Re: Bush admitts failure

From: Fred Bloggs (nospam_at_nospam.com)
Date: 09/03/04 

Date: Fri, 03 Sep 2004 12:56:28 GMT

Bill Sloman wrote:
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> Such as Brian Butterworth detecting early signs of Alzheimer's in
> Ronald Regan's speech errors when Ronnie was running for his second
> term as president.
>
> His comment was picked up by British national newspapers at the time -
> which is how I heard about it.
>
> http://www.icn.ucl.ac.uk/members/Butte14/
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> at that time he was working on detecting early Alzheimer's - not one
> of his current activities.
>
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> Bill Sloman, Nijmegen

Bush has been diagnosed with a much more serious array of disorders. Dr.
Justin Frank is a prominent George Washington University psycho-analyst
is very mainstream science on this conclusion:

"A new book by a prominent Washington psychoanalyst says President
George W. Bush is a "paranoid meglomaniac" as well as a sadist and
"untreated alcoholic." The doctor's analysis appears to confirm earlier
reports the President may be emotionally unstable.

Dr. Justin Frank, writing in Bush on the Couch: Inside the Mind of the
President, also says the President has a ""lifelong streak of sadism,
ranging from childhood pranks (using firecrackers to explode frogs) to
insulting journalists, gloating over state executions ... [and] pumping
his fist gleefully before the bombing of Baghdad."

Even worse, Dr. Frank concludes, the President's years of heavy drinking
""may have affected his brain function - and his decision to quit
drinking without the help of a 12-step program [puts] him at far higher
risk of relapse."

Bush shows an inability to grieve - dating back to age 7, when his
sister died. "The family's reaction - no funeral and no mourning - set
in motion his life-long pattern of turning away from pain [and hiding]
behind antic behavior," says Frank, who says Bush may suffer from
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.

Other findings by Dr. Frank:

     * His mother, Barbara Bush - tabbed by some family friends as "the
one who instills fear" - had trouble connecting emotionally with her
son, Frank argues.
     * George H.W. Bush's "emotional and physical absence during his
son's youth triggered feelings of both adoration and revenge in George W."
* The President suffers from "character pathology," including
"grandiosity" and "megalomania" -- viewing himself, America and God as
interchangeable.

Dr. Frank has been a psychiatrist for 35 years and is on staff at George
Washington University. A Democrat, he once headed the Washington Chapter
of Physicians for Social Responsibility.

In an interview with The Washington Post's Richard Leiby, Dr. Frank said
he began to be concerned about Bush's behavior in 2002.

  "I was really very unsettled by him and I started watching everything
he did and reading what he wrote, and watching him on videotape. I felt
he was disturbed," Dr. Frank told Leiby. Bush, he said, "fits the
profile of a former drinker whose alcoholism has been arrested but not
treated."

Dr. Frank's expert recommendation? ""Our sole treatment option -- for
his benefit and for ours -- is to remove President Bush from office . .
. before it is too late."

White House spokesman Scott McClellan refused to comment on the
specifics of Dr. Frank's book.

"I don't do book reviews," McClellan said, even though he last week
recommended the latest book by the Washington Post's Bob Woodward to
reporters at the daily press briefing."

Bush is at the breaking point now.

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