] THE PRESIDENT: Yes, sir.
]
] Q On behalf of Vietnam veterans -- and I served six tours
] over there -- we do support the President. I only have
] one concern, and that's on the Purple Heart, and that is,
] is that there are over 200,000 Vietnam vets that died
] from Agent Orange and were never -- no Purple Heart has
] ever been awarded to a Vietnam veteran because of Agent
] Orange because it's never been changed in the
] regulations. Yet, we've got a candidate for President out
] here with two self-inflicted scratches, and I take that
] as an insult. (Applause.)
]
] THE PRESIDENT: Well, I appreciate that. Thank you. Thank
] you for your service. Six tours? Whew. That's a lot of
] tours.
]
] Let's see, who've we got here? You got a question?

[ Whew! Fabulous answer.

I will say that Bush gave an actually decent response to the next completely asinine question: "I've heard through the grapevine that Oregon is one of the most unchurched states in the union, and I really feel like it shows up in every walk of our society. Could you take a moment to pray for Oregon, for us, right now?"

"Um, Mr. President, could you please, right now, publicly endorse my narrow and ridiculous viewpoint, and in so doing, tread the line of stomping the constitution? That'd be great."

I almost wonder if this was a sneaky democrat trying to trick Bush into something suicidally dumb, but then i remember how many people really, actually are like this. -k]