Quantum materiae materietur marmota monax si marmota monax materiam possit materiari?

- How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?

Okay, so I'm thinking it is time for us to take Mr. President aside and give him some instruction on speechmaking. The man simply can't keep a line straight, as exemplified by his greetings to THE Queen, suggesting that she had last been in the US in 1776. We all know she has a few years ground off her tread, but honestly she seems to be a little more on top of things than we give her credit for. Poor George, his mind is there reading the prompter but his mouth has run on ahead to see what's on the dessert cart.

He tried to make it better by suggesting that she was giving him the look that Mom/Barbara gives him when he has screwed up - but to stand there and effectively tell THE Queen that she's old enough to be his Mom seems to me to be an even greater lurch into the Deep. Even though she probably is old enough, if we haven't alienated enough world leaders yet I am really thinking we might want to hold onto the few we have left. At this point it would seem altogether unsurprising if THE Queen turned to George and told him "That's it, I'm outta here and by the way I'm taking BACK control of the U.S.".

I think we need to help poor George - since he can't quite seem to control what comes out of his mouth, maybe everyone he greets should be challenging him to a tongue-twister...after eight or nine months of that, his brain might just catch up to his mouth, and we can try him out again on some minor world leader, to see if he can make all the way through a speech without inviting nuCUlar attack. Of course, by that time he will almost have run through his eight long years, but at least he might be trusted to give an eloquent farewell.