Dont we just love him

We just love our Presidend - dont we . He continues to make these
gaffes and on purpose to get people on our side. He is so loveable ...

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Bush shows gift of gaffe at APEC summit

Fri Sep 7, 11:03 AM ET

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Even for someone as gaffe-prone as U.S. President
George W. Bush, he was in rare form on Friday, confusing APEC with
OPEC and transforming Australian troops into Austrians.
Bush's tongue started slipping almost as soon as he started talking at
a business forum on the eve of an Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation
(APEC) summit in Sydney.
"Mr. Prime Minister, thank you for your introduction," he told Prime
Minister John Howard. "Thank you for being such a fine host for the
OPEC summit."
As the audience of several hundred people erupted in laughter, Bush
corrected himself and joked, "He invited me to the OPEC summit next
year." Australia has never been a member of the Organization of the
Petroleum Exporting Countries.
Later in his speech, Bush recounted how Howard had gone to visit
"Austrian troops" last year in Iraq. There are, in fact, no Austrian
troops there. But Australia has about 1,500 Australians military
personnel in and around the country.
Upon finishing his speech, Bush took the wrong way off-stage and,
looking slightly perplexed, had to be re-directed by Howard to a
center-stage exit.
But not before a veteran White House correspondent seized the
opportunity to ask Bush whether there had been any new message in his
speech. Apparently misunderstanding the question, he bristled and
asked, "Haven't you been listening to my past speeches?" before
turning away.
Bush is no stranger to the occasional faux pas, and often jokes about
his habit of mangling the English language.
One of his highest-profile gaffes came in May when, at a welcoming
ceremony for Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, he nearly placed her in the
18th century.
Then there was the famous incident at the G8 summit in St. Petersburg
in 2006 when Bush, unaware he was on camera, greeted British Prime
Minister Tony Blair with the words "Yo Blair."
Bush's sometimes muddled syntax and mispronunciation of words like
nuclear ("nukular") have long been fodder for late-night TV comedians.
But aides say his folksy style has helped endear him to Middle
America.