International Embarrassment

I have been avoiding piling on Bush for the fiasco that was his performance at the G-8 summit. Partly because I didn’t want to say “I told you so” and partly because everyone has talked about his boorish behavior already. I am not going to add anything funnier or more on point than Jon Stewart.

Then I saw Larry Sabato’s comments regarding the situation on MSNBC:

“If they’re not doing something that’s embarrassing, they have nothing to worry about,” he says. “A president ought to know enough not use an expletive in a fairly open meeting, and almost any male alive today knows that you don’t offer uninvited massages to any female, much less the chancellor of Germany.”

That pretty much sums it up. A President ought to know that cursing, talking with one’s mouth full of buttered roll, and groping other world leaders is not model behavior. Add that to the long list of things of which GWB is ignorant.

PS – if you have not seen the video of the back rub in question, the MSNBC link has it.