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.
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and yet advertisers continue to advertise on newsweek.
Perhaps this science editor could support a resurgence in phrenology.
But you have to forgive her, like all good communists, she supports the “science” that those who oppose communism are mentally ill.
Newsweek should be forbidden as ANY kind of source material for academic works.
It is too easy. A mental duel with liberalism is like shooting puppies with a machinegun...
Bush deserves this for being nice to all these leftist maggots.
YOU MUST BE SICK !!!!!
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Totally true! I'm an MD, and I have never met a single psychitrist that didn't have some kind of psychologic disese. My best friend is a psychiatrist and she thinks people go into the field to help them understand what's wrong with themselves. BTW, remember when all of those psychitrists in the '60s certified Goldwater as "insane"?
I wonder if she wants to put all the soldiers in Iraq who believe in their mission on the couch.
Good lord, I get so tired of such idiots.
Guys, this kind of stuff wouldn't have been so irritating if Republicans were still in charge...I wish conservatives would've gotten out and voted last November!!
I would say to this pundit “ fool that which you accuse in others you are guity of yourself!”
I used to look forward to reading Sharon Begley’s science columns. Sad to see she’s come down with BDS. Get will soon, Sharon.
Love these threads, good troll bait!
Aw shucks, I guess a moronic member of the great unwashed such as myself has no choice but to trust the ANALisys of a pompus academic elitist.
These people are beyond sickening. None of them seemed too concerned about Bill's pathological lying and history of physically/sexually abusing women. Nor did they spend 30 seconds delving into the dysfunctional environment he was "nurtured" in.
“Yes, I’m optimistic. I believe in our nation. I believe in the greatness of the American people.. and I understand history enough to know that most of the challenges we face now are small in relation to the challenges we’ve overcome in the past.
How can one not be optimistic? ::rant off::”
My comment regarding lack of optimism was directed solely as regards GWB. But clearly you overlooked that in order to focus on diminishing what WE already know and understand..... Bush’s Open Borders and Amnesty policies will destroy our national security and sovereignty, when more than a few brave men have fought and died to keep it so. Hell, they’re still fighting for it...while the backdoor is intentionally left open. Makes sense to you?
“Hell, it was Ronald Reagan who brought us the amnesty that people fear now”
Hopefully, we’re smart enough not to make the same mistake twice.
She may also be the loudest opponent of intelligent design in the media.
Where did this “Americans last” nonsense come from? Why do you think this country exists?
“But for the jobs created by NAFTA, the ENTIRE nation of Mexico would be in the US, instead of what is here.”
Actually, a case can be made that NAFTA INCREASED illegal immigration.
“And if a Mexican truck can pass as US inspection, the driver can pass a US driving test, and they have liability insurance - theyd be no more or less dangerous than the people who drive domestically.”
No one believes our government intends to actually do this or is capable of carrying it out.
Wonder how sales are??
Pray for W and Our Troops
So, you concede. How nice. This sort of response is common from the ignorant.
“We are always willing to be trade partners but never trade patsies.” - Ronald Reagan.
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