Bush's Obscene Tirades Rattle White House Aides
Posted on Thursday, August 25 @ 08:07:57 EDT by Lisa


While President George W. Bush travels around the country in a
last-ditch effort to sell his Iraq war, White House aides scramble
frantically behind the scenes to hide the dark mood of an increasingly
angry leader who unleashes obscenity-filled outbursts at anyone who
dares disagree with him.
"I'm not meeting with that goddamned *****," Bush screamed at aides
who suggested he meet with Cindy Sheehan, the war-protesting mother
whose son died in Iraq. "She can go to hell as far as I'm concerned!"

Bush, administration aides confide, frequently explodes into tirades
over those who protest the war, calling them "motherfucking traitors."
He reportedly was so upset over Veterans of Foreign Wars members who
wore "***** protectors" over their ears during his speech to their
annual convention that he told aides to "tell those VFW assholes that
I'll never speak to them again is they can't keep their members under
control."

White House insiders say Bush is growing increasingly bitter over
mounting opposition to his war in Iraq. Polls show a vast majority of
Americans now believe the war was a mistake and most doubt the
President's honesty.

"Who gives a flying ***** what the polls say," he screamed at a recent
strategy meeting. "I'm the President and I'll do whatever I goddamned
please. They don't know *****."

Bush, whiles setting up for a photo op for signing the recent CAFTA
bill, flipped an extended middle finger at the camera before going
live. Aides say the President often "flips the bird" to show his
displeasure and tells aides who disagree with him to "go to hell" or
to "go ***** yourself."

Bush's behavior, according to prominent Washington psychiatrist, Dr.
Justin Frank, author of "Bush on the Couch: Inside the Mind of the
President," is all too typical of an alcohol-abusing bully who is
ruled by fear.

To see that fear emerges, Dr. Frank says, all one has to do is
confront the President. "To actually directly confront him in a clear
way, to bring him out, so you would really see the bully, and you
would also see the fear," he says.

Dr. Frank, in his book, speculates that Bush, an alcoholic who brags
that he gave up booze without help from groups like Alcoholics
Anonymous, may be drinking again.

"Two questions that the press seems particularly determined to ignore
have hung silently in the air since before Bush took office," Dr.
Frank says. "Is he still drinking? And if not, is he impaired by all
the years he did spend drinking? Both questions need to be addressed
in any serious assessment of his psychological state."

Last year, Capitol Hill Blue learned the White House physician
prescribed anti-depressant drugs for the President to control what
aides called "violent mood swings." As Dr. Frank also notes: "In
writing about Bush's halting appearance in a press conference just
before the start of the Iraq War, Washington Post media critic Tom
Shales speculated that 'the president may have been ever so slightly
medicated.'"

Dr. Frank explains Bush's behavior as all-to-typical of an alcoholic
who is still in denial:

"The pattern of blame and denial, which recovering alcoholics work so
hard to break, seems to be ingrained in the alcoholic personality;
it's rarely limited to his or her drinking," he says. "The habit of
placing blame and denying responsibility is so prevalent in George W.
Bush's personal history that it is apparently triggered by even the
mildest threat."

Bush's Obscene Tirades Rattle White House Aides
Posted on Thursday, August 25 @ 08:07:57 EDT by Lisa


While President George W. Bush travels around the country in a
last-ditch effort to sell his Iraq war, White House aides scramble
frantically behind the scenes to hide the dark mood of an increasingly
angry leader who unleashes obscenity-filled outbursts at anyone who
dares disagree with him.
"I'm not meeting with that goddamned *****," Bush screamed at aides
who suggested he meet with Cindy Sheehan, the war-protesting mother
whose son died in Iraq. "She can go to hell as far as I'm concerned!"

Bush, administration aides confide, frequently explodes into tirades
over those who protest the war, calling them "motherfucking traitors."
He reportedly was so upset over Veterans of Foreign Wars members who
wore "***** protectors" over their ears during his speech to their
annual convention that he told aides to "tell those VFW assholes that
I'll never speak to them again is they can't keep their members under
control."

White House insiders say Bush is growing increasingly bitter over
mounting opposition to his war in Iraq. Polls show a vast majority of
Americans now believe the war was a mistake and most doubt the
President's honesty.

"Who gives a flying ***** what the polls say," he screamed at a recent
strategy meeting. "I'm the President and I'll do whatever I goddamned
please. They don't know *****."

Bush, whiles setting up for a photo op for signing the recent CAFTA
bill, flipped an extended middle finger at the camera before going
live. Aides say the President often "flips the bird" to show his
displeasure and tells aides who disagree with him to "go to hell" or
to "go ***** yourself."

Bush's behavior, according to prominent Washington psychiatrist, Dr.
Justin Frank, author of "Bush on the Couch: Inside the Mind of the
President," is all too typical of an alcohol-abusing bully who is
ruled by fear.

To see that fear emerges, Dr. Frank says, all one has to do is
confront the President. "To actually directly confront him in a clear
way, to bring him out, so you would really see the bully, and you
would also see the fear," he says.

Dr. Frank, in his book, speculates that Bush, an alcoholic who brags
that he gave up booze without help from groups like Alcoholics
Anonymous, may be drinking again.

"Two questions that the press seems particularly determined to ignore
have hung silently in the air since before Bush took office," Dr.
Frank says. "Is he still drinking? And if not, is he impaired by all
the years he did spend drinking? Both questions need to be addressed
in any serious assessment of his psychological state."

Last year, Capitol Hill Blue learned the White House physician
prescribed anti-depressant drugs for the President to control what
aides called "violent mood swings." As Dr. Frank also notes: "In
writing about Bush's halting appearance in a press conference just
before the start of the Iraq War, Washington Post media critic Tom
Shales speculated that 'the president may have been ever so slightly
medicated.'"

Dr. Frank explains Bush's behavior as all-to-typical of an alcoholic
who is still in denial:

"The pattern of blame and denial, which recovering alcoholics work so
hard to break, seems to be ingrained in the alcoholic personality;
it's rarely limited to his or her drinking," he says. "The habit of
placing blame and denying responsibility is so prevalent in George W.
Bush's personal history that it is apparently triggered by even the
mildest threat."

Bush's Obscene Tirades Rattle White House Aides
Posted on Thursday, August 25 @ 08:07:57 EDT by Lisa