# President Bush's Health **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [December 28, 2004, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/president-bushs-health/281858 "2004-12-28T01:56:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![infamousmom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/d6d6ee/32.png) [@infamousmom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/infamousmom)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2004, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/president-bushs-health/281858/41 "2004-12-30T07:16:56Z")
> [@manhattan](#): > > The President had his regular physical just this month and is in superior physical condition. Reagan’s barber swore to us year after hear that the prez didn’t dye his hair, too. ---
**Author:** ![duffer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duffer/32/1026_2.png) [@duffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/duffer)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2004, 7:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/president-bushs-health/281858/42 "2004-12-30T07:52:17Z")
I thought we already covered [this](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=283576&highlight=bush+jacket) a few months ago. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2004, 10:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/president-bushs-health/281858/43 "2004-12-30T10:33:35Z")
> [@duffer](#): > > I thought we already covered [this](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=283576&highlight=bush+jacket) a few months ago. :rolleyes: I guess we did and I’m sorry I renewed it. I did say I didn’t want this to be a Bush Bash Fest, but it sort of headed that way. ---
**Author:** ![Martin\_Hyde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/47e85d/32.png) [@Martin\_Hyde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martin_Hyde)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2004, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/president-bushs-health/281858/44 "2004-12-30T13:50:51Z")
It’s pretty sad how much you guys allow yourselves to be taken in by something as innocuous as bulges in a dress shirt. Who knows what kind of bulletproof vest the President wears. He probably wears a bulky vest that offers maximum protection around the entire torso, with ceramic plates in both the front and back. These would look a lot different from the vest you see military or law enforcement officials wearing. The bulge at his ranch in Crawford could _easly_ just be the way the t-shirt is laying, I mean, my god it’s a t-shirt, with enough free time I could manipulate my t-shirt into looking like virtually anything is under it. ---
**Author:** ![braintree](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e7dd6/32.png) [@braintree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/braintree)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2004, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/president-bushs-health/281858/45 "2004-12-30T22:32:33Z")
I don’t see any Bush bashing here, which is unfortunate since it’s such a healthy and sane emotional exercise. But as a boisterous full-fledged member of The Bush Bashers Internationale, I have to say that the bullet-proof vest explanation can almost count me as a believer. Having said that, I don’t think the tin-foil hat references are warrented, especially since my preferred model is currently out of stock (that would be the atomic propeller deluxe). The thing is, there’s still that wire issue and also, since the White House failed to truthfully address the issue, and since the President said “Let me finish” during one of the debates when no one that anyone could see was trying to interrupt him, and since the man seems only able to remember six or seven talking points at any given time the hearing device theory was actually pretty rational. I just think that some of the newer evidence is convincing and am, therefore, changing my mind. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/president-bushs-health/281858.md?page=2)