FORGET THE IMPEACHMENT - BRING IN THE PSYCHOTHERAPIST

[BigBearJohn]

FORGET THE IMPEACHMENT
BRING IN THE PSYCHOTHERAPIST

By: Jim Moore

George W. Bush sorely needs help (and quickly) in several distinct areas of mental aberration. I don’t say this maliciously or vengefully. But neither do I say it lightly.

Each day, by a personal appearance, a comment, or a speech, President Bush reveals once more that he is losing control of his mental machinery, notwithstanding his sly schoolboy grin, his I’m-in-command posture, and his pseudo-soldier look.

The man, as if it were difficult to notice, is suffering from inherent (or acquired) flaws in his mental make-up (of which he is unaware) that require, no, demand psychotherapeutic attention, and left untreated, is posing a dangerous liability to the nation, seriously affecting all American citizens.

Although several prominent and well-respected psychiatrists already have written extensive reports about Bush’s condition---albeit from analyzing and treating identical symptoms in hundreds of similar personalities---one hardly needs a doctorate in psychology to recognize that something is wrong not only with Bush’s bizarre thinking but the decisions he makes based on that thinking.

Here, for example, are three distinct areas of George Bush’s noticeable mental derangement;

UNCONSCIOUS REJECTION OF THE TRUTH

In this mental quirk, it is not just Bush’s inability to TELL the difference between truth and lies (right from wrong), it is his inability to KNOW the difference between the two. And therein, if you will, lies a legally accepted definition of insanity.

Bush does not tell the truth because he is blind to the fact that what he is saying is not true. His mental block does not, for example, allow him to accept such things as losing the war in Iraq, and so a lie becomes the truth, and the war (to him) is progressing just fine.

His avoidance of truth, however, began even before the war itself. Landing on the aircraft carrier and pointing to the sign, “Mission Accomplished” was not the truth. Telling us that taking Baghdad would be a “cakewalk” was not the truth. Fighting in Iraq to make it a democracy was not the truth. His idea that Iraq was a danger to America was not the truth. His assertion that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction was not the truth. Even his recent statement on Memorial Day at Arlington National Cemetery: “Two terrorist regimes are gone forever, freedom is on the march, and America is more secure.” is not the truth. If anything, our unprovoked attack on a sovereign Middle East nation has made Americans LESS secure because now we are a target for all Islamic extremists.

INABILITY TO ACCEPT HIS FALLIBILITY

George Bush cannot, does not, and will not admit that he makes mistakes. Error is not in his vocabulary. Others make mistakes, but not me, thinks Bush, and that is a quintessential indication of a mind out of balance.

Examples of Bush’s aberrant thinking abound. Bush will not admit that Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11. Bush will not admit that most foreign countries disagree with our interference in Middle East affairs. Bush will not admit that most Americans now believe our war in Iraq was a mistake. Bush will not admit that detainees in American prison camps are mistreated and held without charge or trial, as reported by Amnesty International. Bush will not admit that his major proposals on Social Security and Free Trade are “stalled” by, of all things, a Republican-controlled Congress. Bush will not admit that his “war on terror” at home has obliterated some of our constitutional rights. Bush will not even admit the self-evident reality that his presidency is inching toward a “lame-duck”, power-challenged status.

It’s not so much that these things are true, it’s that Bush doesn’t see them as true, and thus he lives, operates, and governs in a shadowy world of self-delusion, spurious assumptions, and out-and-out lies.

A BELIEF THAT GOD PLAYS FAVORITES

Possibly the most frightening thing about George Bush’s mind-set is that his presidential agenda, orders, and decisions are based on the false premise that God is on his side. Not on OUR side, mind you, HIS side.

It has come to your attention, I’m sure, that Bush, at one time or another, has made that point clear. The Lord has “spoken to him” and assured him that he, Bush, has been chosen to free the world from tyranny. Given this “mandate” from the Creator, Bush does not understand how any American would dare quarrel with that. Thus, opinions, questions, and especially dissent, in his eyes, are not only un-American, but literally a counter to God’s Word.

This is why Fundamentalist Christians follow Bush’s lead assiduously, and take every word he utters as gospel. It is, however, quite frankly, the one thing that thinking Americans should NOT do.

For two reasons: (1) Any sane person knows that God, as Spirit, does not take sides; He is as available for spiritual help and guidance to the Muslim community as He is to the Christian community. And only an arrogant, self-serving theocratic personality would think otherwise. (2) a person who claims direct communication with God will rule a nation as he, in his own mind, thinks God wants it to be ruled. And history plainly tells us what happens to rulers (and nations) that believe they have exclusive contact with the Almighty and therefore know precisely what the Unthinkable One is thinking.

Rejection of the Truth. Inability to admit mistakes. The idea that God plays favorites. The leader of a nation who is a victim of any one of these delusional thoughts needs help. But the leader who is cursed with all three of them at once is in serious trouble. And so is the nation he presumes to lead.

"Published originally at EtherZone.com : republication allowed with this notice and hyperlink intact. See http://www.etherzone.com/

[Pachamama]

1. Anyone who watched his "Rosegarden" conference this week knows the guy is

not all there mentally or cognitively....

[LightningFlash]

2. Truly a disturbing sense of eloquence....

I can't even see how better to put it.

Perhaps it's because Bush listened to these people. http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/2/22/155525/061

Cheney talks about having Laura be president now.....While the cold heartless Cheney and his accomplices certainly rule the land with an iron fist, at least they are conscious of the fact it is evil.

At the very least they recognize how easily Laura Bush can be sodomized and forced to present an even worse agenda to appease their own needs and goals. The features of this kind of belief are prevalent now more than ever before.

But Mister Bush, he doesn't even understand that it is evil. He has been so brainwashed by completely deranged fundamentalists, that he believes every single word he says. For this reason, he can't tell if what he did was evil or not and is too stupidly inward focused to tell the difference. This is why Dick Cheney tires of his escapades. Bush should never have been the one to do this job the warning signs were on the wall.....If these fundies all needed the perfect puppet, they should have sent Frist in. At the very least you would have had someone very tactical :rofl:

[POAS]

3. Let's see if I get this...

1. Bush apologists say he wasn't lying about WMD because he believed they actually were in Iraq.

2. But Bush was told on several occasions and by multiple sources that WMD no longer existed in any meaningful way in Iraq.

3. Bush was also informed that Iraq posed no direct threat to us and little threat to aid Bin Laden because of their antipathy to each other.

4. So having been appraised of these facts he repeats the lie because he didn't know them to be lies, or in other words, he could not distinguish between truth and falsehood.

5. COnclusion: Bush not guilty by reason of insanity.

My head is going to explode.

[LightningFlash]

5. He only believes what he wants to hear.

The man is not mentally well or capable, that is the truth. That is why the mafia squad wouldn't have warned him if a terrorist attack took out the white house. He was never equipped to handle this level of democracy-err corruption, in the strictest sense.

He even went crazy over the fact a low level plane came close to the ground. Probably if that whole event had been serious, Bush would have been left to his fate so they could quickly install someone else.

There is of course an invention called the criminally insane.

[mopaul]

6. it's the Jacko defense: he's crazy, he can't help it

bad intelligence is the latest republican excuse for the lack of wmd's. bad intelligence from the top.

[Jackpine Radical]

10. Maybe they're starting to build their defense case

for the new "Nuremburg" Trials (to be held shortly after Shrub's impeachment by the House & conviction for High Crimes and Misdemeanors by the Senate).

[mopaul]

4. what i get from the article is the fucker's crazy

great article, exactly what we've all been saying here. what's scares me the most is that most folks somehow thinks this is all perfectly normal and everything is just swell.

[LaurenG]

7. I don't know about this but

Truly evil people are some of the smartest, most manipulative creatures around. They are NOT insane but truly diabolical and guilty as hell by reason of total selfishness.

[Vitruvius]

8. Exactly. And PRISON is the best place to treat narcissistic sociopaths

-- like Bu$h. Yes, Bu$h should receive psychiatric treatment -- but in a prison setting.

For more info, see the writings of Robert Hare, who is an expert on sociopathy and who began by studying sociopathic criminals. (A good place to start is http://www.hare.org ).

[Ian David]

9. Amendment 25, Section 4

Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President.

Thereafter, when the President transmits to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his written declaration that no inability exists, he shall resume the powers and duties of his office unless the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive department or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit within four days to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office. Thereupon Congress shall decide the issue, assembling within forty-eight hours for that purpose if not in session. If the Congress, within twenty-one days after receipt of the latter written declaration, or, if Congress is not in session, within twenty-one days after Congress is required to assemble, determines by two thirds vote of both Houses that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall continue to discharge the same as Acting President; otherwise, the President shall resume the powers and duties of his office.

More:
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0749825.html

[BigBearJohn]

11. That'll work just fine, thank you!

[Jade Fox]

12. The results of never experienceing the consequences of his actions....

This guy has been bailed out by someone all his life. I'm guessing he
actually doesn't know that actions have consequences. His never have.
Couple that with damage from acute alcoholism, and you've got our
President.