The paranoia re the press is getting silly, I think. And here are a few Bushism, randomly selected from hundreds and hundreds available. What do you think the media would say if Kerry were so illiterate. And not just illiterate, but immature and, well, ill-informed.

"[T]he illiteracy level of our children are appalling."—Washington, D.C., Jan. 23, 2004

And today, I'm informing the prime minister that we're lifting the travel ban on Turkey.
-- Which would have been a good thing if there had been a travel ban in the first place; unfortunately for Dubya, there wasn't, press conference with Turkish prime minister, Jan. 17, 2002

Uhh -- we are working -- hard to bring a diplomatic solution. And uhh -- we've made some progress. After all, the IEAE asked that the Security Council take up the North Korean issue.
-- The White House and every major news outlet completely whitewashed the fact that Dubya called the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) the "IEAE", and he even made a pointed effort to clearly enunciate it, prime time press conference, White House, Mar. 6, 2003

But I also made it clear to [Vladimir Putin] that it's important to think beyond the old days of when we had the concept that if we blew each other up, the world would be safe.
-- Washington, D.C., May 1, 2001

This doesn't have nothing to do with reputation.
-- Statement made about whether or not to call a summit, in Dubya's grammatically challenged fashion, as quoted in the New York Times, Apr. 8, 2002

The invisible part of everything that you thought you could see, you can't see.
-- Offering his appraisal of the Palestinian/Israeli situation, Interview with ITN, Crawford, Texas, Apr. 5, 2002

Get me Pootie-Poot on the phone!
-- Dubya's way of requesting a telephone conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin, as reported in May 27, 2002 issue of Time

I am mindful not only of preserving executive powers for myself, but for predecessors as well.
-- Washington, D.C., Jan. 29, 2001

We've tripled the amount of money -- I believe it's from $50 million up to $195 million available.
-- Fuzzy math of the Dubya variety, Lima, Peru, Mar. 23, 2002