George sees a map

November 7, 2005

I can only hope this didn’t sound as bad in person as it does in print.

At one point, [Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva] even exhibited a map of his country, which is larger than the continental United States. “Wow! Brazil is big,” [Celso Amorim, the Brazilian foreign minister] quoted the American president as responding.

In the president’s defense, we’re getting this second hand — the NYT quoted the Brazilian foreign minister, not Bush directly. But who’s ready to say with confidence that Bush wasn’t actually surprised when someone showed him a map of Brazil?

Don’t forget, Bush’s history with Brazilian presidents isn’t all that great to begin with. You may recall, for example, that in November 2001, Bush asked then-President Fernando Cardoso, “Do you have blacks, too?”

Only three more years, only three more years…

We have our own Dumn Ass as the president

  • The Texans I know (particularly, a chunk of my relatives who live there and worship Bush there) seem to have only one dimension for measuring or judging things: how big is it? How rich would be another one, except all they mean by that is how big is your wallet or your bank account.

  • I suppose the bad joke has been seen a thousand times, but it sort of fits here.

    Rumsfeld comes into Bush office and tells the Texas Twit, “Bad news Mr. President, our peacekeeping forces lost 3 Brazilian soldiers today.”

    Bush aides were surprised at the pResidents reaction. He put his heads in his hands and gasped as if chooking on a pretzel.

    Then he looked up and asked, “How many soldiers is a brazillion?”

  • Only three more years….unless we can somehow regain control of the Senate in ’06. And then impeach him.

    Oh please, oh please, oh please……

  • Curmudgeon–

    If I were a dem in a position of power my private “to do” list would be exactly that: 1) regain Senate in 2006, 2) impeach Bush.

    If only the Dems thought this way, made ambitious plans based on achieving goals such as this…if only this were Dean’s private “to do” list.

    However, considering that they only seem to reach as far as they think they can get instead of reaching as far as they’d like to go the odds seems pretty slim.

  • So true, Zoe. I guess we have to go to battle with the minority party we have, rather than the minority party we’d like. But it’s a start, at least. 🙂

  • I wish we’d act like a minority party. We did last week, under Reid, but that’s about it. We’re so afraid of being called obstructionists. What the hell else can you do when the f-ing bastard own everything. Obstruct, you damned wimps!

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