A commentator on this morning's news mentioned that a couple of times Bush has been caught by a live mike making outrageous statements, but his language was "so colorful" that it couldn't be aired on the media. This, along with the fact that the reporters who got him on tape, or their editors, were too damned wimpy (or right wing) to do anything with them. The commentator didn't elaborated on what he meant by "so colorful," but it doesn't take much imagination to figure that it involved the use of the "seven forbidden words" or something close. This by a sitting President could possibly raise the eyebrows of just about everybody and maybe cause some members of one of his main voting blocks, the religious right, to subject good old straight-and-narrow, family-values Georgie-Boy to an "agonizing reappraisal."

Of course, "Give 'em Hell" Harry Truman did it all the time, but he wasn't trying to be a goody-two-shoes for anybody. What you saw is what you got. You always knew exactly what he was thinking, expletives and all. I liked ol' Harry.

Don Firth