Bush gets philosophical

Today, as part of his visit to Guatemala, Bush was asked why he never mentions Hugo Chavez's name. His response was to change the subject to something more... er... philosophical.

My message to the people in our neighborhood is that we care about the human condition and that we believe the human condition can be improved in a variety of ways.

Say what? I guess by now we're all inured to our president's cockamamie way of speaking. And his malaprops are usually buried by the media who are more interested in conveying his meaning. This one got through as I've heard the quote several times on NPR.

I guess he was trying to say that the United States cares about the lives of the people in Latin America. The wikipedia takes a pretty good crack at what the phrase "human condition" means. Perhaps it makes more sense in Spanish.