A Joke for You
2004-09-20, 8:14 p.m.

One night George W. Bush is tossing restlessly in his White House bed.

He awakens to see George Washington standing beside him. Bush looks up and asks, "George, what's the best thing I can do to help the country ?" "Set an honest and honorable example, just as I did," Washington advises, then fades away.

The next night, Bush is astir again when he sees the ghost of Thomas Jefferson moving silently around the bedroom. Bush calls out: "Tom, please ! What is the best thing I could do to help the country ?" "Respect the Constitution, as I did," Jefferson advises, and then dims from sight.

The third night sleep still evades Bush. He sees the ghost of FDR hovering over his bed. Bush lowers his voice and asks, "Franklin, What is the best thing I could do to help the country ?" In that golden voice of his, FDR replies, "Help the less fortunate, just as I did," and then he disappears.

Bush still isn't sleeping well the fourth night. He tosses and turns, and suddenly another figure moves out of the shadows. It's the ghost of Abraham Lincoln. "Abe," Bush pleads, "what's the best thing I can do right now to help the country?" Lincoln pauses, then replies, "Go see a play."