Democrat Shrink Takes Unflattering Look Into Depths of Bush

[GreenPartyVoter]

by Julian Borger in Washington

"I don't spend a lot of time trying to figure me out," George Bush once said. "I'm just not into psychobabble."

The president will not need a shrink, then, to tell him he is unlikely to enjoy Bush on the Couch, a new book by a Washington psychiatrist and Democrat, who tries to explain his subject's quirks and policies by examining his personal history, and comes up with some unflattering conclusions.

Justin Frank, a clinical professor of psychiatry at George Washington University, argues that the president's inclination to see the world in black-and-white, good-versus-evil terms, and his tendency to repeat favorite words and phrases under pressure, are not simply politics as usual, but classic symptoms of untreated alcoholism.

Mr Bush was a heavy drinker from his youth but stopped at 40, becoming a born-again Christian. But Professor Frank, who has never met the president, argues he never treated the underlying cause of his alcohol dependence.

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0622-05.htm

[Divernan]

1. "Bush switched from alcoholism to religion. . . .

It takes responsibility out of his hands. Being born again is a way of denying the past."
I found that observation very insightful of too many people who use religion as an excuse to abicate all personal responsibity.

[elfwitch]

2. It is just trading one addiction for another...

At least he'd only be a danger to himself and anybody on the road he was driving near if he'd stayed an alcoholic. As a Jesus addict, he is a danger to everyone.

[Hoping4Change]

4. LOL! I'm loving the term "Jesus Addict".

[JDPriestly]

3. What?

This is the first time I heard that W's parents did not hold a funeral for their daughter who died of leukemia. Is that normal? If my child died, I would want to hold some kind of memorial or service. What kind of parents were they?

[indepat]

5. Let's not blow this out of proportion for likely all at stake is life in

the Western world as we have known it and seemingly most Americuns don't give a rat's ass about life and death in the rest of the world.

[BootinUp]

6. The prescription is the best part, lol

quoted from article:

Prof Frank's prescription is for Mr Bush to join an Alcoholics Anonymous program - and for him to be relieved of his high-pressure job.