Take Texas--please!

A correspondent alerts us to this little tidbit:

Bush requests funds from Congress to teach American students neglected languages such as Arabic, Chinese, Hindi and Farsi.

"In order to convince people we care about them, we've got to understand their culture and show them we care about their culture," Bush said. "When somebody comes to me and speaks Texan, I know they appreciate the Texas culture. (Kamen in the Post)

Putting the hilarity of this quote aside for a moment--Dude, George W. Bush doesn't even speak Texan. Birthed and raised by East Coast elite WASPs, Bush was born in Connecticut, and was indeed in Texas for the early part of his life but went on to high school at Phillips Andover, college at Yale, and Harvard B-School.