A senior Republican, experienced and wise in the ways of Washington, told me
last Friday that he does not necessarily accept that Bush is unstable, but
what is clear, he added, is that he is now manifestly unfit to be President.
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Bush’s “cognitive functioning” worries observers

The evidence has been before our eyes for some time, but only during the
course of this election campaign has it crystallized -- just in time,
possibly, for the 2 November election. The 43rd US President has always had
a much-publicized knack for mangled syntax, but now George Bush often
searches an agonizingly long time, sometimes in vain, for the right words.
His mind simply blanks out at crucial times. He is prone, I am told, to
foul-mouthed temper tantrums in the White House. His handlers now rarely
allow him to speak an unscripted word in public.

Indeed, there are now several confusing faces to the US President, and we
saw three of them in the live, televised Presidential debates with John
Kerry that culminated last Wednesday night in Tempe, Arizona. In the first
debate on 30 September, watched by more than 62 million viewers, we saw Bush
at his most unattractive: slouching, peevish, pouting, pursing his lips with
disdain at what his opponent was saying. But he was unable to marshal any
coherent arguments against Kerry and merely spewed out prepared talking
points -- in what, even his ardent supporters concede, was Bush's worst-ever
such performance.

In the second debate on 8 October in St Louis, Bush could not stay on his
stool and leapt up to dispense what were -- certainly in contrast to Kerry's
cogent recital of statistics and arguments -- frequently defensive, shouting
rants. I assume that he was told by his handlers not to show displeasure at
Kerry's words this time around, but, instead, he revealed his anger by
blinking repeatedly.

The moderator tried to stop him talking at one point (both campaign
organizations had agreed the order in which the candidates could speak, with
time limits imposed on both), but Bush insisted on riding roughshod over the
briefly protesting moderator, Charles Gibson. (What, I wonder, would have
happened if Gibson had kept to the rules and insisted that Bush stop
talking? We will never know.)

By the time of the third debate on 13 October, this one witnessed by more
than 50 million people, Bush had adopted yet another baffling persona. This
time, he was peculiarly flushed, leading a colleague to speculate whether he
was on something. He had clearly been told to look positive -- that was his
main thrust of the evening, with frequent assertions that 'freedom is on the
march' -- and spent the evening with a creepy, inane grin on his face, as
though he was red-faced after a festive Christmas dinner.