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DemonFighterLives Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-15-05 04:46 PM
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Bush Diagnosed
http://www.unknownnews.net/insanity061704.html

I think this went around before, but it makes more sense all the time.

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A new book by a prominent Washington psychoanalyst says President George W. Bush is a "paranoid meglomaniac" as well as a sadist and "untreated alcoholic." The doctor's analysis appears to confirm earlier reports the President may be emotionally unstable.

Dr. Justin Frank, writing in Bush on the Couch: Inside the Mind of the President, also says the President has a "lifelong streak of sadism, ranging from childhood pranks (using firecrackers to explode frogs) to insulting journalists, gloating over state executions ... pumping his fist gleefully before the bombing of Baghdad."

Even worse, Dr. Frank concludes, the President's years of heavy drinking "may have affected his brain function -- and his decision to quit drinking without the help of a 12-step program him at far higher risk of relapse."

Dr. Frank's revelations comes on the heels of last week's Capitol Hill Blue exclusive that revealed increasing concern by White House aides over Bush's emotional stability.
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Dr. Frist was not available for a snap diagnosis.

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methinks2 Donating Member (894 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-15-05 04:49 PM
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1. i'll drink to that
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tsuki Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-15-05 04:50 PM
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2. Send a video to Frist. eom
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ScamUSA.Com Donating Member (407 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-15-05 04:51 PM
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3. as much as i think bush is a clown
this type of information doesn't hold much weight with me
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rzemanfl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-15-05 04:59 PM
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9. Normally I don't either, but as a recovering alcoholic, sober a
bit longer than Bush claims to be, I have seen many brain-damaged drunks, in fact one of the reasons I went to graduate school in my middle age was to prove to myself that my brain had survived pretty much intact. This man has scared the shit out of me for a long time. No one but a sick bastard would gloat over executing someone or exult at the start of a war. I have serious concerns about his sobriety too. It would be easy for a man who can convince himself God wants him to start a war to convince himself God wants him to have a few drinks to calm his nerves.

On the other hand, I know people who blew up frogs as kids who did not grow up to be lying unethical war mongers.
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DemonFighterLives Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-16-05 07:57 AM
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11. Sure seems pretty accurate for not having a scheduled exam
I don't know if it's definitive.

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longship Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-15-05 04:52 PM
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4. Cheers!!
:toast:

Skol!
:beer:

Prost!
:toast:

Salut!
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DemonFighterLives Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-15-05 04:59 PM
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8. I see you made your 1,000
Congratulations! :toast:
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longship Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-15-05 05:05 PM
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10. Thanks, I hadn't noticed it.
:woohoo: :woohoo:
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rinsd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-15-05 04:52 PM
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5. To be honest..how much better is this diagnosis vs. Frist?
I can't believe a "rpominent psychoanalyst" would attempt such without atually interviewing the subject.

I could see a profiling(kind of like th FBI) to describe behaviors but this is a little silly.
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megatherium Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-16-05 09:13 AM
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14. He addresses this concern in the book: There is an established protocol
for diagnosing public figures without being able to interview them. This protocol was developed in the cold war from the necessity to understand how various world leaders would behave in stressful situations such as the threat of nuclear war. The author asserts that it is quite possible to make accurate diagnoses because while you don't have the opportunity to interview the subject, you have much more information about his background (family, biographical, etc) than you do for ordinary psychiatric patients. Also, patients often color the truth or outright dissemble on the couch.
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eleny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-15-05 04:52 PM
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6. "Dr. Frist was not available for a snap diagnosis"
:rofl:
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cthrumatrix Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-15-05 04:57 PM
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7. actually, since he is alien ...bush has been cloned and the real one is
gone...enjoying his "fruits"

Nobody can possibly think this is the "same guy" from 2000
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kentuck Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-16-05 07:59 AM
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12. Then how do you diagnose his followers?
Aren't they even in worse condition than the sick bastard destroying the world?
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DemonFighterLives Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-16-05 08:44 AM
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13. Well I'm not the doctor
But obviously they can not all be bad people. It is circumstance. It is possible that the followers of Jim Jones or Heaven's gate or even Mansom may have had a different outcome.

I'm not saying that they are geniuses, but have a sheep gene or something. They need to be led around and don't question what they are doing.
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