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There are some words you might think they wouldn't use at the White House any more.

But one of them jumped right out of the transcript of President Bush's remarks at today's ceremony with the Super Bowl champion New York Giants on the South Lawn:

Now, they've got a lot of experts in our society. Coach, you might know what
I'm talking about. And looking back, it's hard to find many of the experts
who predicted a Giants victory.

Most people were calling a cakewalk -- you know, be prepared to turn off
your television sets early, because this isn't much of a game you're about
to watch -- when in fact it turned out to be really one of the great
legendary football games in our country's history.

Metaphor?

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