A lot of people are talking about the photos Drudge Report ran today, in a big headline dubbed “Barack O’ Bones”, and about how sick the current President looks these days.
We have just two things to say about that.
(1) All of us here are working at least two jobs these days: a day job in offices, if only temping in some cases, and night jobs bartending, waitering, event planning, and doing other freelance projects. One of us is actually, no joke, holding down four jobs, all part time, and is sleeping only three hours a night running all over Chicago trying his level best to keep earning enough to stay afloat in Chicago.
So, we’re busy all the time…we’re pulled in a hundred different directions. And man alive, does it ever show in our faces and in our bodies in general. We look tired all the time. We’ve all lost weight. We have no appetites. Etc.
We imagine being President of the United States leaves a person with even LESS sleep and energy, with much more pressure, obviously, put upon the body.
Thus far, every man that’s held the top spot in the land has aged ferociously while in office…and that’s no different for Dr. Utopia, who indeed does look terrible most days. His magazine photo shoots are all photoshopped and touched up more than Elizabeth Taylor’s old vasoline-on-the-lens Passion commercials (“birds to a blossom, moths to a flame, each has their vanity, one and the same”).
In person, we’re sure he looks dreadful. Most people on TVor otherwise in the media all the time do. This weekend here in Chicago we saw Meredith Viera from The View and Tom Hanks at a football game and Viera was almost completely unrecognizable (while no one alive could miss Hanks, not if they were just looking for the loudest, biggest ass in the room).
We’re sure this has nothing to do with it, but think back to those Native American superstitions about cameras stealing people’s souls whenever we see Dr. Utopia’s pictures…being photographed nonstop every day, for probably 16+ hours a day, in the myths, would mean tiny fragments of his soul are being ripped away each time…and all of that adds up. It’s a weird Dorian Gray remake in the digital age, all of this, since every day the guy looks worse and worse in most photos, while his devoted fans at their computers have the power to digitally restore him to youth and halos for the next GQ or Highlights for Children.
Meanwhile, the guy himself really does seem to be falling apart.
(2) And that leads us to the last thing we will say on this, and it’s that soon after Dr. Utopia and convicted felon Tony Rezko bought that house on the Southside of Chicago together, a friend of ours was inside on business and was left alone in the study long enough to politely snoop around (and by polite meaning not going through anything, but just observing what was in the room, what papers were left out, what books were in there, etc.). Our friend clearly saw many books on Parkinson’s Disease, as well as medical papers from the University of Chicago and other doctors all around. There were printouts on Parkinson’s, photocopies of journal articles, etc.
The current First Lady’s father died of complications related to MS. When we’ve noted the Parkinson’s books in Dr. Utopia’s home before, people have claimed “oh, they were just reading up on what happened to her father”.
But, that doesn’t make any sense because Mr. Robinson died long, long before 2004.
It also doesn’t seem likely that Dr. Utopia was reading up on Parkinson’s to benefit a constituent, since in all his years in state government and the US Senate it doesn’t appear he ever did anything to benefit anyone besides himself and his “proud of her country for the first time in her adult life” wife.
We believe Dr. Utopia has early stage Parkinson’s.
We also believe that if it looks likely Sarah Palin will win the Republicans’ nomination in 2012 that Dr. Utopia will announce Parkinson’s as the reason he’s not seeking a second term.
He will get to be not only the new Martin Luther King, the new Jesus, and the new Abraham Lincoln to his devotees, but he’ll be the new MUHAMMAD ALI too.
And he will step off the stage, LBJ style, to great fanfare and sympathy and will make an absolute fortune having William Ayers ghost write more of his books while commanding speaking fees in the tens of millions for as long as fools will continue to pay him. He will retire to Hawaii (much better for his health there), where he’ll stage his presidential library and “Obama Institute for the Furthering of the Obama Brand”, and that will be that.
If the MSM and DNC are able to game the 2012 Republican nomination and hand it to Romney, Huckabee, Jindal, Barbour, Crist, or Pawlenty, then Dr. Utopia will seek a second term because he’ll be able to beat any of those fatally flawed candidates.
The only person, at this point in time, who can conceivably beat Dr. Utopia is our Sarah.
Parkinson’s seemed to sneak up on Michael J. Fox all of a sudden, if we remember correctly. He finished Family Ties and did a lot of movies without showing any effects…but we believe the grueling schedule on his new show, Spin City, aggravated whatever minor symptoms he may have had for years and put him in a tailspin.
This White House might use the MSM to paint itself as a TV show, written and conceived by Aaron Sorkin, but Dr. Utopia is not Jed Bartlett and the rigors of this job are more than Martin Sheen or Michael J. Fox could ever imagine.
We’re no medical experts, but have read a few articles on Parkinson’s that note black men have a higher susceptibility to it, particularly if they’ve abused cocaine in the past. Our first black male president freely admits to abusing cocaine for a long period of time in the books William Ayers wrote for him that he claims he himself set to paper.
Read them.
Or, better yet, have someone you don’t especially like read them and tell you the gist of it.
Because no matter how many times the MSM tells you they are great literature, or how many times the Left forces school children to read these tomes in class, they are trite, cliche, and grievance-driven.
YET, enlightening in this one and only regard: and it’s that the cocaine abuse detailed in them, plus the medical reports and books our friend spotted inside that house, combined with Dr. Utopia’s actual physical appearance sure makes a compelling case to us that the current President is indeed in the early stages of what could very soon advance into full blown Parkinson’s.
During the campaign, we heard many people ask repeatedly, “Why did Dr. Utopia have to run this time and not wait eight years and then run after Hillary and Dems would have 16 years of hegemony?”.
Well, for one reason, Dr. Utopia probably doesn’t have a healthy eight years ahead of him. This was now or never time for him.
“Why didn’t Hillary Clinton take the fight to the convention?” is another thing we hear a lot of…and there’s a lot of reasons behind that, but one of them might just be that maybe she knows Dr. Utopia won’t be healthy enough to run for a second term.
That’s pure speculation, but educated by our own observations and what we know from living on the ground here in Chicago.
What would be an interesting project would be to, Oliver Stone-style, find photos of Michael J. Fox, Montel Williams, and Muhammad Ali through the years as their Parkinson’s developed and their bodies deteriorated. It would be interesting to build a time lapse continuum…and show how these three men afflicted with Parkinson’s looked at Year Zero (no symptoms), to the year they revealed their diagnosis (different for each), up to how they all look today.
Then, we can collect images of Dr. Utopia to compare how he’s fitting into that spectrum.
Three examples aren’t quite enough to establish a pattern for how Parkinson’s will affect Dr. Utopia in the future…as the sample size is not large enough to find exact trends and the disease treats everyone differently from what we understand.
You also have to factor in the fact that Dr. Utopia now gets better healthcare than anyone in the history of the planet. If doctors in the 60s kept JFK upright with all of his back problems (and as speculated, his VDs), then we’re sure Utopia has nothing to worry about now that he’s the current President.
Of course, maybe those books in his study really were, totally out of character, actually for constituent research.
Maybe his cocaine abuse, documented by himself in “his books” (the greatest since the works of Shakespeare), will never have any haunting effect on him.
Maybe the MSM is correct and he will sail to victory for a second term with the Republicans so befuddled, demoralized, and terrified of being called RAAACISTS some more that they don’t even bother to field a candidate in 2012.
We’ll just have to wait and see.
November 2, 2009 at 8:13 pm
Don’t know about Dr. Utopia, but Michael J. Fox did have Parkinson’s when he was on “Family Ties.” In his autobiography, he wrote about having an attack while he was in the limo going to the Emmys and how the driver was instructed to just keep driving around until the attack was over.
IOW, the serious effects of the disease had already begun to manifest themselves long before “Spin City.”
November 2, 2009 at 8:23 pm
Meds…meds can make you have no appetite and if they are messing with his medication to cover something up then it could affect his weight loss.
Also you are told not eat a high protein diet as it makes the meds less effective.
My Dad passed away on August 3rd from complications of Parkinson’s. I don’t see the masking effect yet that will be present. When I see MJ Fox, I can see it, saw it from the very beginning.
November 3, 2009 at 8:53 am
MizzouGal,
Would you mind elaborating on this? The ‘masking effect?’ I am curious. Thx!!
November 2, 2009 at 8:27 pm
Remember, the Obama Campaign refused to release Obama’s medical records!
November 2, 2009 at 8:29 pm
hmmmmm…..photographed all day…..
and the camera puts on 10 pounds in appearance……
November 2, 2009 at 8:43 pm
That’s exactly what I was just thinking! And not that it wouldn’t be a horrible thing if it turns out to be true, but what a joke it would make all of those attacks about McCain’s age and health.
November 2, 2009 at 8:28 pm
Today I was thinking about the Dems gaming the primaries in 2012. It is wholly possible that acorn will have a huge number of their people switch affiliation and head into Iowa and make damn sure that Sarah doesn’t win there. I’m serious. This is diabolical, but I’ve got a feeling this will happen. We need to shut down acorn within the next year or so, or forget Sarah ever winning the primaries.
November 2, 2009 at 8:29 pm
As far as Egobama goes. He always looked sickly to me. I don’t get all the women who thinks he’s so cute. He’s always looked too skinny and wears way too much makeup.
November 2, 2009 at 8:33 pm
“Romney, Huckabee, Jindal, Barbour, Crist, or Pawlenty”
AMEN!
Fatally and TRAGICALLY flawed – in the true meaning tragic in literature.
November 2, 2009 at 8:36 pm
Crap. I’m going out of town for 3 days, and I’m sure I’ll never know if Barack’o'bones was my link. All I know is that whenever I’m ready for a good discussion, my comments never show up :p
C’ya guys thurs nite, if I’m lucky. :D
November 2, 2009 at 8:38 pm
Crap Pt Deux, it showed up “boink”
November 2, 2009 at 8:36 pm
2004
(the year you mention that your friend observed all of that innocently) was also the year it was became obvious that Obama had been picked as the 2008 Democrat candidate – because he gave the keynote address at the Democrat convention introducing Kerry.
November 2, 2009 at 8:39 pm
How does intense exercise affect people with Parkinson’s? Does it help stave it off?
(Obama has been reported to work out 3 times in 1 day before.)
Or is intense exercise needed to counter the affects of Parkinson’s medications?
I understand people with AIDS taking steroids medications have to work out intensely a lot to keep the medications turning them into fat Jabba the Huts.
November 2, 2009 at 8:48 pm
Moderate exercise is encourage, but the meds can create hyperactivity and restlessness.
The meds create a LOT of problems.
November 2, 2009 at 8:49 pm
encouraged…
November 2, 2009 at 10:05 pm
To refresh any memories: My wacky neighbor the astrologer said prior to the election that “he’ll never finish the term; his chart tells me he has Parkinson’s Disease.” Naturally I thought she was nuts, because he looked healthy as a horse. Looks like I’ll be knocking on her door and requesting a chart update.
November 2, 2009 at 10:08 pm
Mmmmm….compelling theory HB. I will be closely watching Obama for any typical Parkinson’s symptoms from now on. We all should.
From WebMD, here is a list of typical symptoms of Parkinson’s Disease:
1. Muscle rigidity
2. Tremors
3. Bradykinesia-the slowing down of movement and the gradual loss of spontaneous activity
4. Changes in walking pattern and posture
5. Changes in speech and handwriting
6. Loss of balance and increased falls
Also from WebMD:
Men are slightly more likely to develop the disease than women.
The average age at which it is diagnosed is 60. However, about 10%-20% of those diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease are under age 50, and about half of those are diagnosed before age 40. When the diagnosis is made early, it is referred to as “young-onset” Parkinson’s disease.
However, there is good news for people with young-onset Parkinson’s disease. Young-onset Parkinson’s disease is different from older onset Parkinson’s disease. In general, younger people have a smoother, longer-term course of the illness. While this may, in part, be a reflection that the younger people have fewer coexisting health problems than older people with the disease; the rate of progression is still significantly slower. Associated problems, such as memory loss, confusion and balance difficulties, are also less frequent in young people with the disease.
On the other hand, people with young-onset Parkinson’s disease often have more movement problems due to the most commonly prescribed medication, levodopa, than older people with the disease. For this reason, young-onset patients are often treated with alternatives to levodopa.
Above I noted the typical Parkinson’s Disease symptoms in brief. Below,see symptom expansion notes from WebMD these are the things we sholud all be looking for:
1. Tremor, or shaking, often in a hand, arm, or leg. Tremor caused by Parkinson’s disease occurs when the person is awake and sitting or standing still (resting tremor) and subsides when the person moves the affected body part.
2. Stiff muscles (rigidity) and aching muscles. One of the most common early signs of Parkinson’s disease is a reduced arm swing on one side when the person is walking that is caused by rigid muscles. Rigidity can also affect the muscles of the legs, face, neck, or other parts of the body and may cause muscles to feel tired and achy.
3. Slow, limited movement (bradykinesia), especially when the person tries to move from a resting position. For instance, it may be difficult to get out of a chair or turn over in bed.
4. Weakness of face and throat muscles. Talking and swallowing may become more difficult, and the person may choke, cough, or drool. Speech becomes softer and monotonous. Loss of movement in the muscles in the face can cause a fixed, vacant facial expression, often called the “Parkinson’s mask.”
5. Difficulty with walking (gait disturbance) and balance (postural instability). A person with Parkinson’s disease is likely to take small steps and shuffle with his or her feet close together, bend forward slightly at the waist (stooped posture), and have trouble turning around. Balance and posture problems may result in frequent falls. However, these problems usually do not develop until later in the course of the disease.
Tremor is often the first symptom that people with Parkinson’s disease or their family members notice. Initially, the tremor may appear in just one arm or leg or only on one side of the body. The tremor also may affect the chin, lips, and tongue. As the disease progresses, the tremor may spread to both sides of the body, although in some cases the tremor remains on just one side.
Emotional and physical stress tend to make the tremor more noticeable. Sleep, complete relaxation, and intentional movement or action usually reduce or stop the tremor.
Did any of you read about Obama’s “chronic facial tic” last November? I did. Here’s the link:http://tinyurl.com/ObamaFacialTic
I’ll be watching like a hawk.
November 2, 2009 at 10:36 pm
Well, he sure isn’t much of a dancer – could that be the muscle rigidity?
My favorite was #4 “speech becoming…monotonous” Works for me!:)
November 2, 2009 at 10:50 pm
3. Bradykinesia-the slowing down of movement and the gradual loss of spontaneous activity
The fly incident.
November 3, 2009 at 8:48 am
The fly incident?
Do tell!
Insect or clothe?
November 3, 2009 at 8:47 am
Appears to me that he has all the symptoms.
His extreme massive use of cocaine could have caused early onset.
November 3, 2009 at 4:29 pm
Heard about the cocaine connection too.
November 2, 2009 at 10:51 pm
My mother was diagnosed with Parkinsons Disease a few years ago. The diagnosis came not long after my father passed away after having several strokes (over a few years).
With my own propensity to lose balance, I have been wondering about the hereditary aspects….. who knows… I will just watch and see if he has signs of it….
November 2, 2009 at 11:31 pm
A well thought out theory HillBoyz. Earlier today, when I posted my thoughts on the Drudge Headline of Barrack n Bones…I thought (given the weight loss) Type II Diabetes (with diabetic nueropathy a the reason for his rigidity or ’stiff’ look. But my thoughts were, if Obama was a newly diagnosis Type II, he would ‘use’ it for sympathy; for awareness; for ‘healthcare reform.”. Millions live perfectly normal lives with Diabetes.
Your theory, on all of it, including Hillary’s stepping aside…fits perfectly.
Will the questioning of his health mandate a release of medical records?
November 3, 2009 at 8:49 am
Yes it would be just like the good Hillary to be self-sacrificing.
November 3, 2009 at 12:38 am
Someone try to find that video where his eye was twitching so much. I cannot remember where it was but I definitely remember seeing a video with his eye twitching. Okay, it is probably nothing but I do remember it.
November 3, 2009 at 5:15 pm
I remember that too!
November 3, 2009 at 12:43 am
>>>Or, better yet, have someone you don’t especially like read them and tell you the gist of it.<<<
Man, I wish someone had told me that before I slogged through that tedious mess of an "autobiography"… as a matter of fact, way back in April of 2008, I wrote this on my blog:
His writing style brings to mind the emotional hysteria of a teen-age girl pouring her heart into her dime-store diary with a little lock on it. But, once you get past the overblown writing style and monotonous storytelling, something becomes crystal clear:
Everything this guy says, everything he does, and every belief he possesses has been processed through the filter of race.
This book should have been titled: "Delusions about my Father – A Story of Race and My Obsession with It".
Of course, as it turns out, Bill Ayers did the actual writing (I'm sure of it)… but the gist of it was pure Obama.
November 3, 2009 at 12:52 pm
Bill Ayers is obsessed with race too and sees everything through a race filter.
November 3, 2009 at 8:51 am
Jana….”His writing style brings to mind the emotional hysteria of a teen-age girl pouring her heart into her dime-store diary with a little lock on it.”
Did you say “flaming?”
“Everything this guy says, everything he does, and every belief he possesses has been processed through the filter of race.”
Did you say “racist?”
Oh nevermind it was just the old dead gray lady’s MoDo whispering that in my ear!
November 3, 2009 at 11:28 am
No, I didn’t say “flaming”… I merely stated my opinion on his writing style — immature and overexaggerated.
Racist? Not necessarily. But, in the book, *he* placed a great deal of emphasis on his race. It was brought up in every single anecdote he wrote about.
November 4, 2009 at 4:25 pm
I was just joking.
November 4, 2009 at 5:21 pm
I thought you might be, but wasn’t totally sure… so, I decided to clear it all up just in case you were a whiney troll crying “RAAAA-CIST!”
:)
November 3, 2009 at 9:12 am
I watched 2 co-workers deteriorate into their Parkinson’s disease. They came to work as long as they could but both stopped coming in when they couldn’t trust their own bodies to bring them safely to work. It was very hard to watch.
November 3, 2009 at 2:53 pm
Doesn’t the President have a physical each year with the results reported? Silly me, that was when the media actually reported things! Well, I’m sure we’ll see Barry refuse to release those results too and the MSM will have nary a word to say about it. But it will be interesting and we should keep a vigil for the annual Presidential physical.
November 3, 2009 at 4:15 pm
Very compelling theory. It does make sense that his medical records were not released then. It will be interesting to see if the President’s annual physical is reported or not.