Barack Obama's Diary: Beating About the Bushes

Dear Diary: We had George H.W. Bush and his wife Barbara to lunch today.  Mindful of his history of slumping sideways and blowing chunks, I was careful to sit well away from him. The geezer  has a  nice line in irony. "Things have changed around here." he declared, " I see a thousand points of fright." I replied: "But, Mr President we are making DC more environmentally friendly"
"How? he asked  "Read my lips,"  I declared: " No new taxis." For a horrible moment he turned gray and I thought he was  becoming nauseous. But he took a sip from our supply of iced  Crawford Spring water and immediately  began to recover.