Big Man on Campus

Cribbed from Wonkette:

THE PRESIDENT: I appreciate the Secretary of Energy joining me today. He's a good man, he knows a lot about the subject, you'll be pleased to hear. I was teasing him -- he taught at MIT, and -- do you have a PhD?

SECRETARY BODMAN: Yes.

THE PRESIDENT: Yes, a PhD. (Laughter.) Now I want you to pay careful attention to this -- he's the PhD, and I'm the C student, but notice who is the advisor and who is the President.

Setting aside for a moment that George W. Bush is the most small-minded executive sock puppet in history, isn't it amazing how there is never a shortage of people willing to shed their self-respect to become a cog in the bowels of The Machine?