According to the AP, Bush is going to take his physical this Saturday.
In the article, the usual reasons for the delay are given, though none of them explain why it's taken until a month after the election for him to schedule the physical.
And they go on and on about how healthy the prez has been in previous years.
I suspect that Bush just simply doesn't like doing physicals - much like most males in the country. And I think that his problems are unlikely to be uncovered in a physical. It would take a full-scale mental exam to find out why he's so pigheaded and un-empathetic.
Excerpts of article in extended entry.
Bush to Undergo Physical on Saturday
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: December 9, 2004
Filed at 10:25 a.m. ET
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Bush will undergo the fourth physical of his presidency on Saturday at the National Naval Medical Center, the White House said Thursday.
Bush normally has his annual checkup in August. White House press secretary Scott McClellan said the four-month delay was the result of a hectic campaign travel schedule this summer and fall as the president was running for re-election.
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``The president is someone who remains in great physical shape,'' McClellan said.
After the physical, Bush is to remain at the Bethesda, Md., medical center to visit with Marines and sailors recovering there from injuries suffered in Iraq and Afghanistan, McClellan said