Is Bush Drunk or Hungover in this Pic??? Or a Stoke?

[LibertyLou]

President Bush participates in a briefing on Hurricane Rita at Randolph Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas., Sunday. (AP/Susan Walsh)

[JohnnyBoots]

1. Maybe he's baked.

[mntleo2]

60. He Just Hasn't Had His Nap Yet....

:yoiks:

Cat In Seattle

[liberalitch]

2. Little of column A.... little of column B.....

I've pulled a stinker at night and woke up the next day.... drunk AND hung over before

[havocmom]

29. Back in Texas with his ol buds, I bet it was a real gass of a par-TEE

last night. Did Pickles make him do church this AM?

[liberalitch]

81. Probly..... jus' yelled "stop george"......

While he did the jimmy page

[Justpat]

3. He is medicated to the max.

He looks like he is on some heavy tranquilizers.

[havocmom]

12. Sounds like it too. C-SPAN, he sounds real S-L-O-W

Time to resign and rest up from the past 3 weeks of work!

[ignatius 2]

45. And this loose nut has his finger on the button that could

take out the entire civilized world. Time to be impeached for incompetence and mental health problems. I know that Grant was an alcoholic, any president ever known to have mental problems while in office?

[havocmom]

54. Only way I can sleep at all is to think the military would not give him

the REAL football. Even after Rummy's purges of the brass, nobody could be THAT dumb. Right? RIGHT? Oh, puleeze tell me I am right....

[IndyOp]

62. My thoughts (hopes) exactly... Don't let him near the button! (not)

[smoogatz]

57. Well, there was Nixon's paranoia

and Reagan's early-stage alzheimer's...

[ignatius 2]

85. Reagan,you are so right..he couldn't remember anything about Iran contra..

I thought he was acting, putting on a show but he really couldn't remember which meant that Poppy was running that show.

Then we got him for president. Oh dear God in Heaven,please do not let that piece of history repeat itself and give us president Cheney.

[demnan]

63. Nixon

'nough said!

[goclark]

65. Why do you think they kept him flying on 9/11?

I bet he is no where near that button ~ Condi is and Poppy is and Cheney is too.

[MN ChimpH8R]

68. Tranks and/or a potent anti-psychotic

like Thorazine. He is zonked out of his pointy little skull in that picture.

[Humor_In_Cuneiform]

84. My thoughts exactly!

[Autonomy]

4. He's got that 'hair of the dog that bit him' look going on.

So, both.

[Pacifist Patriot]

82. I was thinking the same thing.

In fact, I'm pretty sure I have an old Sunday morning beer breakfast frat house photo of my husband with a remarkably similar expression.

[buff2]

5. It's hard work being Preznut

:evilgrin:

[jean]

25. ya, he's tuckered out from doing hard work, it's hard being preznit

and having to f-o-c-u-s your powers on the job at hand.

A grateful nation awaits his next b-o-l-d move.

[havocmom]

6. See it live on C-SPAN. He looks even worse than the pic shows!

Time to get him on the liver donor list from the looks of him

[LibertyLou]

10. Can anyone do a screen capture or at least TIVO it?

[Lindacooks]

7. God, he's looking worse by the minute.

It's like watching Dorian Gray.

[LibertyLou]

8. Maybe press has decided to let us sheep know the emperor has no clothes?

[skooooo]

9. Bush is drunk on cspan right now

[Botany]

13. Quote from * ...... he is not all there.

"How I can plan and surge equipment."

[skooooo]

14. when did he say that?

[Botany]

20. On CSPAN

about 10 minutes ago ..... replay from a meeting this AM.

It was either "How I can plan and surge equipment." or "How we can
plan and surge equipment."

:wtf:

It was like he was stumbling around to look like he was a leader.

[Vincardog]

11. IT is hard to tell. Remember he spent the 60s 70s and 80s strip mining

his mind.

[Fridays Child]

15. "A little hair of the dog that bit ya, is always good," said Dear Leader.

[mom cat]

16. E. All of the above.

[ClintonTyree]

17. Looks like a hangover mixed with valium.....

I've seen that stare in my mirrored reflection in my youth. I smartened up though, what's his excuse? :shrug:

[skooooo]

24. definitely a slooowing dooowwn...

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

34. "Bush PARTICIPATES in a briefing" LOL

Using oxygen in the room and taking up physical space looks to be about the full extent of participation, given the look on the Chimp's face.

[bluedawg12]

18. A little bit of Rita in my life a little bit of Katrina

is what I need...sing it with me...remember that old Lou Bega song?


He looks baaaaaad and bloated. I just saw the video- he was grinding his jaw again.

[titoresque]

53. LMAO!!!!

:rofl:

[Cha]

19. Toast?

bush didn't have Bags(under his eyes before) before, did he?

Something is making his kidneys bloated.

[SammyWinstonJack]

21. Whatever he is, he looks like crap warmed over. nt

[I Have A Dream]

22. Wow - he really DOES look bad, doesn't he?

I guess they didn't get him into makeup beforehand.

[soup]

23. hmm.

or


Think I'd go with #2.

[calico1]

26. Drinking and taking meds

on top of a hangover.

[Kailassa]

27. That guy is in pain

... not enough pain though.

Look at those eyes, he can hardly see, that's why he's forcing his eybrows up, and it's not helping.

I dread to think what he looked like before he had his make-up out on.

[LibertyLou]

28. They're might also be some weird facial paralysis there...

I read somewhere about a doc who believes that * is showing signs of cocaine/alcohol abuse-related stroke

Look at both sides of face...one side seems to be droopy..

Bell's palsy?



Here's a link to a DailyKos post last year on the subject...

"I've worked doing medical documentaries for 14 years. I've done several shows on stroke victims, and something kept bothering me about Bush last night. Then I got a call this morning from another medical producer. First thing he says is: Bush has had a stroke. And it hit me, that's exactly what I saw. Check Bush's mouth, where the spittle was coming out. It's slightly droopy. If you go back and look at video from his earlier days, his mouth isn't drooping, that side of his face is far more animated. It's very subtle but it's there.

Now if you look at video from the FIRST debate, there is no droop. The right side of his face is pretty animated. Why? The thing on his back. Listen, I've put wireless mics and wireless IFBs (2 way transceivers) on talent for years. They're the size of credit cards now. That wasn't a transceiver on Bush's back. It was some kind of medical device. He wasn't wearing it last night, and that's why he was forcing himself to stand with such a rigid expression. The best he could muster.

Why would he have lost so much of his verbal capacity in the last 4 years?

Think about the choking episode a few years ago. Who witnessed it? That's all we got"




http://dailykos.com/story/2004/10/14/102647/07

[ultraist]

35. His mouth droop seems more pronounced recently

Can't a droopy mouth also be a side effect from meds? I think certain pyschotropics can cause that. Meds can also cause twitches, of course.

[Rob H.]

30. Wow, he looks like shit.

More than usual, I mean. :P

He looks like he pulled a late night last night. (I know he probably didn't, though. By his own admission he usually goes to bed by what, 9:30?) He also looks really bloated in addition to looking hung-over.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

31. Looks like he just woke up - after sleeping it off

[pretzel4gore]

32. pigmedia are frantic to avoid these type of pics

they must have banks of editors anxiously watching for anything like this....the pigmedia worry about the poor goddam freepers. they worship this pos(!)

[SaveAmerica]

33. Stoke or Toke?

[LibertyLou]

47. The editing time has expired...can't correct the typo..oops.

[begin_within]

36. It's the look of someone forced to take responsibility for the first time.

[Window]

37. Damn, he looks awful.

.

Peace

[sakabatou]

38. All three at the same time

[leftofthedial]

39. big-time hangover

and Condi not around to sweat it out of him


All this traveling around like an MSNBC weatherman ("Stormy!") is HARD WORK.

[NightOwwl]

40. I hope he feels as shitty on the inside...

as he looks on the outside.

[Sparkly]

41. "Are we keeping you awake, George?"

Wouldn't it be scary if this mass of damaged cells really WERE running the country?

[nevergiveup]

42. Rove hypnotized him

It is part of the plan to make him think he is the president.

[lakeguy]

43. makes me hungry just lookin at the guy! ummm, taco bell!

[jimshoes]

44. Looks like a

Jack Daniels headache to me.

[peacefreak]

46. He looks like a man woefully out of his league.

He knows he's not fooling anyone, anymore.

[MoonRiver]

48. I would say stupid, but that's beyond stupid.

Fried brain is the best I can do.

[YouthInAsia]

49. He looks stoned on weed. I looked like that all the time in college

[Tower]

50. Answer: Yes.

You can be both. It's not pleasant.

[DemoTex]

51. Extremely bloated. Could be EtOH or hypertension .. or both.

Either way, it is perhaps fluid retention. Bu$h has a history of relatively low B/P. Probably from excessive intake of EtOH (ethyl, or beverage, alcohol). What a puffy face! He needs either detox or a good diuretic. Add an ice-water enema to my Rx list.

[Drewskie]

52. It's just a matter of time before the guy

takes a shot in public. Why even try to hide it? He's obviously drunk.

[rucky]

55. footballs...

Xanax

[SunDrop23]

56. Someone in the room must be speaking Spanish.

[question everything]

58. No, just his usual self, trying to think. Hard (nt)

[smoogatz]

59. Vicodin.

That's a Vicodin stare if ever I've seen one. Betcha a nickel he's got Bell's palsy, which a) comes and goes, and b) is incredibly painful. Incurable and pretty much untreatable. Couldn't happen to a bigger shit-heel.

[RedCloud]

61. Maybe Condasleeza didn't allow him a potty break for some time.

[shanti]

64. he's bored

peoples' problems bore him.

[elehhhhna]

66. The National Enquirer is reporting he's BOOZING AGAIN:

Laugh if you must but they're right about 99% of the time.

(Hey,I was bored playing evacuee in Waco, so don't flame my choice of reading material...)

[young_at_heart]

67. Compare to Clinton.......NO contest

His body language and facial expression show a person who is angry and doesn't want to be a part of this group. Is this really "participation"?

[HamdenRice]

69. Terminally stupid? nt

[HamdenRice]

70. Changed my mind ... He's MAD!!!

Holy shit! It's more uncanny than ever!

Compare:





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[cassiepriam]

71. Constipoopded nt

[mshasta]

72. He's on acid...

he's tripping big time...

[Mabus]

73. He's upset

He ran out of blue shirts and couldn't find his lapel flag.

[CitrusLib]

74. He looks like he's getting ready to hurl.

[tinfoilinfor2005]

75. Hungover, dumb and ugly.

and his nose looks like a penis.

[Flubadubya]

76. Hell, its just his usual STUPID self...

which is pretty bad, no matter what! :eyes:

[Blue_Roses]

77. No, he just looks bored as hell

I watched that whole "briefing" and he never looked so bored.

[MisterP]

78. he looked like Divine yesterday on C-SPAN: interestingly,

his right half of the face is dead, but it's the LEFT eye that shrinks when he laughs. I suspect damage at the crossover point in the midbrain--it's near the mammillary bodies, which regulate some emotional behavior and are destroyed by alcoholism

[Mark E. Smith]

79. He's Thinking About All The Video Game Time He's Missing

Followed by warm milk, cookies, and a nice nap.

[knitter4democracy]

80. It looks like pain and exhaustion to me.

I don't like the guy at all, but that picture looks like exhaustion and bad pain. I seriously wonder what his real medical condition is. I know I have a similar look on my face when my painkillers aren't working.

[wakemewhenitsover]

83. Newsweek said "BALEFUL". (Because he wasn't "ALE-FULL"?)

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9470154/site/newsweek

[spuddonna]

86. Good lord he looks totally hungover...

What a prat... Can anyone tell me how this idiot became the leader of the free world?! My brain has never, ever understood it...