Bush gets it wrong, again, because he doesn't understand, of all things, the multiple uses of the word "global."

Kerry in the first debate mentioned the need for a sort of global test before going to war. He wasn't talking about asking a lot of other countries first, which is what Bush was yammering about in a speech in Des Moines a few days back. He was, of course, describing a sort of a "comprehensive, all inclusive" test, which is definition number three on page 356 of the Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, 1967 edition (given to me in 1968 by my Latin Teacher at the Malcolm Price Laboratory School in Cedar Falls, Miss Struble... see full story here: http://www.stokstad.com/essay/dictionary.html).

At one time I had trouble spelling the word marriage. I am typically an exceptional speller, but that one word troubled me. Marriage. Marraige. One of those two anyway. Kind of ironic that a guy who has been married four times would have some trouble spelling it. The one thing I can't get right.

Bush, on his side, can't quite get the full range of "global" right.

Sad, George.

But please, George, next time remember the Iowa Exclusion Rule (last mentioned when Cheney spoke in Des Moines - see my comment here: http://www.stokstad.com/weblog/2004/09/dear-dick.htm) , i.e. - if you are going to say something colossally stupid, please try to say it somewhere else.

Like Washington, where no one, apparently, is listening. Here in Iowa we take the use of the English language seriously.

That means you are rarely, if ever, welcome, unless, of course, you promise not to speak.