Not Dimslow. He has a memory like no one else. Ditto his UDHR campaign platform. Dimslow in ‘08:
http://apragmaticpolicy.wordpress.com/2007/04/11/dimsl ow-08/

First, there was Margaret Thatcher. She was a cold war warrior (known as “Attilla the hen") and then she started a war with Argentina over the Falklands which cost thousands of lives. Now she has Alzheimer’s disease which claimed the life of “her dear friend and political soulmate”, the late President Ronald Reagan. He was responsible for the star wars projects and the Iran-Contra scandals.

With the current white-house incumbent, though, one would have to question whether the input of additional stem-cells into his brain as a temporary solution would make any difference. It could just be like the old joke about Reagan - “the president’s brain is missing” - or, this time, did he ever have one???

One thing is alarmingly obvious, though. An early onset of dementia (Alzheimer’s) can lead to aggressive and abnormal behavior as an inflammatory response to the deposition of amyloid plaques and neurofibrillary tangles takes place.

Additionally, the resultant “disinhibition” through the influence of external stimuli such as drugs or alcohol, or as a result of brain damage can lead to unrestrained behavior resulting from a lessening or loss of inhibitions or a disregard of cultural constraints.

As opposed to outright psychopathic criminal insanity, either of the above could still be sufficient to take a country to war – or to involve it in a series of incidents or blunders which would culminate in war. America has already been down that path before with Vietnam and Korea. Who is to blame?

I love visiting the world with Andy as tour guide. His humor helps ward off the tears the human chronic human condition evoke.

I was thinking that if I, a poor slob near the bottom of the pecking order, am held responsible for following ALL LAWS, RULES and REGULATIONS whether or not I’ve even heard of them ("Ignorance of the law is no excuse") then why is it unreasonable to expect that those set in authority over me (eg politicians) be required to be held responsible for their actions while establishing said laws, rules and regulations?

I think “I can’t remember” should not be accepted as an excuse from those who do not possess a legitimate diagnosis of a mental disorder which negatively affects their ability to recall.

As House Minority Leader, Newt Gingrich worked to undermine the re-election bid of then President George Bush. He felt the Republicans would be better off without Bush, even if it meant abandoning the White House to the Democrats for a term to rally support.

I’ve read accounts of this in several places, including, “To the Best of My Ability, The American Presidents” by James M. McPherson.

If true, it means Newt Gingrich (Paranoid Conservative) played a role in getting Bill and Hillary elected.

I would love it if memory loss where the only problem.  Regardless of your feelings for Bill and Hillary, this is just plain Nuts.

http://www.JimmyCarterForPresident.com

Yeah, I know; he’s over 80.  But, he’s the only one I trust.

Peace,
Bob

“I’m a conservative, but I’m not a nut about it.”
(A quote by the first -and best- President George Bush)

The problem, as I see it, is not the selective loss of memory which seems to afflict political representatives, but rather that far more consequential loss of memory which afflicts the constituents the former claim to represent. It is this latter which makes the present demonisation of Iran and the US build-up in the Persian Gulf and other provocations against that country politically possible, despite the fact that the same tactics of disinformation and threats, now repudiated and known to be false, were used, mutatis mutandi, in the run-up to the US/UK war of aggression against Iraq....

Henri