Our President: Incompetent at home, an embarassment abroad:

According to the New York Times:

Mr. Bush is clearly a very tired man. His staff says so. He admitted to jet lag at a news conference at Élysée Palace on Sunday, just after asking to be reminded of the elements of a multipart question he had been asked moments before. "That's what happens when you are over 55," he said to his host, Jacques Chirac, who is pushing 70 and arched his eyebrows at the explanation.

Maybe you should have thought about that before you ran for President. Maybe being able to stay u8p past 9:30 is a requirement for the job. And maybe you shouldn't be an asshole:

(From the same Times article) A lesson for correspondents covering Mr. Bush: When abroad, stick to English in the president's presence.

Offenders might otherwise find themselves in the situation David Gregory, an NBC News White House correspondent, who appeared to raise Mr. Bush's ire Sunday afternoon at Élysée Palace when he asked a rather in-your-face question to a tired president, then broke into French to seek Mr. Chirac's opinion.

"I wonder why it is you think there are such strong sentiments in Europe against you and against this administration?" Mr. Gregory asked Mr. Bush in English, "Why, particularly, there's a view that you and your administration are trying to impose America's will on the rest of the world, particularly when it comes to the Middle East and where the war on terrorism goes next?" Turning to Mr. Chirac, Mr. Gregory broke into French and asked him to comment on the same question.

Perhaps Mr. Bush thought the French question was directed at him, or perhaps he thought Mr. Gregory was showing off. Whatever the case, Mr. Bush, his voice dripping with sarcasm, said "Very good, the guy memorizes four words, and he plays like he's intercontinental." (Mr. Gregory offered to go on in French, but that only made things worse.)

"I'm impressed ? que bueno," said Mr. Bush, using the Spanish phrase for "how wonderful." He added: "Now I'm literate in two languages."

Mr. Gregory seemed a bit abashed, but others noted that, during the trip, Russian, German and French reporters posed questions to Mr. Bush in English, and in their native tongue to other leaders.

C'est la vie.