Do re mi, so far so good

[venta]

The BBC, in attempt to milk as many pages as possible from the White House switch-over, has produced a page of Bushisms. Many are, I think, the sort of mistakes which you'd normally forgive someone who was speaking off the cuff; badly planned sentences and confused pronouns. Some are the statements of the bleeding obvious which most politicians use as rhetorical devices. Some are more worrying. My favourite, however, is a delightful example from the conjoined proverb department.

Talking in Washington in 2004, he described the enemies of free society as those who kill "at the whim of a hat".

Isn't that a lovely phrase ? I shall begin using it forthwith.