OH NO - AT 3:42 P.M. ET - Hat tip on this one to John Hinderaker at Power Line.  From Bloomberg:

At a news conference afterward, Obama said his debut on the international stage had convinced him that “political interaction in Europe is not that different from the United States Senate,” where he served before entering the White House.

“There’s a lot of -- I don’t know what the term is in Austrian -- wheeling and dealing, and people are pursuing their interests, and everybody has their own particular issues and their own particular politics,” he said in response to an Austrian reporter’s question.

COMMENT:  Will someone inform our worldly, cultured, smarter-than-anyone president that there's no language called Austrian.  Austrians speak German, and that included native son Adolf Hitler, of recent fame.  Let's introduce the president to Austrian stuff.  Maybe he can see "The Sound of Music" or something.

Can you imagine the reaction if Bush had said that?

April 6, 2009