I'm pretty sure Prime Minister Blair knows who Dubya is, so is it really necessary to wear a name tag that says "George W. Bush, President"?

Maybe it's an adolescent thing, like a 6-year old kid who gets his first make-believe army uniform with his name printed on it.

Or maybe since he wasn't really elected, he thinks the name tag will make it official that he is really the president?

I'm not suprised that Dubya is this dumb, but you'd think his staff would know better than to let him walk around looking like an imbecile.

-- (the official @ president-reject. nametag), February 24, 2001

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What a friggin' geek. You have to wonder if he's wearing cowboy boots with that.

-- KoFE (your@town.USA), February 24, 2001.

Actually, I’m wondering if you two morons are allowed to go outside without supervision. GWB is doing just fine, thank you very much, and you two numbnuts should be proud that we now have some quality leadership after the last 8 years. That is assuming that you HAVE any pride.

-- Barry (bchbear863@cs.com), February 24, 2001.

Barry, when are you going to post something about "niggers" again? It's been at least a couple months.

-- Jesus (martinez@mexico.gov), February 24, 2001.

That man IS our President. The other is too.

I am so glad I figured it all out. (slaps forehead)

-- sumer (shh@aol.con), February 24, 2001.

I think that name tag is for Dumbya's benefit, not everyone else. When he has those mental lapses at press conferences and forgets who he is, he can simply glance down and think... "Oh yeah, I'm duh president!"

-- Dumbya (not the sharpest @ crayon. in the box), February 24, 2001.

"Howdy y'all, I'm Dubya. As ya can see by my name tag, I'm duh prezuhdunce... (glances as name tag) uh, duh prez-i-dent, of the United States that is! Do ya like my bomber jacket? I'm wearin it in honor of you an me decidin ta bomb Iraq duh udder day... that was really cool!"

-- (Dubya @ the. manchild), February 24, 2001.

Blair thinking to himself... "Jesus H. Christ, it's even worse than I thought. This wanker is about 3 tacos short of a combination plate."

-- (presidunce @ of. the united states), February 24, 2001.

Yep, would have been even better to have an even bigger idiot, like Gore, who flunked out of his Master's program, and did not have the brains to know when to concede and not to concede.

-- the alternative moron (moreinterpretation@ugly.com), February 26, 2001.

Well at least he knows about the uniform and 35-10. Before good 'ol Clinton "reviewed" the troops he needed a lesson on the proper form of a salute.

-- Maria (anon@ymous.com), February 26, 2001.

http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010224/pl/bush_grammar_dc_1.html

Saturday February 24 4:12 PM ET White House Aide Defends Bush Over Grammar

By Patricia Wilson

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A senior White House aide sprang to the defense of President George W. Bush (news - web sites)'s grammar on Saturday, accusing the media of being ``hyper-critical'' in parsing and picking apart his words.

Bush's occasional creative use of the English language was well documented during the election campaign and his move to the White House has intensified the scrutiny, leading to some widely publicized syntactical slips this week.

``They (Americans) don't care what you think about his grammar, they care about what he's going to do that affects their lives,'' Mary Matalin, counselor to Vice President Dick Cheney (news - web sites) and assistant to Bush, said in a CNN television interview.

After watching videotaped excerpts from Bush's Thursday news conference, his first formal White House session with the media since taking office on Jan. 20, Matalin bristled at an interviewer's suggestion that the public might expect more from their president than ``a third-grade grammatical error.''

Discussing the invitation he and first lady Laura Bush extended to British Prime Minister Tony Blair (news - web sites) and his wife, Bush told reporters: ``Laura and I are looking forward to having a private dinner with he and Mrs. Blair Friday night.''

Earlier, Bush seemed unable to choose between singular and plural as a different set of pesky pronouns tripped him up.

Asked what advice he would give politically active members of his family, Bush replied: ``My guidance to them is, behave yourself. And they will.''

``Hyper-Critical'' Media

``Hyper-critical doesn't begin to describe the (media) ... to parse it and pick it apart in the way that it has is discordant with the American people,'' Matalin said on the program ``Evans, Novak, Hunt & Shields.''

Coming just a month into Bush's presidency, the news conference was ``designed to show and telegraph we'll be giving many,'' Matalin said, enabling Americans to ``understand what it is we're doing, not so the grammarians in the press can have a field day.''

When the ridicule that former Vice President Dan Quayle (news - web sites) endured for famously putting an ``e'' on the end of ``potato'' was raised, Matalin cut in with: ``Are we going to talk about the president's budget and tax relief?''

Although an official White House transcript of the 30-minute question- and-answer session rendered almost every word verbatim, it did not contain Bush's inadvertent reference to cocoa -- instead of coca -- production in Colombia, a slip that gave rise to a host of jokes.

``I think the media handled it with good humor,'' White House spokesman Ari Fleischer quipped to reporters. His pun was too subtle for most. Good Humor is the name of a popular chocolate ice cream bar.

The media's ``Bushism'' watch went on high alert earlier this week when the president delivered the line, ``You teach a child to read and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test'' at an education event in Townsend, Tennessee.

The slip was reproduced in newspapers and magazines around the country. NBC's late-night television host Jay Leno (news - Y! TV Coverage) awarded it ''The George W. Bush Quote of the Day.''

-- (oops@he.did it again), February 26, 2001.