Vindictive Bush Gives Australian Prime Minister A ‘Frosty Reception’ At G20 Summit
Vindictive Bush Gives Australian Prime Minister A ‘Frosty Reception’ At G20 Summit
During a telephone call last month, President Bush told Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd that he thought the global financial crisis ought to be handled within the G7 framework. But Rudd advised that the plan was “out of touch” and that it “made no sense…to take action on the crisis without engaging China.”
Instead, Rudd insisted that the best response should involve the broader G20 — which includes China — in order to harness China’s role as an emerging economic power and “to prevent the Chinese using the global crisis to make political points about the failure of Western capitalism.” But according to The Australian newspaper, Bush had no idea what the G20 was:
After the President explained the pressure from Europe for a G7-brokered action on supporting the credit sector and reforming regulation, Rudd immediately insisted the G20 was the solution.
Rudd was then stunned to hear Bush say: “What’s the G20?”
Indeed, Rudd’s view prevailed, as the G20 met in Washington, D.C. over the weekend, vowing to work together to solve the world’s economic woes. While both Rudd and the White House denied that Bush had expressed ignorance of the G20, it seems Bush may have seized a payback opportunity for the alleged leak:
First there was the cool personal reception — now Kevin Rudd has been left out of the official White House photograph album.
Snaps on the White House website show George W Bush greeting 17 world leaders at the weekend G20 summit.
But his photo with Mr Rudd, who received a visibly frosty reception from the President, has somehow gone missing. The move appears to confirm a presidential snub of Mr Rudd over the leaking of a phone conversation he had with Mr Bush.
Only one other leader was left out of the White House photos: Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono. But even the photo of Bush cozying up to Russian President Dmitry Medvedev made the cut.
Even in times of great global economic calamity, Bush is able to demonstrate that his cowboy diplomacy will never die.
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Once a dimwit prick, always a dimwit prick.
November 17th, 2008 at 12:31 pmHis has the emotional maturity of a 12 year old.
November 17th, 2008 at 12:33 pmThis isn’t Bush’s “cowboy diplomacy.” This is the even more familiar “petulant, spoiled, trust-fund baby” diplomacy. The man’s immaturity never ceases to amaze us.
November 17th, 2008 at 12:35 pmYeah well, Fratboy, wait until the “frosty reception” is aimed at you-by your own countrymen…
November 17th, 2008 at 12:38 pmWorst president ever!!!!
November 17th, 2008 at 12:39 pmBush did not want the other G20 members to know how much he already borrowed from China…
November 17th, 2008 at 12:39 pmAh, but the Bush-Sarkozy “one degree of Kevin Bacon” pic made the cut. They are both close to The Carlyle Group. Nicolas Sarkozy’s half brother, Oliver, works for Carlyle’s financial division.
Hank Paulson just talked about using TARP money in conjunction with private matching funds. Maybe, Oliver and Randall Quarles (ex-Paulson Deputy) will land Carlyle’s first big public financial deal. Watch out for Bush government guarantees on private money.
In the 1990’s Bush served on the board of CaterAir, a Carlyle affiliate. The revolving door from the White House (Clinton & Bush) to Carlyle turned into a fan the last decade or so.
Will Carlyle soon get the opportunity for nearly risk free investment on the public’s dime? It won’t be the first time…
November 17th, 2008 at 12:40 pmBush demands loyalty to himself above loyalty to anything else, including the Constitution, the Rule of Law, or even his fellow human beings on the planet. George W. Bush is a very bad person.
November 17th, 2008 at 12:40 pmWhat’s the G20? Why George, it means that you, G, will be in power for 20 (twenty) more years…
O/T: out where the West ends, in Walnut Creek, California, the residents of Rossmoor Retirement Community have got a federal Fish and Wildlife Service permit to kill some forty or fifty Acorn Woodpeckers. It seems that these Woodpeckers have been putting holes in the wooden sides and eaves of some of these fancy homes. Of course, the Woodpeckers have lost hundreds of acres of prime native oak tree woodland to the Rossmoor developers. Perhaps the Rossmoorians could buy some nice new un-chemically-treated telephone poles from PG&E and erect them for Woodpecker acorn-storage habitat. Or dig up half their golf course and replant some oak trees.
November 17th, 2008 at 12:42 pmUn hombre, muy malo. Why can’t we send the idiot back to his village today?!!
November 17th, 2008 at 12:42 pmMr Sayre, why not the whole effing golf course?
November 17th, 2008 at 12:45 pm“Frosty reception[s]” are no match for Frosty Cupcakes!
November 17th, 2008 at 12:46 pmIf I were a vindictive man, and believed in paybacks, wouldn’t a Kevin Rudd photo-op with Obama be a nice little shot back across the bow of Bush’s petulant diplomacy?
November 17th, 2008 at 12:46 pmSnubbed by a war criminal and traitor to his people’s democratic institutions ! Mr Rudd this is the best endorsement you could possibly have been given, you have been done a great honor ! Congratulations !
November 17th, 2008 at 12:52 pm> now Kevin Rudd has been left out of the
> official White House photograph album
Wow, these retards are so deluded they don’t realize thats about the best compliment one could give a world leader these days..even the right wing pro-business french president is asking putin “do you want to end up like bush”?
November 17th, 2008 at 12:55 pmEven in times of great global economic calamity, Bush is able to demonstrate that his cowboy diplomacy will never die…
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… and that his personal petulance, overweening self-importance, and astonishing stupidity know no bounds.
November 17th, 2008 at 12:56 pmCowboy diplomacy may not die, but it definitely kills.
November 17th, 2008 at 12:57 pmIt’s always embarrassing when our leader is clearly out of his league when around other world leaders. And many of the same people who voted for Dubya thinks that “President Palin” is a wonderful idea.
Me? I’d prefer not being a laughing stock to the rest of the world.
November 17th, 2008 at 1:00 pm“Out of touch”, “makes no sense”. I believe Hank Paulson said that last week about buying toxic assets, the original intent of the TARP.
Look for Bush to avoid pictures with his Treasury Chief.
November 17th, 2008 at 1:00 pmI guess this means Austrailia is the new France. Republicans will soon be boycotting Outback.
November 17th, 2008 at 1:02 pmBut his photo with Mr Rudd, who received a visibly frosty reception from the President, has somehow gone missing.
This story is just a, story.
What really happened is Mr. Rudd refused to be seen with the chimp.
November 17th, 2008 at 1:09 pmbush could write one book if he were so inclined:
“The how not to of international diplomacy and forign policy”
November 17th, 2008 at 1:11 pmI’m surprised any foreign leaders even deign to meet with him.
November 17th, 2008 at 1:14 pmI guess everybody noticed Bush kissing the royal Saudi ass.
November 17th, 2008 at 1:14 pmBush has been the laughing stock of the world for years now, and after he was reelected in 2004, that reputation has rubbed off on Americans as well.
November 17th, 2008 at 1:15 pmHis ignorance and arrogance are surpassed only by his juvenile petulance and general boorishness.
These last 60 days are going to be very hard.
Prediction:
Within 1-2 years, G.W. Bush will sever a finger – maybe a hand or arm – while clearing brush in a drunken chainsaw accident at the Crawford Ranch.
It will be the “highlight” of his post-presidency retirement.
America, and the world, will rejoice.
November 17th, 2008 at 1:19 pmnews reports of this ilk only add more credibility to theories such as this one.
November 17th, 2008 at 1:22 pmi.e., grudgemonger
November 17th, 2008 at 1:22 pmSo why is anyone surprised that Georgie is still Georgie?
November 17th, 2008 at 1:26 pmugh. there is absolutely nothing ‘cowboy’ about this @ss hole. he’s askeered of horsies, fer chrissakes. and i suspect the only gun he has, is saddam hussein’s gun that was presented to him for his erectile dysfunction symptoms…
But what ever happened to the pistol?
The sidearm has made its way to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Sources say that the military had the pistol mounted after the soldiers seized it from Saddam and that it was then presented to the President privately by some of the troops who played a key role in ferreting out the old tyrant. … “He really liked showing it off,” says a recent visitor to the White House who has seen the gun. “He was really proud of it.”
November 17th, 2008 at 1:28 pmBush just might regard this action to President Rudd. Now President Rudd knows alot of the crimes the White House committed with the former President Howard. Even keeping an Austrailian man who was innocent but was tortured for 7 years and then made to lie to get out of jail. Now I got a letter after questioning this case and President Rudd explained how the former President was involved. Now President Rudd can turn that information over to the United Nations for War Crimes.
November 17th, 2008 at 1:29 pmEven in the death throes of his abomination, he meets my expectation of Christian values GOP style. What a hypocritical prick.
November 17th, 2008 at 1:30 pmOnce again President Shit-For-Brains rears his egotistically bloated head. This petulant little man-child is a total embarrassment. I hope President-Elect Barack Obama selects Vincent Bugliosi as his attorney general. I believe that would be a giant step in the right direction in restoring our credibility with the world and humanity. It would probably also set in motion a very large mass exodus from America by the criminal neocons. One can hope.
November 17th, 2008 at 1:30 pmMore out of touch than ever. Only 67 more days and the war crimes trial can begin. Heckuva job.
November 17th, 2008 at 1:33 pmI’m sure that Rudd was brokenhearted at a frosty reception by Bush. Won’t it be nice to have a grownup in charge of this country once again?
November 17th, 2008 at 1:33 pmThe entire Bush administration’s diplomacy has a childish atitude… what else to expect from this WAR CRIMINAL???
November 17th, 2008 at 1:33 pmI bet Bush thinks Rudd can see China from his house…
November 17th, 2008 at 1:37 pmWell, to be absolutely fair, I had no idea what the G-20 was, either.
Of course, I’m not the President of the United States…
November 17th, 2008 at 1:40 pmThis is not “cowboy diplomacy.” This is the reaction a rude, self-involved, petulant little sh*thead.
Off the world stage, already.
November 17th, 2008 at 1:41 pmGeorge W. Bush, a little man: alwayz has and alwayz will be.
November 17th, 2008 at 1:43 pmGDumbya is a very, very, very small man, indeed.
The republican party seems to be populated with them these days . . . even some small women (from Alaska, for instance).
November 17th, 2008 at 1:44 pmThey don’t want him back!!! That’s why boosh is going to live in Paraguay! Hey, so what if just happens NOT to have an extradition treaty with the USA!!!
November 17th, 2008 at 1:46 pmJust more continuing proof that Chimpy is an idiot..
Here’s a recommendation..fill up his liberry (intentional mis-spelling) with framed FACTS proving over-and-over again that this man has the IQ of a turnip…
AMF, see you in the Hague!!!
November 17th, 2008 at 2:00 pmIDIOT IN CHIEF!!! Why do GOP supporters want someone dumber than their dumb rank and file to be their leader? They are so allergic to excellence.
Hey Sarah, I can see your ignorance from my backyard!
Just saying…
November 17th, 2008 at 2:01 pmMr. Evil Says:I hope President-Elect Barack Obama selects Vincent Bugliosi as his attorney general.
I agree! He would put Bush where he deserves to be: on trial!
Famed Charles Manson prosecutor and three time #1 New York Times bestselling author Vincent Bugliosi has written the most powerful, explosive, and thought-provoking book of his storied career.
In The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder, Bugliosi presents a tight, meticulously researched legal case that puts George W. Bush on trial in an American courtroom for the murder of nearly 4,000 American soldiers fighting the war in Iraq. Bugliosi sets forth the legal architecture and incontrovertible evidence that President Bush took this nation to war in Iraq under false pretenses—a war that has not only caused the deaths of American soldiers but also over 100,000 innocent Iraqi men, women, and children; cost the United States over one trillion dollars thus far with no end in sight; and alienated many American allies in the Western world.
November 17th, 2008 at 2:25 pmThis turkey hasn’t been shot yet? He is way past his prime! You make the rich richer, screw up all you want, and get away with it! Loser idiot freak.
November 17th, 2008 at 3:31 pmParaguay and the U.S. actually DO have an extradition treaty.
Extradition shall not be granted by the Requested State if the offense for which the extradition is requested is a political offense.
Extradition Treaty with Paraguay
I don’t think being a war criminal is simply a “political offence.” It’s a crime against humanity. I don’t think Bush is safe in Paraguay.
November 17th, 2008 at 3:52 pmSpeaking as someone who lives in Texas, Bush is proving that he is the biggest corksoaker in the great State of Texas, and believe me there are some really big ones here.
November 17th, 2008 at 4:13 pmThis just seems so uncharacteristic of George W. Bush.
November 17th, 2008 at 4:32 pmWho Would Jesus Snub
November 17th, 2008 at 5:02 pmgaryb50 Says:
This just seems so uncharacteristic of George W. Bush.
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I will assume that was snark since this seems VERY characteristic of George W Gump
November 17th, 2008 at 6:22 pm