Bush's Obscene Tirades Rattle White House Aides
This is a repost from www.capitalhillblue.com
I put it behind a cut cuase it's kinda big.
By DOUG THOMPSON
Aug 25, 2005
While President George W. Bush travels around the country in a
last-ditch effort to sell his Iraq war, White House aides scramble
frantically behind the scenes to hide the dark mood of an increasingly
angry leader who unleashes obscenity-filled outbursts at anyone who
dares disagree with him.
"I'm not meeting again with that goddamned bitch," Bush screamed at
aides who suggested he meet again with Cindy Sheehan, the
war-protesting mother whose son died in Iraq. "She can go to hell as
far as I'm concerned!"
Bush flashes the bird, something aides say he does often and has been
doing since his days as governor of Texas.
Bush, administration aides confide, frequently explodes into tirades
over those who protest the war, calling them "motherfucking traitors."
He reportedly was so upset over Veterans of Foreign Wars members who
wore "bullshit protectors" over their ears during his speech to their
annual convention that he told aides to "tell those VFW assholes that
I'll never speak to them again is they can't keep their members under
control."
White House insiders say Bush is growing increasingly bitter over
mounting opposition to his war in Iraq. Polls show a vast majority of
Americans now believe the war was a mistake and most doubt the
President's honesty.
"Who gives a flying fuck what the polls say," he screamed at a recent
strategy meeting. "I'm the President and I'll do whatever I goddamned
please. They don't know shit."
Bush, whiles setting up for a photo op for signing the recent CAFTA
bill, flipped an extended middle finger to reporters. Aides say the
President often "flips the bird" to show his displeasure and tells
aides who disagree with him to "go to hell" or to "go fuck yourself."
His habit of giving people the finger goes back to his days as Texas
governor, aides admit, and videos of him doing so before press
conferences were widely circulated among TV stations during those
days. A recent video showing him shooting the finger to reporters
while walking also recently surfaced.
Bush's behavior, according to prominent Washington psychiatrist, Dr.
Justin Frank, author of "Bush on the Couch: Inside the Mind of the
President," is all too typical of an alcohol-abusing bully who is
ruled by fear.
To see that fear emerges, Dr. Frank says, all one has to do is
confront the President. "To actually directly confront him in a clear
way, to bring him out, so you would really see the bully, and you
would also see the fear," he says.
Dr. Frank, in his book, speculates that Bush, an alcoholic who brags
that he gave up booze without help from groups like Alcoholics
Anonymous, may be drinking again.
"Two questions that the press seems particularly determined to ignore
have hung silently in the air since before Bush took office," Dr.
Frank says. "Is he still drinking? And if not, is he impaired by all
the years he did spend drinking? Both questions need to be addressed
in any serious assessment of his psychological state."
Last year, Capitol Hill Blue learned the White House physician
prescribed anti-depressant drugs for the President to control what
aides called "violent mood swings." As Dr. Frank also notes: "In
writing about Bush's halting appearance in a press conference just
before the start of the Iraq War, Washington Post media critic Tom
Shales speculated that 'the president may have been ever so slightly
medicated.'"
Dr. Frank explains Bush's behavior as all-to-typical of an alcoholic
who is still in denial:
"The pattern of blame and denial, which recovering alcoholics work so
hard to break, seems to be ingrained in the alcoholic personality;
it's rarely limited to his or her drinking," he says. "The habit of
placing blame and denying responsibility is so prevalent in George W.
Bush's personal history that it is apparently triggered by even the
mildest threat."
Source:
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_7267.shtml
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"So, likewise, a passionate attachment of one nation for another
produces a variety of evils. Sympathy for the favorite nation,
facilitating the illusion of an imaginary common interest in cases
where
no real common interest exists, and infusing into one the enmities of
the other, betrays the former into a participation in the quarrels and
wars of the latter . . . It leads also to concessions to the favorite
nation of privileges denied to others . . .
"Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence (I conjure you to
believe me, fellow-citizens) the jealousy of a free people ought to be
constantly awake, since history and experience prove that foreign
influence is one of the most baneful foes of republican government . .
.
Excessive partiality for one foreign nation and excessive dislike of
another cause those whom they actuate to see danger only on one side,
and serve to veil and even second the arts of influence on the other.
Real patriots who may resist the intrigues of the favorite are liable
to
become suspected and odious, while its tools and dupes usurp the
applause and confidence of the people to surrender their interests . .
.
"Nothing is more essential than that permanent, inveterate
antipathies against particular nations and passionate attachments for
others should be excluded, and that in place of them just and amicable
feelings toward all should be cultivated. The nation which indulges
toward another an habitual hatred or an habitual fondness is in some
degree a slave. It is a slave to its animosity or to its affection,
either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and its
interest."
-- President George Washington
Farewell Address
September 26, 1796
I put it behind a cut cuase it's kinda big.
By DOUG THOMPSON
Aug 25, 2005
While President George W. Bush travels around the country in a
last-ditch effort to sell his Iraq war, White House aides scramble
frantically behind the scenes to hide the dark mood of an increasingly
angry leader who unleashes obscenity-filled outbursts at anyone who
dares disagree with him.
"I'm not meeting again with that goddamned bitch," Bush screamed at
aides who suggested he meet again with Cindy Sheehan, the
war-protesting mother whose son died in Iraq. "She can go to hell as
far as I'm concerned!"
Bush flashes the bird, something aides say he does often and has been
doing since his days as governor of Texas.
Bush, administration aides confide, frequently explodes into tirades
over those who protest the war, calling them "motherfucking traitors."
He reportedly was so upset over Veterans of Foreign Wars members who
wore "bullshit protectors" over their ears during his speech to their
annual convention that he told aides to "tell those VFW assholes that
I'll never speak to them again is they can't keep their members under
control."
White House insiders say Bush is growing increasingly bitter over
mounting opposition to his war in Iraq. Polls show a vast majority of
Americans now believe the war was a mistake and most doubt the
President's honesty.
"Who gives a flying fuck what the polls say," he screamed at a recent
strategy meeting. "I'm the President and I'll do whatever I goddamned
please. They don't know shit."
Bush, whiles setting up for a photo op for signing the recent CAFTA
bill, flipped an extended middle finger to reporters. Aides say the
President often "flips the bird" to show his displeasure and tells
aides who disagree with him to "go to hell" or to "go fuck yourself."
His habit of giving people the finger goes back to his days as Texas
governor, aides admit, and videos of him doing so before press
conferences were widely circulated among TV stations during those
days. A recent video showing him shooting the finger to reporters
while walking also recently surfaced.
Bush's behavior, according to prominent Washington psychiatrist, Dr.
Justin Frank, author of "Bush on the Couch: Inside the Mind of the
President," is all too typical of an alcohol-abusing bully who is
ruled by fear.
To see that fear emerges, Dr. Frank says, all one has to do is
confront the President. "To actually directly confront him in a clear
way, to bring him out, so you would really see the bully, and you
would also see the fear," he says.
Dr. Frank, in his book, speculates that Bush, an alcoholic who brags
that he gave up booze without help from groups like Alcoholics
Anonymous, may be drinking again.
"Two questions that the press seems particularly determined to ignore
have hung silently in the air since before Bush took office," Dr.
Frank says. "Is he still drinking? And if not, is he impaired by all
the years he did spend drinking? Both questions need to be addressed
in any serious assessment of his psychological state."
Last year, Capitol Hill Blue learned the White House physician
prescribed anti-depressant drugs for the President to control what
aides called "violent mood swings." As Dr. Frank also notes: "In
writing about Bush's halting appearance in a press conference just
before the start of the Iraq War, Washington Post media critic Tom
Shales speculated that 'the president may have been ever so slightly
medicated.'"
Dr. Frank explains Bush's behavior as all-to-typical of an alcoholic
who is still in denial:
"The pattern of blame and denial, which recovering alcoholics work so
hard to break, seems to be ingrained in the alcoholic personality;
it's rarely limited to his or her drinking," he says. "The habit of
placing blame and denying responsibility is so prevalent in George W.
Bush's personal history that it is apparently triggered by even the
mildest threat."
Source:
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_7267.shtml
Agree with this post? Please consider PASSING IT ON!.
"So, likewise, a passionate attachment of one nation for another
produces a variety of evils. Sympathy for the favorite nation,
facilitating the illusion of an imaginary common interest in cases
where
no real common interest exists, and infusing into one the enmities of
the other, betrays the former into a participation in the quarrels and
wars of the latter . . . It leads also to concessions to the favorite
nation of privileges denied to others . . .
"Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence (I conjure you to
believe me, fellow-citizens) the jealousy of a free people ought to be
constantly awake, since history and experience prove that foreign
influence is one of the most baneful foes of republican government . .
.
Excessive partiality for one foreign nation and excessive dislike of
another cause those whom they actuate to see danger only on one side,
and serve to veil and even second the arts of influence on the other.
Real patriots who may resist the intrigues of the favorite are liable
to
become suspected and odious, while its tools and dupes usurp the
applause and confidence of the people to surrender their interests . .
.
"Nothing is more essential than that permanent, inveterate
antipathies against particular nations and passionate attachments for
others should be excluded, and that in place of them just and amicable
feelings toward all should be cultivated. The nation which indulges
toward another an habitual hatred or an habitual fondness is in some
degree a slave. It is a slave to its animosity or to its affection,
either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and its
interest."
-- President George Washington
Farewell Address
September 26, 1796