# President Bush and the great love of OB/GYN's........ **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 8, 2004, 10:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/president-bush-and-the-great-love-of-ob-gyns/263625 "2004-09-08T10:24:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2004, 10:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/president-bush-and-the-great-love-of-ob-gyns/263625/1 "2004-09-08T10:24:48Z")
It’s amazing that the irony of the moment didn’t choke him into silence. These are, after all, the very same OB/GYN’s that he’d love to have arrested for murder for performing abortions… how rare, to perfect the art of being frightening and hilarious at the same moment. _ **From Reuters** _ > [@](#): > > POPLAR BLUFF, Mo. (Reuters) - President Bush offered an unexpected reason on Monday for cracking down on frivolous medical lawsuits: “Too many OB-GYNs aren’t able to practice their love with women all across this country.” … > > … At a rally of cheering supporters in Poplar Bluff, Missouri, Bush made his usual pitch for limiting “frivolous lawsuits” that he said drive up the cost of health care and run doctors out of business. > > But then he added, “We’ve got an issue in America. Too many good docs are getting out of business. Too many OB-GYNs aren’t able to practice their love with women all across this country.” … :eek: :wally Cartooniverse ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2004, 11:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/president-bush-and-the-great-love-of-ob-gyns/263625/2 "2004-09-08T11:34:53Z")
Okay, that was a silly way of misspeaking. What was truly frightening is that he apparently is blaming the whole mess of the economy on trial lawyers! Yes, it’s trial lawyers that have crushed the American economy. Not record deficits or jobs lost to overseas competition. Not that this could possibly be the first stage of the attack on John Edwards, oh no. When we said we wanted transparency in government apparently they missed the point. ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2004, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/president-bush-and-the-great-love-of-ob-gyns/263625/3 "2004-09-11T14:11:47Z")
Don’t worry, **Shib**. November’s still a long way off. Bush will have plenty of blame to spread around… lawyers, they’re just the flavor of the week. ---
**Author:** ![Red\_Stilettos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/fbc32d/32.png) [@Red\_Stilettos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Red_Stilettos)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2004, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/president-bush-and-the-great-love-of-ob-gyns/263625/4 "2004-09-11T16:13:08Z")
> [@ShibbOleth](#): > > Okay, that was a silly way of misspeaking. What was truly frightening is that he apparently is blaming the whole mess of the economy on trial lawyers! Yes, it’s trial lawyers that have crushed the American economy. Not record deficits or jobs lost to overseas competition. Not that this could possibly be the first stage of the attack on > John Edwards, oh no. When we said we wanted transparency in government apparently they missed the point. I know this isn’t GD, so I’ll behave myself…but I don’t think OB/GYNs are leaving the business because of lack of jobs. It’s just the opposite: there are plenty of jobs for qualified docs. OB/GYNs in particular are quitting the biz because they can’t afford their malpractice insurance and premiums are exorbitantly high because lawyers have been over-eager to take doctors to trial. So, his statement, though amusingly botched, is accurate. As for the OP: As ever, our esteemed president is a total :wally ---
**Author:** ![DanBlather](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f4b2a3/32.png) [@DanBlather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DanBlather)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2004, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/president-bush-and-the-great-love-of-ob-gyns/263625/5 "2004-09-11T16:40:20Z")
What was he trying to say? I can usually parse it out (I even understood Cheney’s memorable babble about what we do and don’t know), but in this case I am stuck. ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2004, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/president-bush-and-the-great-love-of-ob-gyns/263625/6 "2004-09-11T17:01:29Z")
> [@](#): > > _ **From Reuters** _ POPLAR BLUFF, Mo. (Reuters) - President Bush offered an unexpected reason on Monday for cracking down on frivolous medical lawsuits: “Too many OB-GYNs aren’t able to practice their love with women all across this country.” … > > … At a rally of cheering supporters in Poplar Bluff, Missouri, Bush made his usual pitch for limiting “frivolous lawsuits” that he said drive up the cost of health care and run doctors out of business. > > But then he added, “We’ve got an issue in America. Too many good docs are getting out of business. Too many OB-GYNs aren’t able to practice their love with women all across this country.” … I thought “practicing their love” was how someof them got out of the business, involuntarily, that is. :eek: