...has always had a much-publicised knack for mangled syntax, but now George Bush often searches an agonisingly long time, sometimes in vain, for the right words. His mind simply blanks out at crucial times. He is prone, I am told, to foul-mouthed temper tantrums in the White House. His handlers now rarely allow him to speak an unscripted word in public.
Sooooo . . . I guess that as long as we have a proficient public speaker in the WhiteHouse, all will be well with the world.

...we saw Bush at his most unattractive: slouching, peevish, pouting, pursing his lips with disdain at what his opponent was saying. But he was unable to marshal any coherent arguments against Kerry and merely spewed out prepared talking points - in what, even his ardent supporters concede, was Bush's worst-ever such performance.
I won't argue with that. First debate was horrible on Bush's part.

In the second debate on 8 October in St Louis, Bush could not stay on his stool and leapt up to dispense what were - certainly in contrast to Kerry's cogent recital of statistics and arguments - frequently defensive, shouting rants. I assume that he was told by his handlers not to show displeasure at Kerry's words this time around, but, instead, he revealed his anger by blinking repeatedly.
Seriously, BLINKING REPEATEDLY??? LOLOLOLOL ARE YOU ALL READING THIS, SERIOUSLY?

The moderator tried to stop him talking at one point...
I recall J.Kerry being called down to shut up also . . . but that's fine, right?

. . . leading a colleague to speculate whether he was on something . . . and spent the evening with a creepy, inane grin on his face, as though he was red-faced after a festive Christmas dinner.
OMG . . . I don't know what to say to that.

. . . Bush's cognitive functioning is not, for some reason, what it once was. I am not qualified to say why this is so.
Ah haaaa! Sounds like an expert to me!

But I have heard wild speculation in Washington that he is suffering from a neurological disorder...
Pretty WILD if you ask me.

... whether he is unstable or merely unfit to be President - and I would argue that they amount to much the same - he should speedily be turfed out of office.
Sounds like a biased opinion to me!

OK, after reading this article, I am appalled! I can't believe that you people actually read this article, smiled and nodded in agreement.

I don't think that Bush supporters are the ones that are acting "cultish".