Bush Using Drugs to Control Depression, Erratic Behavior

[winterbadger]

http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_4921.shtml

I am unable to discern whether this site is reliable or not. But this allegation is so grave that I have to hope they're just total nutjobs. Otherwise we should be looking at the 25th Amendment *right now*.

Comments

[deza.livejournal.com]

I'm finding lots of reprints in this in various indy/political reform zines. Nothing from the "established" media. This doesn't surprise me from US sources, but others like BBC have been quick enough to criticize Bush in the past.

[winterbadger]

I wish I were still on speaking terms with one of the senior nursing staff at Bethesda. OTOH, she's pretty damn conservative and *very* professional, so she probably wouldn't have let anythign slip.

[ga-sunshine.livejournal.com]

I googled them and there seems to be a lot of forums and websites quoting the article, but for every one that quotes it as gospel there are just as many that attribute them to the likes of the Enquirer. It's a toss up ... and none of the "regular" (smirk) media seems to have touched it. So it's a 50/50, I guess.

[shy-kat.livejournal.com]

Seems likely to be fiction. Although there was probably some prescription of some minor psych drug for stress or something to get the rumor mill started. And plenty of people think that the need for any psych drug is bad.

But I personally wouldn't view someone as incompetent to be president simply for taking psych drugs.

(I do view Bush as incompetent for lots of other stuff though...)

[winterbadger]

If he's sufferring from mood swings so severe that he needs to be heavily medicated, then I don't think he's fit to carry out the duties of his office, any more than the fictional president Bartlett was when suffering from acute attacks of MS. I know how I felt when I was having panic attacks, and I wouldn't want the country being run by someone in that state. Any number of mental illnesses, obviously, can be effectively treated and brought into remission, but I don't want someone acting as commander in chief while they're still trying to get things under control.

rivka delivered a pretty sounding thrashing to Dr Frank's "analysis" of the president, both in her blog and in a radio program. However, what I recall is her demolishing him for unethical behavior; I don't recall, right off, her questioning his conclusions. She may have done; I just don't remember.

[shy-kat.livejournal.com]

lol, I "suffer from mood swings so severe that [I] need to be heavily medicated."

Honestly, I think that this was probably something fairly minor blown way out of proportion. AS for Dr. Frank, I really don't think any good psych doc would try to diagnose someone without actual face-to-face dealings with that person.

I just can't credit this at all coming from such a IMO dubious source.

Credibility of Capitol Hill Blues and Doug Thompson

[robbysmom.livejournal.com]

See: http://www.dougthompson.com/

Folks sure are quoting it.

The netzine FAQ says they're owned byt the save America Foundation, which does not seem actually to exist.

Thompson's media company claims to own Capital Hills Blues, thought he site FAQ says he's merely the founder.

And dougthompson.com has a feed from Capitol Hill Blue, also.

I think it's some combination of satire and far left media.

None of this means that aspects of the tory aren't true. (LIke whether the Pres. is medicated.) BGut I don't think it's credible. I even think this is telegraphed by the supposed quote quote of someone-in-the-know about the medication. That seems to me totoally fictitious.

[peaceful-fox.livejournal.com]

This is the only other thing I've found so far!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2004/07/10/cnenron10.xml&menuId=242&sSheet=/money/2004/07/10/ixcity.html

motherwell has mention of it in his journal, too, as I sent it to him yesterday. It's getting around.

[winterbadger]

Yeah, he's where I saw it first.