President Bush Treated For Lyme Disease Last Year
Via Firedoglake:
Via Atrios, this is just beyond weird:
President Bush was treated for Lyme disease a year ago after developing a circular rash characteristic of the ailment, the White House announced yesterday.
Especially when you consider this:
The disease varies widely in its presentation, which may include a rash and flu-like symptoms in its initial stage, followed by the possibility of musculoskeletal, arthritic, neurologic, psychiatric and cardiac manifestations. In most cases of Lyme disease, symptoms can be eliminated with antibiotics, especially if treatment is begun early in the course of illness.
A percentage of patients with Lyme disease have symptoms that last months to years after treatment with antibiotics. These symptoms can include muscle and joint pains, arthritis, stiff neck, cognitive defects, neurological complaints or fatigue. The cause of these continuing symptoms is not yet known. There is some evidence that they may result from an autoimmune type of response, in which a person’s immune system continues to respond even after the infection has been cleared, as well as evidence of ongoing infection with the spirochete. (emphasis mine) Read more...
As much brush-clearing as George does this doesn't come as a surprise, but Lyme disease is no laughing matter. This should have been made known to the public and might also explain a few things about the president's behavior...
i knew he had lying disease, i didn't know about the lyme.
If it's caught early it's easily treatable with antibiotics. A friend contracted it with absolutely no long-term ill effects. This isn't a story.
I'm surprised the tick sensed blood running through the guys veins...
I always thought 'clearing brush' was just a naughty euphemism for....you know....fristing.
perhaps he was just clearing brush.
Can it make you really stupid?
Who really gives a fuck, it's just another thing to keep secret from the public. Why act surprised that it wasn't made public.
"This should have been made known to the public and might also explain a few things about the president’s behavior…"
Hell nothing could explain this guy's behaviour, save maybe 'Sociopathy'
He should be treated for Lame Disease. OT - Dow down 387
I'd say he has some cognitive defects and neurologica defects (like the ability to think through a sentence etc.
Maybe even some brain Rot.l
Here's a punch line for you (I'm sure you've heard the joke to go with it): "One's a nasty bloodsucker and the other is an arachnid."
a guy @ 5:
Hum, good question. However, Bush was born really stupid, so he has quite a head start in his stupidity.
So the question that we should be asking is whether or not Lyme disease can make Bush even more stupid than he really is.
Unrelated, but informative on the topic of Bush's mental function.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pw4Bhmm22xo&mode=related&search=
I remember reading John Oates having Lyme Disease but they didn't think W's was newsworthy?
Anyone care to join in a memorial for the tick?
A lemon leader with Lyme disease. He's the Sprite president.
-GSD
How could the doctors tell where the tick ends and Chimpy begins?
Poppy Bush, congrats on another loser job on your boys part. He talks UP the economy and it tanks.
The most secretive administration in history keeping this a secret, nothing new here.
He got it at the family estate in Maine, not texas
MeMyselfAndI @ 11:
Good point...
That tick must have bit him in early 2000 because he's been a dumb fuck ever since.
So what, you're saying he was less of a pig-headed moron before he got bit by a tick? I don't think so.
Ignominious-bush @ 9:
That's from the coke.
a guy @ 18:
Born a lazy rich son of an aristocrat, sure. Born stupid, I dont think so.
Watch this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pw4Bhmm22xo&mode=related&search=
A non-story if there ever was one. Now his war crimes... well...
bw @ 17:
He got lyme disease in Maine. Illiterate Backwater Dumb Fuck Disease he got in Texas.
Mark Richards @ 14:
The tick and that sparrow that shit on him. Our new National bug and bird.
Ruthless People @ 16:
Kind of reminds me of the old Soviet Union where you didn't find out about ill leaders.
Congrats, we're back in the USSR.
-GSD
Ruthless People @ 24:
(SNORT) Bwahahahahahahahahah!
He was a lying idiot long before last year.
This is what happens in today's economy. In the good ol' days God almighty used to carry out some kick arse smiting in his day: Turning people into salt, plagues, wiping out the whole entire earth with a flood, fire from the skies, rivers flowing with blood, etc, etc, etc.
However under the current situation, our lord and saviour was forced to outsource quite a lot of services in order to keep Heaven cost effective due to the recent budgetary cuts. Most of these cuts had to be done in order to pay for all the costs induced by the inability shown by some of his messengers on earth
to keep their penises inside their pants whenever an altar boys prances around.
And well... this is what we get now, a half assed smiting by some third world deity that the best he could come up with was a fucking tick. I guess it beats the next lowest bidder which was a Chinese god of wrath that was about to inflict a paper cut on this evil fuck.
We are doomed... even god is broke.
randy @ 23:
I dunno, randy.
Wasn't it last summer, durin' the trip to China, when Bush tried to exit stage right instead of left? IIRC, a lot of people thought he was drunk on that trip around the Pacific rim.
But maybe it wasn't last summer.
As part of the exams, Bush had a colonoscopy last month at Camp David. Five small growths were removed from his colon but doctors determined that none of them was cancerous.
Being non-cancerous, none of the growths were appointed to the Cabinet.....
Why is he clearing brush in the first place?
All of these guys of any party need to be put on notice for absenteeism!
I'm sure Bush had the doctors and funds that insured that this got caught before it had an real effect unluckily everyone isn't that blessed.
This should have been made known to the public and might also explain a few things about the president’s behavior…
I completely disagree. If he had flu-like symptoms for a few days, then that was something we should have known when it happened (because Cheney was running the country - umm, well, you know what I mean).
Lyme disease doesn't cause sociopathy (especially if treated early). That's insulting to the Borrelia.
"This should have been made known to the public and might also explain a few things about the president’s behavior…"
Naaaaah! Bush was acting wacko WAY before last year!
IMPEACH!
raynman @ 31:
Nice. That was funny.
Won't the tick contract mad tick disease from cannibalizing it's own kind? Poor little guy.
Are they sure it wasn't LieMyAssOff disease?
He still has slime disease.
"neurologic, psychiatric"
How would they know if it was the lyme desease or his normal behavior.
This isnt a big deal. Lets move on.
Herbert @ 32:
He's tryin' to channel Cincinnatus.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cincinnatus
anon @ 22:
#2 is right. This isnt a story. I had Lyme Disease a few years ago, and although it took a few doctor visits before it was diagnosed, the antibiotics quickly cured my symptoms.
Why would a tick lower its standards like that?
As much as I love C&L, this is just silly to suggest that Lyme disease has something to do with his mental state... He was raised ineptly and now is just outright incompetent, which has nothing to do with Lyme disease.
Norse @ 42:
The story here is that it was kept a secret. This was for the benefit of the insiders.
anon @ 22:
It is a sad commentary on this country when a person is deemed smart or at least not stupid just for being able to speak the language correctly. A debate means that he has to answer questions on the flight not that succession of talking points that were in that video. What I saw there was a trained monkey who could enunciate...
Speaking ability is not an IQ test, looking at someone's "achievements" are a better indication for idiocy. Even with a Harvard MBA "education" he was able to run every business he managed into the ground. So it is my thesis that the guy is worse than an idiot: a complete utter moron.
In fact one could make the case that Bush's life has been nothing but an extended training for the moron olympics. He was born quite the moron, however he followed quite an stringent training regime to improve his level of idiocy to the heights that we are seeing today. He could be the next evolution of moron... a king Midas in reverse who manages to turn into shit everything he touches.
RIP The Tick.
I thought being the president means eveyone knows you business as a public leader! That's some of the secrets that President Bush and his administration gets hammered for!
Lyme wouldn't EXPLAIN his behavior, seeing as how he's had this behavior for years.
They may use it to EXCUSE his behavior, in an attempt to do damage control on his
lunacylegacy.anon @ 12:
Blame the unpatriotic ticks - takes the first prize in creative blaming .. How many ticks had contracted serious disease servicing him ?
Did they call the Orkin Man???
As a doctor; I suspect he has had previous lyme infection due to the nature of his activities and he may indeed have neurological damage; specifically to areas of the brain as well as the spinal cord. He may be mentally unfit for office due to disease.
Surprise surpries - another cover-up. Big cover-ups, little cover-ups. They just can't help themselves. They are dishonest, corrupt, arrogant fucking assholes.
The doctors may have cured him of Lyme disease, but he's still dumber than a sack of sh*t. One little tick did his best to make a change in America. Where's that little dude's medal of honor?
And no I'm not implying it tried to bring about his demise, just that the tick tried to do something to change his behavior.
poor tick.
the little rascal gave dumbya lyme disease. true.
but, god knows, bush gave the tick a mad case of dunderheaded-lie-infested-addled brain-wargasmitis.
And what, praytell, are we paying the Secret Service for?
Well it's a good thing it wasn't anthrax disease. But then, he'd a been
treated BEFORE that ever hit....ooops, he already was.
Re: "...might also explain a few things about the president’s behavior…"
Not really. I didn't notice that he suddenly became coherent over the past year.
MeMyselfAndI @ 48:
There is a definite connection between language skills and brain function. This argument that brain function is not connected to language skill is hillbilly science - inarticulate means impared brain function. It may be that the damage doesnt interfer wtih other cognitive functions, or it may not.
In addition, there is a difference between high funtion - a monkey brain that can perform complex serial tasks - and awareness and thoughtfullness. Bush was never thoughtfull and his awareness ends at his skin.
But the video demonstrates a deterioration of brain function. I would suggest that his inactions and subsequent actions by cheney - the ashcroft visit, torture, command on 911 and just prior etc - speaks to this deterioration. He appears to be more a figurehead than engaged leader.
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isn't it some sort of policy/law/tradition that the public is made aware of any potential neurological disorders our fearless leader might have? especially during war time?
Guess by now all ticks are on the terrorists watch list.
CappuccettoRossso @ 51:
That video is unrelated to ticks. It suspects the onset of dimentia. (Cause unstated)
is it true Jeff Gannon felt the tick with his tongue?
The tick clearly hates our freedoms.
Well, you know tics "DO" feast on blood sucking creatures.
I wonder if the tick has a yellow magnet to support our troops?
Indeed Lyme disease is a very serious disorder:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyme_disease#Late_stage_symptoms
Neuropsychiatric:
* panic attacks, anxiety
* depression
* short-term memory loss
* sleep disturbance
* hallucinations
* depersonalization
* neurocognitive impairment (brain fog)
* psychosis (rare) including diagnosis of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder[74][75]
I can't believe that you gave the lazy fuckwad the title of President.
Maybe Bush is currently being treated for megalomaniac idiot disease and we'll find this out next year.
Why don't more people get angry seeing Bush out there doing that stupidity? He's wasting the people's time and money with his photo-ops. If a Democratic President did the same while in office, they'd be called to task for it by the so-called liberal media.
Frankie, I don't believe any of us here are on the Supreme Court. I know I'm not.
He was an idiot before he got Lyme Disease.
These guys can't tell the full truth about anything!
"But the true threats ti stability and peace are these nations that are not very transparent, that hide behind the - that don't let people in to take a look and see what they're up to. They're very kind of authoritarian regimes."
GWB - March 13, 2001
Doubting_Terrance @ 73:
Oops, that's "TO stability". Fixed.
I doubt if Lyme Disease could possibly cause any more damage to Bush's tiny brain and puny body than the drugs he has snorted and all the alchohol he's swilled.
Does any one know how fast the tick died after biting him?
This is how you turn a lemon into a lyme. ;)
So little ticks are weapons of mass dysfunction
Maybe that is what is wrong with this country. Maybe it has Lyme's disease. Cause I think bush and his cronies are fucking ticks.
All this time i thought he was (we were) suffering from Fuhrer disease...
Samson- @ 61:
There's no law that mandates this.
However, the 25th Amendment spells out how power devolves to the VP when the President is involuntarily declared incapacitated. This almost happened in '87, when Reagan's outgoin' Chief of Staff, Don Regan, told his successor, Howard Baker, that Reagan was more than a bit off(I don't think Reagan had been diagnosed as havin' Alzheimer's at that point).
If you dig up a speech of Bush from when he was Gov. of Texas, he speaks eloquently and clearly without stuttering... and actually sounds intelligent!
Back in 2000, there were rumors that he suffered a stroke in the middle of his campaigning, and these rumors were quickly quashed since they only appeared in articles on the back pages in the newspaper. One of the first things that are affected in stroke victims is their speech patterns.
Hmmmmmmm...
This is truly scary! And absolutely, this should have been made public. After all, bush works for us. The following, describing my sister's unfortunate bout with the disease indicates that the disease is not something to hide from your employer...
My sister contracted the disease some years ago, and it went untreated for about 10 years. During that time she became "a totally different person", suffering violent mood swings, multiple chemical sensitivities and all kinds of physical manifestations, ranging from pain to falling, to impaired movement. She also alienated everyone in the family - even her kids had a hard time with her. She was even incommunicado for about 5 years, refusing even to see our Mother for the last 7 or 8 years of her life, simply because Mom smoked cigarettes.
She is now under treatment, but the neurological and behavioral damage has been done. She is not the same person I knew before the disease. She has changed so much, and has isolated herself from the world to a point that my brother and I, with our families, do not communicate with her at all - and likely will not do so in the future.
It is highly likely that bush has been incapacitated to a dangerous degree by the illness (remember his actions during the bush-Kerry debates?). Has he also suffered irreversible brain damage? It certainly appears that his judgment has been markedly impaired - look at his messianic behavior, his obstinacy re. Iraq (and now Iran), and look at his continued support for those who helped get him the presidency (gonzo, rice, etc.). All of this indicates that there is something dangerously wrong with the asshole in the White House.
If you look at a satellite image of Crawford you see that the Bush Ranch, while it has no cows, has plenty of brush (mixed pine and hardwood). It's about the only half ass green place around there, which may explains why our environmental president spends so much time trying to cut it all down.
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Logan Murphy @ 65:
Now if ya'd have put that in the OP ya might have been mentioned on TV again. ;)
It may cause cognitive dysfunction, but it doesn't explain the genocidal tendencies.
So now we have the Lyme Disease defense for murder?
Hell of a high price for a photo op.
I had heard that Lyme disease was rare in places like Kansas and Texas, but was more likely to be found in the middle Atlantic and New England states.
Could it be that he was attacked by this tick at Camp David ?
I'm shocked at the callous lack of compassion and concern on this thread.
Give a thought to the poor unfortunate tick, please.
pissed off patricia @ 77:
POP: Must award you the award as "Best of the Day"/
Give that tick a Medal of Freedom!
Bush is pure asshole, Lyme Disease or not.
He ain't gettin' off that easy.
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Paul @ 84:
Yeah, philoviruses are painful and deadly, but they act too quickly.
I'd prefer Bush to contract elephantiasis:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephantitis
Of course it's treatable now, but it's so ironically named and I belive the marks it leaves are long lastin'.
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Treated? Can't win 'em all....
miss_kitty @ 3:
The thought of a bloodsucker on this bloodsucker is quite amusing.
AConfederacyofDunces @ 91:
Amen.
Generally speaking, I hate ticks. But I'll make an exception for this tick, a very patriotic little tick which should be commended for trying to put a stop to the atrocities.
God bless the little tick that bit the world's biggest parasite.
I've had Lyme disease now for about 20 years. I wasn't diagnosed till 2 years ago. If you catch it early it is curable if not it is hell. i can only wish this on Dick Cheney.
Stupid is as stupid does. He was addled long before any tick took a bite out of his ass.
a guy @ 18:
Check out the link from anon at #12, if you haven't already. The clip speaks volumes... Could he be on prescription drugs, do you think? That could also affect his cognition.
This made me think of JFK and Addison's disease...the public didn't necessarily know about that either...of course, back then there weren't hundreds of media outlets...only three.
Hah! It's none of your doggone business! Who the hell do you think you are? Do you think this man answers to you?
Gods, this is sad. If you read the latest news bits about 41's unconditional support of this lowlife, you get an understanding of who his enablers are. It turns my stomach to think that the American taxpayers will be supporting this deadbeat for the rest of his life.
Good thing he has excellent health coverage, unlike so many of us. Those of us who have none at all might have had the disease progress much further, before they could get any help.
our lives are supposed to be an open book to these Stasiites but they won't even disclose when the president has a serious health problem
Well, I guess if all else fails he can always blame the spyrokeets
This week, two of the least trusted men in America extended their dubious records of accomplishment. Last night in San Francisco, the steroids-scandal tainted Barry Bonds added to his record home run total by swatting his 757th round-tripper. And this morning in Washington, George W. Bush held a rare press conference before commencing his annual August vacation, a recess which will pad his dismal presidential record for most days off.
For the details, see:
"Bush, Bonds Extend Dubious Records."
:lol:
Hilarious thread! Thanks, folks. [wiping tears from eyes]
R.I.P. Mr Tick
Devoted arachnid
Bitey guy
Patriot
Who cares?
I cannot get health insurance due to my lyme disease. Bush is lucky to be part of a socialized medicine program.
I hope the white house isn't going to try to claim Bush's fried brain is actually the result of lyme disease! What accounts for the first five years?
"Born a lazy rich son of an aristocrat, sure. Born stupid, I dont think so.
Watch this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....mp;search=
Not too many people have seen this. It's absolutely amazing and the physicians' who comment claim that the video exhibits signs of dementia more than anything else. That sure explains a lot. I agree. NOT born stupid.
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"cognitive defects, neurological complaints or fatigue."...
How can anyone tell?
mystic @ 111:
BAD VIDEO LINK - please correct on a repost - Thanx
Regarding the video that not too many comment about---This is bona fide evidence of suspicion of dementia. If it eventually DOES come out that Bush has had true clinical dementia, his physicians would have helped the coverup and should be executed for treason. They would have enabled the deaths, crimes, genocide, fraud and destruction that characterize his presidency.
mystic @ 114:
Dementia or sociopathic sadism? I read Dr. Justin Frank's "Bush On The Couch" and everyday I'm more and more convinced that Bush, although far from smart, is not so much stupid as he is a sadistic drunken frat boy who fried his brain with coke.
Here is a video link which shows a comparison between the way Bush talked as governor of Texas--perfectly articulate--
and ten years later. The evidence is astounding and clearly shows that there is a neurological problem:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=pw4Bhmm22xo&feature=PlayList&p=BA6B45987E3762...
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Seems they're lying about how long he's had this and when he received treatment.
We could go back to his reaction to 9-11. We could look at the debates in '03 where he'd space out for long periods.
He could have had this disease for SIX years and still had chronic symptoms after antibiotic treatment. He could have been treated with corticosteriods for inflammation which depresses immune responses and made matters worse.
I think what they're telling us is BS., He's had this condition for years, and he's getting worse.
why blame a poor defenseless tick. Just look at his parents. Does anyone really george the first poked babs. It was a Rosemary's Baby type of moment. It was a great deal for george the first, Satan could create a disgusting monster through babs, and george would'nt have to poke her. The only problem, Satan could'nt find any volunteers, finally he convinced Quesemodo, and presto. Everybody was happy, except Quesemod.
Big deal.... They totally missed treating him for his real problem...
Terminal Stupidity.....................JD
Youffraita @ 100:
1994...Bush on coke
2004...Bush on anti-depressant drug cocktail
Blue Buddha @ 81:
" One of the first things that are affected in stroke victims is their speech patterns.""
Often, but not necessarily - it depends which side of the brain was hit: patients experience problems with speech and language, particularly after a damage/stroke to the left side of the brain. Remarkably, many recover the majority of their language abilities within six to twelve months. He does not recover, maybe bc there were more than one 'events' (the pretzel? event..): A person who experiences a stroke attack is at high risk of having another stroke in the near future. Strokes are particularly common in people who are smokers or heavy alcohol drinkers, or who have certain medical conditions..
The tendency to have a stroke also seems to run in families (poppy did vomit on Japanese Prime Minister in public after all - food poisoning symptoms are very similar to meningitis, or any brain inflammation. That would mean acknowledging that booosh Family INC have any brains).
When stroke patients regain some of their language abilities, their behavioral improvements may result from either of two mechanisms. The damaged area might recover its original functions or a different part of the brain might take over and compensate for the impaired region == > there are NO "different parts" available in his brain. He has NONE.
From a news release issued by Washington University School Of Medicine.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/12/001227082204.htm
Researchers Image Language Recovery After Stroke
""But there is a great deal of variability in how clinical symptoms relate to lesion location and how the brain recovers after different lesions. .........
For this reason, Corbetta and colleagues began at the other side of the equation. They examined the long-term effects of damage to a well-defined region called the left inferior frontal gyrus located on the left side, towards the front of the brain known to be critical for language performance. Steven E. Petersen, Ph.D., and his colleagues at the School of Medicine have previously found that this region is very active in healthy volunteers during slightly challenging language tasks. For example, participants were asked to form a word that starts with "cou". When they think of a response, such as "cousin", this frontal area of the brain is active. However, the area does not appear to be involved when healthy individuals perform easy, fairly automatic tasks like reading words. ""
He also easily fits a bipolar disorder, easy,of seasonal nature:
jnnp.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/63/6/796
""Seasonal cyclothymia to seasonal bipolar affective disorder: a ...
The appearance of bipolar affective disorder after stroke depends on the presence of two ... of sudden onset of grandiose speech, sexual advances towards female residents, undue cheerfulness, ...""
He easily meets the bipolar disorder test:
==> "grandiose speech": I am a DECIDER !
==> "undue cheerfulness": situation in Iraq is improving !
This seems to be consistent w/chimpy's problems, as even discussed in this thread above and evidenced by many video clips. He cannot even read from the teleprompter w/large fonts. Whatever the reason of Boosh mental incapacity, it's been there before - the tick must have lost its little mind for sure after feasting on El pResidente's blood lines. I hope they didn't organize a new Gitmo tick ward .
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Rumor has it Bab's mom got rhubarbed by Alestier (sp) Crowley, seriously...AC could be her DAD, therefore slush-head's grandpop.
Feh. I'd like someone to explain how he continues to function without a brain. I thought only cockroaches could do that...
Hey...wait a minute...
mystic @ 116:
As I said in an earlier post, there were rumors he had a stroke in 2000, but his campaign managers quickly denied it.
non-story...if they treated it with antibiotics after seeing that rash, it's gone...
mystic @ 116:
he may have been "perfectly articulate" in 1994 (although that's relative), but he still was not rational... his priorities have always been out of whack. He is a sadistic, delusional, clueless man - like his father and grandfather before him - who doesn't know the price of a loaf of bread... or care!
if lyme disease has had a long term effect on his mental state and behavior then he must have first acquired the ailment many years ago.
a guy @ 5:
Apparently so!
Kiva @ 126:
Not true. Hyperimmune responses continue after treatment quite often. We don't know when he really contracted this or how late afterward they actually treated him. He could have had the rash years ago and not mentioned it or sought treatment at the time, or thought he had a bout with flu.
They're probably lying about the time of onset and treatment.
It's not the Lyme disease, he's just a jackass.
"As I said in an earlier post, there were rumors he had a stroke in 2000, but his campaign managers quickly denied it".
-------So what else is new? His entire tenure has been one lie after another. What would his doctors NOT lie?
"he may have been “perfectly articulate” in 1994 (although that’s relative), but he still was not rational… his priorities have always been out of whack".
--------I agree. Out of whacked irrational people can still get dementia/stroke. It's the COMPARISON that nmakes it so damning.
What a silly article. He was a lazy idiot before; he's a lazy idiot now. What does lyme disease explain?
Why? is that a rubbing it on the face of the American people, who he had refuse a health care coverage. I don't care if he is sick or not sick I care that he of all people should not announced to anyone the state of his health (because nobody gives a shit because healthy or not he's useless anyway) especially the expensive cost of his medical procedure since he had veto a bill to provide health care for America's most vulnerable namely the American children.
Phil @ 131:
Ba-Boom!
Try all of the above. Sadistic juvenile avoidant fuckwad coke-snorting drunk contracts lyme disease which opportunistically attacks already compromised fried neural pathways (dead spots).
Poor tick, drinking that stupid juice. I hope it didn't suffer too long.
chimpy has symptoms of craziness that date longer than last year.
Lyme disease doesn't explain anything, although it does have some mental function side effects. Bush probably has alcoholic dementia or some other form of cerebral degenerative disease.
And like they'd tell us? Wasn't Regan showing signs of Alzheimers when he was still in office.
We the people don't have much say anymore do we?
I got tick bitten at age 10. I am 46. I found out I had Lyme and NOT LUPUS about five years ago . This is a story. Many many Americans are being denied care and treatment for LATE stage lyme disease and folks, I assure you there is such a thing when you are the person who did not get the opportunity for treatment when the bite happened.
Personally it will be interesting to watch Bush and Schumer over the next years. I had an eleven year remission but after an accident, the SPIROCHETE illness returned......
SPIROCHETE= TUSKEGEE
I bet Bush's Lyme disease cognitive defect symptoms passed undetected...
This picture speaks volumes about Bush. All he is really good for is moving brush.
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Too bad it wasn't a rattlesnake
I cannot get health insurance due to my lyme disease. Bush is lucky to be part of a socialized medicine program. - Jerry @ 109
Many many Americans are being denied care and treatment for LATE stage lyme disease... liz @ 139
Whether or not Bush's erratic, paranoid and generaly asshole behaviour was or was not caused by Lyme's disease, I don't really give a damn. Lyme's disease. Bad parenting. Sociopathic mental illness. Substance abuse. All of the above. I care about his behaviour, certainly - not about what caused it.
But the first thing that occured to me after reading this was - how many other people affected by the disease will not get treatment for it, while Bush does, because American health care is so crappy and run by insurance companies rather than medical professionals? The other, of course, is that if this was information suppressed, how much else is wrong with him - provably, medically wrong that the public isn't being allowed to know, which is their right? (And didn't I watch this episode on 'West Wing' a couple years ago...?)
does this mean we have another Pres with a brain disease?
he was *born* with lyme disease. blame the ticks!!!!!!
so now the the ticks are terrrists....they hate us for our freedoms..or they love us for them..either way...their terrrrists......I just heard booosh's voice on the tv saying terrrer..LOL
Anyone wonder whether Lyme disease is just being used as an excuse for Bush''s screwups?
jerry @ 98:
Are you sure a tick would want to bite Dick Cheney?
I do not thimk he had Lyme dease but he sure as H--- has LYING dease. I think it is a stunt to get the public to feel sorry for him, more of that LYING dease.
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