In this White House Pool Report, notes are passed. Highlight:The White House will soon be releasing some documents related to the turnover of power in Iraq, including a photo release of the note that Rumsfeld handed to Bush this morning notifying him of the handover. The note was written by Condi Rice, handed to Rumsfeld and passed to Bush.
Here's what it said: "Mr. President, Iraq is sovereign. Letter was passed to Bremer at 10:26 a.m. Iraq time -- Condi."
That's the end of the note, but Bush wrote, "Let Freedom Reign!'' with a black sharpie across the bottom.
(Wonkette)
Also, he got it WRONG. The line from 'My Country tis of Thee', also quoted repeatedly in MLK's 'I have a dream' speech, is "Let freedom ring." If you do a google search on "Let freedom reign", you find (1) a bunch of sites that misquote the above, and (2) lyrics to a skinhead song.
I suppose I should be glad he didn't spell it "rain".
Posted by: Christina Holland on June 28, 2004 02:05 PMI, too, was impressed that Bush spelled "reign" correctly. He must have practiced beforehand.
Posted by: Rhonda on June 29, 2004 03:23 PMMaybe he meant "reign" instead of "ring". How the hell is that a reason he shouldn't be re-elected?
Posted by: Bob on June 30, 2004 09:32 PMall in all it's just another brick in the wall.
Posted by: kev on July 1, 2004 10:03 AMIt's not the most important reason (but then, there are at least 524 others), but I do prefer my presidents to (a) have a working knowledge of history, and (b) know how to speak/write eloquently. Part (a) is more important, of course.
