How I wanted this to be true, but alas: http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_bush_feces_speech.htm Comments: False. President Bush has been known to commit verbal gaffes on occasion, but nothing on the order of mistaking the word "feces" for "fetus" a dozen times in a row in a single speech. I'm not sure it's even humanly possible. As it happens, Bush was in Tampa, Florida on June 16, 2004, the day before this event supposedly took place, but according to the White House press log he gave no speeches in Tampa on June 17. No such news item appeared in Newsweek, nor any other venue, for that matter. It is clearly a joke. -------------------------------------- Really sorry. Robert Paul The Reed nstitute ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html