Hu Jintao gets ‘Groundhog Day’ treatment from Bush

President Bush must have thought he was meeting Vladimir Putin again for the first time, and not Chinese President Hu Jintao, judging by these fawning comments:

“I enjoy the man,” Bush said in an interview with the Post and other Asian press at the White House before his trip to the Beijing Olympics next week.

“I find him to be a straightforward guy. I’m very comfortable in his presence, and we will talk about the kind of issues we always talk about.”

Did you look into his eyes and see that you could trust him?