Frum, David Frum has an interesting little ditty on his blog about a comment Barack Obama made about the “president” of Canada. Frum points out that had a Republican made the same mistake, he would never live it down. Questions would be asked of the man’s intelligence, people would wonder if such a person should be put in charge of the US.

I wrote Frum and asked if he remembered Bush being quizzed about the names of the leaders of several countries while he was running for President. He wrote back and said that my memory was correct, it had happened in New Hampshire.

I googled it and found the article on CNN.

Bush fails reporter’s pop quiz on international leaders

Hiller asked Bush to name the leaders of Chechnya, Taiwan, India and Pakistan. Bush was only able to give a partial response to the query on the leader of Taiwan, referring to Taiwanese President Lee Teng-hui simply as “Lee.” He could not name the others.

“Can you name the general who is in charge of Pakistan?” Hiller asked, inquiring about Gen. Pervaiz Musharraf, who seized control of the country October 12.

“Wait, wait, is this 50 questions?” asked Bush.

Hiller replied: “No, it’s four questions of four leaders in four hot spots.”

Of course, these are questions regarding the names of leaders, not questions about a country’s political infrastructure. And none of these countries happen to be sitting ON OUR STINKIN’ BORDER.

Still, I highly doubt Barack will be receiving a similar “pop quiz”.