Japan's finance minister at G7 meeting

[Lunar]

Video: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/02/16/soichi-nakagawa-drunk-vid_n_167276.html

Nakagawa - who is known to enjoy a drink - denied he was drunk when he addressed the Japanese press on Saturday. He instead blamed his bumbling and at times incomprehensible performance on an overdose of cold medicine.

Despite his denials, those who have seen footage of the press conference, repeated all day on Japanese TV, agree he had the glassy eyes and sweaty complexion of a man who had enjoyed a few glasses of Chianti too many courtesy of his Italian hosts.

"It is true that I didn't conduct myself properly, and I feel I must set the record straight," the 55-year-old Nakagawa told reporters in Tokyo.

[Verily]

He did finally resign, after two days of furious denials by the Japanese government. Highly amusing.

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If Jim Flaherty were drunk at the G7 Meeting, Stephen Harper and John Baird will be out in force somehow reminding us that the Liberals had cocktail parties 10 years ago and therefore it is appropriate for Flaherty to be drunk in front of journalists.

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Well, Japan is in a depression, so it can't be that fun being a finance minister.

Of course if this was say, Winston Churchill, this would be a non-event.

[Lunar]

I mean, you can't blame him.  I'd have chugged at least fifty times that much hard alcohol if I was the finance minister of Japan