another explanation for the mysterious bulge relayed by alexander cockburn

Posted by: b real | Apr 4 2005 14:58 utc | 4

The “wearable defibrillator” hypothesis cited by b real is, to me, the most plausible explanation – e.g., he was photographed wearing the “bulge” driving around on his ranch, when he wouldn’t need to be supplied with talking points.

Posted by: mistah charley | Apr 4 2005 16:17 utc | 6

Echoes of the Past — quotes:
And the look on his face, as the man who was in jail an dying, or living — whatever– for freedom, stood out there, hoping against hope for freedom.
I have a tendency to avoid on and on and on, eloquent pleas. I don’t talk much, but I believe, maybe not articulate much, but I feel.
Hey, listen. I’ve got to go now. Heavy recreation coming up before we go abroad, so I’ve got to keep going.
Let me say something on the XX matter. What are we coming to here? You’re talking to somebody who had to prove his innocence –me–on the basis of rumor. It was alleged by people that we weren’t sure who they were, that I was in Paris at some deal to keep Americans in captivity. That’s what the allegation was against me. And I’m saying to myself, who’s making these allegations?
I have no knowledge of what Casey can do, or did do. The man’s dead. Let’s have some more interviews with a dead man. You know what I mean? Get it?
Well, I’m going to kick that one right into the end zone of the Secretary of Education. But, yes, we have all– he travels a good deal, goes abroad. We have a lot of people in the department that does that. We’re having an international– this is not as much education as dealing with the environment–a big international conference coming up. And we get it all the time–exchanges of ideas. But I think we’ve got– we set out there– and I want to give credit to your Governor McWherter and to your former Governor Lamar Alexander– we’ve gotten great ideas for a national goals program from–in this country — from the governors who were responding to, maybe, the principal of your high school, for heaven’s sake.
end quotes.
Easy to quote garbled speech out of context, but Bush Senior and Bush Junior resemble each other so much, so many odd errors, peculiar chopping and switching, etc…from Tarpley
Also, technical difficulties, quote:
Bush returned to work wired with a portable heart monitor. This was a device about the size of a telephone pager, with white wires leading to patches on his chest which measured the rate of his heartbeat. Bush stated that he was “Back to normal and the same old me.” He declined to show off his heart monitor with the quip “Do you think I’m Lyndon Johnson?”
ha ha.

Posted by: Blackie | Apr 4 2005 17:25 utc | 8