you guys have talked (INAUDIBLE) see what comes from that. But you knew that that quickly because . . .

BUSH: Yes, well, I think Condi's going to go for the same.

BLAIR: Right. Well, that's all that matters. If you (INAUDIBLE) but at least it gives people . . .

BUSH: A process. I agree.

BLAIR: At which you . . .

Here's the part I'm wondering about.  I'll leave it to the KOS community to offer thoughts on what it means.  I'm too angry and at this point all that I have is a tinge of that "something is wrong here" feeling about it:

BUSH: I've told them your offer, too.

BLAIR: Oh, good. Well, it's only if -- I mean, you know, she's going to -- or if she needs the grounds -- obviously if she goes out, she's got to (INAUDIBLE).

BUSH: She'd (INAUDIBLE) is what they need to do is get Syria to get Hezbollah to stop doing this shit and it's over.

BLAIR: Syria (INAUDIBLE) . . .

BUSH: All right.

BLAIR: Because I think this is all sort of the same thing. I mean, look, what does he think? He thinks if Lebanon turns out fine, if you get a solution in this (INAUDIBLE), it's not Iraq ends the right way. He's (INAUDIBLE). That's what this whole thing's about. (INAUDIBLE).

BUSH: (INAUDIBLE)) make something happen. We're not blaming (INAUDIBLE) and we're not blaming the Lebanese government.

BLAIR: Oop, is this?

(END VIDEO CLIP)

HENRY: Now, we played this tape for a White House spokesman who said the president's words speak for themselves. The White House has no further comment on this exchange. The key part of the exchange, of course, being President Bush, in some explicit language, basically suggesting the U.N. really needs to get Syria to get Hezbollah to stop the violence and then this will be over. This crisis.

Also, what should not be lost in this exchange, is that the president, in his conversation, confirms what we've been hearing privately here at the summit, which is that he's planning to send Secretary of State Rice to the Mideast. That's only going to raise the stakes and they're hoping, obviously, that could diffuse some of the tension. http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0607/17/ltm.05.html

My first guess was that Bush and Blair are thinking about participating in this lovely conflict with their respective militaries, this war that Bush can discuss while stuffing his face in low-brow terms.  What do you think?

In the meantime, we now have overall confirmation that our leader not only sounds like an idiot with us, but in conversations with world leaders as well.  Is it any wonder the world is more violent every day this idiot is in office?  I will not send my kids to fight because this ignorant person and his puppet masters are in charge and have drained humanity from their considerations.  

I thought it was bad enough when asked about the Israeli/Lebanon conflict at a news conference in Germany the President of our land answered "Oh, I thought you were gonna ask me about the pig." He talked about the barbecue he was going to attend later that evening in his opening statement, while people died in Iraq, in Israel, in Palestine, in Lebanon, and even went back to reference it.  Dear God, Mr. Bush, what I didn't realize until this morning was that your instincts were partially correct.  The reporter, in asking about your reaction, was indeed asking about the pig.  Now, don't trouble yourself about little old me or the rest of the world, trot off and have dinner.