"Sometimes, words have consequences you don't intend them to mean"

While wingers gushed over the beauty and eloquence of it, the old man, who also had to give Bubble Boy money to put in the collection plate at the National Prayer Service (while Dufus wore a sheepish, irresponsible grin), had to run interference and use some of his son's missing diplomacy to try to smooth over the inauguration speech.

President Bush's call for an end to tyranny worldwide should not be interpreted by foreign governments and the American people as a prelude to a more aggressive and bellicose foreign policy in his second term, the president's father told reporters yesterday.

"People want to read a lot into it -- that this means new aggression or newly asserted military forces," former president George H.W. Bush said. "That's not what that speech is about. It's about freedom."
  WaPo article

And then the Dufus, in a radio address, had to go and repeat the one phrase that might be calculated to most disturb the rest of the world.

"As I stated in my inaugural address, our security at home increasingly depends on the success of liberty abroad."

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People "certainly ought to not read into [the speech] any arrogance on the part of the United States," the former president said during an impromptu visit to the White House briefing room.

Oh, certainly not. The last thing Bubble Boy would be is arrogant.