Bush's hand-picked town hall audience lets him down

In one of his orchestrated town halls, President Bush thought he'd load the guest list with Federal employees already enjoying the "benefits" of the Thrift Savings Plan, in other words, private investments. Well, it didn't go quite as well as Bush planned. The best part is the last bit.

Excerpt from Whitehouse.gov:

THE PRESIDENT: Let me ask you something about the Thrift Savings Plan. This is a Thrift Savings Plan that has a mix of stocks and bonds?

MS. WEBSTER: Yes, sir.

THE PRESIDENT: Now, how hard was that to learn how to do that?

MS. WEBSTER: And I chose the safe plan, government bonds. (Laughter.)

THE PRESIDENT: That's all right. Well, not so safe, unless we fix the deficit. But other than that -- (laughter).