Go Ahead: Misunderestimate Him - You’d Be Right
So I’m watching a White House press conference on CNN in which President Bush plans to announce his veto of the recent bill passed by Congress to fund stem cell research.
He outlines his moral and ethical reasons for his veto and then presents a victim of spina bifida who had her damaged bladder replaced by one grown from adult stem cells in the lab. (I have not independently verified this with my sources.)
Moments later, he refers to her condition (which he had to have been briefed on) as - and I kid you not - spina biffid-eye-da. Spina bifidida.
Why don’t his handlers drill him?
A few weeks ago when he was in Russia, he referred to a conversation he’d had with Putin and quoted himself: “Vladimir - I call him Vladimir…” which name he pronounced to rhyme approximately with polymer, as opposed to the more proper Anglophone pronunciation which should rhyme approximately with polymeer.
Can’t wait for tonight’s ‘Daily Show.’