Bush's Joke of the Day

From Salon's War Room

This is, we kid you not, a bit of the banter that preceded the very first audience question after President Bush finished his speech at a townhall in Cleveland on Tuesday, according to CQ Transcripts Wire:

BUSH: Main guy, first question, sure. OK.

QUESTION: Well, this may seem like it was rigged, Mr. President...

BUSH: OK. There have been a few rigged questions in my day.

(LAUGHTER)

I'm not telling you which way they were rigged, though.

(LAUGHTER)

I guess it's all a big joke to him. I can understand life seeming surreal to "president" Bush, especially these days, but how can it be so funny to him. And that comedy routine was after Bush wowed the Cleveland audience with his "new Iraq rhetoric" roll out: al Qaeda's coming and the oceans can't protect us (my bold):
 

...a visibly animated Bush transitioned into his discussion of Iraq by launching into a familiar theme: 9/11.

"I never wanted to be a war president," he said. "Now that I am one, I'm going to do the best I can to protect America. My mind changed on September the 11th, 2001. It changed because I realized the biggest responsibility government has is to protect the American people from further attack and that we must confront dangers before they come to hurt us again. "That's one of the really valuable lessons of September the 11th, is to recognize that oceans can't protect us from an enemy that is ideologically driven and who will use murder as a tool to achieve their political objectives."

And after a bit, he rolls into his joke. Heh Heh. It was striking today, Bush's ability to ram once again through his standard "story" and then banter is more obscene and perverted with time. Today, it made my skin crawl.