A new word has been added to American English since George Walker Bush took to the national political stage - it's the Bushism. Unlike Reaganism, that referred to a political ideology, the Bushism's all about the mangled utterings of the 43rd President of the United States. At the recent annual Radio and Television Correspondents' dinner Mr Bush said he was kind of proud that his words were already in book form. I've expanded the definition of words themselves, using Balkanise when I meant polarise, Grecians when I meant Greeks, inebriating when I meant exhilarating. And instead of barriers and tariffs, I said tarriers and barrifs.
Life goes on.
My wife and my daughters still love me. Standing before those who've enjoyed reporting on the President's nonsensical utterings Mr Bush made a funny defence of his Bushisms. I actually said this in New Hampshire - 'I appreciate preservation, it's what you do when you run for President, you gotta preserve'. Ahh, I don't have the slightest idea what I was saying. Even Mr Bush's harshest critics give the President credit for the ability to laugh at himself.