Off-the-cuff conversation between US President George W Bush and UK Prime Minister Tony Blair during a break at the G8 conference in Russia (BBC ), an interchange which begins with Bush’s “Yo, Blair…” and encompasses Bush’s breathtaking and incisive reference to a critical geopolitical crisis as if it were excrement. As if you needed any confirmation, it reveals an ignorant boorish redneck about as far from presidential caliber as you could imagine. I expect him to appear in public with his baseball cap backward. Pity is that that appears to be what somewhere in the vicinity of half of the American people want in the way of leadership.

Addendum: a version with video, thanks to reader alireza.