Why Bush Loves Violence- What do bad boys do when they grow up? They change. But Bush never stopped.

[kpete]

Why Bush Loves Violence

by Justy Frank

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Psychiatrist Justin Frank, author of Bush on the Couch: Inside the Mind of the President, says the trail of destruction wrought by Bush over the last eight years is the direct consequence of handing a man with a destructive personality profile tremendous power.

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What do bad boys do when they grow up? They change. But Bush never stopped.

Bush is leaving office immensely satisfied with his presidential accomplishments: Not merely wreaking havoc worldwide – actively destroying Iraq, and passively turning his back on New Orleans – he became feared both abroad and at home, where Congress and the press have yet to muster the courage to confront him. Now, the financial devastation of his policies seems to be hurtling the globe ever faster towards an economic Judgment Day.

The secret sadist in Bush greets all this as wonderful news, made even better by the possibility that he won’t get caught or punished, and that others will at least have to clean up his mess if they can. He may look and sound uncharacteristically sheepish of late, but his sense of self as president remains unchanged at its core. His primary concern remains self-regard, not history’s.

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After 9/11, Bush discovered that Americans had handed over to him much of their sense of personal responsibility for thought and action. We were seduced into developing a thirst for revenge, in a war on terror that he originally called a crusade (until his aides told him to change terminology). Bush’s conscious fantasy about that crusade remains unwavering; what is unconscious is the fantasy that allows him to be willfully cruel, to dehumanize foreigners and the poor, whether they be soldiers or women and children. And he got us to go along with him.

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more at:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-01-12/why-bush-loves-violence/

[AndyTiedye]

1. Bullies Tend to Become Republicans When They Reach Adulthood

[polly7]

2. Most people would be completely ashamed leaving behind messes

for others to clean up and do whatever they could to at least help make it easier. Bush laughs at it all, IMO. The same way he doesn't get the enormity of his actions, he'll never realize the long-lasting effects of them or what it will cost to fix them. A complete narcissist.

[mnhtnbb]

3. K & R. If anyone still needs insight into Bush's behavior.

[StClone]

4. Don't punish the Boy!

I say punish the hell out of the Sociopath! Why are people in power so frightened by the man!? They can't all have CIA profiles that would undo them as George H. Bush's pull with that agency surely must be waning.

[Gregorian]

5. What's most frightening is the number of Americans who identified and supported it.

Some of us knew this before he ran for president. The Karla Faye Tucker incident is not insignificant. But the fact that so many Americans wanted to "have a beer" (identify and accept) with him should make us all very nervous.

I have to fight my urge to explain in general terms why I find this so frightening. There is a bit of this syndrome in just about every one of us at this point in our society. It was brought on by the gift of power we each have. Only the greatest among us has been able to fight it off, or to be bigger than it. Otherwise, whether we know it or not, we're having a "beer with Bush" (use power for self-gain at the expense of something fragile).

[newtothegame]

6. These sensationalist diagnoses of B*sh are irresponsible and frankly dangerous...

Just to make a few headlines...If this guy wants to write about someones psyche, he should talk to the person; it's dangerous to be teaching people that you are an expert on someone's mind by watching press conferences.

[backscatter712]

7. No, Dr. Frank did his homework.

He was the one that wrote Bush on the Couch, quite a good book, I might add.

Looking at Bush's actions and his past, it's not hard to see that he's a narcissistic sociopath.

[PinkyisBlue]

8. I never misunderestimated him. I knew he was a stupid, cruel, evil little man from the start.

And I have the battle scars to prove it. I can barely stand to hear him speak. I really don't know how Laura can live with him. He even jokes about his past alcohol abuse, as though that was something funny.