St. Petersburg and Beijing: Just a stone's throw away from one another
I think what scares me most about our Commander-in-Chief is not that he made fun of a blind man on national TV, or that he waved at Stevie Wonder, or that he thinks that the US and Japan have been allies for a century and a half, or... well, actually, I could go on and on. It's not as if there's a dearth of material. In fact, if you Google "stupid Bush," you'll come up with over 36 million hits. That has to tell you something. But I digress. Perhaps I should have started by saying that what scares me the most today is that Bush seems to think that St. Petersburg and Beijing are in the same "neighborhood." If you haven't already heard, Bush made some... interesting comments at the G-8 summit when he thought he was off-mike. Speaking to Chinese President Hu Jintao, he remarked: "This is your neighborhood, doesn't take you long to get home." When corrected, he said, "You, eight hours? Me too. Russia's a big country and you're a big country."
While I would have hoped that he would have known that Russia and China are both big countries before taking office, I guess I should take comfort in the fact that he knows now.
If you haven't read the transcript of Bush's comments, I highly recommend it.