in which the President does not say things like:
Let us stop drinking from the enchanted waters of Lethe, which strike with amnesia those who want to quench their thirst, and let us dare to taste those ‘fresh waters that run from the Lake of Memory’ — as the words say on the golden bars of the disciples of Orpheus, that bard of metamorphosis and of ascending reincarnation.
(The Telegraph (U.K.), quoting the new French Prime Minister, Dominique de Villepin; thanks to Best of the Web for the pointer.)
In fact, maybe that should be our reaction any time President Bush is mocked for misspeaking: “Hey, at least it’s not ‘Let us stop drinking from the enchanted waters of Lethe . . . .'”
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