Would You Hire This Man To Run Your Company -- Let Alone The Country?

[elwoodblues]

Exactly. We take an Occam's Razor approach to grammar --- the simplest solution is probably the right one.

[Gamblor]

I wonder if it was decided like that so that Bush could write a memo without looking like an "idiot"!

[elwoodblues]

I said "simplest" not "Simpleton's"!"!"

[Gamblor]

It's like t-ball with that guy, eh?

[The Armchair]

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By Dana Milbank

. . .

Earlier this month, President Bush was almost done with a speech to a group of minority journalists when he dropped a rather startling proposal.

"We actually misnamed the war on terror," he said. "It ought to be the Struggle Against Ideological Extremists Who Do Not Believe in Free Societies Who Happen to Use Terror as a Weapon to Try to Shake the Conscience of the Free World."

Or, if you prefer to abbreviate, SAIEWDNBIFSWHTUTAAWTTTSTCOTFW.


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Is Milbank an idiot? This has to be the worst lede in recent times. Bush was clearly making a joke here, albeit a not-so-funny one. (The crowd did laugh, though.) He wasn't truly suggesting we call the War such a clumsy name.

There are plenty of ways to rightfully malign Bush's speech, but this isn't one of them. Milbank's just being too cute by a half.