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April 07, 2006
Berating Bush
A North Carolina real estate broker criticized President Bush at a town-hall meeting at Central Piedmont Community College in Charlotte yesterday.
“While I hear you talk about freedom. I see you assert your right to tap my telephone. To arrest me and hold me without charges,” said Taylor.
To this, Bush simply responded, “yeah” and, a few seconds later, proceeded to interrupt Taylor with a joke to get laughs and claps from the crowd. He did let Taylor finish, however, and even told those booing Taylor to be quiet and let him speak.
Taylor when on to say “I have never felt more ashamed of nor more frightened by my leadership in Washington....I feel like, despite your rhetoric, that compassion and common sense have been left far behind during your administration, and I would hope, from time to time, that you have the humility and the grace to be ashamed of yourself, inside yourself.”
To this Bush responded “would I apologize for that? The answer is absolutely not.”
Of course, none of this should be altogether surprising. But it is interesting that Bush doesn’t even need to feign humility. He can basically just say, “yeah I’ll tap your phone, bitch. Whatchoo gonna do?” and receive rounds of gleeful applause.
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Posted by MJuhre at April 7, 2006 10:36 AM