Poor George

A night before the Olympic games officially opened, the new American embassy officially opened, with our fearless leader George doing the honors. A friend of mine has a student who attended this ceremony. From an embassy family, he is in high school and, because of a mild form of autism, his social awareness is different than most.

As luck would have it, he was standing near the door when George entered the room. The president spotted this guy, who was dressed in a boy scout uniform, and cheerfully said, “Ah, we have a boy scout here.”

“Yes, I am. Were you in the boy scouts?”

“I was, but I stayed for just a year.”

“Just one year? Mr. President, you should be ashamed of yourself!”

At this point, George moved on, glad-handing with the more polite, if less spunkier, adults in the room.

[Nighttime shot of the new American embassy]

If you didn’t see his interview with Bob Costas, here is a person clearly beleaguered, ready to be out of office. He’s also fielding these questions about China, and pretends to be authoritative, but is as clueless about the China situation as most people (including me).