Isn't GWB Looking Rather Puffy These Days?

[K8-EEE]

Boy this guy is not holding up too well. Looking really puffy and bloated, especially compared to Kerry...

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=584&e=3&u=/nm/20040309/pl_nm/campaign_agriculture_dc

[livetohike]

1. He must be hitting the bottle hard these days

I agree. He looks as if he has really aged in the past six months. All of those lies must be catching up to him.

[Art_from_Ark]

19. It's the "Dorian Gray effect"

I'd hate to see what the painting in the attic looks like!

[tom_paine]

2. All that prescription drug abuse causes water retention

Plus, it gives Smirky "plausible deniability" on the drug abuse issue.

Though I'll bet he still takes a drink and a snort of coke more than occasionally.

Because NO ONE tells the Emperor of Amerika what to do!

[bigwillq]

3. He's drinking heavily again

only my thoughts

[LDS Jock]

21. just like his twin daughters n/t

[rumguy]

4. his hair has thinned a lot too

and he just has an over-all unhealthy look to him....

[fob]

20. pshawww, don't you know that bush* is SOOO healthy he has

a heartbeat so slow it causes him to pass out!

[displacedtexan]

5. We should all call and email our sincere concerns!

Wouldn't that be a hoot?

[Warpy]

6. The presidency always ages a guy

...in a very short time. I remember the dramatic change JFK underwent, from somebody described as "boyish" to somebody who was under enormous stress, sleeping little, relaxing less.

The one exception was Clinton, who aged almost normally.

Bush looks more like somebody who has been insulated all his life and has finally had to face up to a few hard truths about his competence, his likeability, and the trustworthiness of the friends he has chosen.

He looks like hell.

[RoundRockD]

8. I ALMOST feel sorry for him these past few weeks. n/t

[bif]

12. I'll never feel sorry for the bastard.

Oh, maybe if he was involved in a serious car accident or something. But otherwise, screw him!

[MO_Dem]

23. I'm savin' my sympathy for Nov. when he loses

I think I'll try to feel a teensy bit sorry for him for a second or two just to enhance my glee at Kerry's landslide win in November.

[AngryYoungMan]

9. JFK had a thyroid condition, wore a brace and was heavily medicated.

Not dissing the man AT ALL; just pointing out that there were mitigating circumstances.

[Jane Austin]

15. JFK

Didn't he have adrenal insufficiency?  Cushing's Disease?

I think that's harder to fix than thyroid insufficiency.

[SoCalDem]

16. Addison's disease..

Babrara Bush has it too..

[Jane Austin]

17. Babs

I thought she has Grave's disease - thyroid too high.

[SoCalDem]

22. Ooops.. You are right

mea culpa.. I got my diseases mixed up :eyes:

[Warpy]

18. He had that stuff going on when he was elected

Granted, none of that stuff is a beauty treatment. What really seemed to age him the quickest was the Cuban missile crisis.

[Malva Zebrina]

7. I agree

they both look pretty bloated here also--Laura's mouth looks like it is an old woman's mouth, too much red lipstick, and all wrinkled up. The picture is from one of the ads

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[Jane Austin]

11. Laura

That's from smoking.  One of the reasons I quit twenty years
ago.

I think her face shows a lot of tension in that ad, too, and
couldn't imagine why Matthews and Fineman were gushing about
how great she looked in it.

Bless her heart, I can't imagine what being married to that
piece of work must have done to her.

[bif]

10. Alcohol really does take its toll

maybe his liver is giving out.

[charlie]

13. Could be Babs' genes kicking in

She turned into a snowy haired prune pretty rapidly.

[Jane Austin]

14. Puffy

I think his knee is giving him trouble, so he may not be able
to exercise lately.

Also, it's spring down here in Texas, and the trees are really
putting out the allergens.

I, personally, haven't been able to wear my contact lenses for
days, now, so maybe he's just having allergy problems.

[Lisa]

24. looking thick around the middle, too ...

In that footage where he was with President Fox, George W. looked as if he'd crammed himself into a too-small pair of jeans. He was having trouble walking properly, and I have to confess that I started laughing. My ex, in a similar situation and trying to close the zipper, had grunted "these pants are just like a cheap hotel", and then blushed as he explained that he meant that there was, ahem, "no ballroom".

Condolences on the allergies, Jane A. -- is it true that cedar (juniper) pollen is really bad down there?

I suspect that Bush does have some sensitivity (hey, just about the only context in which he IS "sensitive"!). But your observation about his knee would sure explain the growing potbelly he's developed. He's "given up sweets" at least 3 times since taking office. That thing about how he was denying himself dessert because he sympathized with the troops in their time of hardship -- making a virtue out of a necessity (e.g. Karl wasn't going to shell out for a bigger flight suit?).

[Jane Austin]

26. Mountain Cedar - Juniper

Yep, Cedar fever hits the hill country here around Austin
about Christmastime.

Ya never know if you're getting a cold, the flu, have
allergies, or are allergic to your family.  :))

But this time of year, I think it's spring stuff busting out
all over - or perhaps with the nonstop rain we've had, it's
just mold.

I think for a lot of us, mold is the worst.

For the Presidential Potbelly, though,  I'm bettin' on the
knee thing and not being able to jog.

[Rebel_with_a_cause]

25. That's what 3-1/2 years in the horizontal position does to a body

Don't look for improvements in the next 9 months.