When George Bush took office in 2001 I tried to give him the benefit of the doubt, but he started talking up a renewed missile defense program, and followed it up with a cut in federal funding of embryonic stem cell research. So even before 9/11 my negative view of him was cemented.
President Obama is moving quickly to undo the many misguided directives of his predecessor, including the ban on stem cell funding. Some time back I had posted these items about Michael J. Fox’s struggles with Parkinson’s Disease
http://www.dograt.com/2006/10/21/pd-is-not-pc/
http://www.dograt.com/2006/10/31/colbert-catches-up/
This week the PBS series Frontline is featuring a program about Parkinson’s Disease called “My father, My brother, and Me.” As one would expect, Michael J. Fox appears in the show, and in this extended interview you can see that he looks pretty good, but the long-term effects of his medication are in evidence. It was these sorts of mis-movements, called dyskinesias, that Rush Limbaugh — no stranger to the effects of drugs — in his ignorance ridiculed as being intentional on Fox’s part.