Tap-dancing around the obvious.

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17. Besides his obvious life long character flaws, the man is showing signs of

Alzheimer's driven senile dementia, which his father was hit with at around the same age. The Republican bosses are comfortable with having a president with obvious mental limitations, because they feel certain they can control him--or remove him and replace him with the more cooperative VP. They are probably right about that.

But the willingness of one of our major parties--the one with the most power!--to put an obviously mentally unfit individual into the highest and arguably most powerful office just to grab more power for themselves says a lot about them, none of it good.

And they did so not just twice, but probably THREE times.

I think that W also suffered from cognitive damage from his decades of alcoholism (and probably drug use, as well). If you watch videos of him when he first ran for governor in Texas, you can see that his cognitive and linguistic functioning had seriously deteriorated by the time he was installed in the WH, and the video of him dancing inappropriately to the "Battle Hymn of the Republic" at a solemn memorial service, his childish behavior being calmed and catered to by an obviously concerned and sympathetic Michelle Obama, shows that his decline has continued to progress (and that he is probably still exacerbating his condition by continuing to drink).