I've watched President Obama closely - he's excellent at public speech and talks directly to people with ease.
George Bush was also quite friendly, jocular in fact.. aside from those instances where he yelled at reporters or recited the house rules to the dog at a time when psychiatric evaluation determined he was potentially cracking - which was happening obviously due to his drug habits than the "pressures of office", imo. Then again, maybe it was all part of Cindy Sheehan's ploy..
Perhaps. But, in a recent Atlantic Monthly article, editor James Fallows observed that "through his forties Bush was perfectly articulate," so "there must be some organic basis" for his "peculiar mode of speech, a learning disability, a reading problem, dyslexia or some other disorder." That led Joseph M. Price, a Carsonville, Michigan, physician, to suggest, in a letter to editor of the Atlantic Monthly, that Bush may be suffering from pre-senile dementia.
Dr. Price noted that Bush's problems can't be a learning disability or dyslexia, "because patients with those problems have always had them." He went on to say, ""Slowly developing cognitive deficits, as demonstrated so clearly by the President [sic], can represent only one diagnosis, and that is 'presenile dementia'! Presenile dementia is best described to nonmedical persons as a fairly typical Alzheimer's situation that develops significantly earlier in life, well before what is usually considered old age."
Whatever ails Bush, be it physical or mental, goes beyond the religious fanatics and neocons he has surrounded himself with. Contrary to what some think, he is not a stupid man. He may just be a lazy mana rich, frat playboybut playing at being president doesn't cut it.
There are suggestions that he may have suffered a seizure or a mild stroke, which would explain the infamous pretzel incident and possibly the tumbles from his mountain bike, which the corporate media dismissed as macho recklessness.
After watching the third debate, Dallas physician W. Kendall Tongier, an anesthesiologist, wrote the Dallas Morning News, "I am highly concerned with what I saw. The drooping left side of the President's [sic] face, his mouth and nasolabial fold (the crease in the face running from the nostril to the side of mouth) may be indicative of a recent stroke, TIA (transient ischemic attack)) or, possibly botox injections. I sincerely hope this was nothing more than botox injections."
Why has Bush postponed his annual physical, which is usually done in August, until after the election? The official White House story is it would have interfered with his campaign's heavy travel schedule. That has fueled speculation that Bush might be suffering from atrial fibrillation, as his father does, and might have been wearing a LifeVest, a device containing an external defibrillator, thusly explaining the odd bugle under his jacket during the first debate.
