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Serious Concerns about the President's Health
While on a brief vacation in Utah, I heard a discussion on KTALK radio on credible concerns about the President's health, including the possibility that he is being heavily medicated with anti-depressants. The discussion referenced reports from Capitol Hill Blue, the oldest Internet news service. The site provides a disturbing account of mood swings and unusual behavior by the President recently, including tantrums of anger and acting as if he thinks some bad decisions of his are God's will. More recently, on July 28, 2004, they reported that the President is being heavily medicated with psychotropic drugs. Here is an excerpt from the article, "Bush Using Drugs to Control Depression, Erratic Behavior" by Teresa Hampton:
President George W. Bush is taking powerful anti-depressant drugs to control his erratic behavior, depression and paranoia, Capitol Hill Blue has learned.
The prescription drugs, administered by Col. Richard J. Tubb, the White House physician, can impair the President’s mental faculties and decrease both his physical capabilities and his ability to respond to a crisis, administration aides admit privately.
“It’s a double-edged sword,” says one aide. “We can’t have him flying off the handle at the slightest provocation but we also need a President who is alert mentally.”Tubb prescribed the anti-depressants after a clearly-upset Bush stormed off stage on July 8, refusing to answer reporters' questions about his relationship with indicted Enron executive Kenneth J. Lay.
“Keep those mother******* away from me,” he screamed at an aide backstage. “If you can’t, I’ll find someone who can.”
While the mental and physical health of our President should be a matter of concern for all, even more important may be his attitude and apparent quest for power. It's as if he will only tolerate scripted questions and feels no accountability to the American people. He has publicly joked about how it would be easier if America were a dictatorship and he the dictator. He even stated in a White House press conference on April 13, 2004 that he was "the ultimate decision-maker for this country" - as if he were a dictator and not an elected representative of the American people in a Constitutional republic with balance of powers.
The answer to the impending rise of tyranny in the United States is not to simply elect another President. Kerry is every bit as much for big government, increased Executive power, and transfer of sovereignty to international groups as President Bush is. The answer is for the American people to demand that Congress exercises its constitutional responsibility to reign in the Executive branch, stop unconstitutional expansion of powers and massive federal programs, and return America to the Republic it was meant to be.
One more thing: if the President is being heavily medicated with psychotropic drugs, then who really is in charge? Sounds like his handlers have a little more control that the American people would like.
You're so right!