My guess is President Bush is quite a bit brighter than you.

Jarg

Saw this on MSNBC.com today:

"The one and only time I interviewed Mr. Bush, when he was running in 2000, he
called me by the wrong name several times, which was no big deal, and I
didn’t correct him. But after this went on for a while, his adviser Karen
Hughes, who was sitting in on the interview, finally said: “Governor, her
name’s not Alison, it’s Melinda.”

“I think I know what her name is; we just had lunch last week,” Bush
responded. “Your name IS still Melinda, isn’t it?”

“Yes.”

“You haven’t changed it since last week?”

“No.”

“OK, then. Glad we got that cleared up.”

Hughes persisted, though. “Governor, you were calling her Alison.”

“I wasn’t calling HER Alison,” he said, with apparent conviction. “I
was calling YOU Alison.”

At the time, I thought this was very funny. But now I’m not so sure. I keep
wondering what has become of the “humble” foreign policy Bush talked about
during the 2000 campaign. Yes, 9/11 has changed our president’s view of the
world and given him a new sense of mission—of “crusade” as he once said.
Yet it has not altered just-war theory or the rule of law—-which in the
absence of personal humility, or any doubts about right action, seem
particularly useful guideposts."