CNN programming on now accuses President Reagan was mentally ill while in White House.

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[SiVisPacemParaBellum]

So...even with the disease he was still more effective than Carter, Mondale, Clinton, Clinton, Gore, Kerry, Edwards, Kennedy all rolled into one large lump of wasted flesh......tell CNN to put that in their pipe and smoke it!! YES! Well said, but they musta been smokin' somethin' already. The Clinton News Network shows their bias and ignorance once again.

[John Lenin]

Was Bill Clinton a coke addict while President ? He sure acted like it in his final days.

[zlala]

Kerry said he was the most fit 60 year old in America

How does he know this? Has he personally gone up against all the other 60 yr old people in this country? I think not. What an idiot statement. Next is he going to say his dad can beat up my dad? Juvenile.

[TheCrusader]

I'd take a Ronald Reagan with Alzheimer's disease over a characterless John Kerry with chronic Contradictapolicy Syndrome.

[elli1]

cnn must be filled w/ angst at the prospect of a cancer victim in the Oval Office, right?

[liberallarry]

There was a interview...from about five years ago, where Nancy talked about the period after the shooting

He was over 70 when he took office. It would have been truly extraordinary if he'd made a full recovery.

[ScaniaBoy]

And did Dr Gottschalk ever get to talk to President Reagan?

If the good doctor is a real specialist in his field he would know that a clinical investigation is necessary for such a diagnosis.

In fact those people who were interacting with the President don't come to this conclusion.

Add to this that there is an incident later in his life that could have started a dementia process.

In late 1989 Reagan injured his head falling off his horse. Apparently he suffered from a subdural haematoma. The blood clot was removed later. However, recent investigations indicate that head trauma in the elderly increase the risk of Alzheimer.

[Prophet in the Wilderess]

yes,,, your right, well,, I see some of our prayers being answered by GOD.
I prayed a few months ago, that KERRY / LIBS / MSM will be putting their foot in their mouths, and stepping in horse doo over and over , and any tricks, scams, lies, traps, that they try to pull on BUSH will fall back in their faces, and ? it look as though, we are seeing GOD's HAND in ACTION.
How come ? those Dummy DEMS / LIBS / won't learn the lesson that the KING OF EYGPT learned from moses ? why can't they learn from Pharaoh experiences ?

DEMS = LOW WATT LIGHT BULBS ( not very bright )

[ItsForTheChildren]

Thanks! I needed that!

[Sivad]

If 'The Great One' had Alzheimers while in office then we
should consider making the diagnosis of the disease a
prerequisite for running for the office of president.

[Joe_October]

Funny, a sick Reagan is 1,000 times better than the best rat President.

CNN said so when they praised him at his funeral.

Oh, sorry they were lying then too.

[AmericaUnited]

These clueless morons just learned/observed nothing during Reagan's funeral, on just how much this country loved that man.

[RightOnTheLeftCoast]

That, I don't know. Gottschalk was (maybe still is) prominent in the University of California and may well have met Reagan at some point, but as far as I know he did not do so in any medical capacity. But, it's possible-- Reagan had a lot of his medical work done in Southern California, where Gottschalk was (is?) based: Reagan was a patient of Los Angeles' House Ear Clinic, for example, and got his hearing aids from Burton Associates in Santa Ana. So, it's possible. But IIRC, Gottschalk's comments regarded behavioral cues that Reagan exhibited in or around his second term, such as the fugue-state Reagan seemed to enter in one of his debates with Mondale. Heck, I'm no psychiatrist, and I adored Reagan, but that rattled even me.

We'll probably never know in any definitive sense when the onset of Reagan's problems commenced, or why. The fact is, he was a heroic leader who rescued America from the Johnson/Nixon/Carter death-spiral and brought freedom to hundreds of millions. His end was unbelievably sad, and the thought that his disease may have begun its chilling grip in his spectacularly historic second term is understandably hard to bear. We are forever in his debt.

[UCANSEE2]

Geez, they are just a tad late in reporting this.

[Tall_Texan]

I've said for over a decade that you can't have it both ways. When a stuttering, bumbling Reagan testified during the Iran-Contra hearings that he "couldn't recall" and "doesn't remember" certain facts and details, the libs all howled in disbelief.

"How could he not know what was going on in the basement of the White House?", they asked incredulously. "He must be lying."

Frankly, I believe Reagan *was* in the early onset of Alzheimers during his final years in office - a disease that was not commonly diagnosed or easily diagnosed at the time. Since his managerial style was to delegate and assume his underlings could do their jobs competently, the White House was able to function with minimal outward difficulty.

Go back and replay Reagan's famed "tear down this wall" speech from 1987 and you'll hear a Reagan who sometimes seemed confused and muddled, his voice a bit weak. That he could deliver such a great speech when he clearly wasn't at his best is a testament both to the prowess of his speechwriters and the talent of an old actor who could still deliver a great line.

Frankly, I'm glad the libs are saying this if they will remember, too, how mean they were to Reagan during his final years in offense and offer their apologies to Nancy and his children.

Of course, being a liberal means never having to say you're sorry.