Posted on 05/15/2007 2:11:08 PM PDT by RatherBiased.com
Is President Bush mentally ill? Sharon Begley is a senior editor for science at Newsweek, which apparently entitled her to conduct a tired psychoanalysis of President Bush and his state of denial about the war in Iraq, suggested earlier in his life by his comforting his mother as his sister Robin died of leukemia at age three, and his alcohol abuse as an adult. < snip >
In an article titled "The Truths We Want to Deny," Begley, a longtime Newsweek writer overcame the awkwardness of diagnosing mental illness from a distance:
Denying the evidence of your eyes is the most extreme form of the coping mechanism called denial. But denial comes in milder forms as well. Parents refuse to believe their child is on drugs; that baggie under his bed contained oregano. A husband maintains his wife cannot be cheating; those late nights she spends with a friend are purely platonic. A wife denies that her husband is gay; he's just been too tired for sex with her these last few years.
And a president who insists that a war will succeed despite setback after setback? It's risky to put a politician on the couch, but that has not kept President Bush's critics from charging that he is "in a state of denial" about the situation in Iraq, as Sen. Harry Reid said last month. USA Today editorialized that Bush is "in denial about the insurgency that has plunged [Iraq] into civil war."
This could all be dismissed as psychobabble, except for one thing. Psychology researchers, including some who advise politicians, have reached the same conclusion."I do think there is denial on Bush's part in his running of the war," says Kerry Sulkowicz, clinical professor of psychiatry at New York University Medical Center.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...
I notice that Congress had to save us from the menace of unsafe Mexican trucks, which the administration was apparently happy to allow on a “trial” basis. Would the deaths resulting from accidents caused by faulty trucks or poor driving also have been only on a “trial” basis.
Kim Philby thought until the day he died that history would vindicate him.
I’ve gotten very pessimistic about what I can expect from President Bush and his administration. The Newsweek explanation may be as good an explanation as any. I’m ready to listen to others.
Sounds like a MODO wannabe. The wife is cheating and the husband is gay? How about the husband is cheating and the wife is gay. Man hating left-wing drivel.
Mark my words: In 10 years, every personality type will be labeled as a type of disorder that can be treated with medication.
Could this be Dean’s brain doc., the one who says it’s alright to do a primal scream when running for President?
But it was ok then. Lincloln had a touch of teh ghey.
The revisionist historians told me so.
The left is really beneath contempt. Now, just as for Russians in the days of Stalin and Kruschev, if you oppose them you must be “mentally ill.”
This affliction not only effects Democrats, but many Republicans who drink John Birch flavored Kook Aide as well..
..but there is hope...
Just take 10 doses of reality-co each day and your delusions will go away in 8-10 weeks.
Bubba looks like he’s having sexual relations with that mic.
She’s a little late. Someone already wrote “Bush on the Couch” right after 2000.
Only if being a Globalist is a mental disorder.
“He understands the threat and is willing to do something about it.”
Something, yes. Secure our borders, no.
Where did all this protectionist nonsense come from?
But for the jobs created by NAFTA, the ENTIRE nation of Mexico would be in the US, instead of what is here.
And if a Mexican truck can pass as US inspection, the driver can pass a US driving test, and they have liability insurance -— they’d be no more or less dangerous than the people who drive domestically.
As opposed to JF sKerry’s pathological uncertainty, and BJ Clinton’s pathological lying.
Hey, I said something, not everything. :-)
“I’ve gotten very pessimistic about what I can expect from President Bush and his administration”
I’m only surprised anyone remains optomistic at all. But I can see we still have a few hangers on.
Robert W.Godwin, Ph.D is a clinical psychologist whose interdisciplinary work has focused on the relationship between contemporary psychoanalysis, chaos theory, and quantum physics.
Here are some of his comments about the mentally ill Left:
Tuesday, November 22, 2005
Through the Liberal Looking Gloss
As a continuation of yesterday’s post on the logopathology of the left—that is, their troubled relationship to language—I’ve put together a little glossary explaining the actual meaning of words and phrases used by the left.
For example, when they say ultra conservative, this actually means conservative. And when the MSM refer to a moderate conservative, they mean a liberal who is a Republican in name only, like Chuck Hagel. Of course, the MSM’s favorite Republican is John McCain, because he is a maverick, meaning that he holds a lot of positions that are to the left of his party. This is in contrast to Zell Miller, who is just an angry nut for holding positions to the right of his party.
The Democrats are the pro-choice party, meaning the party that wants to choose how to direct your retirement, where to send your children to school, and how best to spend your money.
When liberals accuse you of suppressing their freedom of speech, it means that you are criticizing them, or perhaps even censoring them. But when you censor conservatives or suppress their freedom of speech, it is called a speech code. Calling President Bush a liar is a courageous act of speaking truth to power, while criticizing the liberal stance on the war is questioning their patriotism.
Evil, of course, does not exist. George Bush, however, is evil. Speaking of things that don’t exist, there is no such thing as the liberal media. However, the conservative media are any media that are not liberal.
A homeless person is what you call a chronically mentally ill person during a Republican administration. Likewise, during a Democratic administration, deficit spending is investing in our children’s future. During a Republican administration it is called mortgaging our children’s future. Tax cuts involve stealing the government’s money in order to give it away to taxpayers.
Racial profiling refers to common sense police work in identifying likely suspects. Affirmative action refers to government enforced academic or occupational racial profiling. Similarly, civil rights are special rights for designated victims. A civil rights activist is a lobbyist for special rights for his ethnic victim group.
Blacks are people who are helpless victims without the support and assistance of white liberals. Black conservatives are people who are abused and victimized by the left for failing to be helpless.
Multiculturalism, of course, involves seeing beauty in all cultures but your own. Diversity is the philosophy that treasures neo-Marxists of all skin colors and sexual deviations. When a liberal uses the word tolerance, this actually means acceptance and celebration of differences. If you merely have acceptance, this means you are intolerant of differences. For example, if you only tolerate homosexuality, you are a homophobe.
A Vietnam war veteran is a baby killer, but a chicken hawk is a conservative who avoided being a baby killer in the 1960’s. But a war hero is a baby killer who opposes the Iraq war. A quagmire, of course, is any war opposed by liberals, especially if it is a defensive war and/or we are winning it. Otherwise, you will never hear the word “quagmire” used in human discourse.
Bilingual education involves the difficult achievement of learning nothing in two languages. It is often employed to teach illegal immigrants, who are undocumented Democratic voters. Feminism is the celebration of masculine women who have angrily overcome their femininity, femininity being another category of oppressed victimhood. Global warming is what is destroying the earth if it it isn’t first destroyed by global cooling.
Homosexuality is a genetically caused condition that renders one incapable of engaging in sexual relations with the opposite sex. Its opposite, heterosexuality, is an arbitrary gender identification caused by cultural conditioning. Similarly, there is no such thing as the homosexual lifestyle, while queer studies departments engage in the study of the homosexual lifestyle. Sex education is a leftist philosophy promulgated to children that reduces human sexuality to animal sexuality.
Moral relativism is the absolute belief that no beliefs are absolute. Pornography is a type of expression that is protected by the first amendment, while religion, especially Christian religion, is a dangerous type of expression from which we are protected by the first amendment.
Another definition of speech codes is that they are restrictions on language designed to protect liberals from the first amendment. Separation of church and state means state hostility to religious expression. Finally, separation of crotch and state was Bill Clinton’s defense against charges that he had lied about having sex with an intern. ~ Robert W.Godwin [aka Gagdad Bob]
posted by Gagdad Bob at 11/22/2005 08:00:00 AM 5 comments
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So LAME even a caveman could beat them.
30 million ain’t enough for ya? Did you see the vote count?
That’s what NAFTA was suppose to do. It did the opposite.
Even the Pope came out yesterday and said NAFTA and CAFTA were causing a greater divide between the poor and the rich in Latin and Central America.
Where the hell have you been/ I'm serious!
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