She's 86 and probably doesn't remember what she had for breakfast this morning.
You wrote:
"She's 86 and probably doesn't remember what she had for breakfast this morning."
That is a little extreme, and might lend credence to the
stereotype of cold-hearted Republicans.
That being said--
another thread on Free Republic mentioned (I believe Boston Globe) article, quoting an MD who stated that
Bush's malapropisms are consistent with early-onset
dementia.
And the MSM, during the Swifties controversy, tried
to do moral equivalence on the discrepancies between
Rasmussen's account and the Swifties, blaming it on
'fog of war' and '30 years ago'. Why are they conveniently
forgetting this argument when the subject is an
86-year old woman? Politeness, setup of Republicans
as prior paragraph, or hypocrisy?
Her geriatric specialist helped her to recover these memories. Also as a child, she was molested by Bush senior.
Hillary is much younger than that and had a lot of trouble remember things.
I'm only 61 and on some days, I have to stop and think not only what I might have had for breakfast, but IF I had breakfast. My mother is 87 and I can vouch for the fact, that while she's competent and has no real mental deficit, her memory is, shall we say, fungible.