Did we really just hear that? CNN reports that the German press corps asked the Dear Leaker what the best moment of his presidency has been thus far - he said it was when he caught a seven and-a-half pound perch in his lake.
What? It wasn't when he approved the ("heh heh") Terrorist Surveillance Program™?
The worst moment? 9/11 said he ...
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I've always considered vacation to be the best part of any job, but it's pretty scary to know the friggin' leader of the free world agrees with me.
Posted by: Kathy | May 07, 2006 at 08:31 AM
What, reading "My Pet Goat," didn't make the list?
Posted by: Fred | May 07, 2006 at 09:49 AM
At least he's not currently exploding frogs. So far as I know.
Posted by: No Blood for Hubris | May 07, 2006 at 10:02 AM
Must have been a large mouth bass. I doubt he caught a 7+ lb. perch, especially in the south.
Posted by: badgervan | May 07, 2006 at 10:54 AM
{Mopping up seltzer covered keyboard}. Funniest thing I've read all day and you're not the first to make me laugh...
Posted by: libby | May 07, 2006 at 11:47 AM
"At least he's not currently exploding frogs. So far as I know." Guess Karl is safe for now! M
Posted by: mandt | May 07, 2006 at 01:01 PM
With the amount of time he spends on vacation I'm really not shocked he remembered a fishing success as opposed to anything related to the job. We're actually safer if he's on a lake somewhere. Someone just needs to convince him to go duckhunting with Cheney.
Posted by: Let | May 07, 2006 at 03:09 PM
badgervan - you have forgotten something. Bush always lies. Every time. About everything. Automatically. Pathologically.
And, they asked about the best moment of his presidency, not the best moment in the last 5 years. It was another lame attempt at humor, I would guess, by a moron who is a lame duck and has no sense of what is appropriate.
Posted by: spiiderweb | May 07, 2006 at 04:39 PM
And we left this guy in charge of "The Free World?" ha-ha....
Posted by: The CultureGhost | May 07, 2006 at 09:52 PM
Indeed, since everything in his administration has been a disaster, I am sure the catching of this fish brought the guy some feeling of comfort that some things do work out...
Posted by: denisdekat | May 08, 2006 at 10:52 AM
I thought he would have chosen dressing up in a flight suit with a stuffed crotch to land on an aircraft carrier and declare mission accomplished.
Jesus still caught more fish than Dubya. I don't know what he's so proud of...
Posted by: Comandante Agi | May 08, 2006 at 11:05 AM
I just read on KOS that perch of that weight don't exist here in the states... the biggest they get is 4.5 lbs. So he lied on top of making the stupid comment in the first place. What a "moran"!
Posted by: HelenWheels | May 08, 2006 at 12:05 PM
So...if he'd have been perch fishing off the Trade Center on September 11th, that would have been an average day?
By the way, the "perch" thing is a mistranslation of a mistranslation. Apparently, "bass" doesn't translate well into German.
Posted by: actor212 | May 09, 2006 at 01:12 PM
At least he didn't say the worst thing he ever did was fall off his bike.
Wanker.
Posted by: Paul the Spud | May 10, 2006 at 07:29 AM
Bush said he caught a 7 pound bass. In German, there is no word for bass, so it was written down as "barsch", the german word for eurpean perch. (which get much larger than the north american species, and are in many ways similar to bass.) When the article was translated back into English, it was recorded as "perch". Bush said bass, it was just lost in the translation.
Posted by: Eric Engbretson | May 15, 2006 at 08:21 AM