Bush is at this year’s complete-waste-of-time-o-rama, the G8 summit, where he ended a meeting with a funny quip that might someday find its way onto the Times’ crossword puzzle:

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.

Mr Bush, whose second and final term as President ends at the end of the year, then left the meeting at the Windsor Hotel in Hokkaido where the leaders of the world’s richest nations had been discussing new targets to cut carbon emissions.

Man, that’s funny. Climate change aside, pollution is something that intelligent people agree is negative. Why is the President behaving like an attention-starved eight year-old at a summit of the eight richest countries?

Not satisfied with just uttering Pythonesque absurdities, Bush also decided that it would be a swell idea to insult Italy and its Prime Minister:

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”.

Luckily, our long national nightmare comes to an end - regardless of the outcome of this year’s Presidential election - on January 20, 2009. Only 193 days to go!

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