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September 07, 2004
What's That Word?
Glenn links to this article as an example of Kerry's indecision....but it's so much more.
"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."
That sounds like my daughter when we go out to eat. Our running joke is that, at some point while looking at the menu, she will always ask "Do I like that?" She honestly doesn't remember. And it takes her for-freaking-ever to decide what to order. I can only imagine what she'd be like trying to run our country. "Do I like to bomb Iran?"
Me, I'm getting to that age where I have trouble remembering names of common, everyday things. And sometimes, when I'm trying to remember, the wrong word pops out. Much like this.
"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.
That cracks me up....even when I do it.
The only danger in that problem is you might say "We should.....throw exploding thingys at Iran."
Posted by Rita at September 7, 2004 09:45 PM