We always said you couldn't trust them with the silver; we didn't know to mean it literally.
George W. Bush's inaugural address was an impressive one. Even bitter-end chad-massagers like Hendrik Hertzberg of The New Yorker admitted that it was graceful and thoughtful. And at fourteen minutes, it was a welcome retreat from the average Clinton speech, with its bloat. There was another implicit rebuke of Clintonism in it, too: When Bush asked Americans to be "citizens, not ...