Huge Pile of Embarrassing Bush-on-Tape Moments

Bruce has been posting, and quoting from "serious" writers, about our boy George loose among the world leaders in Russia at the G8 Summit. We've all seen the pictures, the video, heard the open-mike quotes - but here's one more writer, my favorite non-serious serious political commenter, Mark Morford, on the subject:

So now we know.

I mean, we sort of thought we knew, before, what kind of guy George W. Bush is, essentially our very own inept, inarticulate ex-alcoholic ex-frat-guy failed-businessman pseudo-leader who famously appeals to the most God-fearin' and least educated and least attuned among us because he is, well, one of them.

.... (lots more here)

He is That Guy. The one who thinks he is everybody's bestest pal, the guy everyone wants to kick back with and have a few brewskies and chat about baseball and lawn fertilizer and Jesus. After all, isn't that what we all desire of the man who decides some of the most difficult, deadly, complicated issues on the planet? Isn't that slacked, frat-guy goofiness exactly what you want trying to broker peace in the Middle East and understand global warming and stem-cell research? Sure it is. (Read the whole thing here: Bush Gropes, Planet Cringes: Knead a German chancellor, banter dumbly, reveal global ignorance. It's Dubya abroad!)

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