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January 24, 2004
Old- Fashioned Decorum
Someone please tell me that Dean is just joking.
Dean yesterday promised that if he's elected president, there will be more formal state dinner parties and a new medical practice where patients may be treated at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. by his doctor-wife, Judy.
Excuse me?
"She's going to continue to be a doctor," Dean said yesterday of his wife.
"She's good at it and I think she should. I think we'll have some arrangement that hasn't been tried before where she gets to see patients. I don't think it's insurmountable."
Boy the Secret Service is gonna love you.....not.
Taking questions from New Hampshire voters at a Lions Club, Dean complained that President Bush - who years ago swore off alcohol and likes to go to bed early - hasn't held enough parties at the White House.
Yeah Nero, that's just what we need. A President that parties more.
I may be old-fashioned, but I find such cavalier attitudes towards the office of president extremely offensive. It's not just another job. The White House is not a doctor's office, frat house or Clinton's massage parlor. Those kind of actions tell me that you do not have any respect for the office you hold (or will hold). So why should anyone else respect you as the officeholder?
Besides, can you imagine what she would charge for an office visit?
Posted by Rita at January 24, 2004 07:42 AM
Comments
About what the Clintons charged for a stay in the Lincoln bedroom? After all Shrillery said that the White House was 'her' house. Correction to the First Queen of Mean: It belongs to the TAXPAYERS. I agree with you.
Posted by: Cricket at January 24, 2004 04:33 PM
From the story -- "Dean didn't say his wife's medical practice would be in the White House, but implied it."
Uh, did Dean SAY he was implying it?
A more honest author would say "Dean didn't say his wife's medical practice would be in the White House, *but we inferred it so we could write a sensational article without ever being required to write a correction.*"
Granted, the author didn't SAY he inferred this entire story himself because he wanted to write something sensational -- but he implied it.
Posted by: Aaron Butler at January 24, 2004 05:26 PM
But Aaron, that's what the NYPost is famous for. And "I think we'll have some arrangement that hasn't been tried before where she gets to see patients." does lend itself to all kinds of speculation. I suspect what Dean was referring to was the arrangement they used while he was governor. His wife lived elsewhere so she could continue her practice.
Posted by: Rita at January 25, 2004 09:22 AM