should there be a 2nd docs. opinion on Domenici dementia?

[donsu]

some have suggested he needs to disremember Dept of Justice things.

[aquart]

1. What?

Link? Context? Anything?

[donsu]

3. I read this comment in an article about other things and I can't

remember what or where. but have been thinking about it and wondered if any of you all had heard this.

[rateyes]

2. Yeah, now when he, under oath, testifies...

"I can't recall," he'll have a built in excuse. Good point.

[JitterbugPerfume]

4. the man is suffering from dementia

and regardless of how I feel about him politically , I have compassion for him and his family

[acmavm]

5. He lost his marbles at a REEEEAAALLLL conventient time, didnt' he?

[LeftCoast]

6. Dementia is not necessarily memory related

If I remember correctly it was stated that he had temporal lobe degeneration which is often associated with speech issues.

That having been said, with the nature of this type of disease it makes a lot of sense for him to ride this term to an end and then retire. Hard to say how this could effect any testimony he might provide.

[aquart]

9. It will keep him out of jail.

And that's what he cares about. Because he committed a crime.

[Bitwit1234]

7. A doctor was on CNN explaining this

But she talked so fast you couldn't understand the whole symptoms list. I don't remember if losing memory was one of the symptoms or not.

[Bitwit1234]

8. Looked up symptoms and

It causes -impaired language, emotions, social relations and behavior. It does not impair memory. It says that a person suffering from this knows what's going on, understands it, but can not do anything about it, which makes it worst. It also said that he could develop fatal urinary tract infections or pneumonia.

One other thing, I skipped thru the piece to get to the symptoms but I think it said in the first paragraph he knew he had this disease before he ran for re-election in 2006. And after getting this info I clicked off going to go back and check...

If he did shades of Reagan and his Alzheimer's. And you know what bush exhibits all the symptoms of this disease also.

[Didereaux]

10. 2d Opinion, you want a 2d opinion? okay there actually is one...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/12461951@N03/




I told you so.... ;)