{news} Bush's psychological state

[Karin Lee Norton]

>Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 23:41:12 -0400
>To: Women's Caucus of the Green Party of CT <gpcwc at lists.riseup.net>
>From: Karin Lee Norton <karinlee1 at mindspring.com>
>Subject: [Womens-caucus] Fwd: [IPJC] oval orifice = potty mouth
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>>From: Hayes Bethany <haybeth2000 at yahoo.com>
>>To: womens-caucus at lisits.gp-us.org
>>Subject: [Womens-caucus] Fwd: [IPJC] oval orifice = potty mouth
>>Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 10:56:52 -0700 (PDT)
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>>This is interesting----thought to pass it on.
>>Bethany
>>
>>--- Branches magazine <apple at branches.com> wrote:
>>
>>>  To: novelty <novelty-lifeboat at yahoogroups.com>
>>>  From: Branches magazine <apple at branches.com>
>>>  Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 10:33:19 -0700 (PDT)
>>>  Subject: [IPJC] oval orifice = potty mouth
>>>
>>>  Go here for the source of the article with picture
>>>  of
>>>  Bush giving the finger as described.
>>>
>>http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_7267.shtml
>>>
>>>   From Capitol Hill Blue
>>>
>>>  Bush Leagues
>>>  Bush's Obscene Tirades Rattle White House Aides
>>>  By DOUG THOMPSON
>>>  Aug 25, 2005, 06:19
>>>
>>>  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 again with that goddamned bitch,”
>>>  Bush screamed at aides who suggested he meet again
>>>  with Cindy Sheehan, the war-protesting mother whose
>>>  son died in Iraq. “She can go to hell as far as I’m
>>>  concerned!”
>>>
>>>  Bush flashes the bird, something aides say he does
>>>  often and has been doing since his days as governor
>>>  of
>>>  Texas. 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 “bullshit 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 if 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 fuck 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 shit.”
>>>
>>>  Bush, while setting up for a photo op for signing
>>>  the
>>>  recent CAFTA bill, flipped an extended middle finger
>>>  to reporters. 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 fuck
>>>  yourself.
>>>
>>>  His habit of giving people the finger goes back to
>>>  his
>>>  days as Texas governor, aides admit, and videos of
>>>  him
>>>  doing so before press conferences were widely
>>>  circulated among TV stations during those days. A
>>>  recent video showing him shooting the finger to
>>>  reporters while walking also recently surfaced.
>>>
>>>  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.”
>>>
>>  > © Copyright 2005 Capitol Hill Blue
>>>
>
>Karin Lee Norton


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