I don't know about which rumors you or nihil are talking about, but W himself made some curious statements on the subject this past summer. In case you can't recall, from Maureen Dowd, NYT, 8/22/99
By the time he got to Fairlawn, Ohio, on Friday he was still deep in Clintonspeak. "I think parents, particularly baby-boomer parents, ought to say to children, 'Do not use drugs,' " Mr. Bush said. "I think we owe the children that responsibility to share our wisdom. I worry about a society that sends a different message. One of the interesting questions facing baby boomers is, 'Have we grown up?' "
He was pressed by The Times's Adam Clymer: "And if a child asks a baby-boomer parent, 'Well, did you?' "
He replied: "I think the baby-boomer parent ought to say, 'I've learned from mistakes I may or may not have made. . . .
Uh, W seems to be generally somewhat better spoken than his father, who was widely know for fractured syntax, but in this case, you still got to scratch your head a little. Maybe he'll explain the mistakes he may or may not have made someday, probably not though.
Cheers, Dan. |
