Bush's health officially questioned by UK media

[Quixote1818]

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,6903,1329254,00.html

Has Bush lost his reason?

The President's apparent mental fragility should give US voters pause for thought at the ballot box

Andrew Stephen
Sunday October 17, 2004
The Observer

It will, we are confidently told, be the most important American election for generations. In the words last week of Dick Cheney, the voice of what passes for gravitas in the Bush Administration, Americans will have to make 'about as serious a decision as anybody is ever asked to make' when they go to the polls in 17 days' time.
The prophets of doom, whom Cheney exemplifies, are precisely right about the importance of this election. But the momentous decision awaiting Americans is not whether they return to power a President who is uniquely qualified to protect the US against terrorism, as Cheney et al would have us believe. It is whether they re-elect a man who, it is now clear, has become palpably unstable.

The evidence has been before our eyes for some time, but only during the course of this election campaign has it crystallised - just in time, possibly, for the 2 November election. The 43rd US President has always had a much-publicised knack for mangled syntax, but now George Bush often searches an agonisingly long time, sometimes in vain, for the right words. His mind simply blanks out at crucial times. He is prone, I am told, to foul-mouthed temper tantrums in the White House. His handlers now rarely allow him to speak an unscripted word in public.

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,6903,1329254,00.html

[meganmonkey]

1. great article

it's fun to mock him for acting like an ass, as we so often do here at DU, but it is good to read a (relatively) neutral analysis of his instability.

[Shopaholic]

2. Now let's see if any of the US Press has the balls to pick this story

up and run with it. My guess is that only Olbermann will mention it and I really can't even be sure about that since he works for MSGOP.

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. WOW and once again we have to rely on

our heroic press that points to the obviious. Problem is when did our heroic and open press move to London?

[Cha]

4. Andrew Stephen is Good!

"and spent the evening with a creepy, inane grin on his face, as though he was red-faced after a festive Christmas dinner."


He thinks the polls are.."The polls taken since Wednesday night's debate are infuriatingly contradictory"

The polls are whacked!

I certainly don't agree with his assessment that Kerry is "poor candidate"..he obviously doesn't know Kerry..

[hedda_foil]

5. If the Kerry campaign REALLY wanted to play hardball ...

They'd do a HUGE push-polling campaign in the swing states on this issue. The * campaign will certainly use push polling against Kerry. It's one of Rove's favorite tricks ... and he always pushes flat out lies, of course.

[Reciprocity]

6. You know at first I thought he was on..

Antidepressants, but after he looked so yellow in all three of the debates. I'm thinking he may have liver damage.

[Quixote1818]

7. Kick

:kick:

[progressivebydesign]

8. Kick so the U.S. MEDIA will get of their ASSES and save the country! n/t

[spanone]

9. It saddens me that America has lost it's media. It's gone.

And democracy may go along with it. It is the life-blood of democracy. What we have now is a media that promotes ideology. Very dangerous and anti-democratic.

[Kimber Scott]

10. Here in AZ after the last debate, a crowd of 30,000 Bush supporters

watched the debate at Bank One ballpark and then waited the arrival of their candidate after the debate. He showed up and spoke for 5 minutes. I thought that was pretty strange. Now, reading this, I'm beginning to think there is something wrong.

This whole Bush thing has been nothing short of surreal.

(30,000 is the number the news gave that night. They gave Kerry 10,000 supporters at his after debate party.)