Dennis The Menace

We knew that he was a pinhead, but is our President's tiny little brain diseased as well? This is the assertion being made by Democratic presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich. Perhaps best known for his seriously liberal views and majorly hot wife, Kucinich had this to say in Tuesday's Philadelphia Inquirer: "I seriously believe we have to start asking questions about his mental health. There's something wrong. He does not seem to understand his words have real impact."
The words that the Ohio congressman was referencing specifically were remarks from a news conference earlier this month. Our President said: "I've told people that if you're interested in avoiding World War III, it seems like you ought to be interested in preventing them (Iran) from having the knowledge necessary to make a nuclear weapon."
"You cannot be a president of the United States who's wanton in his expression of violence," Kucinich said. "There's a lot of people who need care. He might be one of them. If there isn't something wrong with him, then there's something wrong with us. This, to me, is a very serious question." In response, Republican National Committee spokesman Dan Ronayne said it was hard to take Kucinich seriously.
And just what does it mean to be "mentally ill"? From the National Institute of Mental Health: "Mental disorders are common in the United States and internationally. An estimated 26.2 percent of Americans ages 18 and older — about one in four adults — suffer from a diagnosable mental disorder in a given year." Why, that makes it sound positively likely that a portion of our executive branch may be suffering from some disorder or other. But just what malady and who is afflicted remains a mystery. The Surgeon General writes "Yet, despite unprecedented knowledge gained in just the past three decades about the brain and human behavior, mental health is often an afterthought and illnesses of the mind remain shrouded in fear and misunderstanding."
Fear and misunderstanding? Now that sounds like Dennis might be on to something. At the very least, our President suffers from some sort of stress-related disability to correctly pronounce the word "nuclear" (nook-you-ler).