Business owner couldn’t ‘get a word in’ with Bush.
By on Jul 24th, 2007 at 10:08 am
Business owner couldn’t ‘get a word in’ with Bush.
The Washington Post reports:
The entrepreneur who hosted President Bush last week for a roundtable discussion on health care and small business said yesterday that he could barely get a word in as Bush opined on children’s health insurance and other health topics.
If he had, Clifton Broumand would have told the president he disagreed with him on most of it, he said.
“He answered his own questions,” said Broumand, who gave Bush a tour of Man & Machine Inc., the Landover-based medical computer accessory company he founded 25 years ago. “I thought the whole concept was to ask us, so I was a little bit frustrated. I would have liked the opportunity to give him my viewpoint, rather than him knowing the answer.“
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“He answered his own questionsâ€
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THIS is what has been wrong with the Bush administration from the very beginning, in everything.
July 24th, 2007 at 10:11 amWell, that’s why el chimperador didn’t let the man speak, he DID know what he would say/ask and the royal pain didn’t want to hear it. By his constant yammering, lil’ boots was essentially “La la la! I can’t HEAR you!!!”
July 24th, 2007 at 10:12 amIMPEACHMENT – if it isn’t on the table SOON, I will build a freakin’ table to put it on!!!
Peace and Blessings,
Elspeth
“I would have liked the opportunity to give him my viewpoint, rather than him knowing the answer.“
This line needs to be rewritten. It’s not quite accurate.
“I would have liked the opportunity to give him a PIECE OF MY MIND, SEEING than he DOESN’T HAVE A SINGLE answer.“
There, now it makes sense.
July 24th, 2007 at 10:13 amOf course he answered his own questions. He is the Decider!
July 24th, 2007 at 10:14 am#1 ~ agreed. Beware the leader who has nothing to learn.
July 24th, 2007 at 10:15 amEven if he would have listened to the business owners concerns, it wouldn’t matter. Bush & Co. will do what their special interest friends want regardless of the detriment it causes to regular folks.
July 24th, 2007 at 10:15 amWhere’s this guy been the past six years? This Administration has been this way from the beginning. They already know all the answers…their purpose has been to change reality to suit.
July 24th, 2007 at 10:16 amBush is the WORST type of leader imaginable: One who doesn’t LISTEN.
July 24th, 2007 at 10:16 amClifton Broumand suffers under the delusion that Bush works for the people of this country.
Well, maybe not so much now….
July 24th, 2007 at 10:17 am“I thought the whole concept was to ask us, so I was a little bit frustrated. I would have liked the opportunity to give him my viewpoint, rather than him knowing the answer.“
Listening is an art W never quite mastered. I believe he listens to Dirty Dick, but I don’t believe he has much choice in the matter.
‘What the ‘Merican people have to understand’…
Is everyone else as sick of this pandering as me?
July 24th, 2007 at 10:19 amThis president doesn’t listen. This president cannot listen. This president cannot learn.
July 24th, 2007 at 10:20 amThe President’s definition of dialog is monolog.
July 24th, 2007 at 10:20 amThis is the kind of idiot people want to have a beer with? All you could do is sit there and cry in your drink. Harry, Nancy take the keys, now! He’s not safe driving the country.
July 24th, 2007 at 10:21 amBush was very well prepped for that one. And it’s obvious he’s passionate about denying health care to children.
July 24th, 2007 at 10:22 amTime to mobilize! Call in the clans! Rise up and take the streets back! Rescue the country!
Some guy is unhappy with Bush, more proof that Rove is running a secret gulag system and Cheney tortures people in his living room.
This is worthy of a thread? You kooks are getting desperate.
July 24th, 2007 at 10:22 amCommander Decider Guy doesn’t care what anyone has to say.
July 24th, 2007 at 10:23 amWhatever made this guy think that Bush would listen to any voice?
July 24th, 2007 at 10:23 amBush is incorrigible – he cannot, will not listen. He never has, and he never will.
Bush thinks it is a matter of character, while the rest of us think it is a matter of arrogant ignorance.
This is a mark of deceitful autocrats. Remember how Nixon answered questions?
“That’s an interesting question. And it reminds me of a story my mother told me. She was a good woman and ….”
Nixon would meander with an anecdote and then draw his own conclusions from his own off topic musings and never return to the actual question.
July 24th, 2007 at 10:23 amThis is worthy of a thread? You kooks are getting desperate.
Comment by Mucho Gusto
Not worth replying to, Poquito Gusto…
July 24th, 2007 at 10:24 amThis is worthy of a thread? You kooks are getting desperate.
Comment by Mucho Gusto
Please recommend a topic that would be suitable for ThinkProgress this morning.
July 24th, 2007 at 10:24 amWheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee….
What a great thread, Mucho! It shoes Bush’s insanity, AND it let’s the trolls claim it isn’t newsworthy!
Something for everyone… Including those who contribute nothing. Welcome!
July 24th, 2007 at 10:25 amRather than him knowing the answer?? When in hell did Bush ever know the answer to anything except when he had a microphone in his ear so he could hear what Rove was telling him?
July 24th, 2007 at 10:26 amThe trolls here seem to be unable to see a pattern in Bush’s behavior and the inevitable way that it turns out badly for the country. This story is just corroborating anecdote numer 3,437,612.
July 24th, 2007 at 10:27 amBush’s entire presidency can be summed up as:
“You’ll be asked you opinion after I tell you what it is.”
July 24th, 2007 at 10:27 amAhh just like selling out the base with the Dubai ports deal, finally the stooges are catching on. Name one major Domestic policy initiative that the President can claim as a success during his reign? Please help me name one.
July 24th, 2007 at 10:27 amNow, this does beg the question, was Bru$ch answering his own questions in a “Donald Rumsfeld” kind of way, or was he doing it in a “Don’t bother me, I’m talking to God right now” kind of way. I’m going w/ the second, myself.
July 24th, 2007 at 10:27 amNot worth replying to, Poquito Gusto…
Comment by The Republic of Stupidity — July 24, 2007 @ 10:24 am
then why DID you? … i just gotta know…
jeesh… see yas…
July 24th, 2007 at 10:27 amPlease help me name one.
Comment by the fly-man/ W is 4 WEAK
We all know what “My Pet Goat” is…
July 24th, 2007 at 10:28 amPlease recommend a topic that would be suitable for ThinkProgress this morning.
Senator Obama (D): “Preventing genocide in Iraq is not a national-security issue”.
And I thought you sensitive types cared about the Iraqis. Poo poo.
July 24th, 2007 at 10:30 amThe Derider strikes again!
(CH)impeach this mf.
July 24th, 2007 at 10:30 amInCurious George!
July 24th, 2007 at 10:31 amI am still amazed at how long it’s taken these people to figure out that they are utter tools.
July 24th, 2007 at 10:31 amSenator Obama (D): “Preventing genocide in Iraq is not a national-security issueâ€.
And I thought you sensitive types cared about the Iraqis. Poo poo.
Comment by Mucho Gusto
Then click on the “Contact Us” button on the right, and send it to TP. Go ahead….
July 24th, 2007 at 10:33 amAHHH Troll Dung in the morning.
Don’t like the thread, but still post.
Your logic matches your Dubious Double U’s; talk fast & say nothing.
July 24th, 2007 at 10:33 amYou kooks are getting desperate. — Comment by Mucho Gusto
What a coincidence. This is the same thing the Republicans say to the Iraqis when the Iraqis ask us to leave their country.
July 24th, 2007 at 10:34 amthat’s why Bush is the commander guy…
July 24th, 2007 at 10:35 amFALSE QUOTE… imagine that…
Obama: Don’t stay in Iraq over genocide
Democrat says Romney trying to score ‘cheap political points’ over sex ed
Updated: 2:58 a.m. CT July 20, 2007
SUNAPEE, N.H. – Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama said Thursday the United States cannot use its military to solve humanitarian problems and that preventing a potential genocide in Iraq isn’t a good enough reason to keep U.S. forces there.
“Well, look, if that’s the criteria by which we are making decisions on the deployment of U.S. forces, then by that argument you would have 300,000 troops in the Congo right now — where millions have been slaughtered as a consequence of ethnic strife — which we haven’t done,†Obama said in an interview with The Associated Press.
“We would be deploying unilaterally and occupying the Sudan, which we haven’t done. Those of us who care about Darfur don’t think it would be a good idea,†he said.
Story continues below
July 24th, 2007 at 10:37 amhttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19862711/
…
When you live in a bubble, the echo is deafening. You can’t hear anything else.
July 24th, 2007 at 10:39 amNevermind, Mucho Gusto.
Your little story has been debunked, see #37.
See why TP didn’t run it? Awwww, you’re probably embarrassed now….
July 24th, 2007 at 10:40 amAccording to a new American Research Group poll, just 25% of Americans approve of the way President Bush is handling his job as president and 71% disapprove. These are record lows for the survey.
When it comes to Bush’s handling of the economy, 23% approve and 73% disapprove.
July 24th, 2007 at 10:42 amFALSE QUOTE… imagine that…
Comment by katy
Yeah, I tried googling that “quote” and couldn’t find it either. I’ve learned… you’ve got to check all troll “direct quotes”.
July 24th, 2007 at 10:44 amSo he acted like a coke head eh? When do they release the results on the presidential drug test?
July 24th, 2007 at 10:44 amWhere do they keeping diggin up these people who believe Bush cares about what THEY think? How do you find people who have absolutely no contact with the world aroudn them?
July 24th, 2007 at 10:45 amTo a Troll
O, people now behold the troll,
The one defending Bush.
He loves the man with heart and soul.
His agenda he will push.
The troll is very versatile
July 24th, 2007 at 10:48 amIn praising King Abusto.
Although to most the King is vile,
To a troll he’s mucho gusto.
Admin! LMAO!!~
July 24th, 2007 at 10:49 amTo a Troll
O, people now behold the troll,
The one defending Bush.
He loves the man with heart and soul.
His agenda he will push.
The troll is very versatile
In praising King Arbusto.
Although to most the King is vile,
To a troll he’s mucho gusto.
Sorry for the double post. I needed to correct the typo on Arbusto.
July 24th, 2007 at 10:52 amWhen you ask your own questions…. and answer you own questions, guess that will make sure you get the answers (and the questions) you want.
Kinda a closed circuit thingy.
July 24th, 2007 at 10:55 am!!!GOOD JOB #37!!!!
Mucho Gusto, you are worthless
July 24th, 2007 at 10:56 amupside00,
A closed circuit thingy with a positive feedback loop. The answers he spews come back amplified, and are again amplified…… and any good engineer will tell you that’s an unstable system. Causes the squeal when you put the microphone too close to the speaker. No one doubts that Boy George is unstable.
Administrator, That was great! All praise King Arbusto!
July 24th, 2007 at 11:01 amBack on thread, you’ve got to give credit where credit’s due. Mr. Bush did attend a discussion where questions were asked and answers given. He can now state that as an unarguable fact. The fact that he did most of the questioning and then answered himself will be glossed over. He’s doing what he’s always done. He decides on a course of action and persues it no matter what anybody tells him. God talks to him and Mr. Bush knows it. Unfortunately there’s one thing Mr. Bush doesn’t know. If you talk to God, you’re praying. If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
July 24th, 2007 at 11:03 amImpeach Bush and Cheney and Save the Constitution!
#48 No one doubts that Boy George is unstable.
Administrator, That was great! All praise King Arbusto!
Comment by nanlich
Unstable as in right before the bunker action that Adolf had towards the end of WWII? One can only dream!!
July 24th, 2007 at 11:08 amIronic, isn’t it, that our ever name changin’ troll uses the same exact method in debate.
Says what it wants to say ( Why are Libtards defeatests?), and before any responses, answers itself (Clinton did it!). Before anyone can offer a factual, opposing view, it changes it’s posting name, and agrees with itself (Right on, Ringoworm!)
Damn scary, and sad actually.
Maybe this is why Dubya, thief in charge, only allows hand picked conservatives at his “town hall” meetings. Preach to the choir, and you’ll be praised and appreciated.
July 24th, 2007 at 11:08 amDoofus!
DRxJ
July 24th, 2007 at 11:13 amMethinks perhaps Bush is both the preacher and the choir.
Damn scary, and sad actually.
Comment by DRxJ
I’ve been watching that and trying to figure out how to derail that sort of sequence. It’s tricky.
July 24th, 2007 at 11:15 amBush is preacher, choir, and hands out the collection plate, too. It is amusing that the leader of the free world has to have every public appearance pre-scripted, so that no possible exchange of ideas is forthcoming.
Wesley Clark talked about Bush’s bubble a couple of weeks ago. When you surround yourself with people who will only tell you what you want to hear, there is no debate. There is no dissent. There is no hope.
July 24th, 2007 at 11:20 amupside00,
Now there’s a Bush legacy I could support. Talk about securing a place in the history books. Maybe someone should suggest it to him……..
July 24th, 2007 at 11:23 amComment by nanlichi
From all indications so far, Dubya has had someone read “Mein Kampf” and “The Third Reich” to him and I am sure he has had to ask “What ever happened to that smart nice man from that WWII thingy, you know with the funny little moustache. Maybe I could get me one of those too! Would be SOO Kewl!”
July 24th, 2007 at 11:33 amWith his vocal opposition to the expansion of the S-CHIP program to provide health care coverage for more of America’s children, President Bush is returning to the same tried and true formula he first pioneered in Texas. That is, Bush initially fought the legislation on ideological grounds before caving to popular pressure and grudgingly accepting some version of the bill. Then, as with the Texas S-CHIP program, the Texas Patients Bill of Right and the 2003 Medicare prescription drug benefit, Bush claimed credit for it.
For the details, see:
July 24th, 2007 at 11:55 am“S-CHIP on Bush’s Shoulder.”
So Bush answers his own questions. He must have learned that from Rummy. Answering your own questions is SOOO much easier than answering somebody else’s.
And talking enough that nobody else can say anything is SOP for the person who is afraid that somebody might ask a question.
July 24th, 2007 at 12:01 pmHm. Sounds like the way der Fuhrer would opine in front of stultified tea guests at Berchtesgaden.
I’ll bet W is also poring over maps of Iraq and moving fictional military units around as part of the “surge.”
July 24th, 2007 at 12:15 pmbasically the most powerful country in the world has an individual at the helm who lacks even the most fundamental tenets of leadership. HE DOESN”T LISTEN!!!!
July 24th, 2007 at 12:33 pmI’ve been reading Glenn Greenwald’s “A Tragic Legacy: how a good vs evil mentality destroyed the Bush presidency.” Scary sh!t, but the essential premise is that GWB has an utter conviction that whatever he does is right, because his cause is just and perfect. He’s not listening to anyone who isn’t telling him what he already knows is true. Period.
July 24th, 2007 at 1:20 pmYeah, now the guy claims he couldn’t get a word in… more than likely, the real reason is that, when he was in the same room as Bush, he was speechless.
Now, after the fact, he blames Bush for his own inability to assert himself…
pathetic.
July 24th, 2007 at 1:53 pmYeah, I tried googling that “quote†and couldn’t find it either. I’ve learned… you’ve got to check all troll “direct quotesâ€.
Comment by The Republic of Stupidity — July 24, 2007 @ 10:44 am
yep, gotta do it…
July 24th, 2007 at 2:32 pmmy first attempt got nothing so i eliminated
all but the first 4 words…
…
Actually, I was not speechless. President Bush asked me about my experiences in regard to health care. He was willing to listen and I believe that he was interested. But when he asked about what can we do to fix these problems, he really did not ask me nor the others. It was a rhetorical question. I very rarely am speechless even with a President sitting beside me.
July 24th, 2007 at 2:49 pm#65…I hope you had a chance to take a shower after being close to that walking sack of filth…
July 24th, 2007 at 4:53 pmBush was very well prepped for that one. And it’s obvious he’s passionate about denying health care to children.
Funny, he gave far more money to the program than Clinton!
July 24th, 2007 at 6:33 pm