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Carlos Mencia has nothing against President Bush.

He just wishes the leader of the Free World were smarter.

He wishes Bush could speak proper English.

He wishes Bush would have sent help sooner when Hurricane Katrina ravished New Orleans.

OK, so the comedian has plenty against Bush.

"It's not that I don't like him. I wish that I wasn't able to make jokes about how dumb my president is," Mencia said last week as his giant Comedy Central tour bus emblazoned with "Carlos Mencia: The Punisher Tour" rolled along some California highway.

Bush plays prominently in Mencia's rock-style, heavily-produced tour that stops at Casino del Sol's AVA on Friday. The lineup includes Mencia's cast of fellow equal-opportunity offenders: big brother Joseph Mencia, Latina comic Cristela Alonzo, Asian newcomer Jo Koy and the popular Brad Williams, a midget who stole the show when Mencia played the Rialto Theatre last October.

During that 30-minute cell- phone conversation on the bus, Mencia talked about his "Mind of Mencia" Comedy Central series, his pending fatherhood and why it's hard being white in America.

"Because if you're white you can't have any flavor whatsoever in this country. I can come out in every single interview and say, 'You know what, I'm glad to represent my people, the Hispanic culture and I'm proud of who I am,' and everybody thinks that's cool. If you're white and you have a bumper sticker that says 'I'm white and I'm proud of it,' you will get rocked, you will get shot at and you will get white people pulling you over, calling you a racist piece of (bleep)."

So should I feel bad because I'm white?

"No, I don't want you to feel bad. I just think minorities need to (bleeping) chill on white people."

"I don't even know about that. But if that's true . . . I want to be the cool majority, the majority that makes things right. Not the majority that says, 'We're the majority now. (Bleep) the white man. Slavery is back, if you got freckles."

What do you think we should do about New Orleans?

"Rebuild it in a different place."

"Somewhere safer."

"They've done it before. It's called New Orleans. What the (bleep) you think happened to the old one? I don't know where it is, but I know it existed. There can't be a New Orleans without one having existed before. Like I know there's a York somewhere because there's a New York.

So what do you think about Rep. Mark Foley and the e-mail scandal?

"It's going to come out that he was only testing his own laws to see how good they were. . . . And then, people in government expect us to just sit around and go, 'Well, you know, you can't throw the baby out with the bath water.' Well, I think the baby took a big (bleep) in the bath water."

So speaking of babies, you're going to be a father before the year's out. Will you let your son come to your shows?

"Hell yeah. You come watch what daddy does, you little (bleep)."