Tuesday, June 10, 2008

International affairs

George Bush, in 2000, running for his first term, was asked the name of the leader of Pakistan. He didn't know.
McCain, in an effort to out-Bush Bush, manages to know neither the Prime Minister of Russia nor the President of Germany. He referred to Vladimir Putin as "the President of Germany". Now admittedly, not many people outside of Germany know who the President is (after all, the real power is in the Prime Minister's office). But it is pretty bad to get both the country and the office wrong!

Yours, unable to name either the President of Burundi, or the Prime Minister of Azerbaijan (but then, I'm not running for President of anything),
N.

1 comment:

awareness said...

Gee, wouldn't surprise me if they couldn't name the PM of Canada.