A Riddle

A Riddle:

On his recent trip to Great Britain, George Bush had a meeting with Queen Elizabeth. He asked her, "How do you manage to run a country so smoothly?"

"That`s easy," she replied, "One surrounds oneself with intelligent ministers and advisors."

"But how can I tell whether they are intelligent or not?" he inquired.

"You ask them a riddle," she replied, and with that she pressed a button and said,

"Would you please send in Tony Blair."

When Blair arrived, the Queen said to him, "I have a riddle that I'd like you to answer for me. Your parents had a child and it was not your sister and it was not your brother. Who was this child ?"

Blair replied, "That`s easy. The child was me."

"Very good," responded the Queen, "You may go now."



So President Bush went back to Washington and called in his chief of staff, Karl Rove. Bush said to Rove, "I have a riddle for you, and the answer is very important. The country depends on it. Your parents had a child and it was not your sister and it was not your brother. Who was this child?"

Rove replied, "Yes, it is clearly very important that we determine the answer, as no child must be left behind. Can I deliberate on this for awhile and get back to you?"

"Yes,"said Bush, "I'll give you four hours to come up with the answer."

As Rove was walking from the Oval Office, he ran into Secretary of State Colin Powell.

Rove asked him, "Mr. Secretary, can you answer this riddle for me. Your

parents had a child and it was not your sister and it was not your brother. Who was the child ?"

"That's easy," said Powell, "The child was me."

"Oh thank you," said Rove, "You may just have saved the country!"

So Rove went in to the Oval Office and said to President Bush, "I think I know the answer to your riddle. The child was Colin Powell!"

"No you idiot !" shouted Bush, "The child was Tony Blair!"