Comments | ontd_political: Never be sick on the Japanese Prime Minister and nine other diplomatic gaffes...

atomic_joe2 in ontd_political

Never be sick on the Japanese Prime Minister and nine other diplomatic gaffes...

Jul 27, 2012 10:53

From dodgy anthems to queasy presidents, we take a look at 10 of the most memorable diplomatic gaffes ( Read more... )

george (h.)w. bush / bush family, diplomacy, gordon brown, former presidents, barack obama, dick cheney, gaffes

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bnmc2005 July 27 2012, 15:16:35 UTC

I was really expecting to see Bush Jr on this list about five times. Or his whole time in office considered one big gaffe?

bmh4d0k3n July 27 2012, 16:00:39 UTC

Why don't I just post this image here?

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13chapters July 27 2012, 16:57:46 UTC

Or his whole time in office considered one big gaffe?

Probably. Cause honestly the time he tried to give Angela Merkel a backrub was way more embarrassing than Michelle Obama being slightly overfamiliar with the queen.

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aella_irene July 27 2012, 17:04:38 UTC

That one was not actually Bush's fault. One doesn't intentionally vomit...

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cinnamontoast July 28 2012, 01:46:26 UTC

I was in my twenties and I was pretty damn scared too. People laugh about it now, but then it was anything but funny.

pleasure_past July 28 2012, 02:08:04 UTC

Okay, why is Sarkozy not on this list even once? Prince Harry deserves to be on here a bit more than some of the people actually on here do, too. :P

interstellar July 28 2012, 02:20:38 UTC

The Hillary one takes the cake for me, though it's more her staff's fault. Most of these were spontaneous accidents, but that's... how do you even manage a screw-up like that?

pleasure_past July 28 2012, 04:48:36 UTC

Seriously! Like, professional Russian translators are just ~so hard~ to find? Lol.