Great U.S. Presidents get invited to speak at large university graduations.

Lesser presidents settle for what they can get. With most of the town already gone, and all 18 graduating seniors filling up their gas tanks for one last time in Greensburg, it was assumed Bush’s speech would not cause any further harm to the town:

Sandhya Somashekhar writes in The Washington Post from tiny Greensburg, Kan.: “President Bush delivered on Sunday the commencement address for a graduating class of 18 students whose high school was leveled by a tornado last year that wiped out most of their town. . . .
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speaking of Bush speeches, here’s one that might be his lone entry in the history books, alongside Lincoln’s Gettysburg speech or Kennedy’s “Ask not what your country can do for you.”

MAKE THE PIE HIGHER
by George W. Bush

I think we all agree, the past is over.
This is still a dangerous world.
It’s a world of madmen and uncertainty
and potential mental losses.

Rarely is the question asked
Is our children learning?
Will the highways of the Internet become more few?
How many hands have I shaked?

They misunderestimate me.
I am a pitbull on the pantleg of opportunity.
I know that the human being and the fish can coexist.
Families is where our nation finds hope, where our wings take dream.

Put food on your family!
Knock down the tollbooth!
Vulcanize society!
Make the pie higher! Make the pie higher!