I May Throw Up

The right is all up in arms that Barack Obama dared to suggest that Americans might want to learn more than one language. George Bush then tried to prove him right with this Great Moment in Presidential Pride:

“Amigo! Amigo!” Mr. Bush called out cheerily in Spanish when he spotted the Italian prime minister. “How you doing, Silvio? Good to see you!” Later, the president wondered about his former Russian counterpart, Vladimir V. Putin. “Did Putin come to see you since I saw you?” he asked Mr. Berlusconi. (He had not.)

He then left the G8 summit with these parting words:

President George Bush signed off with a defiant farewell over his refusal to accept global climate change targets at his last G8 summit.

As he prepared to fly out from Japan, he told his fellow leaders: "Goodbye from the world's biggest polluter."

He then flew off and happily signed the FISA bill that Congress stooped so low to provide him.

This is another shitty day.

Oh, and what Driftglass said.