Your Kid is Smarter Than Me

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You might call it the Bushism that started it all. During a stump speech in Florence, South Carolina on Jan. 11, 2000, as Bush battled Arizona Senator John McCain for the Republican presidential nomination, he asked a question that — quite rightly and by his own admission — is rarely asked: "Is our children learning?" Even the worst grammar student couldn't help but wonder, "Are he serious?"

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