Know your BFEE: Did Smirk Suffer a Coke Stroke?

[Octafish]

Old Rense (don't blame me) raised a most important and serious question. What do medically-minded DUers think? It's also a most important question for people to consider BEFORE they vote:

Report - Bush Suffered
A Past 'Seizure'

Jeff Rense
4-26-4

If this news story is accurate, the American public is being betrayed (yet again) at the highest level. Americans have a RIGHT TO KNOW if their Commander-in-Chief is even remotely incapacitated. This story, if correct, raises multiple crucial and immediate issues and possibilities which need to be examined and considered. Such as...

1. Did the famous 'pretzel' dive and resulting bruise have anything to do with a 'seizure'?

2. If Bush had one 'seizure' who is to say there won't be (weren't?) more?

3. Could 'seizure' be a polite way of saying TIA or 'mini-stroke'? Such events often leave some measure of damage...depending on which portion of the brain was affected. Further, TIAs, once begun, have a habit of continuing...building up to a major stroke in many cases.

4. Brain strokes are common in cocaine use...especially long-term abuse and smoking of crack.. The President's behavior falls well within the medical boundaries of cocaine stroke.

See: http://www.drugabuse.gov/NIDA_Notes/NNVol13N3/Cocaine.html


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http://www.rense.com/general52/bsei.htm


This article brings up similar questions, pre-Pretzel and pre-Selection 2000:

George Bush Keeps Changing His Story

Governor Bush's Cocaine Problem

This article, first published in the summer of 2000, is not about George Bush's drug use. It is about how he dodges, ducks, and hedges when confronted with his past drug use. American citizens deserve a leader who can be frank and honest.

by Adam J. Smith

First he refused to confirm or deny it. Later he would say only that "when I was young and irresponsible, I was young and irresponsible." Next he said that the issue wasn't relevant. Then he said that he wouldn't address "rumors." Then he said that he could pass a standard security check dating back seven years. Finally, he said that he could've passed the security check in his father's White House -- fifteen years. Though he had to think before specifying whether he could've passed it then or now. Now, no matter what he says, the issue seems destined to dog him until the day he comes clean.

Texas Governor and Republican presidential frontrunner George W. Bush, Jr. has a cocaine problem.

Under normal circumstances, an individual's past drug use, especially if that use occurred in the distant past, should not be relevant to their qualifications for present employment. But in the race for the United States Presidency, it is relevant on two counts. In fact, in Governor Bush's case, it is relevant on three.

As governor of Texas, George W. Bush, Jr. supported and signed legislation increasing penalties for drug possession in that state. In one instance, Governor Bush signed legislation mandating jail time for people caught with less than a single gram of cocaine. As a candidate, Bush's handling of the cocaine question offers clues as to how he deals with embarrassing mistakes -- admit them and move on, or obfuscate and side-step. As President, Governor Bush would preside over a national drug policy that is increasingly punitive, the driving force behind the nation's ascendancy to the title of world's most prolific incarcerator.

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http://www.progress.org/archive/drc12.htm

[joytomme]

1. Coke Stroke

That was my first thought when I noticed the left side of Bush's face during the 3rd debate...aha! Coke Stroke. Maybe I jumped to that conclusion because I knew a 32-year-old coke user who had a major stroke because of coke.

But something caused that left-side sag. Of course it could be too much botox, too.

Ratfuck Diary (http://ratfuckdiary.blogspot.com)

[Octafish]

4. Sorry to hear about your friend. I hope he or she received help.

I did not mean to conjure up the pain people have suffered from addiction. I want to remind all of the human suffering this unelected moron has caused our nation and world.

BTW: Thanks for the reminder about RatFuckDiary. Most interesting subject matter, there.

[DemBones DemBones]

2. What's TBR News (cited by Rense)? Seizures are certainly a

possible explanation for the "took a fall off his bike" stories as well as the pretzel incident, and would explain why he's not getting a physical this year.

I wish the press would show an interest in his health, though I'm sure his diehard supporters would stay with him if he had the grand mal form of epilepsy, AIDS, TB, syphilis, six types of cancer, and Alzheimer's disease.

[Octafish]

5. Project P.U.L.L.

Gee. To get the conditions Smirko received required more than the usual pull, I bet. Still, it's most heartening to see the BFEE hasn't gotten to ALL the witnesses...

Former workers dispute Bush's pull in Project P.U.L.L.

By Meg Laughlin
Posted on Fri, Oct. 22, 2004
Knight Ridder Newspapers

HOUSTON - President Bush often has cited his work in 1973 with a now-defunct inner-city program for troubled teens as the source for his belief in "compassionate conservatism."

"I realized then that a society can change and must change one person at a time ..." Bush said in a video shown at the 2000 Republican National Convention about his tenure at P.U.L.L., the Professional United Leadership League, whose executive director, John White, had played tight end for the Houston Oilers in the early 1960s.

SNIP...

"I was working full time for an inner-city poverty program known as Project P.U.L.L.," Bush said in his 1999 autobiography, "A Charge to Keep." "My friend John White ... asked me to come help him run the program. ... I was intrigued by John's offer. ... Now I had a chance to help people."

But White's administrative assistant and others associated with P.U.L.L., speaking on the record for the first time, say Bush was not helping to run the program and White had not asked Bush to come aboard. Instead, the associates said, White told them he agreed to take Bush on as a favor to Bush's father, who was honorary co-chairman of the program at the time, and Bush was unpaid. They say White told them Bush had gotten into some kind of trouble but White never gave them specifics.

"We didn't know what kind of trouble he'd been in, only that he'd done something that required him to put in the time," said Althia Turner, White's administrative assistant.

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http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/9990590.htm

[Octafish]

7. D'oh. Sorry I missed answering. Dunno TBR. They do print good stuff...

...Still, that doesn't say who's who behind TBRnews. Until they reveal themselves to be alkyhowl-addled reptilians from Planet X:

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

Andrew Stephen
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.

Indeed, there are now several confusing faces to the US President, and we saw three of them in the live, televised Presidential debates with John Kerry that culminated last Wednesday night in Tempe, Arizona. In the first debate on 30 September, watched by more than 62 million viewers, we saw Bush at his most unattractive: slouching, peevish, pouting, pursing his lips with disdain at what his opponent was saying. But he was unable to marshal any coherent arguments against Kerry and merely spewed out prepared talking points - in what, even his ardent supporters concede, was Bush's worst-ever such performance.

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http://www.tbrnews.org/Archives/a1152.htm

[Bernardo de La Paz]

3. TIA = Transient Ischemic Attack (temporary blood clot, warning stroke)

http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=4781

[Octafish]

6. What John Kerry did about cocaine as a freshman Senator.

I feel sorry for anyone who's suffered this scourge, even the unelected moron, the pschopathic personality, George W Bush.

While we're on the subject, here's what John Kerry did about the scourge of cocaine:

How John Kerry Exposed the Contra-Cocaine Scandal

By Robert Parry
Salon.com
Monday 25 October 2004

Derided by the mainstream press and taking on Reagan at the height of his popularity, the freshman senator battled to reveal one of America's ugliest foreign policy secrets.

In December 1985, when Brian Barger and I wrote a groundbreaking story for the Associated Press about Nicaraguan Contra rebels smuggling cocaine into the United States, one U.S. senator put his political career on the line to follow up on our disturbing findings. His name was John Kerry.

Yet, over the past year, even as Kerry's heroism as a young Navy officer in Vietnam has become a point of controversy, this act of political courage by a freshman senator has gone virtually unmentioned, even though - or perhaps because - it marked Kerry's first challenge to the Bush family.

In early 1986, the 42-year-old Massachusetts Democrat stood almost alone in the U.S. Senate demanding answers about the emerging evidence that CIA-backed Contras were filling their coffers by collaborating with drug traffickers then flooding U.S. borders with cocaine from South America.

SNIP...

In taking on the inquiry, Kerry challenged President Ronald Reagan at the height of his power, at a time he was calling the Contras the "moral equals of the Founding Fathers." Kerry's questions represented a particular embarrassment to Vice President George H.W. Bush, whose responsibilities included overseeing U.S. drug-interdiction policies.

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http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/102604B.shtml