BS: Pre-senile dementia in Bush

Subject: BS: Pre-senile dementia in Bush
From: Alice
Date: 06 Oct 04 - 09:11 AM

A physician wrote a letter to the editor of the Atlantic Monthly pointing out that Bush has symptoms of presenile dementia. Now that the debate has shown that his speaking skills are not up to the performances earlier in his career, I am wondering if the doctor is right.

Here's a bit of a quote and link. - Alice

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Dr. Price suggests that "not being a professional medical researcher and clinician, Fallows cannot be faulted
for not putting two and two together. But he was 100 percent correct in suggesting that Bush's problem cannot
be 'a learning disability, a reading problem, [or] dyslexia,' because patients with those problems have always
had them." The doctor. goes on to say, "Slowly developing cognitive deficits, as demonstrated so clearly by the
President [sic], can represent only one diagnosis, and that is 'presenile dementia'! Presenile dementia is best
described to nonmedical persons as a fairly typical Alzheimer's situation that develops significantly earlier in
life, well before what is usually considered old age."

http://www.onlinejournal.com/Special_Reports/091804Mazza/091804mazza.html
Click here

Subject: RE: BS: Pre-senile dementia in Bush
From: Rapparee
Date: 06 Oct 04 - 09:33 AM

Why does he qualify it as "pre-senile"?

Subject: RE: BS: Pre-senile dementia in Bush
From: Amos
Date: 06 Oct 04 - 09:43 AM

Because the symptoms are appearing "well before what is usually considered old age".

A

Subject: RE: BS: Pre-senile dementia in Bush
From: Peace
Date: 06 Oct 04 - 09:55 AM

Oh.

Subject: RE: BS: Pre-senile dementia in Bush
From: Tweed
Date: 06 Oct 04 - 09:57 AM

I was gonna say something but forgot what the hell it was....

Subject: RE: BS: Pre-senile dementia in Bush
From: Peace
Date: 06 Oct 04 - 10:05 AM

About what????????

Subject: RE: BS: Pre-senile dementia in Bush
From: Amos
Date: 06 Oct 04 - 10:09 AM

About GEorge Bush's senility, Grandfather....


A

Subject: RE: BS: Pre-senile dementia in Bush
From: Bill D
Date: 06 Oct 04 - 11:17 AM

if you ask Bush, he'd tell you what Reagan did...(paraphrased)"If I notice myself becoming senile, I'll tell you."

Subject: RE: BS: Pre-senile dementia in Bush
From: Bill D
Date: 06 Oct 04 - 11:25 AM

one quote from Reagan in 1984, where he declined to take a test for dementia, stating that he promised to take the test... "only if there was some indication that I was drifting…Nothing like that has happened."

Subject: RE: BS: Pre-senile dementia in Bush
From: Alice
Date: 06 Oct 04 - 02:43 PM

I think Bush's alcoholism and cocaine use might be catching up to him, since the stress as US president at war must be incredibly intense. Since alcoholism causes dementia, even though he is no longer drinking, the preveious damage from his younger years may be part of the equation.

Subject: RE: BS: Pre-senile dementia in Bush
From: Peace
Date: 06 Oct 04 - 03:16 PM

George Eliot was NOT senile.

Subject: RE: BS: Pre-senile dementia in Bush
From: Ebbie
Date: 06 Oct 04 - 03:19 PM

Note to self: The phrase is not "prehensile dementia".

Subject: RE: BS: Pre-senile dementia in Bush
From: Tweed
Date: 06 Oct 04 - 03:20 PM

Yore right brucie, she wasn't.

Subject: RE: BS: Pre-senile dementia in Bush
From: GUEST,William Shatner
Date: 06 Oct 04 - 04:08 PM

You know, I think he's under a great deal of strain. I mean, obviously...it goes with the job. Now he may not have been exactly a brainwave in the first place. Add that to the pressures of 4 years in the presidency and you've got a problem.

My feeling is that I could straighten things out in the world in jig time...with a combination of good diplomacy and photon torpedoes. I would establish a good dialogue with those who are locked in conflict around the world and find out what their real concerns are. I would seek workable compromises. I would at the same time remind them that I have the power to fry their gonads...if necessary...at a moment's notice...and I would challenge intractable foreign and terrorist leaders to personal combat...mano a mano...in the arena. But I would talk first.

It's academic, though, because as a Canadian I cannot run for president of the USA, and I wouldn't really want the job anyway. It would be a step down in excitement for me after what I've seen. Boring, really...

Subject: RE: BS: Pre-senile dementia in Bush
From: Peace
Date: 06 Oct 04 - 04:10 PM

This thread has been Shat upon.

Subject: RE: BS: Pre-senile dementia in Bush
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 06 Oct 04 - 04:27 PM

Obviously that is not Shatner. Shatner would simply point out that the terrorists' professing of religious motives is inconsistant with their violent actions thus causing Osama et. al. to sentence themselves to death.

Subject: RE: BS: Pre-senile dementia in Bush
From: Bill D
Date: 06 Oct 04 - 04:36 PM

naaawwww..Spock would do that. Shatner would dither and suggest beaming down and 'investigating', and would lead the team into caves in Afghanistan where they would be captured and forced to watch grainy videos of Osama...

Subject: RE: BS: Pre-senile dementia in Bush
From: GUEST,William Shatner
Date: 06 Oct 04 - 05:26 PM

That's more or less correct, Bill, but "dither" is not the word I would use...and you have only described the first half of the episode. I would have things well in hand by the conclusion.

Subject: RE: BS: Pre-senile dementia in Bush
From: Bill D
Date: 06 Oct 04 - 05:37 PM

you'll go blind doing that, William....

Subject: RE: BS: Pre-senile dementia in Bush
From: Peace
Date: 06 Oct 04 - 05:48 PM

Hes' rigth abogut tahd.

Subject: RE: BS: Pre-senile dementia in Bush
From: Amos
Date: 06 Oct 04 - 05:49 PM

Billl...WIlliam is over there...


A

Subject: RE: BS: Pre-senile dementia in Bush
From: Once Famous
Date: 06 Oct 04 - 05:59 PM

This thread is pre-penile.

Joe, I know you are watching!!

Subject: RE: BS: Pre-senile dementia in Bush
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 06 Oct 04 - 06:41 PM

Obviously Bush's actions indicate that he is not playing with a full deck. But I don't like diagnoses from so called medical professionals who have never seen the patient.

Subject: RE: BS: Pre-senile dementia in Bush
From: GUEST,donuel
Date: 06 Oct 04 - 07:30 PM

http://www.angelfire.com/md2/customviolins/bushtia.jpg

Subject: RE: BS: Pre-senile dementia in Bush
From: Once Famous
Date: 06 Oct 04 - 07:49 PM

Good one Jack.

Subject: RE: BS: Pre-senile dementia in Bush
From: Alice
Date: 07 Oct 04 - 08:35 AM

Transient Ischemic Attack and explanation re Bush at the link donuel posted.

Subject: RE: BS: Pre-senile dementia in Bush
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 07 Oct 04 - 09:03 AM

Did you know that in the 5th - 7th Century there was an Irish decended kingdom of Dementia in Wales? I presume this thread refers to GW's plans to invade that part of Britain before he gets too old..?

Cheers

DtG