"Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast"
-Oscar Wilde
Brilliant at Breakfast title banner "The liberal soul shall be made fat, and he that watereth, shall be watered also himself."
-- Proverbs 11:25
"...you have a choice: be a fighting liberal or sit quietly. I know what I am, what are you?" -- Steve Gilliard, 1964 - 2007

"For straight up monster-stomping goodness, nothing makes smoke shoot out my ears like Brilliant@Breakfast" -- Tata

"...the best bleacher bum since Pete Axthelm" -- Randy K.

"I came here to chew bubblegum and kick ass. And I'm all out of bubblegum." -- "Rowdy" Roddy Piper (1954-2015), They Live
Thursday, July 10, 2008

John McCain should like this, he likes to make jokes like this too
Posted by Jill | 5:51 AM
This is what happens when being a towel-snapping frat boy is regarded by the media and too many Americans as the primary qualification for the presidency:

President George Bush signed off with a defiant farewell over his refusal to accept global climate change targets at his last G8 summit.

As he prepared to fly out from Japan, he told his fellow leaders: "Goodbye from the world's biggest polluter."

President Bush made the private joke in the summit's closing session, senior sources said yesterday. His remarks were taken as a two-fingered salute from the President from Texas who is wedded to the oil industry. He had given some ground at the summit by saying he would "seriously consider" a 50 per cent cut in carbon emissions by 2050.


I'd say it was more of a one-finger salute. Sort of like this one:




(h/t)

Labels: ,

Bookmark and Share
4 Comments:
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Yup, he certainly is preznit fratboy.

Anonymous Anonymous said...
You're quoting from the Independent here. The English use two fingers what Americans express more economically with one.

Anonymous Anonymous said...
How dare he try to steal China's thunder!

Anonymous Anonymous said...
Actually, Bush got it wrong, the US is number 2-- China took that crown this year.