Bush Presser. The abusive parent.

[edhopper]

What I thought of seeing Smirky McChimp yesterday was an drunk, abusive parent defending his behavior and telling you he beat you for your own good.

[SpiralHawk]

1. "Just wait till I get you home. Sneer, Smirk." - Commander AWOL (R)

[Subdivisions]

2. Bing-fucking-O! K & R. n/t

[lunatica]

3. I've been saying that for years

Bush and his administration are the abusive parent/husband and the American people have also played the role of the abused kids/wife who are trapped in the abusive cycles of the dysfunctional family. Classic is the constant threat that he's the only one who can protect us from the horrors of the world, and who constantly threatens retaliation for not obeying him.

[CoffeeCat]

4. And also...

...abusers love to make it clear to their victims that the victim's opinion is irrelevant.

That's what Bush kept repeating. That he has been brave and oh-so smart to start an illegal war, drive the economy
into the ditch and fail on Katrina. He not only justified his horrible failures, but he went to incredible lengths to
ensure that we know that he is unaffected by anyone who disagrees with him.

It was important for Bush to let us know that any pain and suffering we have suggested that he has caused--is unacknowledged
and filed away, in his brain under the heading "absurd."

That's what that press conference was about. He wanted America to know that he's fine with his legacy and and
that he thinks very highly of himself.

[gratuitous]

11. Which makes the media's performance all the sorrier

Instead of being the responsible adult in the relationship, they moved right into the victim role, never questioning lest Big Daddy get mad. And they stayed in their role right to the bitter end yesterday, never challenging, never staying on a question until they got an answer, never once betraying any hint that they thought Bush was just spewing a line of bullshit.

[guitar man]

5. He reminded me more of a petulant child nt

[SammyWinstonJack]

7. One with very low self-esteem. george has issues, lots of issues. I think he feels very small.

And takes it out on us and the World.

[CoffeeCat]

12. Yes...

People who feel the smallest, are capable of committing the "biggest" damage.

They fight their feelings of inferiority by committing atrocities, which they believe makes them "bigger."

Such sickness.

[ginnyinWI]

6. what occured to me

was how he kept going back to PR mistakes--as if what things look like are all that matter. The Mission Accomplished sign, the fly-over New Orleans--all the window dressing. It's like that's where he say his role--and supposedly Cheney did the heavy lifting.

I heard a very good accounting of the Bush legacy on NPR yesterday on On Point. E.J. Dione was very good at outlining Bush's legacy of crime.

http://www.onpointradio.org/shows/2009/01/president-bushs-legacy/?autostart=true

[pipi_k]

9. I noticed it too

That makes it someone else's fault, naturally.


It's really sad that a man his age is still running around with the emotional development of a six year old child.

[pipi_k]

8. He's a dry drunk who traded in one addiction for another...

I've seen many so-called "dry drunks"...i.e. ex-alcoholics...even in AA, trade in their addiction to alcohol for an addiction to things like religion, etc.

Family and friends of an alcoholic often assume that life will get so much better "if only he would stop drinking". Often it gets worse, unless the dry drunk gets help.

Georgie never got help. He just took the entire country on a slow ride into his own sick little world. Many people enabled him...the Press...the MSM...his family and close friends...his supporters...his handlers...

One of the very basic tenets of AA is that alcoholics don't have relationships...they hold hostages.

So, in a way, he was never our "president"...he was only the man who held us hostage for eight years, with the full cooperation of the people who let him do it.

It will be interesting to see what path he'll take after leaving the White House behind. Not that I really care much, besides hoping that one day his conscience catches up with him and he suffers a thousand miseries for each one he's caused.

[havocmom]

10. Yep. That was a commercial for Co-Dependents Anonymous

fer sur.