"I've become concerned about Bush's mental state...."

[flowomo]

Long interview with Camille Paglia on Salon. Includes this:

Paglia -- "I'm not a Bush hater. I've always viewed him as a decent fellow who was pushed into the presidency because he was his father's son. But he's been out of his depth in foreign affairs from the start. He certainly lacks the basic verbal skills for the presidency -- reading speeches authored by others is no substitute. But I've become concerned about Bush's mental state in the past few months. Sometimes in his press conferences or prepared statements (which I listened to on the radio), I heard a sort of Nixonian tension and hysteria. His vocal patterns were over-intense and his inflections impatient, lurching and sarcastic. There was this seething quality to his speech that worried me and that seemed to signal that something major is being planned -- perhaps another military incursion."

Q -- "Iran?"

Paglia -- "What else? Yet another folly -- creating more generations of hatred against America."

http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2006/10/27/paglia/index2.html

[niyad]

1. she has just now noticed that his mental state is less than good?

the rest of us have known this for quite some time. as far as him being "a decent fellow who was pushed into the presidency", sorry, camille, but you are way off the mark. read molly ivin's book, "shrub", just one of many that indicate that he was always his father's hatchet man, and a truly hateful, not to mention unpleasant, person.

[flowomo]

2. some of us, not "the rest of us" have noticed....

That's what the 2004 election proved, and this one is all about -- not enough people noticing. what's interesting here is that this person, who is not a "Bush hater," is now seeing something disturbing. Just another tiny sign that "more of us" are seeing it. Perhaps enough to swing the election this time.