[mmasters]

That clown almost wrecked the country and his idiot chief of staff Rahm Emanuel is responsible for a bloodbath in Chicago. How dare he speak in Illinois.

[Plantagenet]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Cid_Yama', '.').. a real president....

[Cid_Yama]

Had you actually watched it (which obviously you didn't), you would have seen him argue AGAINST partisanship. To argue for doing what's right for our democracy, for our country.

[Cog]

He is arguing to vote for Democrats. The party who wants open borders and full on socialism. Yeah I watched it. Nothing is more partisan than using the fbi and other intelligence agencies to defeat Trump prior to an election and to try to wreck it afterword.

[Plantagenet]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Cid_Yama', 'y')ou would have seen him argue AGAINST partisanship....

[Cog]

Apparently Cid, our Eisenhower "Republican."

[KaiserJeep]

Let it be noted that the University of Illinois is my undergraduate alma mater, Class of 1977.

I watched Obama. Now he is stepping into the fray to "help" the D's with the Mid-Terms. The last time he did that, the D's tanked those elections.

I just finished watching the Friday political commentary on PBS News Hour. They were discussing the anonymous Trump op ed critique.

David Brooks, who like most of us is no Trump admirer - nor a R nor a conservative, probably expressed things best:

"The Republicans stand by in shocked horror at the new criticisms of Trump. Meanwhile it should be noted that the new numbers announced today indicate the best economy in our lifetimes."

Trump doesn't really need anybody else's opinions, does he? He has his own.

[Plantagenet]

Oh-oh. Obama has developed a really severe stuttering problem. At times the poor man can hardly get a sentence out.

video-obama-repeatedly-stutters-during-short-speech-attacking-trump

For instance, at one point in his speech Obama stuttered and stammered and out came, "“We, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we spend…”

This development of a problem with stuttering is sad because Obama once was extremely eloquent. He was known for his ability to speak quite clearly and coherently -- but those days seem to be in the past now.

It is also worrisome, because when a mature adult develops a stuttering problem it usually signals a cognitive problem in the brain. The general term for the development of speech problems is aphasia. Obama is a bit too young for normal Alzheimers, so his stuttering problem might be indicative of frontotemporal dementia, perhaps related to some kind of vascular dementia.

Heaven knows Obama must have been under tremendous stress when he was president, and perhaps his current speech problem reflects some kind of cognitive damage caused by the stress of being President. I suggest we all pray for this great man who did his best to serve our country.


Many presidents age rapidly when President. This also seems to have happened to Obama, as he has developed a significant stuttering problem, indicative of a cognitive problem.

Cheers!

[Newfie]

This apparently goes back at least to 2011 and has be rebranded as “intellectual stammering” by defenders. Intellectual stammer seems to be a phrase made up from whole cloth to cloak Obama’s stutter. I could not find a reference to that usage in wiki.

[Plantagenet]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Newfie', 'T')his apparently goes back at least to 2011 and has be rebranded as “intellectual stammering” by defenders. Intellectual stammer seems to be a phrase made up from whole cloth to cloak Obama’s stutter. I could not find a reference to that usage in wiki.

[Tanada]

Stuttering is not always a sign of brain injury or deficiency, a great many famous people have spoken with a stutter. For example King George VI or Mel Tillis are both examples of people who stuttered from early childhood yet lived full normal lives without mental issues. It is even possible that the reason President Obama so faithfully used his teleprompters when campaigning and while giving speeches as President was to help him contain his tendency to stutter.

[dissident]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Tanada', 'S')tuttering is not always a sign of brain injury or deficiency, a great many famous people have spoken with a stutter. For example King George VI or Mel Tillis are both examples of people who stuttered from early childhood yet lived full normal lives without mental issues. It is even possible that the reason President Obama so faithfully used his teleprompters when campaigning and while giving speeches as President was to help him contain his tendency to stutter.

[Newfie]

I think what Plant is saying is not that he has a problem, but that it is one clue that a problem MAY exist.

I had not heard of the stuttering issue until I researched it due to Plants post. But I quickely came up with citations from 2011. And also this “intellectual stammering” BS to which I found no other reference. Intellectual stammering was described as when someone is so smart that their mind races ahead of their mouth and they stammer to get back in sync.

Why had we not heard of this before? MSM colluding in keeping it a secret.

Why do we see him as so articulate? Because his presentations are so tightly controlled?

I don’t listen to speeches or even follow policy that much. When he gave his BIG climate change policy speech I got a copy and read it closely. It was a mess. All over the place. Supported big oil as much as climate change. Structurally incoherent. That’s when I really changed my mind about him in a negative way.

My Dad has a early brain injury and stuttered for a long time before me. I never knew him to stutter, he would just go quiet. I early learned to never make fun of a stutterer, that was a sure head swak.

[Plantagenet]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('dissident', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Tanada', 'S')tuttering is not always a sign of brain injury or deficiency.

[Newfie]

Why should we be concerned about him? I mean other than purely out of empathy. But there are so many more folks who are more disadvantaged, my empathy gets drained.

[Newfie]

https://bottomlineinc.com/health/brain- ... -adulthood

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'E')very word that you speak is preceded by thousands of neuromuscular events. Anything that interrupts this complex—and lightning-­fast—progression of steps can interrupt the normal flow of speech.

When researchers looked at adults who began stuttering, stroke was found to be the main cause. Adult-onset stuttering can also be caused by head injuries, brain tumors or neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson’s disease and multiple sclerosis (MS). The stuttering in these cases develops as the disease progresses.

A number of drugs also can affect the brain’s ability to coordinate the different components involved in speech. There have been reports of new-onset stuttering in adults taking a stimulant, such as methylphenidate (Ritalin), as well as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) antidepressants, such as sertraline (Zoloft). Once the drug is discontinued, the stuttering typically stops.

[Plantagenet]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Newfie', 'h')ttps://bottomlineinc.com/health/brain-health/when-stuttering-strikes-in-adulthood

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'E')very word that you speak is preceded by thousands of neuromuscular events. Anything that interrupts this complex—and lightning-­fast—progression of steps can interrupt the normal flow of speech.

When researchers looked at adults who began stuttering, stroke was found to be the main cause. Adult-onset stuttering can also be caused by head injuries, brain tumors or neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson’s disease and multiple sclerosis (MS). The stuttering in these cases develops as the disease progresses.

A number of drugs also can affect the brain’s ability to coordinate the different components involved in speech. There have been reports of new-onset stuttering in adults taking a stimulant, such as methylphenidate (Ritalin), as well as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) antidepressants, such as sertraline (Zoloft). Once the drug is discontinued, the stuttering typically stops.

[Newfie]

I had some dizzy spells, they did a brain scan and found some “old trauma.” (Asymtomatic, not related to dizzy.)

“What’s that about?” Says I.

“Oh, you probably had a mini stroke at some time.”

No doubt, you should have met my first wife!

[Tanada]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Plantagenet', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('dissident', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Tanada', 'S')tuttering is not always a sign of brain injury or deficiency.

[asg70]

Pearls before swine. Plant is just interesting in clutching any datapoint he can use to malign Obama despite the fact he's been out of office for years and the current president is destroying what's left of the US and the world with his policies.