George Bush is Afflicted by Onset Dementia

posted by Editor on 09-08-2004 08:17

Two Years ago I told my Green Party associate Alberto Perea that George Bush was afflicted with a subtle case of onset dementia, probably precursor to Alzheimer's. At first we theorized that it may have been all the cocaine and alcohol he used to binge with back in his randy less "christian" days. I told him then that I believe this man to be the Anti-Christ incarnate and that he would make Nero and Caligula look like comic book characters.

At the time my bemused friend probably thought I was just fired up but now a Medical Doctor has said the same thing in the Oct. 2004th issue of Atlantic Monthly and as my friend is my witness they were not the first ones to come across this fact.

"James Fallows's description of John Kerry's debating skills ("When George Meets John," July/August Atlantic) was interesting, but what was most remarkable was Fallows's documentation of President Bush's mostly overlooked changes over the past decade -- specifically, "the striking decline in his sentence-by-sentence speaking skills." Fallows points to "speculations that there must be some organic basis for the President's peculiar mode of speech -- a learning disability, a reading problem, dyslexia or some other disorder," but correctly concludes, "The main problem with these theories is that through his forties Bush was perfectly articulate."

"I, too, felt that something organic was wrong with President Bush, most probably dyslexia. But I was unaware of what Fallows pointed out so clearly: that Bush's problems have been developing slowly, and that just a decade ago he was an articulate debater, "artful indeed in steering questions and challenges to his desired subjects," who "did not pause before forcing out big words, as he so often does now, or invent mangled new ones."  Consider, in contrast, the present: "the informal Q&As he has tried to avoid," "Bush's recent faltering performances," "his unfortunate puzzled-chimp expression when trying to answer questions, "his stalling, defensive pose when put on the spot," "speaking more slowly and less gracefully."

"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. Slowly developing cognitive deficits, as demonstrated so clearly by the President, 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.  It runs about the same course as typical senile dementias, such as classical Alzheimer's -- to incapacitation and, eventually, death, as with President Ronald Reagan, but at a relatively earlier age.  President Bush's "mangled" words are a demonstration of what physicians call "confabulation," and are almost specific to the diagnosis of a true dementia.  Bush should immediately be given the advantage of a considered professional diagnosis, and started on drugs that offer the possibility of retarding the slow but inexorable course of the disease."

Joseph M. Price, M.D.
Carsonville, Mich.

Letter to the Editor, Atlantic Monthly, October 2004, p. 14.

Libertysteward.com demands that the President of the United States of America immediately submit himself to impartial medical counsel to be diagnosed properly and we call on the renegade CIA to stop manipulating a sitting President. This represents a major breech of security and the national interest.

A Proper Diagnosis would go a long way to clarify many of the delusional and borderline psychopathic social notions this bizarre President has inflicted upon the National Psyche. It would explain why he was looking through binoculars which had the covers on.  It would explain why he was reading a book to a little black student upside down at the same time the Twin Towers were bombed.  It would explain why it took him 7 minutes to even respond to the news of the event, the blank confused look after he was told of the attack and why it took 70 minutes to respond to 4 separate aircraft over the Northeast corridor with their transponders offline. If this had been a nuclear attack we would have all been toast if it had taken him the same amount of time to respond. Within less than 7 minutes there could have been (4) F-16 fighters scrambled from nearby bases flying upside down and looking right into the cabin of the jets involved and they would have easily been able to recognize a hijack in progress and either escorted or shot the planes down well in advance of the death of 3,000 people.

This was a planned event and the men who did it are controlling the Presidency and the country which is helplessly flailing in the hands of these demonic agents of destruction and mayhem. Wake up America and smell the Coup d'etat!