What is Bush on?

[Stephanie]

From today

[Systematic Chaos]

1. An ego trip for starters

n/t

[buycitgo]

2. the bottom?

[Stephanie]

3. Most likely

Lazy fuck.

Hi b

:hi:

[Oddman]

4. A political Kamikaze plane

headed straight for Crawford . . .

Interesting link . . .

http://abcnews.go.com/sections/politics/DailyNews/Bush_ranch010803.html

[troublemaker]

5. I'm dead serious... this isn't the usual Bush buzz

He's really fucked up right now. Seeing him yesterday was frightening! He's heavily sedated. Probably Xanax for anxiety attacks. (Quickest in and out of the system of the benzodiazapenes)

Bad idea giving tranquilizers to a drunk.

[maggrwaggr]

6. check this out

[buycitgo]

7. har......there's another one like that of him on a chair

looks like he's trying to squeeze one off

also, Letterman has a clip of him flubbering his lips like that

I've been taping the first twenty minutes of his show almost every night, cause he plays some really embarrassing stuff regularly

[Hepburn]

8. WTF is with him?

He looks like and escapee from the Betty Ford clinic!! Wow!! :wow:

[troublemaker]

14. Is that one of those cardboard stand-ups you get your picture taken with?

[Stephanie]

28. God - what a cretin

Seriously, no adult would behave like that unless he was on something that prevented self-awareness or self-control.

[Catshrink]

9. The Simpleton Look

it's the one he does best, it's the one he does from the heart.

[maggrwaggr]

10. and here he looks like Beavis

or maybe it's Butthead, I can't keep them straight

[troublemaker]

15. Chirac: His name is Jesus. He lives in an aeroplane.

[LibertyorDeath]

11. where are his lips & those eyes

those beady inbred eyes.

He looks defeated & wacked on something.

Prozac ?

[Oddman]

12. Perhaps he sipped some holy water in Rome

and started dreaming of little boys . . .

[Forkboy]

13. my nerves

[seemslikeadream]

16. Possible reasons

Psych profile+fascism receptivity+Lakoff's family framing concept


FROM JohnOneillsMemory in LBN
Psych profile+fascism receptivity+Lakoff's family framing concept links.


This is entirely predictable. Bush* suffers from severe mental illness as has been well documented. We're experiencing Columbine High School on a global level.

Georgie was abused by his mother, shadowed by his father, shamed for mourning his sister's death and belittled in general. He became a self-destructive alcoholic with a cruel streak.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1033904,00.html
(So George, How Do You Feel About Your Mom and Dad?)

His 'authoritarian personality' matches what researchers discovered to be a marker for 'fascism receptivity' when the phenomenon was researched after WWII.
http://www.anesi.com/fscale.htm
(The F-factor questionnaire)

More recently, researchers have analyzed the components of the conservative personality. Their findings point to the fear-based tendencies that are similar in fundamentalist religious views and fascism receptivity, again the 'authoritarian personality.'
http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2003/07/22_politics.shtml
(What Makes Up a Conservative Personality)

This family experience modeling sets us up for how we view all our relationships at work and in government, too. Linguist George Lakoff explains how this 'framing' is used in political language and propaganda.
http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2003/10/27_lakoff.shtml
(Lakoff Explains Framing as Key to Thinking)

http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=12&ItemID=4294
(Lakoff Explains Gender Language in Promoting War)



He's Acting Like Nixon in the Final DaysHas Bush Gone Over the Edge?


By ALEXANDER COCKBURN

A sensational account of an imploding George Bush is making the rounds.

It's by Doug Thompson, the publisher of Capitol Hill Blue, put out in the dawn hours of June 4.

"President George W. Bush's increasingly erratic behavior and wide mood swings has the halls of the West Wing buzzing lately as aides privately express growing concern over their leader's state of mind."

So begins Thompson's insider report. He goes on,

"In meetings with top aides and administration officials, the President goes from quoting the Bible in one breath to obscene tantrums against the media, Democrats and others that he classifies as 'enemies of the state.'

"It reminds me of the Nixon days," says a longtime GOP political consultant with contacts in the White House. "Everybody is an enemy; everybody is out to get him. That's the mood over there." He was obviously talking of late, Watergate-enmired Nixon, when a drunken president would rail on far into the night, and when Kissinger put it around that he had taken over command of the nuclear button.

And talking of the nuclear button, Thompson says he's interviewed, off-the-record, a number of White House staffers who talk of Bujsh declaring that his decisions are "God's will" and then tells aides to "fuck over" anyone they consider to be an opponent of the administration.

He quotes one aide as telling him, "We're at war, there's no doubt about it. What I don't know anymore is just who the enemy might be. We seem to spend more time trying to destroy John Kerry than al Qaeda and our enemies list just keeps growing and growing."

more
http://www.counterpunch.org/cockburn06042004.html


King George Has Gone Insane
by Kurt Nimmo
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/June04/Nimmo0605.htm

Bush's Erratic Behavior Worries White House Aides
http://www.sophists.org/article312.html

Bush's Erratic Behavior Worries White House Aides
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0604-13.htm

Bush's Erratic Behavior Worries White House Aides
http://www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?story=04/06/04/0953763

Over the Edge
The Madness of King George
By KURT NIMMO
http://www.counterpunch.org/nimmo06052004.html


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[maggrwaggr]

17. wow.

I guess if you're a budding little fascist, becoming President of the United States would literally be a dream come true.

And here I just thought he kinda stumbled into the job.

[seemslikeadream]

26. Then there's this

Origniator's name and location has be redacted (in keeping with the policies\habits of this administration)


> -----Original Message-----
> From: XXX
> Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2004 12:14 PM
> To: '[e-mail]'
> Subject: Bush's mysterious grounding
>
> Mr. Conason,
>
> I am a neurologist in XXXX. I've just read your excellent article on
> Bush's Guard service (thanks by the way for for your excellent book "Big
> Lies" which i enjoyed immensely). Ever since reading Bob Woodward's
> description (in Plan of Attack) of an unusual event in which Bush suddenly
> "began speaking as though in a foreign language" and looking
> confused...I've wondered if Mr. Bush suffers from temporal lobe epilepsy.
> The description Woodward gives sound very much like Mr. Bush had what's
> known as a "complex partial seizure". Woodward's further mention of a
> medication the president takes twice daily and the secrecy with which this
> info is guarded are also very suggestive : there are a number of
> anti-epileptic medicationstaken on a b.i.d. (ie twice daily) schedule. I
> would think that the stigma associated with epilepsy (often undeservedly
> so) would make it something Bush's advisors would hush up.
>
> Certainly the hard-drinking Bush would have been at risk for worsening
> this condition (alcohol lowers the seizure threshold) and having ANY type
> of seizures would be an ABSOLUTE loss of flying status...therefore
> explaining the otherwise inexplicable lack of interest the Guard showed in
> finding out why he was grounding himself, thereby wasting all that
> expensive training. It might also explain why he skipped his
> physical...wouldn't want the nasty "e-word" (epilepsy) in his file. For
> that matter, perhaps worsening seizure control was the ultimate reason he
> finally stopped drinking...by that time, however, he may well have had
> mesial temporal sclerosis...which would have perpetuated the seizures even
> in the absence of ongoing alcohol consumption.
>
> Furthermore, it might explain his habit of "early to bed' (sleep
> deprivation would put him at risk for further public seizures). There are
> a number of his personal traits that have been linked to temporal lobe
> epilepsy (his hyper-religiosity, his sometimes confused look, his frequent
> verbal mis-steps, ...perhaps even his avoidance of live interviews).
>
> I of course have no solid first hand evidence whatsoever of this, it's
> just something that occurred to me (as a Neurologist) while reading
> Woodward's book.
>
> Dr. XXXXXX

[Piperay]

18. He's 'blissed' and

waiting for the 'rapture'. :puke:

[shraby]

19. That's his

"Presidential" look. :evilgrin:

[psychopomp]

20. Looks like the white coats got the mixture wrong

Pharmacologists and MD's are working feverishly in the Situation Room on a new regimen.

edit: I can't miss a chance to post this pic from last week...

[Michael Harrington]

21. Apres Crow T. Robot...

"Oh, that one. He's on the Mescaline."

[Hotdiggitydog]

23. That picture screams for a caption:

I recommend "MISERABLE FAILURE".

[timtom]

27. omigod!

That's the second out-loud-laugh I've had today! (The first was on another thread.) That picture is hilarious. It's almost an icon...much like his dad's puking in Japan at a state dinner.

[psychopomp]

31. "almost an icon"

Yeah, glad that I am not the only one who appreciates the dismal depths of stupidity revealed in this photograph.

[dbt]

22. No. What's on HIM?

I mean that budding PENTAGRAM on his left cheek (face in photo, as opposed to ass in photo).

:evilgrin:
dbt

[lebkuchen]

24. He's always been two enchiladas short of a combination plate

Lately, he's been short of the plate as well.

[Beloved Citizen]

25. That's his "I'm Being Patient With The Sinners" look

Somehow his faith (or precarious mental situation) has allowed him to believe he is infallible.

[takebackourjobs]

29. Well, he sure doesn't

need to take any stupid pills. The RNC knew he wouldn't need to be medicated to blindly follow their purposes. He never had an original idea prior to his appointment to the presidency, and the ones he is responsible for since then, i.e. mission to mars in the face of staggering deficits, haven't been any cause for them to seriously worry about him screwing up their agenda.

[PartyPooper]

30. Is it the makeup, or did Junior heal quickly from the bike fall?

In any case, his eyes sure look funny. He looks like he is in a daze.