It’s nice to see that BronzeLion found gainful employment as a speechwriter.
Ahem, I beat you to it already!
The hell you did. You think Bush doesn’t have anything more important to do than write speeches like that?
…you think Bush is capable of writing something that coherent?
[sub]You get the link from the LJ community too? We should send Geobabe a fruitbasket or summat.[/sub]
Hasn’t worked, has it?
How that inarticulate foolish little man can lecture anyone about education standards I’ll never understand . . .
They probably do. Hell, I support 'em and I do. :smack:
Here’s the quotation in context:
It sounds like he was trying to say something about practiceing a profession they love but Bush’s speechwriters should have known better than to let him go anywhere near the subject of gynecology and especially not link it with the word “love.”
By the way. I am actually more offended by by his disingenuous slap against “trial lawyers.” Lawyers are an easy target and the morons in the audience (and the electorate) eat that shit up but if Bush thinks we should “pro-patient,” how does he expect to protect patients without lawyers?
I just wanna know…if he’s pro-patient and has been presumably “pro-patient” for the past 4 years, where the fuck is my health insurance?
Were I a wiser man I would ask in very specific words (so as to leave no doubt regarding meaning) what Bush has done to advance patients’ rights other than to try and limit the money they can get when doctors fuck up with permanently and serevely debilitating results (biased? Me? Bet your ass.).
My guess? He doesn’t. He’s been told by his handlers that all malpractice lawsuits are frivolous and he believes it.
Not even Reuters knows
I should have added, I’m guessing he meant to say “livelihood”.
Yep, and it’s also on the official White House website.
Okay, I’m officially counting the minutes until the next Daily Show.
Just one more reason he’s not getting my vote.
Well, I’m sorry, but my doctor is hot!
Geez, cut the poor guy a break already.
He can’t talk, he can’t ride a bike, he can’t hold on to his dog, has trouble with new technology, manages to put the pope to sleep, chokes on on snacks, and now you want him to act and speak as if he was the freaking President of the US of A?!
Oh, wait…
In fairness, the Pope is so old now he’d probably fall asleep in the middle of the Second Coming.
Second coming? What is he, 18? Dude, he’s probably 20 years too old for a FIRST coming.
What’s really sad to me is not his poor choice of words. It’s the idea that our country can’t be pro-patient, pro-medical profession and pro-law profession at the same time.
I know that there are unscrupulous patients, doctors and lawyers. And doctors do sometimes make needless mistakes. Some patients try to get money when a doctor has done the best she can do. Some lawyers are ambulance chasers. And I am aware that OB/GYNs have been particularly hard hit with rising insurance rates.
But this is not a black and white issue. I hear a lot of that kind of thinking from Bush. Find solutions that are fair to all concerned.
Meanwhile, my Medicare payments are going up a record 17%. He left out that little detail. The Medicare perscription card discount has been wiped out by higher drug prices. And my mother said today that her Social Security payments are just enough to cover her medications. She can’t even rent (with Medicare’s help) a machine which she needs to keep the circulation going in her feet because it is too expensive for any stores in her area to afford it. And Medicare won’t provide the machine itself unless they know ahead of time that she benefits from using it. (So much for the “greatest generation.”
I’m so fucking tired of his “choices” bullshit. What this means is that seniors have been handed most of the administration and have to take a course in health-care law before they can understand which boxes to check. They have LOTS of choices now–about as many choices as you’d have if you ordered a computer and got a box of individual parts.
Wait, wait, wait…
After four years of hearing W. abuse his purported first language, your first thought to seeing a malapropism of his in print is to assume the transcriptionist got it wrong? Are you high or Ann Coulter?
Yes, W. isn’t advocating free and frequent love between doctor and patient. I believe his use of ‘love’ is a shorthand in his mind for: Practicing medicine and making medical decisions out of pure (and platonic) love of their patients, rather than for the purely mercurial motives governed by HMO and governmental oversight.
On the other hand, it might have been Fruedian. Who knows, maybe W. and Laura play doctor quite frequently.
Peace.