George, ye hardly knew him????

. . . or so Bush says about Ken Lay. Just an acquaintance (who of course gave him $100,000 in campaign funds and use of the Enron company plane). But when Kenny-boy, as Bush called him, dies, does the nation's No. 1 Compassionate Conservative have a few words about his former friend. Just an acquaintance, says White House Mouthpiece Snow. Just an acquaintance.

But was Kenny-boy just an acquaintance?