[GraceCoolidge]

Wasn't there also an article (NY Times?) not too long ago talking about how the President's speech patterns... I vaguely recall some kind of link to "rigid" thinking, inability to compromise, just tons of psychobabble. It was a whole diagnosis. Anyone else remember this? The liberals have made these kind of criticisms a cottage industry... now the whiny little crybabies don't like it when it's applied to them?

[Bonaparte]

I missed that one, but I certainly wouldn't doubt it. Odd, though, that the NYT would be decrying the intrusion of personality disorder into the public square. Case in point: Their own employment and promotion of the ill-qualified, Jayson Blair, whose bizarre behavior in college was a matter of record when he was first hired.

Then there's the publisher himself, who drags his stuffed teddy to company conferences...

[NYCVirago]

I remember both those studies you are talking about. And don't forget the psychiatrists' report in 1964, saying that Barry Goldwater was psychologically unfit to be president. Funny how Brock has such a selective memory when it comes to such things.

One other item -- the Times' article on Gore's recent speech ran on page A26. It seems even the Times thought Gore sounded a bit wacky; which is why they downplayed the speech, even though it happened in New York.