RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:USA and India Release their Oil Reservesgeemonet wrote: Pretty sure the woke movement also refers to environmental movements too there bud.
And that guy is like 300 years old... he ain't making an decisions. He's a puppet.
Speaking as an 81 year old myself and having watched him perform this year I find it absolutely humourous when I hear phrases like "He is absolutely laser focused" and ""He is just as sharp as ever" and "He spent a lot of time putting all of this together".
And then he says he will absolutely run again in 2024. First he has to survive year 1 and then year 2 .... that is a definite challenge for him from what I can see - speaking from experience!!
Wonder what Dr. Jill feels about it all - behind closed doors. No one sees him like she sees him.
They'll never ask and she will never tell I assume. Wonder if Nancy was ever consulted about Ronald? All a matter of perspective by whomever is telling the story:
A couple of excerpts:
"The controversy properly dates to October 1997, when the New York Times published Lawrence K. Altman's lengthy, in-depth article, "Reagan's Twilight—A special report: A President Fades Into a World Apart."
Yet Reagan's "Alzheimer's Controversy" recently resumed, CBS News noted yesterday, after Ron Reagan suggested, in a just-released book, that the former president "may have shown signs of Alzheimer's disease as early as three years into his first term."
In My Father at 100, Ron Reagan writes of a "growing sense of alarm over his father's mental condition." He recalls the presidential debate with Walter Mondale, October 1984, in which his father seemed lost and unable to articulate himself. In "Ronald Reagan had Alzheimer's while president, says son," a short piece on the fracas by the British Guardian, Ron Reagan is quoted as saying: "My heart sank as he floundered his way through his responses, fumbling with his notes, uncharacteristically lost for words. He looked tired and bewildered."
But while brother Michael Reagan has rushed to discredit the suggestion of impairment, calling it a slur on their father's memory, many of the president's former interviewers and colleagues have very similar recollections. Collectively, these attest to serious concern about his sharpness and overall presence of mind. On CBS Online today, for instance, 60 Minutes correspondent Lesley Stahl, in another new book on Reagan, describes a visit with her family to the White House in 1986, ending her time as a White House correspondent. She writes,
"Reagan didn't seem to know who I was. He gave me a distant look with those milky eyes and shook my hand weakly. Oh, my, he's gonzo, I thought. I have to go out on the lawn tonight and tell my countrymen that the president of the United States is a doddering space cadet."
Other observers and commentators have noted how often Reagan confused films he'd made with political reality, including telling witnesses about concentration camps he'd helped to liberate in World War II, when the humbler truth was rather that he had made a movie or two about the topic.
But as we try to establish the right balance between overreach and under-effectiveness, a parallel debate about diagnosis has erupted over the onset of Ronald Reagan's Alzheimer's and when, exactly, the former president grew mentally impaired by the disease. Especially in light of Reagan's near-sanctified status among Republicans and neoconservatives, the debate has big implications for American politics and history.
The controversy properly dates to October 1997, when the New York Times published Lawrence K. Altman's lengthy, in-depth article, "Reagan's Twilight—A special report: A President Fades Into a World Apart."
Yet Reagan's "Alzheimer's Controversy" recently resumed, CBS News noted yesterday, after Ron Reagan suggested, in a just-released book, that the former president "may have shown signs of Alzheimer's disease as early as three years into his first term."
In My Father at 100, Ron Reagan writes of a "growing sense of alarm over his father's mental condition." He recalls the presidential debate with Walter Mondale, October 1984, in which his father seemed lost and unable to articulate himself. In "Ronald Reagan had Alzheimer's while president, says son," a short piece on the fracas by the British Guardian, Ron Reagan is quoted as saying: "My heart sank as he floundered his way through his responses, fumbling with his notes, uncharacteristically lost for words. He looked tired and bewildered."
But while brother Michael Reagan has rushed to discredit the suggestion of impairment, calling it a slur on their father's memory, many of the president's former interviewers and colleagues have very similar recollections. Collectively, these attest to serious concern about his sharpness and overall presence of mind. On CBS Online today, for instance, 60 Minutes correspondent Lesley Stahl, in another new book on Reagan, describes a visit with her family to the White House in 1986, ending her time as a White House correspondent. She writes,
"Reagan didn't seem to know who I was. He gave me a distant look with those milky eyes and shook my hand weakly. Oh, my, he's gonzo, I thought. I have to go out on the lawn tonight and tell my countrymen that the president of the United States is a doddering space cadet."
Other observers and commentators have noted how often Reagan confused films he'd made with political reality, including telling witnesses about concentration camps he'd helped to liberate in World War II, when the humbler truth was rather that he had made a movie or two about the topic.
Then there's the incident at a photoshoot at the president's beloved ranch in Santa Barbara, also in 1984, when a reporter called out a question about arms control and received this response from the leader of the free world:
R.R: "Well, we uh, well... I guess, uh, well, we uh ..."
Nancy Reagan: (sotto voce): "We're doing the best we can."
R.R.: (with a big smile): "We're doing the best we can!"
These and many other troubling moments stand in marked contrast to the president many would prefer to remember for declaring ebulliently (and intelligently), "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!"
While Alzheimer's is a feared and debilitating disease, even as we celebrate recent developments in its early detection it's critical to ask whether the president of the United States was mentally impaired toward the end of his term in office. The implications of that inquiry extend far beyond a family feud. They spotlight the many other, far less attractive policy decisions, both at home and abroad, that Reagan authorized and initiated.
And a CNN article from 2018:
"To wit, several commentators have their facts just plain wrong: They claim that in the late 1980s, while in office, Ronald Reagan had Alzheimer’s disease. Some have reached back in time to grab headlines: “Is Reagan Senile?” asked a May 1987 edition of the New Republic.
Truth is, those headlines were ageist, and not about the possibility that President Reagan had Alzheimer’s (a condition not diagnosed or made public until 1994). Actually, ever since Ronald Reagan’s first substantial run for president in 1976 at the age of 65, those opposed to Reagan labeled him as “old” and proclaimed his age a huge disadvantage compared to his opponents.
Of course, they’d say the same thing four years later when he won the White House and four years beyond that when he won a second term – both by landslides, in both the popular vote and the Electoral College. The vote margins were massive, among the biggest in American history, and no one ever claimed that he was an illegitimate president.
Let’s put it clearly and simply: there is no truth to the notion of Ronald Reagan having Alzheimer’s during his presidency. Any piece of information that claims this is either taken out of context or is an outright lie from those who simply ignore history and know nothing about medicine.
Ask Ed Meese, President Reagan’s closest adviser, what he thought of President Reagan’s health. There will be nothing about Alzheimer’s. Ask others who worked closely with the President. There will be nothing. Ask for doctor’s notes or physicals or anything that would’ve meticulously been kept. What is there? Nothing. That’s how much truth there is to the canard. Reagan went to the Bethesda Naval Hospital each year for extensive testing, and each year of his presidency he passed with flying colors.
Following his presidency, he went to the Mayo Clinic for extensive annual exams starting in 1989 and was given an annual test for dementia and mental deterioration. Each year, he passed the exam without showing any signs of dementia beyond normal aging until his disease was diagnosed and revealed in 1994.
Those who want to use Reagan’s sad illness, the onset of which did not occur until a full five years after leaving office, for their own reasons or for political gain cannot seem to help it. They want to use a man’s disease to discredit a president who even those of a different political persuasion, such as former President Barack Obama, have looked up to.
Is there any medical evidence, doctors’ notes, counseling reports or any other information indicating that President Reagan suffered mentally in any way at any time in office? No. In fact, Dr. Lawrence Altman, longtime New York Times medical correspondent, looked for just such evidence and found none.
Altman, who examined the subject in the wake of Ron Reagan’s 2011 book suggesting that his father may have shown signs of illness in his presidency, wrote, “In my extensive interviews with his White House doctors, key aides and others, I found no evidence that Mr. Reagan exhibited signs of dementia as president,” he wrote. “No other family member – and not Edmund Morris, the biographer who spent seven years with Mr. Reagan in the White House – publicly hinted that he showed evidence of Alzheimer’s as president.”
There is not a single mention from a White House staff person, a credible book author, or physician that President Reagan experienced even a single day where he was mentally incapacitated or unable to serve."
Wonder what stories might be written about Joe after he is out of office?