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Wangja

Joined: 17 May 2004
Location: Seoul, Yongsan

Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2005 8:16 pm Post subject: The Bush era is over!

Well, 1,207 days to go but ...

http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_7438.shtml

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That sound you hear is the stampede of Republicans running like hell from George W. Bush.

The GOP faithful head for the exits, finally aware that close association with the President and his failed Presidency could spell doom for them in the midterm elections next year.

Conservatives lead the rats off the sinking ship. They��ve had enough to Bush��s big-spending, budget-busting antics. ......

Pligganease

Joined: 14 Sep 2004
Location: The deep south...

Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2005 8:19 pm Post subject:

They only hate him for his freedom.

EFLtrainer

Joined: 04 May 2005

Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2005 8:28 pm Post subject:

The source is obviously anti-Bush, but he backs it with quotes from the Washington Post, as well. Why am I not surprised:

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Bush's Depression: Been There, Reported That
By DOUG THOMPSON
Sep 28, 2005, 06:38
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Depressed and demoralized White House staffers say working at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue is ��life in a hellhole�� as they try to deal with a sullen, moody President whose temper tantrums drive staffers crying from the room and bring the business of running the country to a halt.
��It��s like working in an insane asylum,�� says one White House aide. ��People walk around like they��re in a trance. We��re the dance band on the Titanic, playing out our last songs to people who know the ship is sinking and none of us are going to make it.��

Increasing reports from the usually tight-lipped staff of the Bush Administration talk of a West Wing dominated by gallows humor, long faces and a depression that has all but paralyzed daily routines.

��If POTUS (President of the United States) is on the road you can breathe a little easier for the day, knowing that those with him are catching hell and the mood will be a little easier in the Wing (West Wing) until he returns,�� says another aide.

Capitol Hill Blue began reporting on Bush��s mood swings and erratic behavior in June 2004 but the stories of an erratic, moody President circulating within the White House were ignored by the ��mainstream media�� until recently. Now more and more outlets have begun to report on what many administration staffers say is a President out of control.

http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_7445.shtml

EFLtrainer

Joined: 04 May 2005

Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2005 8:42 pm Post subject:

Yikes!!

http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_7430.shtml

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This web site reported last year that the White House physician had placed the President on anti-depressants. If Bush is mixing alcohol and anti-depressant drugs his judgment – which is already suspect – is impaired even more.

��The President all too often is out of control,�� a White House source tells me. ��People are afraid to risk his anger by telling him things he does not want to hear. Newsweek magazine reported the same thing last week in their story: ��How Bush Blew It.��

The Enquirer interviewed Dr. Justin Frank, a Washington D.C. psychiatrist and author of Bush On The Couch: Inside The Mind Of The President.

��I do think that Bush is drinking again,�� Frank said. ��Alcoholics who are not in any program, like the President, have a hard time when stress gets to be great. I think it's a concern that Bush disappears during times of stress. He spends so much time on his ranch. It's very frightening.��

Dr. Frank is a highly-respected psychiatrist at George Washington University and his book about the President��s problems has been praised by other psychiatric experts. We interviewed him last year for the stories about the President��s deteriorating mental state and his conclusions confirm Bush is losing it.

Yikes again! Would like to see better confirmation...

http://www.capitolhillblue.com/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi?archive=33&num=5141

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President George W. Bush is taking anti-depressant drugs to control his erratic behavior, depression and paranoia, Capitol Hill Blue has learned.

The prescription drugs, administered by Col. Richard J. Tubb, the White House physician, can impair the President��s mental faculties and decrease both his physical capabilities and his ability to respond to a crisis, administration aides admit privately.

��It��s a double-edged sword,�� says one aide. ��We can��t have him flying off the handle at the slightest provocation but we also need a President who is alert mentally.��

Tubb prescribed the anti-depressants after a clearly-upset Bush stormed off stage on July 8, refusing to answer reporters' questions about his relationship with indicted Enron executive Kenneth J. Lay.

��Keep those motherfuckers away from me,�� he screamed at an aide backstage. ��If you can��t, I��ll find someone who can.��

Bush��s mental stability has become the topic of Washington whispers in recent months. Capitol Hill Blue first reported on June 4 about increasing concern among White House aides over the President��s wide mood swings and obscene outbursts.

Although GOP loyalists dismissed the reports an anti-Bush propaganda, the reports were later confirmed by prominent George Washington University psychiatrist Dr. Justin Frank in his book Bush on the Couch: Inside the Mind of the President. Dr. Frank diagnosed the President as a ��paranoid meglomaniac�� and ��untreated alcoholic�� whose ��lifelong streak of sadism, ranging from childhood pranks (using firecrackers to explode frogs) to insulting journalists, gloating over state executions and pumping his hand gleefully before the bombing of Baghdad�� showcase Bush��s instabilities.

Tiger Beer

Joined: 07 Feb 2003

Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2005 8:43 pm Post subject: Re: The Bush era is over!

Wangja wrote:

Well, 1,207 days to go but ...

http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_7438.shtml

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100% true on the fiscal conservatives and anyone who knows anything economics related.. I don't think we've had anyone in history destroy our economic soundness more than the Bush administration - and its going to take a LONG time to fix!

Even 'the Economist' gave its endorsement to Kerry prior to the last election. Soon it'll be at the forefront of concerns once the 'intense focus on terrorism and only terrorism' subsides. How Bush kept the media and voters focused on that and to the hell with absolutely everything domestic for the last 5 years is beyond me.

Pligganease

Joined: 14 Sep 2004
Location: The deep south...

Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2005 9:28 pm Post subject:

I was reading all of these articles, and I am definitley not saying that I disagree with any of it. However, soemthing has to be said about everyone diving headfirst into a website that actually cites the National Enquirer as a source... This is a direct quote from one of EFLTrainer's links. According to the National Enquirer, President George W. Bush, an alcoholic, is drinking again. I would agree with this and I would be willing to bet that he's using the yayo as well, but citing the Enquirer is a little bit of a stretch...

Red

Joined: 05 Jul 2004

Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2005 10:39 pm Post subject:

I know this is just anecdotal, but I've never come across a paleo-conservative that didn't wince at the thought of a neo-con like Bush.

TheUrbanMyth

Joined: 28 Jan 2003
Location: Retired

Posted: Fri Sep 30, 2005 2:36 am Post subject:

Pligganease wrote:

I was reading all of these articles, and I am definitley not saying that I disagree with any of it. However, soemthing has to be said about everyone diving headfirst into a website that actually cites the National Enquirer as a source... Shocked

This is a direct quote from one of EFLTrainer's links.

According to the National Enquirer, President George W. Bush, an alcoholic, is drinking again.

I would agree with this and I would be willing to bet that he's using the yayo as well, but citing the Enquirer is a little bit of a stretch...

It wouldn't matter. If there is the slightest possibility that Bush's character can be further attacked, the left can be counted on to do it. Remember Dan Rather? It doesn't matter how shaky the evidence.

Pligganease

Joined: 14 Sep 2004
Location: The deep south...

Posted: Fri Sep 30, 2005 7:01 am Post subject:

TheUrbanMyth wrote:

Pligganease wrote:

Hahahahahahaha.... True that.

Bulsajo

Joined: 16 Jan 2003

Posted: Fri Sep 30, 2005 7:14 am Post subject:

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According to the National Enquirer, President George W. Bush, an alcoholic, is drinking again.

I would agree with this and I would be willing to bet that he's using the yayo as well, but citing the Enquirer is a little bit of a stretch...

Just so long as he doesn't get his meat missile smoked...

EFLtrainer

Joined: 04 May 2005

Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2005 2:48 am Post subject:

TheUrbanMyth wrote:

I don't think anyone is taking this thread too seriously, but the Washington Post was also cited as a source. Too bad the neggies on this thread ignore the obvious.

And, gosh, I think you are right: if the prezzie is doing psycho druggies and boozin, we shouldn't worry about it! If there's something to this that can be verified it'll be in the mainstream media. A supporter of then Right callingthe LEFT a kettle where character assisination is concerned... laughable.

The Bobster

Joined: 15 Jan 2003

Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2005 9:12 am Post subject:

Pligganease wrote:

According to the National Enquirer, President George W. Bush, an alcoholic, is drinking again..

Alcoholism is not a disease,in itslef.It's a symptom of an individual trying to solve life problems (family, emotional, spiritual) by means that don't work. By all accounts that are in the public record about Bush, he never attacked those problems that exist within his psyche - he never even tried.

If he had made an attempt to tackle those things, I'd applaud him for the strength to would require to put a glass of beer to his mouth after having done so. I cannot applaud.

His response after 9/11 was the signature of a man of weak character. "Let's kick some muslim ass that might have been involved in this, and then we will kick some more ass next door just because we feel like it."

Again, I cannot appluad ...

Joo Rip Gwa Rhhee

Joined: 25 May 2003

Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2005 7:27 pm Post subject:

The Bobster said:

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His response after 9/11 was the signature of a man of weak character. "Let's kick some muslim ass that might have been involved in this, and then we will kick some more ass next door just because we feel like it."

TheUrbanMyth

Joined: 28 Jan 2003
Location: Retired

Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2005 12:55 am Post subject:

The Bobster wrote:

Pligganease wrote:

According to the National Enquirer, President George W. Bush, an alcoholic, is drinking again..

(1) Alcoholism is not a disease,in itslef.It's a symptom of an individual trying to solve life problems (family, emotional, spiritual) by means that don't work. By all accounts that are in the public record about Bush, he never attacked those problems that exist within his psyche - he never even tried.

If he had made an attempt to tackle those things, I'd applaud him for the strength to would require to put a glass of beer to his mouth after having done so. I cannot applaud.

(2)His response after 9/11 was the signature of a man of weak character. "Let's kick some muslim ass that might have been involved in this, and then we will kick some more ass next door just because we feel like it."

Again, I cannot appluad ...

Numbers are mine.

1. Incorrect. By all accounts he stopped drinking when he was 40. This would imply that he faced whatever problems "exist in his psyche"

2. "might have been involved"? You know, I think you are right. OBL is probably just a figment of our collective imagination.
Regardless that was not his response and you know it as well as I do. Afghanistan refused to hand over OBL and his crew and that's why America went to war with them. Had they given OBL up, it is likely the Taliban would still be in power today.

EFLtrainer

Joined: 04 May 2005

Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2005 2:37 am Post subject:

TheUrbanMyth wrote:

1. Incorrect. By all accounts he stopped drinking when he was 40. This would imply that he faced whatever problems "exist in his psyche"

Not so. Changing behavior can be done without changing underlying causes. However, personality is considered to be relatively permanent thing so behavior can be changed but it will not likely last if the underlying causes aren't dealt with. Even then, vigilance is required. Anyone put into highly stressful conditions is much more likely to backslide. Bush doing this? Not likely.

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