B* on Anti-Depressants

[yellerpup]

Received this from a Canadian friend this morning.
Bush Using Drugs to Control Depression, Erratic Behavior
> By TERESA HAMPTON
> Editor, Capitol Hill Blue
Jul 28, 2004, 08:09

> President George W. Bush is taking powerful anti-depressant drugs to control his erratic behavior, depression and paranoia, Capitol Hill Blue has learned. The prescription drugs, administered by Col. Richard J. Tubb, the White House physician, can impair the President's mental faculties and decrease both his physical capabilities and his ability to respond to a crisis, administration aides admit privately. "It's a double-edged sword," says one aide. "We can't have him flying off the handle at the slightest provocation but we also need a President who is alert mentally."
>
>Angry Bush walked away from reporter's questions.
Tubb prescribed the anti-depressants after a clearly-upset Bush stormed off stage on July 8, refusing to answer reporters' questions about his relationship with indicted Enron executive Kenneth J. Lay. "Keep those motherfuckers away from me," he screamed at an aide backstage. "If you can't, I'll find someone who can."
>
Bush's mental stability has become the topic of Washington whispers in recent months. Capitol Hill Blue first reported on June 4 about
increasing concern among White House aides over the President's wide mood swings and obscene outbursts. Although GOP loyalists dismissed the reports an anti-Bush propaganda, the reports were later confirmed by prominent George Washington University psychiatrist Dr. Justin Frank in his book Bush on the Couch: Inside the Mind of the President. Dr. Frank diagnosed the President as a "paranoid meglomaniac" and "untreated alcoholic" whose "lifelong streak of sadism, ranging from childhood pranks (using firecrackers to explode frogs) to insulting journalists, gloating over state executions and pumping his hand gleefully before the bombing of Baghdad" showcase Bush's instabilities.
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"I was really very unsettled by him and I started watching everything he did and reading what he wrote and watching him on videotape. I felt he was disturbed," Dr. Frank said. "He fits the profile of a former drinker whose alcoholism has been arrested but not treated." Dr. Frank's conclusions have been praised by other prominent psychiatrists, including Dr. James Grotstein, Professor at UCLA Medical Center, and Dr. Irvin Yalom, MD, Professor Emeritus at Stanford University Medical School.
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[LittleApple81]

1. You have to take Capitol Hill Blue with a ton of salt, unfortunately in

this case.

[papau]

3. Perhaps not a ton - just a little bit of salt - Bush releases Med records

makes it all go away - not going to happen given AWOL records history.

But on Topic A on CNBC, Tina interviewed Dr. Frank and it came across as quite reasonable conclusions.

[lapfog_1]

5. OK, some salt taken

BUT, why can't we use these guys the same way the VWRC uses
Drudge. Call it a round loaded into the echo chamber. Send
it to the media, get them to discuss it on Tweety or something,
have one reporter that doesn't care about future career ask
about it at a press conference or on the campaign trail (not that
any critical question will be allowed).

But at least we could stop worrying about the truthfulness and
let the media decide... couldn't hurt.

[Alpharetta]

2. his dad used to extol the virtues of Halcyon

I saw it in one of his letters in his book "All The Best, George Bush: My Life and Other Writings".

What a fun book. I found it on the shelf of the condo we rented at the beach a couple of weeks ago. I really enjoyed annotating it with the truth and leaving it behind for the next reader.

[wurzel]

4. What does Bush have to be depressed about?

It's not like he has a clue what is going on to begin with. If he was on depressant drugs I'd take that as a hopeful sign he has some grasp on reality.

[slutticus]

6. LOL!

"We have to face the very real possibility that the President of the
United States is loony tunes"

I love it!