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George W. Bush, aka Chimpy-McHitler-Haliburton, has been blamed for a lot of things.

Now you can add ruining the stunt of a has-been “magician” to the list.

Magician David Blaine pulled a string of excuses out of his sleeve to explain why his latest high-profile stunt went wrong - even blaming President Bush’s Wednesday night prime-time speech.

A day after finishing his latest “trick” - hanging upside down over Central Park for 60 hours before taking a “Dive of Death” from a 44-foot-high platform, a TMZ.com cameraman asked Blaine why the stunt went awry.

“It wasn’t meant to be what it was on TV,” Blaine told the gossip Web site’s cameraman.

Shaking his head, Blaine said the plan was for him to drop just a few feet before being whisked away by a harness attached to a batch of helium-filled balloons.

“But because of the president’s speech, my show was delayed 15 minutes and all of the wind picked up,” he said.

Evil works in mysterious ways.

Thanks to Patriot Missive, I see that the Official Oliver Stone “W” movie posters have just been released.

Remind you of anything?

Detractors of President George Bush love to insinuate that he is no Einstein.

They may have a point.

Speaking of the “promise of God” for a “homeland for the chosen people” in Israel, Bush told the Knesset after a visit to the Roman-era Jewish fortress at Masada: “Masada shall never fall again, and America will always stand with you.”

Clearly not Einstein-like.

Albert Einstein described belief in God as “childish superstition” and said Jews were not the chosen people, in a letter to be sold in London this week, an auctioneer said Tuesday.

The father of relativity, whose previously known views on religion have been more ambivalent and fuelled much discussion, made the comments in response to a philosopher in 1954.

As a Jew himself, Einstein said he had a great affinity with Jewish people but said they “have no different quality for me than all other people”.

“The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honourable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish.”

So there you have it. Bush is indeed no Einstein, at least on this matter.

Thank G-d for that.

Update: Yes I do realize President Bush’s insistence on a palestinian state is at odds with his professed beliefs. But how can we expect the President of the US to be more Right wing than the government of Israel, which itself accepted the idea of a palestinian state long ago?

Here are some highlights of US President George Bush’s speech at the presidential ‘Facing Tomorrow’ Conference.

By the way, you’re better of viewing the video here, rather than clicking through to the YouTube page, unless you have an appetite for vehemently anti-Israel and anti-Bush comments.