Matt Franklin’s intriguing weekend piece on a phone call between the Prime Minister and President Bush on 10 October raises plenty of questions.
The piece contains a detailed discussion of what the men talked about, including a damning revelation that Bush didn’t know what the G20 was. According to the account, only one other person, a Rudd adviser, was in the room, taking notes. Franklin made a point of noting that Rudd, appropriately, did not provide any comment for the article. Someone who was there did, however, and in quite some depth. Given the article highlights Rudd’s skill in convincing Bush to hold a G20 rather than a G8 summit, you’d have to assume the Prime Minister’s office had a hand in it somewhere. But the idea of Rudd singlehandedly convincing the dullard Bush as to the worth of including major developing countries – and Australia – in the summit on the financial crisis doesn’t quite stack up. The importance of involving the likes of China in the summit had already occurred to plenty of others. The Wall Street Journal was discussing the need to include G20 leaders in the summit – and the possibility that Bush might opt for the G20 – the very next day. Surely inconceivable that even Bush would seriously ask another leader "what’s the G20?" Where there's smoke there's fire. Its inconceivable that Bush is incapable of having asked such a stupid question. After all conservatism is the politcs of the intellectually handicapped and Bush has a track record of the most abysmal gaffs. Its difficult to know who is more stupid and incompetent, Bush or Palin? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
