A Rare Insight at the NATO Summit

In another embarrassing Gaff for the US President, he has once again left his mic on while having a private discussion. This time with Australian PM Julia Gillard while at the NATO summit in Chicago. A transcript has been preserved and you can read it below:

Julia: So, how has your week been?

Obama: Well it’s been a disaster. My speech writers messed up and I said I had two sons instead of two daughters, any fool should have picked that up before it made it to the tele-prompter. Oh and there also seems to be some kind of thing going on in Europe...

Julia: I know what you mean. One of my Ministers was on twitter and he said that Spain and Greece were in the Southern Hemisphere..

Obama: Aren't they?

Julia: No, no, you must be thinking of somewhere else.

Obama: ...........anyway speaking of somewhere else, the Middle East is giving me a massive headache at the moment....

Julia: Iraq? Iran? Afghanistan?

Obama: No, not that Middle East, I'm talking about one of the flower beds at the white house. Michelle wants to plant it over with white roses and it will look as hideous as my poll figures when it's done.

Obama: Speaking of the polls, how are things at your end Juls?

Julia: Well to be frank, it’s been terrible, but there are some green shoots of hope...

Obama: Please don’t mention green shoots, I had a bad experience. Anyway what was the good news?

Julia: Well we are at 30% in the polls.

Obama: That’s the disapproval rating, right?

Julia: No, primary vote.

Obama:....................................... and the bad news?

Julia: Where do I start. Well my Foreign Minister is campaigning to legalize drugs, my Trade Minister spends all his time on twitter abusing people, my Treasurer keeps stalking through the corridors diving at anything shiny and then there’s Craig Thompson…

Obama: Who’s he?

Julia: Well you know Bill Clinton? Well think of him but with less charisma. 

Obama: Oh dear, and what did he do?

Julia: Well it seems he may have misappropriated about $500 000 of union money on travel expenses, prostitutes and campaign funding.

Obama: $500 000 you say, and I suppose everyone is up in arms about the whole thing?

Julia: Yes it's pretty serious. I could lose the leadership over it.

Obama: That is quite serious...... I was just wondering.... how will they react when they find out that you just pledged $300 million to the Afghan Government.

Julia: Oh, I wouldn’t worry about them finding out. It will probably only be published in the Murdoch press......

Obama: Murdoch... now who is he again?

Julia: You must have heard of him. He owns Fox News.

Obama: Oh, the "hate media."

Julia: Yes, precisely. Anyway, besides that, most of them can’t read anyway.

Obama: Do you mean to tell me that most of the Australian people can't read?

Julia: Who said anything about the Australian people, I'm talking about the ALP Caucus.