Bush's jumping jaw

by **Peachtree Pam** » Sat Oct 08, 2005 3:41 pm

This is not an earthshaking topic, but does anyone have any ideas why Bush's jaw pops out at the end of each sentence. I have noticed this in the most recent exchanges with the press, and it was also evident during the debates. It looks like it is uncontrollable. What is this a symptom of? (Excuse the preposition at the end of the sentence). Pam

by **Dreams End** » Sat Oct 08, 2005 3:52 pm

I've seen theories from tardive dyskinesia due to anti-depressants to alcohol related issues. Could be plain ole stress. Whatever it is, he's clearly losing it. I really want him to just go completely boffo in public, during a speech or something.

by **albion** » Sat Oct 08, 2005 3:59 pm

I've heard it referred to informally as "cocaine jaw." Not that I'd know, of course.

by **Peachtree Pam** » Sat Oct 08, 2005 3:59 pm

I wonder if he is back on cocaine, as well as the booze.

by **Peachtree Pam** » Sat Oct 08, 2005 4:07 pm

Hi Albion, Not trying to get personal info, someone told me that it is a symptom of heavy cocaine use, but it could be something else, who knows? Let's hope as DE said that he implodes live on TV. Maybe then someone would notice.<img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/sick.gif ALT=":x">

by **banned** » Sat Oct 08, 2005 6:29 pm

...but the last time I could stand to look at him on teevee for a few minutes the right side of his mouth was drooping and I wondered if he's had a stroke too. Did you ever see that video that came out around election time, comparing his performance at the gubernatorial debates in Texas back in the 90s with his performance at the debates with Kerry? In the former he was sharp, had the facts at his fingertips--had I not known it was Duhbya I would have been impressed. In the latter he was a shambling, embarassing moron and it is the shame of the media that no one came out and said so.

by **marykmusic** » Sun Oct 09, 2005 1:12 am

I don't watch TV or perhaps I wouldn't be asking this... Does he ever make and hold eye contact with anyone? Are the cameras always focusing on him talking to someone off-camera? If so, it could be one of those agreements with the press that LBJ had... one of his ears was quite a bit longer than the other, but it never shows up in photos. Pictures were not allowed that showed both his ears at once. When I was 16, a star reporter on my high-school newspaper "The Banana Leaf" (okay, it was on Guam), there was a summit meeting held. It was the spring of 1967, and LBJ, Westmoreland, and Ky all met on Guam. I got to be part of the press conference. Because I didn't have a camera, I was allowed on his "not-good" side. Boy, was he ugly! So it's not unusual for a sitting President to have that kind of control over the press, that he not be made to look ridiculous. FDR was never shown in a wheelchair, for example... Clinton always wore makeup because of his rosacea. When the press starts to ignore that we will know for sure that W is on his way out. The rats will desert the sinking ship. --MaryK

by **maggrwaggr** » Sun Oct 09, 2005 2:49 am

He's just been watching old movies of Mussolini.

by **marykmusic** » Sun Oct 09, 2005 4:33 pm

Mussolini, like the Nazi higher-ups, are well-known in drug history to have been big-time cocaine users (how do you think Blitzkreig was invented?) - I agree, it looks like someone who's coked out. And I DO know about these things, although it's been over 30 years since I was involved. That jaw-popping and grinding teeth are well known behavioral indications of not only cocaine, but methamphetamines. And while we're on the subject, so are megalomania and delusions of grandeur. --MaryK