Questioner sharply criticizes President Bush at appearance (K-R)

(Man, I hope The Daily Show finds THIS video!)
Posted on Thu, Apr. 06, 2006

Questioner sharply criticizes President Bush at appearance

By Ron Hutcheson and Jim Morrill
Knight Ridder Newspapers

CHARLOTTE, N.C. - President Bush isn't used to tongue lashings, but he got a scolding Thursday from a North Carolina man who told the president that he should be ashamed of himself.

"While I listen to you talk about freedom, I see you assert your right to tap my telephone, to arrest me and hold me without charges, to try to preclude me from breathing clean air and drinking clean water," real estate broker Harry Taylor told Bush at a town hall meeting. "I have never felt more ashamed of nor more frightened by my leadership in Washington."

The audience at Central Piedmont Community College booed, but Bush seemed to take the criticism in stride. "I'm not your favorite guy," the president said. "What's your question?"

Taylor didn't have one, but he wasn't finished. "I feel like, despite your rhetoric, that compassion and common sense have been left far behind during your administration," he told Bush. "And I would hope, from time to time, that you have the humility and the grace to be ashamed of yourself."

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