Comments on: Shoot the Messenger (and Grab Me a Beer)

By: Leisureguy

Leisureguy — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

I got to thinking about what it must feel like to be George Bush these days, and it led to my writing the post I’ve linked to.

By: stAllio!

stAllio! — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

http://www.capitolhillblue.com.....7218.shtml
http://www.capitolhillblue.com.....7267.shtml

By: Carpoon

Carpoon — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Two things that are don’t exactly fit into this thread:

1) A good tactic to get people rallied against Roberts would be to point out that we don’t need another unqualified lackey in this government. Especially since we’ve just gotten rid of Brown, we don’t need more incompetence.

2) Has Laura Bush always looked like she entered a Nancy Reagan look-a-like contest? Looking at the picture a few posts down, she sure does look like she’s trying for that.

By: Gordon

Gordon — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Having been to every kind of meeting there is, here’s the straight scoop: Go to AA meetings to get sober. Go to NA meetings to get laid.

By: steve duncan

steve duncan — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

The S.O.B. isn’t getting on the couch, nor apologizing, nor changing his ways. Why or how he got the way he is may be interesting water cooler fodder but it won’t save the nation from this nutcase. Barring an act of premeditated violence or disease or fatal failure of some bodily organ we’re stuck with him til Jan-’09. The Democratic Party is not going to muster any legitimate strategy or do successful battle so get used to the lying, thieving and incompetent bullshit.

By: Michael Duran

Michael Duran — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

…and alcoholism would be present in someone to actually vote for him?

George Bush is just a face. What I would like to see is a psychological analysis of Dick Cheney, as it is his persona that more closely approximates the metaphorical persona of the American State.

The Coropration (Movie - Jennifer Abbot) had an interesting sequence DSM-ing a corporation as a spoof on the legal protections that corporations receive under law, which treats them as individual people. I think the Dx was psychopathic personality disorder.

By: pam

pam — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Really, Jane, your nephew would be appalled. :o)

By: firedoglake

firedoglake — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Thanks, Loren. Yes the psychology of addiction is much more developed now than it was in years past and I am sure that at some time someone is going to lay GWB wide open over all of this in a way that makes him a virtual archetype by which all others are judged.

And nadine — you are right. There are many, many fourteen year-olds who are the very model of emotinal maturity next to GWB. I do apologize.

By: Loren

Loren — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Jane, this is an excellent piece of writing. I knew GW back in his baseball days and had similar questions about his personality.

Sigmund Freud teamed up with a former aid to Woodrow Wilson, William Bulitt, to write a psychological bio of the WW1 President. A similar work on GW would be helpful.

Unfortunately for the United States, the damage of having someone with a low EQ has been pretty great. We have a heck of a hole to dig out and there probably will be more before his term is over. I think George W is bright but uneducated and untreated. What a dangerous combination for all of us.

By: nadine

nadine — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

i think you need to apologize to all of the fourteen year olds out there who are more mature than our president.