The American leader, who has been condemned throughout his presidency for failing to tackle climate change, ended a private meeting with the words: "Goodbye from the world's biggest polluter."

He then punched the air while grinning widely, as the rest of those present including Gordon Brown and Nicolas Sarkozy looked on in shock.
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Mr Bush also faced criticism at the summit after Silvio Berlusconi, the Italian Prime Minister, was described in the White House press pack given to journalists as one of the "most controversial leaders in the history of a country known for government corruption and vice".

The White House apologised for what it called "sloppy work" and said an official had simply lifted the characterisation from the internet without reading it.

This is a sign from my trip to Yosemite a few months back. Click for larger.

George W. Bush is famous for his attachment to a painting which he acquired after becoming a “born again Christian.” It’s by W.H.D. Koerner and is entitled “A Charge to Keep.” Bush was so taken by it, that he took the painting’s name for his own official autobiography.
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So in Bush’s view (or perhaps I should say, faith) the key figure, with whom he personally identifies, is a missionary spreading the word of the Methodist Christianity in the American West in the late nineteenth century.
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Only that is not the title, message, or meaning of the painting. The artist, W.H.D. Koerner, executed it to illustrate a Western short story entitled “The Slipper Tongue,” published in The Saturday Evening Post in 1916. The story is about a smooth-talking horse thief who is caught, and then escapes a lynch mob in the Sand Hills of Nebraska. The illustration depicts the thief fleeing his captors. In the magazine, the illustration bears the caption: “Had His Start Been Fifteen Minutes Longer He Would Not Have Been Caught.”

The law professor blog Sentencing Law and Policy has been a great source of links to newspaper articles and law geek columns regarding the Libby commutation.

To me, the whole ordeal is just another entry in Bush's growing history of unjustifiable acts, but it's interesting to see the legal communitiy, with many staunch Republicans among them, collectively going WTF? over this latest move by The Decider. Prosecutors, judges, and other law experts mostly seem astounded by the commutation, while defense attorneys are giddy over the opportunity to cite President Bush himself—who, BTW, had 57 executions under his belt as governor of Texas—when asking for leniency at sentencing hearings. Bush has opened a huge can of legal worms, and there seem to be plenty of hungry lawyers ready to fish for new legal precedent and exploits.