This wouldn't amount to much, except it raises the "If the shoe were on the other foot" issue. That is, if George W. Bush had said this, how much play would it get? Dan Quayle jokingly said he was going to Latin America even though he didn't speak Latin, but instead of laughing with him in his self-deprecating remark, the vice president was heaped with media ridicule and scorn, as if he had been serious.
We know that President Obama knows that Austrians speak German (doesn't he?). Still, this is what he actually said, and it was not a joke.
Several books of "Bushisms" were published over the past eight years. I was given a calendar with daily Bushisms on each day's page. Ho, ho, ho!
An "Obamanations" calendar is on its way, no doubt.
