Bush Vows to Reach out across Aisle...and Slap Ted Kennedy

In his acceptance speech on Wednesday, President George W. Bush vowed to "reach out across the aisle to Democrats" in a spirit of reconciliation after the bitterly-contested campaign for the White House.

However, most members of the audience, and almost all who viewed the speech on television, were unable to catch what Bush muttered under his breath right after he uttered the word 'Democrats' in the line quoted above. In point of fact, if one listens closely one can hear Bush promising to "reach out across the aisle to Democrats (and to slap Ted Kennedy right in his lobster-hole for being a low-down dirty liberal, and a Yankee to boot)". This is in keeping with George W. Bush's curious custom of occasionally inserting meaning-twisting lines into key passages of important public announcements. For example, at his inauguration speech in January of 2001, Bush, in actuality, agreed to "preserve, protect, and defend the constitution of the United States (of Argentina, Bolivia, and Lesotho)."