Has Bush lost his reason?

Has Bush lost his reason?
The President's apparent mental fragility should give US voters pause for thought at the ballot box
Andrew Stephen
Sunday October 17, 2004
The Observer
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,6903,1329254,00.html
It will, we are confidently told, be the most important American election for generations. In the words last week of Dick Cheney, the voice of what passes for gravitas in the Bush Administration, Americans will have to make 'about as serious a decision as anybody is ever asked to make' when they go to the polls in 17 days' time.

The prophets of doom, whom Cheney exemplifies, are precisely right about the importance of this election. But the momentous decision awaiting Americans is not whether they return to power a President who is uniquely qualified to protect the US against terrorism, as Cheney et al would have us believe. It is whether they re-elect a man who, it is now clear, has become palpably unstable....