Bush is Broken, Frightened, And Plagued By Voices

[BlueJessamine]

Source: The Daily Beast

by Justin Frank

Psychiatrist Justin Frank, author of Bush on the Couch: Inside the Mind of the President, says Bush's final speech revealed a fragile man still fighting imaginary enemies to battle his inner demons.

The president’s Thursday night swan song was upstaged by a flock of geese that brought down an airliner—and was foiled by a true act of heroism that Bush couldn’t acknowledge because it wasn’t in the script. The lame duck appeared for one last time, however, peddling the same story he first tried to sell the American people just after 9/11. His demeanor was presidential, but his facial expression retained his famous smirk for one last viewing. And he remained unchanged by his experience, save for looking older.

George W. Bush gave the speech he had to give, because nobody else would say it for him. We have always needed special cues when listening to a Bush speech, the most essential being an understanding that he means the opposite of what he says. Thus, the catalog of successes that he listed, was in fact a litany of his failures; his claims of the purity of his patriotic heart, actually belied the destructiveness he inflicted on the nation and the world. As Samuel Johnson wrote, “patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.” In Bush’s case, the scoundrel’s greatest enemy is himself.

President Bush spent a lifetime trying to manage inner chaos, and he used many methods for doing so. For years this has included not listening to reality, and ignoring critics who might otherwise make him think, but the cumulative effect of all of this willed ignorance is that he has grown less and less able to think clearly. He resorts to living by his own reality, his own distortions. The more he tries to manage, the more he has to narrow his focus; keeping bad thoughts out of his consciousness requires donning psychological blinders—blinders that on Thursday night he revealed to the American people once again.



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[jody]

1. Lame Duck upstaged by Canadian Goose. n/t

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

2. Yeah, and Terri Schiavo is a master pianist.

Sorry, I have very little respect for anyone who makes a diagnosis by watching teevee.

[ronatchig]

3. i hope he's plagued

by hurled shoes, curses, and sadistic jail trustees for the rest of his miserable existence.

[G_j]

4. "the catalog of successes that he listed, was in fact a litany of his failures"

very simply..

[onethatcares]

5. I musta missed the "demeanor was presidential" part.

he was drunk or sedated.

[Hydra]

6. Bush doesn't care about all of that

He did as ordered, and did it well. Now he and the others go to Paraguay. Golden parachute to a grand vacation.

Who says crime doesn't pay?

[jazzjunkysue]

7. I have the book and it's really scarry. That man's psycho.

[busybl]

8. The voices are real George

It's us. The people of the United States. We are saying GET OUT.

btw, they are named /canada /geese, not canadian geese.

[DainBramaged]

9. Who gives a flying fuck through a rolling flaming donut

I wonder how this guy thinks the parents and families of all of the dead and injured this Jug Eared little fuck caused in the past 8 years feel right now. I hope Bushit is haunted by demons the rest of his waking days.

[orleans]

10. i'm waiting for the day i hear he put a gun to his head and pulled the trigger

it will happen the day that motherfucker grows a conscience

[eallen]

11. The pschiatrist gives him too much credit for introspection.

Never underestimate the power of compartmentalization and denial.

:hippie: