September 15, 2009

One current and one former head of state try their hand at telling jokes.

President Asif Zardari reveals the most important clause in his agreement with Pervez Musharraf:

During an informal chat with a group of journalists at the Presidency, the president said the guarantors had decided that “Musharraf would play golf in his post-presidential life.”

And former US president George W. Bush, as quoted by one of his former speechwriters, comments on vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin:

“I’m trying to remember if I’ve met her before. I’m sure I must have.” His eyes twinkled, then he asked, “What is she, the governor of Guam?”

When Bush of all people uses you as a punchline, it may be time to disappear from the public eye.

Nadir Hassan is a Pakistan-based journalist and assistant editor at Newsline.