How To Sound Like a Candidate

Last night, President Bush addressed the nation. Now, I'm an arrogant sonofabitch, but there are at least a dozen living speechwriters whose prose could blow mine out of the water so it's not arrogance when I tell you that President Bush's speechwriters are incompetent — and to demonstrate, I submit Exhibit A, excerpted from last night's speech about cracking down on illegal immigration.

I was the governor of a state that has a 12,000 mile border with Mexico. So I know how difficult it is to enforce the border, and how important it is.

You heard right. That's your second-term president citing his experience as governor of Texas to establish credibility.