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Don't overlook Dementia as part of GUTMC
It is the topic we are not supposed to address in polite company, but in addition to his baseline not being very bright and not being interested in studying hard, McCains age combined with the abuse his brain has taken (alcohol, boxing, at least 4 plane crashes, captivity and torture) there is a very legitimate issue with regard to McCain's neuropsychiatric status.
How much is just typical lying?
How much is unorganized, cranky and undisciplined?
But how much is much is mild dementia, organic brain syndrome, PTSD....? I just hope that the folks close to him are not covering the way they did with Reagan.
The flip flops, even within the same inteview (47 seconds was the record I believe)
The halting, stuttered speech? Loosening of associations, verbal salad, memory loss, the freeze-ups, squirming, stumbling, and then claiming ignorance, the mechanical hand chops and weirdly timed smiles, the anger problems and explosiveness, the disconnect between words coming out of his mouth when reading the teleprompter...
These posts by a physicians with experience in this area over at FireDogLake have not gotten the attention they deserve:
http://firedoglake.com/2008/03/25/mccains-brain-unfit-for-command-or-merely-incontinent/
Comments (2)
Well, he is soon to turn seventy two. He is not exempt from the mental ravages of aging, often referred to as senior moments. I think he is far too advanced in years to expect him to be in command of all the facts required to make decisions on things such as war or peace, and the well being of the planet.
I sometimes tell the following joke at my own expense.
What are the top three signs of aging.
One: Loss of memory,
and and, ah hell, I forgot the other two.
July 11, 2008 3:07 PM | Reply | Permalink
But what's so depressing is the way the MSM positively leaps on any comment anywhere that can reflect badly on Obama but articles like this one in as an important newspaper as the FT get ignored.
How do we fight *that* one?
If only Bill Clinton would come out with one of his corkers on it.
sigh
July 11, 2008 7:00 PM | Reply | Permalink
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