Our experience with Journolist member Ben Smith during the 2008 general election

HillBuzz ^ | July 22, 2010 at 6:24 pm | HillBuzz

[PA Engineer]

Beat me. In the next post I mentioned the craniotomy scar. We have noticed it.

[DJ MacWoW]

There is something terribly wrong with this man.

Gotta go to bed. Have a great evening!

[little jeremiah]

From photos I’ve seen (will click your link) he may have similar looking lines on both sides of head. Would have to see more photos to make sure.

[little jeremiah]

What is a craniotomy? Brain removal and replacement?

There is a photo of 0thugga and the Mrs leaving, IIRC from a helicopter, and he is very hunched forward. Maybe if she looked at many photos or videos?

I can’t stand seeing videos of him nor do I ever listen to his voice (very low thresh hold of nausea) but I would think she would be able to detect stuff.

[maggief]

http://hillbuzz.org/tag/does-obama-have-parkinsons/

[little jeremiah]

I just googled craniotomy.

Often used for Parkinson’s, says Wikipedia. I wonder if they’ll scrub it now.

[PA Engineer]

I can’t stand seeing videos of him nor do I ever listen to his voice (very low thresh hold of nausea) but I would think she would be able to detect stuff.

I am the same way. I cannot reach for the remote fast enough. I guess I'll have to take a couple of shots of jack and watch closely. Now my wife will also be glued to the set watching. Maybe I better get some xanax while I'm at it. I cannot stand that fraud.

We were thinking the craniotomy was probably due to a closed head injury (probably from The First Sasquatch).

[little jeremiah]

I just clicked the link posted above by maggief.

I highly recommend it.

[txhurl]

What do you and your better half make of Zippo doing the Uh..uh..uh for 36 seconds when he was trying to answer that woman’s question?

All I heard was zzzzpp! synapse fry... zzap!

[PA Engineer]

I don't know. Believe it or not the most strait laced people are Parkinson's patients. They do not smoke. They do not drink. They do not take drugs. They really the definition of obsessive compulsive at times which may be one of the early symptoms. It would be nice to see a couple hand writing samples of his over the last few years. For instance is his scratch getting smaller and smaller? Is there a tremor component? Does he keep long handwritten lists? These actually would be helpful.

The self-medicating with cocaine is not one that I have seen as a classic symptom. Smoking is another thing that is contraindicated. There are exceptions to every rule, however many neurologists will say the same things.

It is possible that he suffers from Parkinsonism or atypical Parkinson's. This can result years after a traumatic brain injury (TBI) or closed head injury. This is Parkinsonism and not true Parkinson's disease. I will discuss this with my wife. She is also an expert of atypical Parkinson's and may have not been looking for those symptoms.

[PA Engineer]

What do you and your better half make of Zippo doing the Uh..uh..uh for 36 seconds when he was trying to answer that woman’s question?

Would you please tell me more about this. Like I said before, I just cannot stand to see him or listen to him. If you have a link to maybe YouTube I can take a couple shots of jack and watch it. ;-)

[Bratch]

It is possible that he suffers from Parkinsonism or atypical Parkinson's. This can result years after a traumatic brain injury (TBI) or closed head injury. This is Parkinsonism and not true Parkinson's disease.

Muhammad Ali suffers from this, IIRC.

[PA Engineer]

Yep. That is where the term punch drunk came from. I have met them both (Wife and Muhammad) at fundraisers and he has a very dedicated and wonderful wife.

[LibertyRocks]

Heck, I haven’t believed ANYTHING written over at Politico since the Republican primaries (and before Thompson dropped out). Now I guess we know why their stories of “problems” between the various Republican candidates were so darn pathetic. Ben Smith is the cause...

[LibertyRocks]

Heck, they wouldn’t have even bothered trying to find a “credible source” if it were about Bush (or any other Conservative apparently). They just would have used the old “journalist’s” stand-by; “unnamed sources”.

[LibertyRocks]

Maybe that’s why he was in the bathroom when his daughter was asking him if he’d plugged the hole yet? She was probably really confused as her Dad never had a problem with HIS hole plugging up! ;) {Man, that could go off in SO many directions!)

[LibertyRocks]

Maybe it’s connected with that scar he has on the right side of his head???

[oprahstheantichrist]

"Ben Smith is the cause..."

Water seeks it's own level. I'm done with Politico.

[texas booster]

Parkinson’s ping for later.

[central_va]

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