An interesting article at the Washington Post about Don Rumsfeld, former US secretary of defense:
Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld was spotted today having lunch at Morton’s on Connecticut Ave. What was remarkable was not what he ordered, or with whom he dined, or how quintessentially condescending he may have been to the waiter.
No, what was remarkable was how, according to our (Republican) source, Rumsfeld’s handlers had to help him onto the escalator and “held his elbow” and opened doors for him. “He looked old,” our tipster said.
Hard to imagine that Rummy, 75, the tough guy with so much energy that he preferred standing while working rather than sitting on his duff all day, could suddenly need help getting on an escalator. But maybe this is a classic case of “this is now, that was then” (or vice versa).
Assuming that Rumsfeld, indeed, needed help, I wonder whether there is something wrong with him physically. The GTL seems to believe that what might have caused Rumsfeld’s weakness is “the burden upon his shoulders which comes from his efforts to PRIVATIZE the frigging U.S. military and shrink it down to nothingness before sending our skeletal forces all around the world to participate in non-winnable, foreign civil wars.” Somehow, that does not sound very likely to me. If Rumsfeld truly needs others to help him cross the street, etc., I fear that there might be something wrong with him – not mentally or spiritually, but physically. I believe that Rumsfeld was a horrible defense secretary, but I do not wish him ill (literally).
Perhaps we will hear more about Rummy’s health in the coming weeks. That is, providing that the Republican source did not just make up a story.
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