After years of being subjected to unfair ridicule, former President George W. Bush is now enjoying his newfound status as the smarter of the two Bush brothers to have achieved elected office. Speaking to reporters at his home in Dallas, Bush said he was deriving quiet satisfaction from a new poll showing that ninety-one per cent of the American people now consider him the smarter Bush. I know that no ones saying Im a genius, he said, modestly. But I look pretty good when Im graded on a curve. Bush pointed with particular pride to the fact that seventy-four per cent of those polled said that, of the two Bush brothers, he had a far superior command of the English language. When I was President, I got a lot of grief from people who didnt think my English was too good, he said. I think now theyre realizing it could have been worser. The former President said that he hoped the American peoples view of him as the smarter Bush would soon be shared by his parents, George and Barbara Bush. At Thanksgiving, Mom and Dad would never let me carve the turkey because they thought Id screw it up somehow, he said. Something tells me Ill be carving that turkey this year. 