Posted on 06/21/2012 11:57:46 AM PDT by Izzy Dunne
WASHINGTON -- Commerce Secretary John Bryson has resigned, saying the seizure that he suffered on June 9 that led to two San Gabriel Valley hit-and-run accidents could be a distraction in the job.
"I have concluded that the seizure I suffered on June 9th could be a distraction from my performance as Secretary and that our country would be better served by a change in leadership of the Department," Bryson wrote to President Obama in a letter dated Wednesday.
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I wonder if that's true.
I think the appropriate interpretation of these “no drugs/alcohol” reports can be considered a canard.
Gee whiz, why resign over a seizure?
Heck, senators have had debilitating strokes, a congresswoman was shot in the head, and they all held their positions for quite a while.
Bryson must have had a special kind of “seizure”... the kind that becomes a “distraction”.
Gee whiz, why resign over a seizure?
Heck, senators have had debilitating strokes, a congresswoman was shot in the head, and they all held their positions for quite a while.
Bryson must have had a special kind of “seizure”... the kind that becomes a “distraction”.
I think I just had a seizure on the keyboard.
Hey, Biden had a chunk of his brain removed (and believe me he couldn’t spare it) but that didn’t seem to stop him from being a complete idiot, so why is this guy concerned?
Yeah, but none of them ever had a car accident where somebody else was hurt.
Oh, wait....
Just one of the first rats jumping from the sinking ship?
Van Jones?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2867511/posts
The inference is that he is knee deep into the “alternative energy” fiasco.
The incidents were after MIDNIGHT! No drugs? No alcohol? If true then the guy should be arrested for wasting moonlight as a useless, boring, dryball who probly can’t dance either. And if he wasn’t doing anything BEFORE midnight then what the bleep would he be distracted from?
It had to be a couple of very strange seizures to make him hit one car twice, then get back in, drive and hit another car. I have been around people who have seizures, both Grand and Petite Mal types and from what I read, Bryson didn’t act at all like he had any kind of seizure. My son suffers from them, takes medication, and is totally capable of working, thinking clearly, and functioning totally and has been for 30 some years. This is just another cover-up offered up hoping that people who don’t understand seizures will buy this excuse.
To paraphrase Rush: did anyone know there was a commerce secretary till this guy started playing bumper cars?
A alcohol seizure?
Although it was a considerable size and the better part of his total brain it was a part that he never used so he didn't miss it.
Totally disagree (in the sense that I am refusing to rule it out as a possibility). Several decades ago as I did grad work in one of the premier institutes of Neuro Psychology in North America, it became abundantly clear that any type of behavior humans ever exhibit, can be expressed during or immediately following a seizure. Any imaginable kind of thought disorganization or other psychiatric manifestation can occur, as well as criminal behavior in otherwise law-abiding persons, often followed by a degree of amnesia (and not just on the witness stand). And yes, I have epileptics in the family also.
Good Lord, Epilepsy is not a conspiracy. Welcome to real life. The posts in this thread are very disturbing to me. There is way too much ignorance when it comes to epilepsy and seizures. I’m epileptic. I have seizures 2 - 6 times a week. I cannot work because of them, cannot drive because of them.
There are 60 types of epilepsy, and what most think of as falling down and shaking is only one type. As steve86 said, any kind of human behavior can happen as a result of a seizure.
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