Mr President, what makes you so #ucking awesome?
Bubble-Boy chickens out yet again
The once-a-decade White House Conference on Aging is meeting in Washington this week, with the future of Medicare high on its agenda. Medicare was on President Bush's agenda Tuesday, too. But he skipped the White House conference -- making him the first president not to speak to delegates in the event's half-century history.
While the conference was meeting in a hotel uptown, the White House motorcade set out in the opposite direction, to Greenspring Village, a high-end gated retirement community in suburban Virginia. . . .
The White House team handpicked the seniors who met with President Bush at the closed meeting.
'That he went to speak about Medicare in Virginia today, instead of an assembly of delegates from all over the country indicates that he's afraid to speak in anything but a controlled environment,' Robert Binstock, professor of aging, health and society at the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, said during a session on improving the Medicare program, which provides health care for 43 million older and disabled Americans.
While the conference was meeting in a hotel uptown, the White House motorcade set out in the opposite direction, to Greenspring Village, a high-end gated retirement community in suburban Virginia. . . .
The White House team handpicked the seniors who met with President Bush at the closed meeting.
'That he went to speak about Medicare in Virginia today, instead of an assembly of delegates from all over the country indicates that he's afraid to speak in anything but a controlled environment,' Robert Binstock, professor of aging, health and society at the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, said during a session on improving the Medicare program, which provides health care for 43 million older and disabled Americans.
- the Froomster.
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