Kerry's Botched Joke

I'm actually quite surprised that the Republicans went crazy with this one considering that they've had six years experience with someone that routinely mangles sentences.

• ...fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again.
• Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?
• We ought to make the pie higher.
• I will have a foreign-handed foreign policy.
• Families is where our nation finds hope, where wings take dream.
• If I'm the president, we're going to have emergency-room care, we're going to have gag orders.

I'm sure you all recognize the speaker of these quotations. Unless President Bush intends to leviate fruit-filled pastries, I believe there's a precedent for allowing a little leeway with foot-in-mouth disease when non-comedians try too hard to deliver a punchline.