Between the last election and the inauguration, there was an episode of Saturday Night Live that included a skit with George W. Bush (Will Ferrell) and Al Gore (Darryl Hammond), having the following exchange in a Chi-Chi's:
WILL FERRELL, ACTOR: You're not the president, right?DARRELL HAMMOND, ACTOR: No, you are, George. Don't worry, no more lawyers.
FERRELL: Than it's official. I'm the president. This is going to be cool. Hey, maybe I'll start a war. Wars are like executions super-sized.
Did you ever start a war?
HAMMOND: No, George, I never did it.
FERRELL: I hope I can do it. That Dick Cheney's going to be one tough boss.
I tried to find the transcript for this show last spring, but wasn't able to track it down. This excerpt is actually from a transcript of a "Crossfire" show on CNN that aired December 18, 2000. The SNL episode occurred just a few days before. Eerily prescient, no?
Posted by Jason at April 8, 2004 09:26 AM