"Rarely is the question asked, 'Is our children learning?'"
During that same South Carolina campaign swing in January 2000, Governor Bush committed another grammatical mix-up while wrangling a sentence containing both singular and plural subjects, this example occurring (with a modicum of irony) during the portion of his stump speech dealing with education:

That's not to say Bush hasn't had his share of flubs. Part of his stump speech focuses on education. On Tuesday, talking to a crowd of several hundred at a cavernous civic center in Florence, S.C., Bush decried those who ignore educational programs that produce no results -- inadvertently revealing a temporary shortcoming in his own grammar skills.

"What's not fine is rarely is the question asked, are, is our children learning?" Bush said.


Miller, T. Christian. "With a Grin, Bush Answers Early Charges of Aloofness."
Los Angeles Times. 14 January 2000 (p. 20).

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