"Bush On The Couch" makes the Kelly book look like "My Pet Goat"

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

HOLY crap. Kelley even writes a testimonial on the back cover. This book leaves no stone unturned, including (FINALLY) a chapter called "Oedipus Wrecks." ALL of the mommy and daddy issues are addressed here.

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Among the other subjects Frank explores:

* Bush's false sense of omnipotence, instilled within him during childhood and emboldened by his deep investment in fundamentalist religion
* The president's history of untreated alcohol abuse, and the questions it raises about denial, impairment, and the enabling streak in our culture
* The growing anecdotal evidence that Bush may suffer from dyslexia, ADHD, and other thought disorders
* His comfort living outside the law, defying international law in his presidency as boldly as he once defied DUI statutes and military reporting requirements
* His love-hate relationship with his father, and how it triggered a complex and dangerous mix of feelings including yearning, rivalry, anger, and sadism
* Bush's rigid and simplistic thought patterns, paranoia, and megalomania -- and how they have driven him to invent adversaries so that he can destroy them

At once a compelling portrait of George W. Bush and a damning indictment of his policies, Bush on the Couch sheds startling new light on an administration whose record of violence and cruelty seems increasingly dependent on the unstable psyche of the man at its center. Insightful and accessible, courageous and controversial, Bush on the Couch tackles the question no one seems willing to ask: Is our president psychologically fit to run the country?

[MnFats]

1. Captain Queeg? or Captain Bligh? or both?

either way, I've been expecting this.
we have a dangerous psycho at the helm!
Gawd help us!

[dogtag]

2. And 50% of the country finds

Captain Queeg/Bligh likable and folksy. EEEEEEEEEEKKKKKKKKK!!!!!

[Jade Fox]

3. Yep, I'm reading it.

And, no, he is not fit.

At one point in the book the author talks about the press enableing Bush,
as in letting him get away with his incompetence, making excuses for it, etc.
I thought that was an excellent point, and made me want to bang the media's
collective heads together.

Anyone paying attention has got to know that the guy has some serious
problems. And its the media's damn job to pay attention!

[gordianot]

4. This book is one of the most important of the 21st century

and in time more and more people will ask why so few took it seriously.