Today's "Bushism"

These folks have done a fantastic job of documenting our president's linguistic ineptitude.

I once had a friend try to explain to me that Bush often seems flustered and incoherent when speaking because there is so much going on in the man's mind that he is always thinking several steps ahead. With a noticeable absence of compelling evidence to support that hypothesis, I must disagree and offer the following statement for your enjoyment.

Here, our president explains the benefits of privatizing social security. I implore you to comment if you can decipher what the hell he is saying.

"Because the-all which is on the table begins to address the big cost drivers. For example, how benefits are calculate, for example, is on the table; whether or not benefits rise based upon wage increases or price increases. There's a series of parts of the formula that are being considered. And when you couple that, those different cost drivers, affecting those-changing those with personal accounts, the idea is to get what has been promised more likely to be-or closer delivered to what has been promised. Does that make any sense to you? It's kind of muddled. Look, there's a series of things that cause the-like, for example, benefits are calculated based upon the increase of wages, as opposed to the increase of prices. Some have suggested that we calculate-the benefits will rise based upon inflation, as opposed to wage increases. There is a reform that would help solve the red if that were put into effect. In other words, how fast benefits grow, how fast the promised benefits grow, if those-if that growth is affected, it will help on the red."-Explaining his plan to save Social Security, Tampa, Fla., Feb. 4, 2005