When he's da big
man of APEC and happily shaking hands with the likes of great men such as Bush, Hu and Putin?How surprising...
OK, not that Rudd's doing much better, esp sucking up with his prowess at Mandarin. But at least he's telling Bush the what for...
UPDATE: Bush is up to his usual gaffes.
Er, Mr President, this isn't OPEC, we're not a member of OPEC; ah, Austria has no troops in Iraq, Howard was actually visiting the Aus'tra'lian troops there; no, you'll fall down a hole if you walk off the stage that way, come here, there's a good boy, take my hand...
See, told you Howard keeps him around just to make him look good ("My fellow Australians, obviously I'm not the old and doddery one... How spritely and quick-witted do I look now!").
