Notice bush's jaw twitches? Last time I saw that Cocaine was the culprit

[Demonaut]

If you've ever done coke or seen those who have this is a common reaction. If he had sniffed once I would swear he had tooted but I dont know if the same reaction could be induced if the coke was injected. Just a thought...........

[wildeyed]

1. I was wondering about that.

Teeth grinding is a common reaction to speed. I know this from my misspent youth and I still have the grooves in the back of my teeth to prove it.

I occasionally clench my teeth from stress or too much caffeine, but the grinding only occured when I was using.

[Deja Q]

2. Maybe * is taking adderall?

Speed, as is adderall, an amphetamine.

Hasn't helped his ADHD bipolar manic delusional psychosis, however.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

6. Look at it this way:

I have done on-scene mental health crisis work. I used to do it a lot, because of my experience with people in the grips of substance abuse, thanks to my years in the music business. I was considered really good at figuring out what people were on. I was, most often, accurate.

If I went to a crisis call and there was a subject displaying in such an agitated manner, I can assure you that all responders would have been concerned for the immediate welfare of the subject, as well as their own immediate welfare. That's a fact. Such agitation, rambling, incoherance and agression would have resulted in our calling for a police presence and transportation to the hospital. Period. I would have been very, ver suspicious of some sort of substance abuse, particularly stimulants. While I would personally be surprised if, in this case, that the substance in question was cocaine or Nasty Biker Crank, I would not be surprised if it were Ritalin or one of its cousins, with something else that lowers inhibitions to cut the edge. That something else could be ETOH(alcohol).

[mhollis]

3. Temper temper...

I figured it was due to his inability to hold his temper. He certainly is his momma's boy in that he gets mad too easily and gives that anger free reign. Certainly not something we'd like to see in a President.

He did manage to control himself better this debate but it was quite noticeable during cutaways that he was really fighting to do so. I'm scoring this close to even. Kerry missed a huge opportunity when Bush did not answer the woman's question about the three mistakes he had made. I would have loved to have seen Kerry inform the woman that Bush failed totally to attempt to answer the woman's question in his rebuttal instead of launching off on well-covered ground.

[warrior1]

4. Dog, how I hate this man

[Demonaut]

5. The "who ? Me?" expression or "Its not my fault"

the classic punt to " the buck stops here "

[DebJ]

7. I thought he was struggling to control his facial expressions to

avoid what happened in the first debate. He seemed to know he could not do what he did last time, but did not know what to do instead. Certainly did not reflect confidence, as did Kerry's smiles.

[RafterMan]

8. I thought it was obvious

He came out flying high, and whatever he'd taken gradually wore off over the 90 minutes. It was not at all like a normal calming-down.

It was even more clear the second time I watched the event, since I was looking more at the people than the arguments.

[Sven77]

9. its a electronic speaker in his mouth

its a electronic speaker in his mouth, the vibrations against his jawbone reverb in his ear. im sure karl rove or dick cheney is on the other end.

[ksoze]

10. His mouth had to be full of blood from all the clenching

[Shadow30]

11. Still I wonder....

...if Bush does ever use drugs or alcohol in the white house if prehaps the stress is getting to him,after all being president is such hard work.

[flordehinojos]

12. jaw twitching could also be a side effect to any psychotropic drugs

he's being prescribed!