Rumsfeld Doesn't Know if He's Lost His Mojo
Yep, it's hard to know whether you've lost something if you don't know what it is that you're supposed to have lost....
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said he does not know whether or not he has lost his mojo, as a leading news magazine suggested, because he doesn't really know what mojo is.
"Is Rumsfeld Losing His Mojo?" was the headline in Time magazine above a story about Rumsfeld's recent difficulties concerning Iraq policy and differences with U.S. lawmakers.
"Have you lost your mojo?" a reporter asked Rumsfeld during a Pentagon (news - web sites) briefing.
Rumsfeld said he did not consult a dictionary -- as he has for words like slog about which he has sparred with reporters -- but he spoke with an aide who had.
"And they asked me that, and I said, 'I don't know what it means.' And they said, 'In 1926 or something, it had to do with jazz music.'"
Well, at least we know that Rumsfeld knows how to use a dictionary....
