Hey, remember Dubya and his beloved "Charge To Keep" painting, which turned out to portray a "horse thief fleeing from a lynch mob"? Well, it seems he's done it again. Turns out that the song he parodied at the Gridiron Club, "The Green Green Grass of Home," is actually about the thoughts of a condemned man about to be executed. Oops.

Is Dubya trying to tell us something? Is there some tiny dying ember of conscience trying to claw its way out through his subconscious, steering him towards these strangely revealing mistakes? Or is he just rubbing our noses the fact that he's getting away scot-free, unlike his kindred spirits of art and song?

My gut feeling is that it does signal some vestige of a guilty conscience. Consider one of my all-time favorite Bush gaffes:

There's an old saying... that says, "Fool me once, shame on- shame you. Fool me- you can't get fooled again."

At the last moment, he literally can't bring himself to speak the words, "shame on me" - not even in the context of simply repeating an old (and very apt) piece of folk wisdom.

Or how about when he said he gazed deeply into Vladimir Putin's eyes clear down to his soul, and liked what he saw? It was his own reflection.

Or when he confessed his desire to harm America?

Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.

And if that's not enough, even Bush's other brain is getting in on that act:

George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush are two pretty remarkable men. And I’ve learned a lot from them, learned a lot about life, learned a lot about character, learned a lot about loyalty and trust and honesty and straightforwardness.

'Nuff said, I think.

(Thanks to watertiger for pointing out the parallel between "The Green Green Grass of Home" and "A Charge To Keep")