<p>see…
…here you are not using the very unappealing frazzled-nerve but rather the socially engaging funny-bone.</p>
<p>However, imo
-‘Howdy-dooty Bush’ is too general and too common to have bite.
-‘Alfred E. Newman Bush’ is marvelous and precise but, this late in the game, played-out.
-‘Monkey-man Bush’ is edgy (evolution and the sorted history of the Klan) but in the end, of the three, I find it most intellectually engaging.</p>
<p>There should be a contest. There probably is one.</p>
<p>Dorothy–I like you. Don’t know why, but you are highly entertaining! Actually, it’s nice to take a minute or two away from being completely enraged.</p>
<p>"I am seriously concerned about Bush’s mental capacity.</p>
<p>He can barely string two sentences together coherently"</p>
<p>I seriously am as well. His speech has become more slurred, and most of his sentences, when not written out in advance for him, seem to be made up of patched together phrases, often out of context, suggesting some kind of mental processing difficulty. (I did NOT that mean sarcastically.)</p>
<p>Swish, recent polling shows Hillary carrying Ohio. Which is not to say she will but that it’s far too early to make unqualified declarations. I think Colorado will also be in play, regardless of who the Democratic candidate is. And at some point, Nevada is going to be in play, though I don’t know if 2008 is one cycle too soon. And even Virginia is not out of the question.</p>
<p>TheDad–Really? Hillary carrying Ohio? Interesting. I like Hillary in some ways, but not in others–her support for the Iraq war, for one thing. I’m not certain that she’s electable, because so many people despise her for not wanting to stay home and bake cookies. Unforgiveable! Ambition in women is so unseemly, so some people think.</p>
<p>^^^ Heck, why stop there? How about Dennis Kucinich for Secretary of Defense … errr, I mean Secretary of Peace or Secretary of Why Can’t We All Get Along</p>
<p>Oh yes you’re all worried about Bush’s mental state; and if he appeared unchanged by the toll of the war you’d be complaining that he has no feeling. Btw, are rants unanchored to reality a possible sign of mental deterioration?</p>
<p>Very funny, fundingfather. I happen to LOVE Dennis Kucinich. He came to our town to speak a couple of years ago. Little, tiny man, but a very intelligent, dynamic, inspirational speaker. Alas, he has no more chance of being elected to a national office than my Corgi dog. That’s the problem with this country. Too many of us want a president we’d be comfortable having a beer and barbecue with.</p>
<p>Actually, HH, in all seriousness, I think Bush has aged dramatically over the past couple of years. Which tells me that the job is taking its toll, as it does on all presidents.</p>
<p>“Oh yes you’re all worried about Bush’s mental state; and if he appeared unchanged by the toll of the war you’d be complaining that he has no feeling.”</p>
<p>Sounds to me like YOU are the one who has no feeling.</p>
<p>I have heard many put forward the Prez’s positions on things, and do it rather well (even though I think the positions are ridiculous.) But, when not scripted in advance, he himself frankly doesn’t appear well.</p>
<p>We really should be very concerned that our president has lost so much of his mental function.</p>
<p>This man is busy making life or death decisions, as well as spending us into the next millenium. The fact that he is doing all of this with compromised cognitive function should be very worrisome to us all.</p>
This is just typical liberal slander. No reputable psychologist or therapist would diagnose anyone without spending some personal time with that person in a therapeutic setting. The fact that many liberals allow their personal dislike of the man to lead them to such a conclusion is more of a reflection of personal biases than of the facts.</p>
<p>As far as the job taking it’s toll on Bush, look at any President – take a look at Clinton at the beginning of his first term and again at the end of his second. Do any of us look the same as we did eight years ago!!! Give me a break.</p>
<p>Instead of baiting others, I think you should just listen to him very carefully in unscripted settings. The change is quite noticeable.</p>
<p>As for myself, my wife will tell you (and I will confirm) that I occasionally have short-term memory lapses. I don’t claim to be the leader of the so-called “free world”, and I don’t fault him from having completely forgotten the importance of the Coalition of the Very Small in bringing permanent victory to Iraq. (The President of Palau might not be so charitable.)</p>
<p>Instead of accusing other posters of “baiting others,” perhaps you should actually read my comment. Calling attention to such a bizzarre diagnosis is not my definition of baiting. But I feel sure that any comment I make would earn a negative remark from you.</p>
<p>Nobody is trying to diagnose anything. However, the changes in his speech patterns are very evident to many people. </p>
<p>Take a look at video of him speaking in 2000, vs. 2006. That isn’t liberal slander; it’s simply a fact that he has experienced a scary loss of something or another.</p>
<p>I think he should have a good multi-disciplinary workup, to rule out causes for these alarming changes.</p>
<p>Sjmom, I would find it easier to agree with most of your post if you hadn’t used this phrase. The criticism of Bush is no longer coming from just the left. </p>
<p>Some of us have been critical of Bush and this war from the beginning. You can choose to believe that it is partisan swiping. That is how it has been characterized ever since Bush came into office but some of us knew the consequences of this war and of this president being elected twice. It was predicted, if you read deep enough and kept an open mind. I understand that you support him and seemingly all of his decisions, but some of us do not and our criticism has very little if anything to do with party loyalty.</p>