Keep kids away; prez's speaking

Read my lips,” said George Bush Sr at the 1988 Republican Convention in New Orleans.

- R. PRASANNAN

Voters read them and voted him. Reading presidential lips is big risk these days, with a coprolalic president in the White House. He breathes bawdry. A coprolalic, for your info, is a person who uses obscene words uncontrollably.

Nice people in America—there are nice people in America, too, who work hard, give to charity, love their families, don’t cheat on wives, don’t jump red lights, respect other faiths, and read to children—would cringe if they read the presidential lips these days. More so if kids are around.

Know what happened this Easter Sunday? When those nice people were going to church for the morning mass, their president was letting the devil ride the fiddlestick. He cursed. This time at religious men. “You crazy b*******” he called the ayatollahs of Iran. “Open the f****** [Hormuz] Strait” or else. And added, “Praise be to Allah”.

The Pope, aghast, cursed him with bell, book and candle, reading an Old Testament passage from Isaiah: “Even though you make many prayers, I will not listen—your hands are full of blood.”