The honour of the last question ever to be asked at a Bush Administration press briefing goes to Georgia —
Q … And also, in the conversation that you had I think with Mr. [Mike] McCurry that you referred to, you made an offer to the Georgian President to be a guest at the President’s institute, and some people in Georgia took this as an opening for him to leave his current position. Was that meant?
MS. PERINO (press secretary): No, no, no, no, no. (Laughter.) I was asked a question about the President’s plans for his freedom institute, and one of the examples he has used is that leaders like Mikheil Saakashvili would be somebody who would maybe come and provide a lecture to the students at Southern Methodist University at some point. But it certainly wasn’t an invitation to leave the country or his leadership position.
And what’s the interpretation of this statement?
I’m too drunk to contemplate this by myself 🙂
The interpretation is that nobody now respects Saakashvili who has a tendency to do stupid bipolar “stunts” like attacking sleeping civilians in South Ossetia or trying to eat his own necktie.
Everyone is hoping that he will resign as President of Georgia. What better place for him than Texas.