President Bush's latest malapropism puts me in mind of a story in the Golden Ass of Apuleius, where there's a relevant conversation between two travellers.
Traveller 1: "In olden times, when new rulers came to power, they were required to swear an oath to do all in their power to harm the people, but they don't do it anymore."
T2: "You mean they don't do all they can to hurt the people anymore?"
T1: "Oh, no, they still do that; they just don't swear that oath anymore."
I guess our president is regressing to olden times.
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