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Quixote1818 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-15-04 11:38 PM
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Is Bush's health declining? Take a look at this! Wow!
This was an e-mail I just received.



Earlier today I got a letter asking for help getting out the story on President Bush's health. Tonight Markos at dailykos dropped a bombshell, a shocking video recently taped by the president. With that evidence in hand, I sent the following letter to the media. Please join me in a full court press media campaign to make them cover this story.



Thank you,






Text of the letter:



Dear members of the media,



I recently sent many of you a link that shows clear deterioration in President Bush’s speaking ability over the last 10 years. Here is a link where you can see that again:



http://www.adbuzz.com/bushbuzz.htm



It almost brought me to tears to see just how much change there has been. But even that video comparison did not prepare me for this startling video President Bush recently taped for the Iraq Survey Group (This is a large QT file):



http://www.dailykos.com/images/admin/President_Bush_Thanks_ISG.mpg



After seeing these two videos and hearing that President Bush has delayed his annual physical, I have become extremely concerned about the health of our president. When you add the additional physical evidence visible in the last debate (the odd looking spittle in the corner of the president’s mouth and his seemingly reddish complexion), concern for the President’s health is a serious issue that the media is failing to cover.



Here is a story about the President skipping his physical:



http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=afp/us_vote_bush_health



You can watch the debate again here and judge the physical evidence for yourself:



http://www.c-span.org/2004vote/debates.asp?Cat=Current_Event&Code=PresVP_04&ShowVidNum=10&Rot_Cat_CD=PresVP_04&Rot_HT=206&Rot_WD=&ShowVidDays=100&ShowVidDesc=&ArchiveDays=365



Some have even suggested that the strange hump under the President’s suit jacket might be a type of defibrillator. The picture here does seem consistent with what we all saw in the debate pictures:



http://www.lifecor.com/about_lifevest/when_to_use.asp



I don’t really know if there is a problem with the President’s health. He obviously feels the job is really hard work, so it wouldn’t be a big surprise to find out it has had a deleterious impact on his health. Aside from the extraordinary pressure that this president is under, there is more than enough evidence to warrant a discussion of his health in the media. And I don’t really see that discussion anywhere.



If you won’t cover the story as a service to the electorate, could you at least look at it as an opportunity to create news ratings and/or readership? Please, for the good of the nation and maybe even as a service to the President, cover this story.



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Zuni Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-15-04 11:42 PM
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1. reminds me of the difference in LBJ from 1960-1968
the decline in his health was very obvious. He aged like 30 years in 8.
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Rose Siding Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-15-04 11:43 PM
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2. It would be interesting to see Dr Dean run with this one
:evilgrin:
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qanda Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-15-04 11:47 PM
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3. I listened to the second link
And at first it was slowed down and sounded very weird, but then I played it again and it seemed to be at a regular speed and seemed somewhat normal. Am I missing something about that video?
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Kinkistyle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-16-04 12:02 AM
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6. He looks completely "normal" to me.
Yeah, its obvious he is regurgitating rehearsed lines off a teleprompter, but he doesn't look particularly sick or of poor health to me other than just being a tad haggard or stressed out. :shrug:
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Morning Dew Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-15-04 11:48 PM
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4. Skipping physicals - story of his life, ain't it?
Ground him on 11/2
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edbermac Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-16-04 12:02 AM
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5. In all seriousness, I can believe it...
Edited on Sat Oct-16-04 12:03 AM by edbermac
I'm sure that whoever was President of the USA since 9/11 would be under incredible pressure. For Bush that was probably exacerbated by his invasion of Iraq; self-inflicted pressure in his case. If Gore were in office I'm sure it would be taking its toll; though not as bad since he obviously wouldn't have invaded..."hard work" indeed George...
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KharmaTrain Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-16-04 12:13 AM
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7. How Does Skipping A Physical Relate To Mental Problems?
Maybe I've taken the wrong physicals, but I don't see how you connect the fact he's refused a physical for the deterioration of his attempts at uttering cohesive sentences.

Yes, I know toxocology, but there's no way that information would be available and would be dubious at best. If there's an ongoing addiction problem...why not say that...then if you're gonna shoot, you better have solid ammo and not miss.

Personally, I feel we have more than enough stuff here to win this election than to make other noises, and if the asshole loses, will we really care about his health, other than it stays playing N64 in Texas for the rest of the bastard's natural pampered life.

The electorate saw a dumbass who was outclassed and completely destroyed verbally by Kerry. The vaneer of this boy's outright ignorance and arrogance was opened for the world to see and that alone should disqualify this manchild from any future responsibilities.

This week we got the total debasing of the Slime Boat assholes...not an inch of ink about that today, precious little was ever made of the Dulfer reports and other revelations now that appear to be cascading faster than we can use 'em. Why do we need more?
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Dan Donating Member (595 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-16-04 12:18 AM
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8. Maybe God is punishing him?
Edited on Sat Oct-16-04 12:19 AM by Dan
....I mean, he implies that he talks to God, and is doing God's mission on earth...possible that he didn't get the message right.
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