“The President is human,” said Marlin Fitzwater, a spokesperson for the Whitehouse.
Thanks to Barbara Bush’s attentiveness and table-hopping Secret Service agents, Papa Bush recovered quickly. During a visit to Tokyo in 1992, the former US President vomited on Japan’s Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa before slumping into an comatose state. Bush couldn’t really help himself – he was ill when he was eating dinner in Japan. Let’s give this guy a break, he had a tough presidency and that probably explains why he forgot his manners and his etiquettes when visiting Japan with his wife Barbara.īut George H. Here are 10 examples of political “oops” starting in the United States. Whether caught on paper, photograph or television, political blunders are a major part of history, finding their way into the hands of the people and often devastating the careers of the politicians. Every move is closely watched, analyzed, and ultimately, judged. And, most importantly, like all games, the integrity of its players is constantly changing and so are the people that are playing the game with them. Despite its nuanced nature, politics has a strict set of rules, just like any game of chess, and can be played in as many ways as there are players – yes I mean it metaphorically. Even those who have little or no power understand that politics is not that different from board games like Monopoly or Chess. If you were to ask Miles and Harry, from the series Grass Roots, if politics was anything more than a giant board game being played in a global arena, they would probably agree with you.
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