Bushisms: The Farewell Tour - Tapa blanda

"This business about graceful exit just simply has no realism to it at all." Let the nostalgia begin: we may never see words from the White House quite like these, ever again. "I think-tide turning-see, as I remember-I was raised in the desert, but tides kind of-it's easy to see a tide turn-did I say those words?" Ah, yes. And we'll miss them when you're gone, Mr. President. Here's the last chance to collect pearls of accidental wit: "One has a stronger hand when there's more people playing your same cards." "And I suspect that what you'll see, Toby, is there will be a momentum, momentum will be gathered. Houses will begat jobs, jobs will begat houses." "We shouldn't fear a world that is more interacted." Bushisms: The Farewell Tour is readers' last chance to join the fun in this lasting testimony to the power of the mismangled English language.

Jacob Weisberg is chief political correspondent for SLATE magazine, where he writes the 'Ballot Box' column and for whom he covered the campaign while gathering Bushisms. He is currently a contributing writer for THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE, from 1989 to 1994 he was an editor at THE NEW REPUBLIC.