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"Harry Hope" |
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05 Sep 2006 08:18:53 PM |
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Is George Bush a step away from the booby hatch? |
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/content2/2006/09/has_bush_gone_over_the_edge.html
September 5, 2006
Has Bush gone over the edge?
An increasing number of Republicans, ranging from former conservative
Congressman Joe Scarborough to former President George H.W. Bush,
worry that President George W. Bush's tenuous hold on reality is
slipping away and the leader of the free world may be sliding into a
full-fledged mental breakdown.
Scarborough sounded the warning recently when he devoted an episode of
his MSNBC talk show to the topic "Is Bush an Idiot?"
Other published reports say Bush's own father is worried about his
son's mental state.
Psychiatrists who have observed Bush during his presidency share this
concern.
Bush family insiders say the former President's concern over his son's
mental state was a primary reason why the President made a rare
appearance at the family home in Connecticut during August.
Bush rarely visits his father.
In fact, NBC news anchor Brian Williams recently reported that former
President Bill Clinton, who defeated the elder Bush after one term,
visits his former rival more often.
White House aides point to the President's increasingly bizarre
behavior:
an inpromptu "massage" of a foreign leader at the recent G8
conference, his penchant for farting in front of new West Wing aides
and his rambling, often incoherent answers to reporters' questions.
John Dean, the White House counsel who helped bring down another
deranged President: Richard M. Nixon, shares the concern.
In his book, Conservatives Without Conscience, Dean calls
Republican-controlled Washington a bullying, manipulative, prejudiced
leadership edging the nation toward a dark era.
"We have returned to the imperial presidency (that existed in the
Nixon era)," Dean says.
"We have an unchecked presidency."
"Are we on the road to fascism?" he adds.
"Clearly, we are not on that road yet. But it would not take much more
misguided authoritarian leadership, or thoughtless following of such
leaders, to find ourselves there.
"I am not sure which is more frightening," he adds, "another major
terror attack or the response of authoritarian conservatives to that
attack."
Dr. Justin Frank, the prominent George Washington University
psychiatrist who wrote Bush on the Couch: Inside the Mind of the
President, says Bush has lost touch with reality:
With every passing week, President Bush marches deeper and deeper into
a world of his own making.
Central to Bush's world is an iron will which demands that external
reality be changed to conform to his personal view of how things are.
As far as Bush is concerned, he is telling the truth; as Madeleine
Albright recently said to Columbia Magazine:
"the most serious problem is that George Bush now believes what he
says."
Like many of my hospitalized patients, Bush has created a vast,
detailed but vague delusional system he feels compelled to maintain at
all costs.
This system helps him manage the terrifying anxiety that threatens to
make his already endangered inner world more chaotic.
Psychoanalytic theory suggests that Bush's true enemy is an aspect of
himself -- the overwhelming anxiety he works so hard to manage.
For Bush, lying remains a central defense mechanism in managing his
fears;
he lies foremost to himself, altering his perception of external or
internal reality to fulfill his psychic need to maintain order.
His anxiety is so great that he cannot shift his thinking to account
for new information --especially the fact that patriotic families of
patriotic soldiers demand that he speak with them.
Taking responsibility has always been hard for George W. Bush.
And taking responsibility for inflicting harm on others, a major step
in the development of maturity, is a step President Bush has yet to
make.
Instead, he persists in lying to himself, surrounding himself with
people who agree with him.
And now he is not safe even inside his own closed circle.
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Not pleasant to contemplate. This guy has got his finger on the
nuclear button.
Harry
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| User: "PagCal" |
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| Title: Re: Is George Bush a step away from the booby hatch? |
06 Sep 2006 02:41:38 AM |
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Harry Hope wrote:
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/content2/2006/09/has_bush_gone_over_the_edge.html
September 5, 2006
Has Bush gone over the edge?
He suffers from delusions of granduer - something about too much cocaine
and booze on lost weekends to Mexaco when he was younger.
His sentences are getting shorter, and even then, he is seen strugling
for simple words...
It's already been diagnosted by professionals as a slowly encroaching
dementia that will eventually overtake reality.
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| User: "Zizek, Angry Man!" |
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| Title: Re: Is George Bush a step away from the booby hatch? |
06 Sep 2006 10:40:29 AM |
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"PagCal" <pagcal@runbox.com> wrote in message
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Harry Hope wrote:
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/content2/2006/09/has_bush_gone_over_the_edge.html
September 5, 2006 Has Bush gone over the edge?
He suffers from delusions of granduer - something about too much cocaine
and booze on lost weekends to Mexaco when he was younger.
His sentences are getting shorter, and even then, he is seen strugling for
simple words...
It's already been diagnosted by professionals as a slowly encroaching
dementia that will eventually overtake reality.
Like Raygoon.
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| User: "jmcgill" |
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| Title: Re: Is George Bush a step away from the booby hatch? |
06 Sep 2006 11:29:13 AM |
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PagCal wrote:
It's already been diagnosted by professionals
Professional what? Licensed physicians who are mental health
specialists, who have actually examined the person and who have gone on
record with a medical opinion, or something else?
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| User: "PagCal" |
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07 Sep 2006 12:18:17 AM |
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jmcgill wrote:
PagCal wrote:
It's already been diagnosted by professionals
Professional what? Licensed physicians who are mental health
specialists, who have actually examined the person and who have gone on
record with a medical opinion, or something else?
His docs for one.
You can tell when he's 'on his meds' or not.
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