September 14, 2004
An urban legend, surely
Too many OB-GYNs aren't able to practice their love with women all across this country.
George Bush, POPLAR BLUFF, Sept 6, 2004
I mean, really. Someone tell me it's not true. (Although Reuters thinks it is.)
Posted by claudia at September 14, 2004 10:06 PMOh, he said it, all right.
It's not what he -meant-, but it's what he said. It's been quoted all over the place.
But he says screwy stuff like that all the time, and gets away with it. So why should this surprise you?
Posted by: Diane at September 14, 2004 11:24 PMI've seen the clip. It's accurate.
One of the stranger transvaluations in recent years in American political discourse -- and there have been many strange ones indeed -- is the one that has turned "capable of speaking well in public" into "slick". Inarticulateness is now taken as a sign of sincerity, instead of previous indicators like a warm tone of voice or an emotional connection with the audience. Man, Reagan must be spinning at ultracentrifuge speeds.
C.
Posted by: Carlos at September 15, 2004 12:48 AMI'm working on my, um....ah, style already. :^)
Maybe it has something to do with all those "GAAAAAAAHHHHHHH"s and such Noel had his Mexican President tossing out all the time? The predictive powers of the FANTL are legendary.
Posted by: Bernard Guerrero at September 15, 2004 12:55 AMIt's right here
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2004/09/20040906-4.html
on the White House's own website! (about halfway down that page)
Like Diane said, he didn't mean it quite the way it sounds. But it *is* what he said.
Posted by: Lois Fundis at September 15, 2004 01:23 AMBernard, I really hope the FANTL has no predictive powers. I would not be a happy man.
(Short version for the acronym-bewildered: the For All Nails Time Line was a collaborative writing effort to continue business historian Robert Sobel's alternate history, For Want of a Nail, up to the present day, in which a failed American Revolution has led to two large powerful and mutually hostile nations on North America, the Confederation of North America, and the United States of Mexico. In Freudian terms, the CNA was the superego of the continent, and the USM the id. I wrote the character of the differently sane President of Mexico, Vicente Mercator -- successor to Andrew Jackson in that great office -- and his clandestine hydrogen bomb project. Doug and Bernard still chuckle over what I did with that one.)
(Hey, our co-author Noel has made Brad DeLong's blog! Dude.)
C.
Posted by: Carlos at September 15, 2004 12:06 PMHe should have gotten a quote.
DeLong's still on my Enemies List, though. I look forward to the day I can order people to break into his office to find something incriminating...
(However, I do think he's letting me post again.)
Bernard "Persona Non Grata" Guerrero
Posted by: Bernard Guerrero at September 15, 2004 04:17 PM