Bush: OB-GYNs Kept from 'Practicing Their Love'

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POPLAR BLUFF, Mo. (Reuters) - President Bush (news - web sites) 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."

The Republican president, long known for verbal and grammatical lapses, included the anecdote about obstetrician gynecologists in his stump speech attacking Democratic presidential rival Sen. John Kerry (news - web sites) and his running mate, Sen. John Edwards (news - web sites), a former trial lawyer.

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."

Unfazed, Bush went on to deride his rivals as "pro-trial lawyer," and concluded, "I think you've got to make a choice. My opponent made his choice, and he put him on the ticket. I made my choice. I'm for medical liability reform now."

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 14:29 (twenty-one years ago)

I wonder if this is what he means by "practicing their love":

http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/georgia/news-article.aspx?storyid=23157

― Leon Czolgosz (Nicole), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 14:32 (twenty-one years ago)

hahaha, like Bush has ever cared about women's reproductive health.

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 15:21 (twenty-one years ago)

I've heard about "Calling Dr. Love" and all...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 15:22 (twenty-one years ago)

like Bush has ever cared about women's reproductive health.

Oh, he's all in favor of women birthin' lots of babies, as long as they're not on welfare.

― Leon Czolgosz (Nicole), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 15:32 (twenty-one years ago)

yay! Tort Reform! one of the best ways to rally underinformed idjits to your cause!

― Lt. Kingfish Del Pickles (Kingfish), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 15:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Ew, I now have the mental image of an OB/GYN pausing mid-exam and saying, "Um, I know this is awkward, but my love hasn't really been up to snuff lately and, well... would you mind if I practiced on you?"

― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 15:34 (twenty-one years ago)

hahaha, like Bush has ever cared about women's reproductive health.

well, once upon a time...

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 15:35 (twenty-one years ago)

new B/C campaign song - Van Hagar, "Practice My Love"

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 15:36 (twenty-one years ago)

"pro-trial lawyer,"

yeah, b/c Atticus Finch, Thurgood Marshall, and Harvey Birdman are the REAL enemies in our culture...

― Lt. Kingfish Del Pickles (Kingfish), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 15:36 (twenty-one years ago)

http://us.news1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/rids/20040905/i/r3533388207.jpg

check it out! Agent 47 is hangin' with the W.

do secret service dudes get to carry Desert Eagles?

― Lt. Kingfish Del Pickles (Kingfish), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 15:49 (twenty-one years ago)

I can't figure out what the fuck he could've even possibly meant by that statement.

― Allyzay Science Explosion (allyzay), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 02:28 (twenty-one years ago)

"The Worst Pap Smear Ever"

― so sorry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 02:32 (twenty-one years ago)

I assumed he meant to say "the profession they love" or something.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 02:36 (twenty-one years ago)

A friend of the family is an OB-GYN. My uncle once asked him how he could go home to his wife at night after staring at vagina all day. His response was "I work in it, I play in it, and if it was air-conditioned, I'd live in it."

So maybe the president knew of what he spoke for once.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 02:56 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.xoxmag.com/images/metem/dr_awkward_front.gif

― Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 06:32 (twenty-one years ago)

bush is dyslexic, right? clinically, i mean. all the signs are there.

― jess (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 10:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Don't insult dyslexics. I work with dyslexics every day, on higher IQs than the general public at large. DO NOT equate the utter ignorant stupidity of Shrub with Dyslexia.

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― Super-Masonic Black Hole (kate), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 10:22 (twenty-one years ago)

That should read "they generally have a higher IQ..." etc. or something more intelligible than that. Because clearly I don't, argh, etc.

― Super-Masonic Black Hole (kate), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 10:23 (twenty-one years ago)

true.

― jess (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 10:24 (twenty-one years ago)

blame bush.

― jess (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 10:24 (twenty-one years ago)

I think that my "on" in there should say "on average" as well.

Crikey, I try to make a post about intelligence and dyslexia and make the most gramatically unintelligble post ever.

― Super-Masonic Black Hole (kate), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 10:25 (twenty-one years ago)

"they generally have a higher IQ..." etc.

Tom Cruise is dyslexic.

― Leon Czolgosz (Nicole), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 11:20 (twenty-one years ago)

The Kitty Kelley book apparently reveals that Bush once said military service is for 'negroes and white trash'.

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 11:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Now if we can just get him to say it again.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 11:56 (twenty-one years ago)

That sentiment is apparent in his every action.

― Leon Czolgosz (Nicole), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 11:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Well yes, but I wish to be entertained by watching O'Reilly and Coulter trying to explain it away, because then they might seize up and die.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 11:59 (twenty-one years ago)

I am amazed that he allegedly said "negroes"! That's way more polite than what I expected.

― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 12:42 (twenty-one years ago)

He presumably isn't capable of seeing women's bits in anything other than a sexual way.

He probably said "niggers" but while choking on a pretzel, Dan.

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 12:44 (twenty-one years ago)

SERVES HIM RIGHT (allegedly)

― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 12:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Nothing really has served the cunt right yet, though, has it? The pretzel, despite being Mossad trained and have spent 6 years with the Mujahideen, failed in its glorious objective.

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 12:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Maybe Barney will get rabies and attack him.

― Leon Czolgosz (Nicole), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 12:55 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.nrk.no/img/178153.jpeg

― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 12:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Not that Barney, this Barney:

http://www.blogcap.com/graphics/nav_daddy.jpg

Though if a rabid Bernard Sumner were to take a bite out of W it would be the greatest assasination attempt of all time.

― Leon Czolgosz (Nicole), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 12:59 (twenty-one years ago)

STOP THAT!!!

― Super-Masonic Black Hole (kate), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 13:06 (twenty-one years ago)

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