Bush has early onset Alzheimers?

[mimitabby]

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/living/articles/2004/09/14/a_medical_cause_for_bushisms/


It is an article of faith with millions of Americans, most of them on the left, that George W. Bush is stupid. Many reasonable people think his policies are ill-advised, but millions more insist Bush must be a moron because he sounds stupid.



The president's tortured "Bushisms" are chronicled daily and have been collected in books. Two of the more notorious are "I know how hard it is for you to put food on your family" and "Families is where our nation finds hope, where wings take dream."

But something doesn't compute. Fred Smith, the founder of Federal Express and a Yale pal of both Bush and John Kerry, says Bush is five times smarter than people think he is. Cynics deride what passes for scholarship at the Harvard Business School, but the course work for the two-year MBA isn't easy. A grading curve forces a small number of students to fail, and Bush didn't fail.

So why does Bush sound stupid? One doctor thinks he shows signs of "presenile dementia," or an early onset of Alzheimer's disease.

[Journeyman]

1. So are you saying Bush* has 'half-heimers'? . . .

n/t

[Xipe Totec]

2. Dubya Loves Broccoli

Claims some of his best friends are vegetables.

:evilgrin:

[randr]

3. Cocaine damage!

[mimitabby]

4. you could be right

I read recently how Cocaine does permanently damage much of the brain..
it is fascinating that he did so well when he was in his 40's
speaking. if this guy is really deteriorating, that could be very interesting.

[SemiCharmedQuark]

5. Forget it. He's just plain old stupid.

I don't think he HAS to be, he's just so used to everything being handed to him he doesn't even try to learn anything on his own. He's like that arrogant kid in class who always tried to show up the teacher and was always wrong.

[mimitabby]

6. come on Quark

this isn't about being lazy and arrogant. how come he was "eloquent"
when he was 40 and now he can't string a simple sentence together?

[gauguin57]

7. Well, perhaps he could be helped with stem-cell therapy ...

... oh ... oops ... forgot. Sorry, Bushie!

[mimitabby]

8. ironic, isn't it..

[RedEarth]

9. A life of booze and coke will do it....

[liberal N proud]

10. Drug and Alcohol induced stuper!