What’s that supposed to mean?
No, don’t tell me, I’ve got a hunch…
Daniel
Notice how his shoulders are hunched, but his back is straight rather than curved forward. This supports the idea that he might be wearing a stiff brace or protective garment underneath.
One thing I think we can agree upon, that the liberals on this board, which is practically everybody, have conveniently ignored my points about Kerry’s suspiciously white teeth. I’ve dropped the noticeably swollen chin theory - which shows I can be fair about all of this –
Name rings a bell?
LOL! You guys are killing me.
OK, I’ll tell you. Our teeth are very white just after we feed. Got to promise not to tell.
Intelligent strategy, targetting the swingers.
We already know. Even Republicans watch the Discovery Channel. The horror!
As mush as I depise the spazz – and boy, do I ever! – could that bulge be a battery pack for one of those mics that sends the audio signal back to the direct feed? You know, like the ones newscasters wear – though they usually have the pack hooked to their belts.
I suppose one way of knowning would be to look for a similar bulge on Kerry.
Hmm…that last bit sounds kind of nasty/kinky. :dubious:
Anyhoo.
Looks like a vest to me. Body armor, that’s all.
I think this may come to no surprise, but they found out who was on the other end of that wire.
Photo here. 
I still think it could be one of these.
I’m sure the Bush campaign would be very hesitant to reveal if the president were having testing of this nature, not that it would mean much, but it could scare people away from him. The monitor might have been creating a more noticeable bulge when it was in an inner pocket or hung around the front of his neck, so they swung it around to hang down his back?
What good does a halter monitor do when you know the patient is in the middle of a high-pressure situation like a presidential debate? That’s like asking Greg Louganis to test an easter bonnet by going off the 10 meter board.
Surely a doctor would tell you to remove such a device because any readings would be worthless. They’ve got tread mills for that sort of thing.
You leave it on for 24 hours, through good times and bad, in sickness and in health… oh wait. Well, it could be that they’re looking for something that isn’t showing up with physical exertion but does seem to occur under mental stress. It could be an event monitor, which he could be wearing for a longer term to look for very infrequent cardiac-related events.
My husband has had to wear these in the past, though I can’t remember much about them.
“Mr. President, I don’t mean to embarrass you in any way, but I’m a rather brilliant surgeon. Perhaps I can help you with that hump.”
I cannot believe that Bush’s side of that debate was assisted. Interesting bit at this link about GWB pauses and phrasing, breaks it down for a short segment of one of his replies.
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/001537.html
Don’t think there’s much evidence for anything more than a poor extemporaneous speaker floundering to remember memorized points.
I’m betting if anyone here saw that bulge on a Secret Service man they would assume it’s a radio. It even looks like the wire switches from straight to coiled halfway up.
But I certainly don’t assume cheating. It is well within reason to have Bush instantly in contact with security and emergency responses. The debate is a nice juicy target after all- or even a national distraction for action elsewhere.
One thing’s for sure, with this and the CNN incident in France the Salon article mentions, there are going to be a lot of Bush-basher radio scanners going at his remaining campaign events.
I think it’s an electro-shock device, in case he freezes up on camera.
Bush: …
Flunky in a bunker two blocks from the debate: Uh-oh, he’s vapor locked again. Quick, give him a jolt.
<zzzap>
Bush: GAH! War on terror!
After watching last night’s debate, and how … well … chunky … Bush looked, I’m definitely casting a vote for body armor. Either that, or he put on a LOT of weight recently.
If you blow up the portion of picture in question with Photoshop by 278%, run the sharpen filter and flip it upside down, you can CLEARLY see a MARTIAN colony, complete with a SPACE PORT and a 250-foot tall STATUE OF KARL ROVE. Those who call me a LIAR just do not wish to acknowledge the OBVIOUS.
[takes off lead hat]
Unless someone comes up with more pictures showing something, I’m not convinced it’s anything.