Puzzling Bushism of the Day (Slate):

“So thank you for reminding me about the importance of being a good mom and a great volunteer as well.”—St. Louis, Jan. 5, 2004

I don’t get it — what’s supposedly wrong, otherwise Bushistic, or remotely noteworthy about this? I honestly don’t understand. Is it that Bush, being a man, can’t himself be a good mom? But he’s not saying that it reminded him of the importance of his being a good mom — he’s saying that it reminded him of the importance of being a good mom, which presumably means (quite soundly, as a matter of grammar and semantics) the importance of moms being good. (Thanks to reader Gregory Taylor for the pointer.)