But even if it's true, how tragic is it that the most capable and competent President America has had in the last 90 years had Alzheimer's?
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Smiling takes 6.
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Posted on 01/14/2011 10:34:16 AM PST by Arec Barrwin
Ummmm...I'm probably not the first to say this, but I would certainly argue that the doctor who "was interning at the hospital" was also violating HIPPA's privacy rules.
RE: “Well, of course Alzheimer’s is there well before one finally is aware of it. DUH. How is this news?? Is this something President Reagan should be ashamed of?? It’s an illness and it wasn’t his fault. It wasn’t like he was insane like Loughner and people were hiding it from the public. He was starting to become forgetful or occasionally confused”
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Exactly — I was aware of ‘changes’ in my mom’s demeanor about eight years before it was clear she was at the least senile and at worst, afflicted with early stage Alzheimer’s. Mercifully she passed away from heart disease before the ‘senile dementia’ totally took over.
Who among us here, over age 50, hasn’t experienced his/her own ‘moments?’ Does that mean we should be put out to pasture now? We may get worse....or not... Reagan got by just fine in the White House even if the final couple of years were a little bit dicey.
Little Ron needs to go away — I thought we’d heard the last of him long ago. But obviously he plans to take full advantage of his dad’s 100th ‘birthday’ celebration ——— still a spoiled brat after all these years.
“Three years into his first term as president, though, I was feeling the first shivers of concern that something beyond mellowing was affecting my father. We had always argued over this issue or that, rarely with anything approaching belligerence, but vigorously all the same. He generally had the advantage of practiced talking points backed up by staff research, but I was an unabashed, occasionally effective advocate for my own positions. ‘He told me you make him feel stupid,’ my mother once shared, to my alarm. I didn’t want my father to feel stupid. If he was going to shoulder massive responsibility, I wanted him to feel on top of his game. If he was going to fulfill his duties as president, he would have to be.” Pages 204-205
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This passage alone makes me ill - implying that his father was intimidated by his vastly superior intellect and the only reason that he could win arguments was because he had a paid research staff?! Spare me, please little Ronnie! Only in your fantasy world (or your mother’s fantasy world) did you have any chance of winning an argument with your father! And to imply that you backed down so as to keep his confidence up is an insult beyond belief! If you’re SOOOO brilliant, why is it that you have never made a success of anything in your entire adult life? The only reason the Lefties keep giving you a job is because you talk trash about your own father - what a pathetic excuse for a son! I’m so glad that your dad is not here to see this travesty and I wish your mother would finally administer the spanking that you obviously needed and never recieved as a child!
Ron Reagan’s entire legacy is attempting to make money by besmirching his famous and accomplished father. How distinguished.
And Dr. John E. Hutton Jr. his doctor from 1984 through Reagan's retirement, told the New York Times that Reagan didn't show the tell-tale symptoms until 1993.
I take Dr.Hutton at his word.
(rolls eyes)
RE: “Slipping” does not equal incompetent.
We’re all “slipping.”
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Precisely! The statistics show some huge percentage of people over 80 with Alzheimer’s - many exhibits signs much much earlier.
Little Ronnie (son) took issue with his dad’s inability to name every canyon he flew over in a plane? Really? Over time the mind takes in so much — it’s natural even without dementia to cast aside a lot of the trivia we’ve stored away. Who remembers EVERYTHING? A pox on ‘little Ron.’
What a real POS ! Bringing ill fame to his namesake and is Ronald’s flesh and blood where as Michael Reagan is adopted but he truly reflect President Reagan’s ideas !
The tinkerbell son. Go figure..
Reagan’s son should be ASHAMED of himself for such a claim.
As I said perhaps Ron is taking normal signs of aging and streching it to fit his scenario.But I still think getting a hard blow to the head at that age - irregardless of whether there was or wasn’t surgery is bad because as you get older your body is more delicate.And it could have caused the Alzheimers to progress more rapidly than it might have otherwise.
Somebody tell me when Tutu Ron's book hits the penny bins.
I still won't buy it.
But even if it's true, how tragic is it that the most capable and competent President America has had in the last 90 years had Alzheimer's?
(Hopefully you read my tagline...)
I didn’t even have to guess before clicking on this thread that it was Twinkle Toes who would suggest this.
He may have been correct that President Reagan had the beginning of Alzheimer’s while still in office and there is certainly no crime in that.
But I remember when the liberals were trying to bring down Reagan over Iran-Contra and the constant refrain from the Left back then was that Reagan “had to know” the arms deal was going on “right in the basement of the White House” and accused Reagan of lying when he testified that he did not know it was taking place.
Well, if he had Alzheimer’s onset, perhaps he wasn’t lying at all. He really didn’t know (probably because Lt. Col. North didn’t advise him of this) but even if he were told, perhaps he forgot.
I know the libs don’t want to entertain the thought that the evil, hated Reagan was being entirely truthful under oath but here’s their comrade-in-arms Mr. Twinkle Toes, the original Nancy Boy, indirectly offering proof to exonerate his old man.
Well done, fair son. Well done.
Two of my favorite comments from the original site:
Dear Ron:
Too bad your dad didn’t leave you a tissue.
I wonder how it feels to be the son of a great man, and know the greatest thing you will accomplish in your life is to try and tear down your father’s legacy.
May I use that as my tagline?
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