Posted on 07/05/2009 12:28:01 AM PDT by Steelfish
Now, Sarah’s Folly
By MAUREEN DOWD Published: July 4, 2009
WASHINGTON
Sarah Palin showed on Friday that in one respect at least, she is qualified to be president.
Caribou Barbie is one nutty puppy.
Usually we don’t find that exquisite battiness in our leaders until they’ve been battered by sordid scandals like Watergate (Nixon), gnawing problems like Vietnam (L.B.J.), or scary threats like biological terrorism (Cheney).
When Lyndon Johnson was president, some of his staff began to think of him as “a sick man,” as Bill Moyers told Arthur Schlesinger Jr. Moyers and his fellow Johnson aide Dick Goodwin even began reading up on mental illness — Bill on manic depression and Dick on paranoia.
And so it was, Todd Purdum learned, as he traveled Alaska reporting on Palin for Vanity Fair, that the governor’s erratic and egoistic behavior has been a source of concern for people there.
“Several told me, independently of one another,” Purdum writes, “that they had consulted the definition of ‘narcissistic personality disorder’ in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders — ‘a pervasive pattern of grandiosity (in fantasy or behavior), need for admiration, and lack of empathy’ — and thought it fit her perfectly.”
The White House can drive its inhabitants loopy. So at least Sarah Palin is ahead of the curve on that one.
As Alaskans settled in to enjoy holiday salmon bakes and the post-solstice thaw, their governor had a solipsistic meltdown so strange it made Sparky Sanford look like a model of stability.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Using the DSM for diagnosing ones associates, friend or business. That is rich. Let me try. Let me. Maureen Dowd is bipolar type II. This is easier than I thought.
Sounds like a regurgitated scene out of "Caine Mutiny" ... please MoDo, regurgitate some more .... /shrug
One word. Sounds like...runt.
Cupid Stunt?
Can’t Understand Normal Thinking
I stopped reading at Maureen Dead.
I love these threads, if only for the CZJ photos!
But I didn’t recall what Mo Dowd looked like so I did a search. Yikes!
No wonder Mike dumped the frump!
See you next tuesday?
Bingo!
Don't you mean "Psychiatric Breakdown Mode"?
Regards,
I dunno, MODO is getting pretty long in the tooth, so there may be some mold involved too...
Would you expect anything less from this catty, insecure bitch? I mean, for God’s sake, she couldn’t even hold on to the incontinent Michael Douglas. He’s older than the dirt he sleeps in.
I assume they were looking up narcissistic disorder because of Obama, correct, Ms Dowd?
You wish she was one nutty puppy, because your type can’t understand anything else...and that will be your downfall!
That loony B*tch has been attacking Palin unmercifully since she was tapped for VP and this will not doubt give her ammo to write yet another hit piece.
While NO ONE but the moonbats take here seriously, she has been elevated to "Star Status" by the left cuz she poses as a Republican.
All I can say to everyone, is why not take a deep breath and give this some time to play out before joining in on the vultures who are picking her bones already as I am CONFIDENT, Sarah is far from having expired, and she is in fact, going to be a much greater force for the Liberal-Loons and RINO's to contend with.
ROTFLOL These people have absolutely nothing to say. They all bleat the same tune. No wonder how country is trouble.
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