Did y'all see Bush[s new owie (left cheek abrasion) today?

[elehhhhna]

Please post photo here if found. Saw it during today's fuzzy, bleary, hung-overy but very timely statement about the Pakistan Earthquake.

[napi21]

1. I didn't see it because If his face flashes on my TV I switch

chanels immediately.

I hope someone can find a pic!

[malaise]

2. Here it is

[jasmeel]

3. I don't see it.

[malaise]

4. Just blow up the pix

it's there.

[saskatoon]

18. blow it up

How? for us comp dummies

[malaise]

27. I'm one too

but just open word, copy image and stretch from any corner.

[Divernan]

5. His handlers won't let him go back to the "ranch", it seems.

Is it easier to keep him sober in the White House? After that vacation-long-enough-to-put-a-Frenchman-to-shame, the handlers must have concluded he should give the appearance of remaining on the job in DC.

By the way, I've used that analogy to a Frenchman's vacation a couple of times with rabid neocons, and it totally shuts them up!

[ClintonTyree]

6. Another "pretzel" attack?

Falling down drunk again. That's our bush! :puke:

[Stephanie]

7. I'm not really seeing it >

U.S. President George W. Bush offers his condolences and aid to the people of Pakistan from the White House in Washington, D.C. October 9, 2005. The south Asian country was hit by a massive earthquake that has claimed the lives of over 20,000 people so far, and has been called the worst natural disaster in the history of Pakistan. REUTERS/Chris Kleponis

http: //news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/051009/ids_photos_wl/r3771463038.jpg

[elehhhhna]

9. left cheek--road rash--it was obvious on the telly.

[Stephanie]

12. Do you see it in that second pic?

I sort of see what you mean - wish we had better pix.

[elehhhhna]

23. Vaguely

[mzteris]

30. what about the bridge of his nose?

That looks abraded, too....

[WiseButAngrySara]

25. Don't know...makeup smudge? Ethanol Flush? Don't really see it...n/t

[SpiralHawk]

8. Peculiar Bush Facial Abrasion #17

By my "reckoning"

If you add the peculiar facial abraisions to the wig wag of
his Coke Jaw -- then you are noting some ALARMING SIGNS.

Of course, the corporate media sees nothing.

[SpiralHawk]

10. He's definitely got Major Bags under his eyes

(Warning: do not stare TOO deeply in the Skull of a Bonesman -- or they'll put the old Wiffenpoof Whim-Wham right on YOU).

[Beelzebud]

11. They just put too much blush on him. :D

[JDPriestly]

19. Yes. Bad Make-Up Job. Probably did it himself.

[liveoaktx]

13. Left cheek as you're looking at him or his left cheek from his view?

[elehhhhna]

24. His left cheek. Our right side of pic.

[calmblueocean]

14. Years from now, we're going to find out Bush has a neurological disorder.

I'm convinced.

Did they really expect anyone to believe that the President of the US choked on a pretzel to the point of unconsiousness without any security guard around to give him the Heimlich?

My wife and I were watching some old video of Bush on CSPAN's retrospective yesterday, and our jaws dropped at how much worse Bush has gotten since then. Believe it or not, once upon a time, this guy could string together words, make sentences, and speak at a normal rate. The difference between then and now is stunning. I've never seen anything like it.

How many times can he "fall off a bike" before the American people demand that he stop stonewalling and tell us what's really going on?

[pagandem4justice]

29. Neurological, indeed - Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome

I have believed for a few years that * has Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome as a result of his long alcoholism. I learned about this disorder years ago, in Abnormal Psychopathology, and the symptoms of progressive dementia and memory loss stuck with me.

Here's a little more, with a link:
"...S.S. Korsakoff, a Russian psychiatrist, described the disturbance of memory in the course of long-term alcoholism in a series of articles from 1887-1891. He termed this syndrome psychosis polyneuritica, believing that these typical memory deficits, in conjunction with polyneuropathy, represented different facets of the same disease. In 1897, Murawieff first postulated that a single etiology was responsible for both syndromes . The term Wernicke encephalopathy is used to describe the symptom complex of ophthalmoplegia, ataxia, and an acute confusional state. If persistent learning and memory deficits are present, the symptom complex is termed Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome"

..."Heavy, long-term alcohol use is the most common association with Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome."

"Frequency: In the US: Long-standing alcohol use is the most common association with development of Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome, although poor nutrition can also be an important factor. Prevalence data have come primarily from necropsy studies, with rates of 1-3%, and have indicated that prevalence at autopsy exceeds recognition in life. The rate has been found to be significantly higher in specific populations, ie, homeless people, older people (especially those living alone or in isolation), and psychiatric inpatients, where alcohol use and poor nutritional states predominate."

http://www.emedicine.com/med/topic2405.htm

BTW, if you Google "Korsakoff" and B*sh, you get some interesting results.

[donco6]

15. I think he has Rosacea

That's what it looks like to me, anyway.

[PuraVidaDreamin]

16. Isn't Rosacea exacerbated by alcohol abuse?

[donco6]

21. That and age.

Especially if he isn't getting treatment, which I can hardly imagine. I find him somewhat vain. So it looks like its the booze that's making it flare up.

[MissMarple]

17. And we know one thing that rosacea is exacerbated by.

Alcoholic beverage. ;)

[redwitch]

20. Um, I think Carole Colman slapped him.

See tuvor's post from earlier today. :-)

[donco6]

22. Yes, that's a great thread.

And a great article.

[grateful581]

26. Maybe Lara Bitch slapped Him

After he drank all the whiskey

[Arugula Latte]

28. Welcome to DU, grateful581!

:hi: :toast:

[democrank]

31. Uh......

rug burn?

[jazzjunkysue]

32. Guckert's gotta learn to be more carefull.....

[Straight Shooter]

33. You could be right. It does resemble rug burn, doesn't it?

My vote goes to rosacea or some treatment for skin cancer, prior or current.

[radwriter0555]

34. Is he dating Jeff Gannon again?

Jeff likes the rough stuff apparently.

Maybe they found a new hottie for him?

[Stephanie]

35. Links to better pix -

Hard to tell, so much makeup - looks like a bruise maybe:


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[NervousRex]

36. Looks like...

"gin blossoms"....He's got the complexion of a street wino.