You must be viewing on CNN. I am also watching and do not see that.
Is there such thing as "selective viewing"?
Remember, wishing does not make it so
Nice try though!!
jj, which part of "I'm listening" to his press conference did you not understand?
"Selective reading" anyone?
Posted by Steve Soto at August 9, 2007 08:19 AMAnd I'm sure he will get excited when he talks about how he wants to give Corporate America another round of tax cuts to keep them competitive, but he won't tell us how he will make up that money or from whose pocket it will come from.
Steve, he mentions later in the speech in talking about Democratic spending and in the same WaPo article:
"Put another way, it's about $1,300 in higher spending every second of every minute of every hour of every day of every year for the next five years," he said. "Now, somebody is going to have to pay for it. And that, of course, will be the hardworking American people. . . . I will use the veto to keep your taxes low and to keep federal spending under control."
Posted by Seven of Six at August 9, 2007 08:20 AMI have a YouTube video up of Bush from a decade ago. He's perfectly able to pronounce big words and toggle between multi-layered subjects and concepts.
His mental decline from a decade ago is stunning.
I have to wonder, has he had untreated Lyme Disease from all those bike rides in August at the Crawford pig farm and at mommy and daddy's Maine compound where Lyme Disease is an epidemic?
Untreated, Lyme Disease cause meningitis and damages the brain. Sounds familiar.
Posted by Christopher at August 9, 2007 08:25 AM"Selective reading" anyone?
Posted by Steve Soto at August 9, 2007 08:19 AM
Nice try-your a little redundant though. And you complain about W ?
Posted by jj at August 9, 2007 08:25 AMfour billion a week in Iraq, and the guy talks about cutting taxes.
Posted by T2 at August 9, 2007 08:37 AMJust stating the facts jj. And someone as predictable as you shouldn't chide anyone else for being redundant.
Posted by Steve Soto at August 9, 2007 08:40 AMI just saw some clips, Bush seemed pissed and edgy, but not particularly drugged. I'd be pissed too, if I had to delay a month long vacation just to answer silly questions about the operation of the US Government and a War.
Posted by T2 at August 9, 2007 08:58 AMLove that final chain of exclamation points, Scout. Congratulations on having discovered we're not merely Nazis, but "Bolshevik/Nazi/Orwellian...jezebel/lesbian sympathizers." At last somebody's on to us.
However, a small suggestion: If you connect a small and unobtrusive copper wire from your aluminum foil hat to the filling in your left lower biscuspid, you'll get much better reception and clear digital proof that we're also Martian Pod People.
Yours crankily,
The New York Crank
Whoops! No sooner did I reply to "Scout" than somebody deleted him.
Too bad. I thought he was priceless.
Yours crankily (again),
The New York Crank
Let the record show that Ellie is making the "drinky drinky" motion. [/Simpsons]
Look, anyone who's watched more than a dozen of this clown's "media availabilities" -- pick'em -- and doesn't get a strong sense of seeing someone being drugged to function probably needs a little something his or herself.
I wouldn't diagnose anything specific from footage, but the physical evidence of functional enabling is pretty compelling. We're being sold a load of BS when we get another rousing report on Great Leader's Great Fitness but easily debunked lies about his stability.
His handlers claim that what's clearly a huge box on his back is a wrinkle on a shirt. An obvious earpiece he uses in shaky times -- and which barks out instructions clearly picked up by the foreign press but never acknowleged by the domestic propagandists -- keeps him from drifting out of reality altogether.
He sweats profusely and inexplicably unrelated to temperature, has bizarre emotional outbursts and repeated episodes of blackouts and lamely explained falls resulting in facial cuts and bruises. (Once his PR team blamed rain-loosened topsoil where he was cycling on his ranch, but it hadn't rained in the area for over a week and the area was bone dry.)
I mean OH COME ON -- the guy's a lifelong untreated drunk and drug user. He's being used (with or without) his permission to expand the Executive Branch beyond recognition and will probably play the patsy at some point.
It honestly wouldn't astonish me if the WH Dept of Hooey strode out one day and announced that GWB had spontaneously combusted, leaving no remains but a small pile of dust, and emergency unconstitutional leadership would be running the Republican Palace until further notice.
Posted by Ellie at August 9, 2007 09:23 AMDisclaimer: I didn't see footage of this particular presscon as I wasn't close to a TV while posting.
I was talking about long trail of past weirdness.
Posted by Ellie at August 9, 2007 09:29 AMChristopher
Be careful. I was dressed down for calling him Daaddy by your faorite princess.
Now his Handler's are saying Bush gets lots of ticks in Texas on his bike rides. How slow does this guy go? I'd say this indicates lots of walking a long beside a bike, not bike riding. Another lie.
Posted by T2 at August 9, 2007 09:48 AMT2, good point. I don't believe anything anyone says about Bush and his physical or mental fitness. Would you expect anything different to be said other than he is in great health?
Posted by Judith at August 9, 2007 10:15 AMChristopher
Be careful. I was dressed down for calling him Daaddy by your faorite princess.
Speaking of Princess Doppleganger, I thought a thread about mental illness would attract her like flies to a pile of dog doo-doo?
Posted by Christopher at August 9, 2007 10:18 AMYeah, I was thinking about those ticks and the bicycling too. Mighty fast ticks or mighty slow President. Maybe they just skydive off the tree-limbs when they see him coming.
Posted by gtash at August 9, 2007 10:56 AMThe worst job on earth would be the presidential tick checker. Imagine having to put your face closely up to Bush's nekkid body and examine every part of his body looking for one of those nasty little insects? Puke!
Posted by Christopher at August 9, 2007 11:04 AMI thought he was drugged as well...maybe an anti-anxiety pill...also watch as he walks off...he appears (to me anyway)to stagger a little bit...could be just wishful thinking but it's what I thought before reading this post.
Posted by sheeple at August 9, 2007 11:21 AMThe worst job on earth would be the presidential tick checker.
Ahh, we finally find out why Gannon/Guckert was there all the time.
Posted by Sharon at August 9, 2007 11:23 AMWell, this is interesting:
Stanzel said doctors decided not to do blood tests to determine for certain that Bush had Lyme disease because the treatment worked and he never progressed to other symptoms, the Associated Press reported.
It may account for why they didn't report it after his last physical. So why are they reporting it now?
Posted by iamcoyote at August 9, 2007 11:27 AMWhen did Dennis start going by sheeple?
Posted by curious at August 9, 2007 11:31 AMyeah Judith...his doc's say "he's in great health....except for the disease". This guy can't open his mouth without lying, and apparently no one around him can either. His doc made a big deal about his body fat %.....I frankly don't care if a president is fat, skinnny or whatever...as long as he doesn't lie to me and the rest of the citizens of this country 24/7, riding a bike on his tick-infested pile of scrub brush while the citizens of Temple, right up the road, see a never ending line of coffins coming back to Ft. Hood from Iraq.
Posted by T2 at August 9, 2007 11:32 AMI mean OH COME ON -- the guy's a lifelong untreated drunk and drug user. He's being used (with or without) his permission to expand the Executive Branch beyond recognition and will probably play the patsy at some point.
It honestly wouldn't astonish me if the WH Dept of Hooey strode out one day and announced that GWB had spontaneously combusted, leaving no remains but a small pile of dust, and emergency unconstitutional leadership would be running the Republican Palace until further notice.
Outstanding, Ellie. I enjoyed your post very much!
Well if hes going uphill on a small trail he might have to go slowly or walk the bike so its not 100% impossible to get a tick. Or by crashing. That happens somtimes for the best of us bikeriders.
Posted by Greup at August 9, 2007 12:03 PMMaybe he was romping in the woods with some cute secret service guy.
Posted by Judith at August 9, 2007 12:07 PMMaybe he was romping in the woods with some cute secret service guy.
Can you imagine the stories the Secret Service could tell about George W. Bush?
Posted by Christopher at August 9, 2007 12:12 PMChristopher, no I can't.
Posted by Judith at August 9, 2007 12:23 PMBush is gorged so fat from the blood of the dead troops he must be like an electromagnet hard-wired to a nuclear power power plant to ticks. I mean, haven't you seen the parasites around this guy? Just look at the republi-con party, for god's sake. Have you ever read a republi-con posting here that isn't some form of giant fucking parasite?
Posted by phidipides at August 9, 2007 12:32 PMBush was OBVIOUSLY drugged during his at least one of his debates with Kerry, but no one in the media had the guts to say it.
Posted by Marky at August 9, 2007 01:13 PMBad thought...
Pay some Secret Service goon to replace his baggie of coke with a baggie of MDA. That would make the next presser very interesting.
Posted by Dr. Wellington Yueh at August 9, 2007 01:26 PM"Or by crashing." right, if he was knocked unconcious and lay in the dirt for a while. I'm sure he got the tick while chopping cedar. Or from Laura. But "bike riding" makes him sound so macho.
Posted by T2 at August 9, 2007 01:27 PMBut "bike riding" makes him sound so macho.
Bike riding sounds macho?
As opposed to "chopping cedar"?
Posted by snark at August 9, 2007 01:30 PMMaybe he was romping in the woods with some cute secret service guy.
Can you imagine the stories the Secret Service could tell about George W. Bush?
Posted by Christopher at August 9, 2007 12:12 PM
Not gonna happen-There is the utmost respect for the man throughout the entire unit. I believe you have the recent administrations confused. Common here.
Posted by jj at August 9, 2007 02:20 PMAs opposed to "chopping cedar"?
Maybe T2 was thinking of the second verse of The Lumberjack Song, and thought biking was the better example?
Posted by iamcoyote at August 9, 2007 02:29 PMOh, no, phidipides. No -- you din't!!!
LOL!
That was ugly, funny, but ugly.
Posted by Brian Bell at August 9, 2007 02:33 PMAn element of the spew fest conference overlooked here but nailed by trader chatter is that he gave the Chinese the finger over their rage about being defrauded, joining his imbecile Treasury stooge Paulson's comparable insult to injury blather yesterday.
T Notes are going to be unloaded across the Pacific real soon with rising inflation as an outcome.
The Nikkei is already having an ugly opening for the Friday session. Tomorrow may be the day it all falls apart and the near 300 point dow drop of today will seem minor.
Hold on tight.
Posted by Chris Rich at August 9, 2007 05:57 PMhttp://www.oftwominds.com/journal/journal-7-14-07.html
for an interesting post on how widespread use of anti-depressants by our decision makers is affecting financial markets
katherine
Posted by Katherine Hunter at August 10, 2007 06:15 AM