Friday, August 05, 2005


Ipsos Factos

According to a poll conducted by the international firm Ipsos and reported by CNN, Bush's polling numbers on the Iraq fiasco have hit an all-time low, and Republicans are getting worried about the 2006 election.

William Anderson, a retired Republican from Fort Worth, Texas, said Bush "has the right intentions, but he's going about them the wrong way."

You could change the two adjectives "right" and "wrong" to produce three more permutations of that statement -- in the same way that publishers could develop sequels to the best-selling books "Smart Women, Foolish Choices" and "When Bad Things Happen to Good People" by shuffling the adjectives..

Seeing the photo that accompanied CNN's article, with a truculent Bush jutting his jaw in an apparent bad impersonation of Mussolini, made me think the publishers should work on some additional wording changes to come up with more relevant sequels:

"Dumb Presidents, Foolish Choices"

"When Bad Things Happen to Self-Righteous People"


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