Froomkin: Bush's worst joke ever

[Cocoa]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40091-2004Jun14.html

Here's the text of his remarks. And get ready. Here comes the big joke:

"You're probably wondering how I got to be the family spokesman. (Laughter.)

"Well, we polled the family. And rumor has it, somewhere in our large family, the tiebreaking vote for tonight's speaker was cast by a fourth cousin by the name of Chad. (Laughter and applause.)

"While holding his son above the crib, Chad's father reports that the lad burped, and it sounded like, "George W." (Laughter.)

"Once again, my life was affected by a dangling chad. (Laughter and applause.)"

Has Bush ever told a worse joke? Really? Send it to me at [e-mail].

[Fenris]

1. Man, he really had to work on that joke.

Loooooooong setup and unrewarding punchline.

In terms of delivery, his joke this morning about Clinton's book was worse, but only because he stuttered.

[sniffa]

2. not as funny as

his searching for those darned wmd's. hahahahaha

[Jeff in Cincinnati]

3. How about this one --

"I'll be a uniter and not a divider."

Ha Ha. Stop it, George. You're killing us!

[sniffa]

4. or

when he toLd corretta scott king, he couLdn't wait to hang dr. king.

[Cocoa]

5. or when he mocked Karla Faye Tucker

"Please don't kill me."

[rock]

6. You're killing us!

Literally.

[Lisa]

7. "I won the trifecta"

Oh, oh -- and "there's one terrible pilot".

There's a lot more where that came from, folks! (Unfortunately.)