Associated Press and Reuters photos
No exit strategy (what a shock!): "President" Bush represented the United States of America abroad so fucking well yet again when he tried to escape from a press conference in Beijing today but found the door locked. Reports Reuters:
Irked by a reporter who told him he seemed to be "off [his] game" at a Beijing public appearance, President George W. Bush sought to make a hasty exit from a news conference but was thwarted by locked doors.
At the end of a day of meetings with Chinese President Hu Jintao and other Chinese officials, Bush held a session with a small group of U.S. reporters and spoke at length about issues like religious freedom, Iraq and the Chinese currency.
The final reporter he called on critiqued Bush's performance earlier in the day when he stood next to Hu in the Great Hall of the People on Tiananmen Square to deliver a statement.
"Respectfully, sir -- you know we're always respectful -- in your statement this morning with President Hu, you seemed a little off your game, you seemed to hurry through your statement. There was a lack of enthusiasm. Was something bothering you?" he asked.
"Have you ever heard of jet lag?" Bush responded. "Well, good. That answers your question."
The president then recited a list of things of that he viewed as positive developments from his Beijing meetings, including cooperation on North Korean nuclear disarmament and the ability to have "frank discussions" with his Chinese counterpart.
When the reporter asked for "a very quick follow-up," Bush cut him off by thanking the press corps and telling the reporter "No, you may not," as he strode toward a set of double doors leading out of the room.
The only problem was that they were locked.
"I was trying to escape. Obviously, it didn't work," Bush quipped, facing reporters again until an aide rescued him by pointing to him toward the correct door.
Bush wasn't "off [his] game" -- he's a blooming fucking idiot who never was on his game, a complete and total moron who, after five years of coaching from his puppeteers, still isn't anywhere near being presidential.
Bush's delusions of grandeur -- he thinks he's emperor, not "president" -- are obvious in the way he talks contemptuously to reporters: "Have you ever heard of jet lag? Well, good. That answers your question." That's how a dictator, not a U.S. president, talks.
And I love how the leader of the tough-talking, bellicose party that claims that we won't "cut and run" from Iraq is such a fucking coward that he will cut and run from a press conference.
We're far beyond the point where it's obvious that Emperor Bush has no clothes.
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