Today President Bush held his final press conference. It was a beautiful, halcyon moment, but one not without its share of inevitable, even cringe-worthy Bushims. Especially in his introductory comments, when Bush admits to disliking some stories over the years and says, satirically,
"Sometimes you misunderestimated me."
Sorry, Mr. President, but that's not the case. See, what we did was OVERestimate you. We thought perhaps you would keep your campaign promise to make Washington D.C. a more bipartisan town. We thought you would take a measured, respectful tone in our nation's foreign policy. We thought you could keep your head in a crisis, not act like an uncertain and frightened juvenile.
If you underestimate someone, that means they exceed, or at least are capable of exceeding, your expectations. If you underestimate someone's ability to underachieve, you're not really underestimating them. You're overestimating them.
That wasn't the only gem from today's ultimate conference, of course.
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