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John Kerry meets with the Queen of England. He asks her, "Your Majesty,
how do you run such an efficient government? Are there any tips you
can give to me?"

"Well," says the Queen, "the most important thing is to surround
yourself with intelligent people."

Kerry frowns. "But how do I know the people around me are really
intelligent?"

The Queen takes a sip of tea. "Oh, that's easy. You just ask them to
answer an intelligent riddle." The Queen pushes a button on her
intercom. "Please send Tony Blair in here, would you?"

Tony Blair walks into the room. "Yes, my Queen?" The Queen smiles.
"Answer me this, please, Tony. Your mother and father have a child. It
is not your brother and it is not your sister. Who is it?"

Without pausing for a moment, Tony Blair answers, "That would be me."

"Yes! Very good," says the Queen.

Kerry goes back home to ask John Edwards, his vice presidential choice
the same question.

"John. Answer this for me. Your mother and your father have a child.
It's not your brother and it's not your sister. Who is it?"

"I'm not sure," says John Edwards. "Let me get back to you on that
one." Edwards goes to his advisors and asks every one, but none can
give him an answer. Finally, he ends up in the men's room and
recognizes Colin Powell's shoes in the next stall. Edwards shouts,
"Colin! Can you answer this for me? Your mother and father have a child
and it's not your brother or your sister. Who is it?" Colin Powell
yells back, "That's easy. It's me!"

Edwards smiles, and says, "Thanks!" Then, Edwards goes back to speak
with Kerry. "Say, I did some research and I have the answer to that
riddle. It's Colin Powell."

Kerry gets up, stomps over to John Edwards, and angrily yells into his
face, "No, you idiot! It's Tony Blair!"

Four years ago it was Bush and Cheney, but nice to see Colin Powell is still considered the smart one!

Slightly off topic, but what is it with the Yanks (and us, their lapdogs) and the phrase "meet with"? How can you meet without? Isn't "meet" sufficient. It's like any sentence is not taken seriously unless it contains a considerable amount of utterly extra superfluous words.

Sorry, I'll get my pedantic anorak.

No, no sir, you're quite right. But then ask yourself this; what other nation, upon going to war, refers to it's military assault as "Openin' a can of whoopass" or "Layin' the smackdown on I-rack"?

Perhaps old Kurd Killer Winston Churchill said something similar. Considering he's related to Bush, I'll assume he did.

I agree and they have personal friends. What other sort are there?

Mart