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September 07, 2004
What was that again?
Posted by Dale Franks
It's awful early in the campaign for fatigue to set in, but apparently it is. Both John Kerry And George W. Bush seemed to be at a loss for words today. Or, the right ones, at any rate.
Of course, it's not news that the President has a...uh...colorful way of expressing himself. But, still...
At a rally in Poplar Bluff, Mo., [Mr. Bush] was breezing through his domestic agenda when he came to a favorite: what he calls medical liability reform.
"We got an issue in America," he began, in a folksy diction aimed at his small-town crowd. "Too many good docs are getting out of the business."
Mr. Bush then turned to another point he has been making lately to appeal to women - that among those doctors being driven from the business are many obstetricians and gynecologists.
But Mr. Bush seemed to get derailed on the way to his point.
"Too many good OB/GYN's aren't able to practice their" - he paused a split second, as if searching for a word, then continued - "their love, with women all across this country," he said.
Actually, I think we're supposed to have pretty stiff laws aimed at preventing doctors from engaging in love practice with their patients, aren't we?
At least he didn't misread his cue cards, and call them "Obgins".
While that's amusing, Mr. Kerry seemed eager to do the president one better.
As [Mr. Kerry] likes to do, he brandished a bit of local color to show he wasn't just any interloping politician blowing through town.
But in so doing he seemed to forget that Republicans have been tearing him down for months as a vacillating, indecisive, finger-in-the-wind politician of the worst order.
"Everybody told me, 'God, if you're coming to Canonsburg, you've got to find time to go to Toy's, and he'll take care of you,'" Mr. Kerry said, dropping the name of a restaurant his motorcade had passed on the way in. "I understand it's my kind of place, because you don't have to - you know, when they give you the menu, I'm always struggling: Ah, what do you want?
"He just gives you what he's got, right?" Mr. Kerry added, continuing steadily off a gangplank of his own making: "And you don't have to worry, it's whatever he's cooked up that day. And I think that's the way it ought to work, for confused people like me who can't make up our minds."
Suddenly, Mr. Kerry's Iraq policy has become much clearer. Or, rather, the reason for its lack of clarity has.
Still, as far as catchphrases go, I think Mr. Bush wins this one.
Practice your love, people. Just don't practice it in public.
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