Dean Details Treatment for Anxiety Attacks

NewsMax.com, People ^ | Jan. 15, 2004 | Carl Limbacher

[McGruff]

Boy you guys are on a roll lately.

Wasn't there a VP candidate who had to withdraw because a similar issue?

[ClearCase_guy]

OK. I say Kucinich will stay in the race longer than this guy.

[Frank_Discussion]

wow.

This person cannot be President. No way on G*d's green Earth.

[gov_bean_ counter]

Tom Eagleton?

[joesnuffy]

Yeah they sure aced him out on the same issues....didn't they

[Jim Noble]

"To suddenly get told that you have responsibility for 600,000 people — it provokes a little anxiety."

How about 250 million?

Does that provoke a little, or a lot?

[My Favorite Headache]

NewsMax on the Clinton payroll now? Sheesh. Can we start hearing about the Code Red's that the Clark bar ordered while you are at it?

[colorado tanker]

Dang. Dean-dong is gonna tank before he gets the nomination.

[gov_bean_ counter]

"I hyperventilated and I started hyperventilating and I thought, You better stop that or you won't be much good to anybody,"

"I started gulping for air"...

[mewzilla]

The panic attack was understandable, Dean said. "To suddenly get told that you have responsibility for 600,000 people — it provokes a little anxiety."

Oh, boy. I bet that makes the troops feel ever so much better when thinking about the prospect of a Dean presidency.

[NeoCaveman]

This person cannot be President. No way on G*d's green Earth.

Because he has had a panic attack???

[mewzilla]

Because he has had a panic attack???

When it's a panic attack about this, yeah.

[Timesink]

The panic attack was understandable, Dean said. "To suddenly get told that you have responsibility for 600,000 people — it provokes a little anxiety."

More than a little hint of narcissism here. "Responsible for" these people? Like all 600K of them would suddenly fall over dead if something were to have happened to the Mighty Howard?

[NeoCaveman]

When it's a panic attack about this, yeah.

I can think of 100 reasons not to vote for Dean.

This ain't one of them.

[mewzilla]

If the prospect of being gov freaks him out, we can just imagine what the prospect of sending our men and women into harm's way would do to him. Ye gad.

[panaxanax]

"Because he has had a panic attack???"


No, it's because he's an idiot. Probably bi-polar also.

[mewzilla]

Really? Well, bully for you. But if the prospect of a nice, cushy public job with lots of perks and bennies sends Howie into a tizzy, he's not someone who should be tasked with dealing with a crisis.

[NeoCaveman]

No, it's because he's an idiot. Probably bi-polar also.

Now that, I'll go along with....

And that he's a narcisist.

[Frank_Discussion]

Multiple attacks, I gathered. He's an angry guy who can't quite remember what his positions are on the issues and has a history of panic attacks. No, not just the panic attacks, but combined with basically not having a clue - not presidential material.

Even great wafflers as president had the ability to shrug off stress and function amongst the rigors of the job.