A Sobering Thought On Bush's Meltdown Last Night

[ThomWV]

As many of you saw last night, given about 30 minutes of straight bad news about the actual state of the nation Bush becomes irrational. It has been well reported that he is shielded from the outside world, boy in a bubble is the analogy that is being used. Think how this man would react in another immediate crises where, if events were honestly reported to him, last night's debates gave indication that we could not expect him to make sane judgments. Is it possible that this is the reason he disappeared from the face of the earth from mid-morning until mid-evening on 9/11? Was there an earlier meltdown on the day of 9/11 similar to what we saw last night?

Put him in this situtation, let him go to a place where he feels comfortable and confident, feed him a stream of bad news for about a half hour, then stand back and watch him throw a temper tantrum like a spoiled child. Happend last night, same thing may have happened on 9/11.

This man should not be trusted to walk a dog, let alone lead a Nation.

[gmoney]

1. I'm more scared that he'll meltdown when he loses Nov 2

He's likely to become unhinged and do something DRASTIC to save face and try to stay in power.

I would NOT put it past him to bomb one of our own cities or any other type of "wag the dog" scenario, or just proclaim martial law.

He will NOT go gracefully...

[realFedUp]

5. I'd get documentation of all the holes in the walls at the WH

missing W keys (that didn't actually take place)
will be nothing to the destruction the Bushies
will leave in their wake.

[BeatleBoot]

6. Your link to get an FW sticker isn't working

I gotta have one of those!!

[kohodog]

9. I want one too! link broken.

[gmoney]

16. works on this end... weird

www.cafepress.com/fwstickers

[Philostopher]

11. I've had this idea in my head since 9/11.

That when driven to desperation, they might blow up a sports stadium on a weekday, when there's no sporting event going on. There would be few people there, and since most stadiums are surrounded by parking garages, and even if people use those garages for work parking, they're usually not in their cars. So what if a few homeless people get ground to dust? Who'd care? If anybody cared, they wouldn't be homeless, right? (/sarcasm) But it would, most importantly, scare people. With a minimum of collateral damage.

I expected something in a swing state -- Cleveland or Cincinnati, specifically. A place where they could get good news coverage, scare a lot of potential voters for the opposition or non-voters, and not only that -- an excuse to declare martial law in a state that might otherwise not go their way.

I don't know -- I know it's paranoia on my part. Still, it's hard to see how they'd resist -- they could make people thing things like 'wow, I was just there a couple of weeks ago -- the world is certainly a dangerous place! How lucky I was that those brown people didn't blow up the stadium while I was there!'

I know. I know. I can't help it, though -- it's been stuck in the back of my brain, in the recycling bin along with the tinfoil hat, for a couple of years now.

[republicansarewhores]

12. Malloy said it best last week...

"I wouldn't trust this man to lead me into a convenience store".

Watching Kerry and Bush last night was like watching a statesman and a snake oil salesman.

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[JuniorPlankton]

2. so true

It's scary

[rfkrocks]

3. the more I see of *the more worried I become

Good point about walking the dog-I see a delusional person, obsessed with himself yet isolated, ignorant not curious and arrogant not humble-I can't believe he is president-He reminds me of Kaiser Wilhelm the 2nd who helped start the great war-militaristic and arrogant and always looking for personal slight-a believer in absolute power-4 more years will be even bleaker-yikes!

[tedzbear]

4. It's scary knowing he has his finger on the nuclear football.

Very scary.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

7. The elephant in the room --

The emphasis of the * Campaign (unchallenged by a single Democrat) is *'s leadership after 9/11. No one will ask why he didn't take immediate action when told about the attacks, but set still for seven minutes and then had time for a 45 minute photo-op as people were being killed. Nor will anyone ask why the Secret Service didn't act to protect him once the attacks began.

For that matter, no one will ask the following question:

"Mr. President, did you, the vice president, the secretary of defense or any other member of your administration or family know that the attacks were going to happen yet let them happen, or took part in either creating, planning, enabling or executing the attacks?"

That's the question I would have like to have heard last night as the first question.

[glarius]

8. Why is everyone pretending Bush acted normally ?

I was amazed that after the debate,I heard NOBODY remark on the fact that Bush's face seemed about to explode at times...His chin was shaking, lip curling, eyes blinking....A man struggling mightily to not fall apart....The fact that he didn't roll his eyes as he did in the first debate seemed to reassure the pundits that Bush was under control....I was honestly thinking that he was going to break down right on the stage before our eyes...I've always suspected that he wasn't seen for such a long time after the 9/11 attacks because he had fallen apart and they were trying to pull him together.....This scary man being the leader of the most powerful nation on earth is a very frightening thought!

[PurityOfEssence]

10. Just fix him another grain alcohol and rainwater, Mandrake; he'll be fine

I know I feel safe...

[MGKrebs]

13. There might even be a 'crisis' during the next debate.

Shrubbie's handlers will be desperate to make a good showing. If he starts to freak out again, they might have to find Osama or attack somebody. Would they go so far as to skip the debate? Or is it more likely that they will just want to get a "breaking news" scroll across the bottom of the screen so that nobody pays attention to the brat-in-chief?

[neebob]

14. I don't understand why people think he's melting down, falling apart,

drunk, medicated, or terribly ill. Every time I see him, including last night, he looks his usual conceited, shameless, lying, thoughtless, personality-disordered self. Yes, he has a short temper, and it shows when he's challenged. Yes, he has handlers and probably isn't well informed, but he knows enough to concede - to his advantage, with those who want to believe he's a good person with a conscience - that some people disagree with him. He must have a health problem that would make his supporters think twice about voting for him, or he'd have taken his physical - but he's definitely still standing on his own steam.

He disappeared on 9/11 because that was the plan - or, if it wasn't the plan or he wasn't in on it, because he was making a plan. And the plan he executed three days later showed quite clearly, I think, that he's not some dumb scared puppet.

[Southpaw Bookworm]

15. Yup

As I was getting ready for work today, the thought kept running through my head over and over: "I watched the leader of the free world completely lose his shit in a television broadcast seen around the planet."

I wonder WTF residents of other nations must be thinking right now. They could see that he's a madman. And what will they think if this country re-selects him? This election may completely change America's place in the world right now. We're England under the apeshit George.