風邪で一日会社を休んでどうにかこうにか出勤した今朝、同僚から言われたことは．．．



「風邪．．．良くなった？」



ではなく、



「ヘイ、Ｍａｓａ、日本の財務大臣、ありゃ間違いなく飲みすぎで酔ってたんだよ。」



でした。



．．．



「It’s so embarrassing, man!」



ウォールストリートジャーナルにも写真入で解説記事が出たようですし。



おとといから、ＣＢＳ、ＣＮＮなどのメジャーネットワークでは、必ずこの話題になっていますし。



それも、クリントンさんと麻生さんの会談の模様を解説した後に、必ずこの話題になります。セット販売．．．。



中川さん、辞任されたそうですが、辞任の理由が情けなさ過ぎると思わないですかね？ものごと、あまりにも簡単に考えすぎてません？



イギリスのブラウンさんの辛口ジョークが出てました。お楽しみください。



以下グーグルニュースからの記事です。



British PM says no time for drinking at G20 summit

6 hours ago

LONDON (AFP) — British Prime Minister Gordon Brown joked that there would be no time at the upcoming G20 summit in London for activities which apparently precipitated the Japanese finance minister’s resignation.

Brown smiled when a Japanese journalist asked his view of the “miserable behaviour” of Shoichi Nakagawa, who resigned after appearing to be drunk at a meeting of finance chiefs from the Group of Seven leading economies in Rome.

“I’m looking forward to meeting the Japanese prime minister and whoever is the finance minister when it comes to the G20 meeting,” said Brown, who will host the summit of advanced and developing nations in London on April 2.

But he underlined at his monthly press conference: “We will be meeting all the time. I don’t think there will be time off for many of the events that you are talking about that happened in Rome.”

Nakagawa appeared incoherent and slurred his speech at a news conference in Rome on Saturday. He later said he had sipped some wine with lunch beforehand, but blamed jet lag and cold medicine for his drowsiness.

“This was obviously one of the more interesting finance ministers’ meetings. I certainly never experienced such publicity at a meeting when I was Chancellor of the Exchequer,” said Brown, a former finance minister.