Bush Sr. to Rap Kennedy at Awards Ceremony

When ex-President George Herbert Walker Bush presents Sen. Ted Kennedy with a public service award this week during a ceremony at Bush's presidential library, he is expected to deliver a rhetorical rap across the knuckles to the senior Democrat.

Two weeks ago Kennedy charged that George W. Bush's White House had told "lie after lie after lie" in order to justify attacking Iraq – comments preceded the week before by Kennedy's claim that the Iraq war was a political ploy cooked up by Bush at his Texas ranch.

"[Former] President Bush will have something to say about that," Bush 41 spokesman Jim McGrath told the Boston Herald on Sunday. "He wants to send a message in that regard."

McGrath said that the Kennedy insult "will be the pink elephant just sitting there in the middle of the room" during the event.

Pink elephant? McGrath's use of alcoholic imagery while referring to the conduct of the Massachusetts Democrat was apparently inadvertent.

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