6.06.2003

I wanna be a cowboy, baby!

When the headline in the top Israeli news outlet contains the phrase "ride herd", you know that Bush is having an impact on the Middle East.

Ha'aretz reports that Bush is gonna keep the cattle moving, and quotes him drinking something out of an opaque Diet Coke can, saying "Thurs coyot's in them hills, an' me an' mah posse's gonna bust 'em up. Evuh since Wild Bin Layden cum through this valley things ain't bin the same, an' Ah'll be durned if Ah don't put a silvuh bullet between his aahs. Ah'm the shurrif now in these pahts, an' y'all bettuh shape up, ya stinkin' jooz an' ay-rabs messin' with mah oil. Gitcherown!"

OK, not quite, but it does say 'Waving his arms, the president earlier told reporters his aim was to keep the process moving, like a cowboy on horseback herding cattle. "I used the expression 'ride herd.' I don't know if anybody understood it in the meeting today,"'