"You recently put Condoleezza Rice, your national security adviser, in charge of the management of the administration's Iraq policy. What has effectively changed since she's been in charge?
And a second question: Can you promise a year from now that you will have reduced the number of troops in Iraq?"
BUSH: "The second question is a trick question, so I won't answer it."
Remember that answer next time you're in a jam:
"Honey, did you put this charge for golf clubs on the credit card?"
"That's a trick question, so I won't answer it."
Or... "Darling, someone left a case of empty beer cans scattered in the basement, did you forget to clean up after the game?"
"That's a trick question, so I won't answer it."
And for you youngsters out there:
"Who left this toy in the middle of the floor, where I could trip on it?"
"That's a trick question, so I won't answer it."
And the best thing is, the answer is not "clintonesque"... because there is no answer! Imagine all the trouble Clinton would have avoided if instead of trying to clarify exactly what big-bucks lawyers were trying to trap him into saying (depends on what the meaning of "is" is) he had just said:
"That's a trick question, so I won't answer it."
And when those aggressive, elbows-first media folks (what ever happened to them?) were asking ...
"Mr. President, did you have sex with Lewinski?"
"That's a trick question, so I won't answer it."
But then, I guess the stakes weren't so high for Clinton, otherwise I'm sure he would have come up with this ingenious dodge. After all, no one actually died and democracy was not subverted Clinton's consensual affair, was it?
You know the wingnut answer to that: "That's a trick question, so I won't answer it."
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