Donuel,
Did you catch GWB's pronouncement on Oct 2, 01 that "This Thursday, ticket counters and airlines will fly out of Ronald Reagan airport"?

Ozzie, lighten up. People joked about the Reverend Spooner's verbal juxtapositions and books have been written about Yogi Berra-isms. Regardless of whether you like his politics or not, Bush invites teasing and comic skits when he continually butchers the langugage. As Donuel said, "I get a kick out of Bush speak."

I would not have minded Al Gore's being kidded about "inventing the internet,"--if the media had not contributed so widely to the public belief that he actually claimed that.
Gore did tend to exaggerate or mis-speak (like when he referred to "President James Knox," presumably meaning President Jamds Knox Polk). But Gore's opponents unfairly charged him with habitually lying (e.g., the internet-invention charge) or being ignorant (e.g., when Michael Medved made fun of him for the "President Knox" quote without acknowledging that there was a president named James Knox Polk. Big difference between twisting the name of an actual president and fabricating a presidential identity!)

If people insinuate that Bush is stupid because he mangles the language, they are drawing an unfair inference. But please let us get our laughs from his linguistic 'fox paws' (to use a redneck term). Gore--to his political disadvantage, I fear--chose to laugh with the jokes about the internet rather than defend himself against the charge. Bush seems to be able to laugh with us at his verbal slips, and that's good.

FWIW, I have noticed a lot of people -- callers to talk shows, news anchors, and other public personalities making linguistic goofs recently. I am tempted to start a thread to share those, just for laughs. Many of them are as funny as the funniest mondegreens. Here is just one that I heard recently:
I can't recall the context, but a woman called in to a talk show to say "I'd like to offer my Kujos" to somebody for their accomplishments.
I don't want to post them here, because they'll get lost, but I have started collecting them, and not just from GWB. I think it's a hypodermic ...er, I mean epidemic.
Genie