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[apocalypsos]

This spooks me a little. In part because Bush postponed his annual physical this year, and in part because so many of the people on my friends list have mentioned that the left side of his face looked a bit slack at last night's debate. (Not that I'm saying anything's happened to him, but honestly, what the hell?)

The man in that speech from ten years ago ... well, I probably wouldn't have voted for him, but I'd at least have listened to what he had to say.

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[tenebris.livejournal.com]

It's very interesting, the analyses that have been tossed around to explain Bush's "decline"--and looking at that tape from ten years ago was kind of shocking and striking. I'd heard the pre-senile dementia one; another one that's been advanced at the PAD forums is possible effects from alcoholism, sometimes with those effects adding to a pre-existing ADD condition. They're pulling out the DSM IV all over the place.

I dunno if those explain a ten year decline, though they did point out that the President seems to have "addict" thinking, which I thought was neat. As for this speech ability...weird. Maybe that's what having a Cheney hand up your ass does to you...