The President’s speech in Poplar Bluff, Missouri (Sept 6)
What does he think goes in in that exam room, anyway?
Hey, I don’t get to practice my love with women all across the country either, and I don’t hear Bush making a fucking speech about it!
I’d be content with practicing my love with women all across my county.
Speaking as a woman, I’m damn glad my GYN doesn’t practice his love with me. I mean, he’s not bad-looking, but I’m married and AFAIK, so is he. 
Robin
Okay, I followed the link and read the quote in context. Can someone please tell me what he thought he was trying to say? Why would you even use the words gynecologist, women, and love in the same sentence? Even if you are an expert, silver tongued orator, isn’t that just asking for misunderstanding?
Was that part of the written speech? Or did he just stumble over the words and come out with that turn of phrase?
As you can see, I have many questions. Mostly because I am fucking bewildered, and a little concerned because my OB/GYN is a woman. I thought the GOP frowned on those sorts of things! :eek:
FB
I think the transcriptionist heard the sentence wrong. Obviously Bush is not advoctating sex between patients and doctors.
Once again, W’s speech writer’s didn’t do their research, or else they’d have seen that all TOO often, male gynecologists DO practice their love on their patients, most recently -
And I personally had an experience in my teens when a male gynecologist reached under my shirt, while I was sitting up on the table still dressed before the pelvic exam and gave me a breast ‘exam’ (no nurse present back in the1980’s yet) where he caressed them and asked me to tell him how good it felt.
I was 19, inexperienced, and just said, “I dunno, should it feel good?” He said, “If nothing’s wrong it should.”
I was still under the misperception that doctors only wanted to do what was best for you and had no agenda. Two more shitty male gynos later, I only go to women now. They’re not rough, they don’t shove, and they don’t shrug off your problems and call you ‘Sweetie’.
Nope, I saw the video of it on Countdown with Keith Olbermann on MSNBC tonight. It is absolutely accurate, and believe me, it was even more awkward on videotape.
Hmmm. Okay, not having seen the videotape, I’ll have to reserve judgement. That does seem a very odd thing to say, to say the least.
I’m trying hard to be charitable towards a president I loathe, so I’m, going to guess that he meant “practice in the profession they love, for women all across the country.”
What’s wrong with those Bush guys anyway? How the hell can Barbara promote literacy, and Laura be a librarian and stand to be married to those sentence-thrashers? You’d think they’d be visibly cringing every time their husbands spoke.
Speaking of “silver tongued”…
Maybe Barbara advocated literacy because of her son? You know, thinking he might actually get a clue?
The transcript of the speech is up on Bush’s website as well. With “practice their love” and all.
-Lil
Sliver tongued?
Ah, the love that dare not speak its name…
Hey, perhaps Bush was BronzeLION?
I can see what he probably meant, but what a delightfully unfortunate way to phrase it.
The man knows no shame.
…is a vast improvement over the love that can’t remember where it parked its car, or the love that can’t stop saying “meteorologically”, mais oui?
Care to enlighten the rest of us?
Not having read the transcript—hey, I’m supposed to keep my blood pressure under control—I can only offer a WAG: that because of the innumerable gazillion-dollar frivolous lawsuits foisted on society by the Evil Personal Injury Lawyers (not naming names, you know, and certainly not referring to anyone running for national office), countless OB/GYNs are forced to leave the profession they love and abandon their cherished patients.
Or something like that. . . .
(Sorry, this is kind of a sore point with me. The greatest satisfaction my father took in the practice of medicine was delivering babies—and he had to abandon it due to insurance company BS years before the term “tort reform” was even coined.)