Strange Bush comments on opening of Clinton Library. Threat?

[gordianot]

Of course you only see this reported in the foreign press, Guardian. I have not seen this on any other posts on DU, if so I apologize. This was reported by Sydney Blumenthal at the opening of the Clinton Library.


"Bush appeared distracted, and glanced repeatedly at his watch. When he stopped to gaze at the river, where secret service agents were stationed in boats, the guide said: "Usually, you might see some bass fishermen out there." Bush replied: "A submarine could take this place out."

Was the president warning of an al-Qaida submarine, sneaking undetected up the Mississippi, through the locks and dams of the Arkansas river, surfacing under the bridge to the 21st century to dispatch the Clinton library? Is that where Osama bin Laden is hiding?

Or was this a wishful paranoid fantasy of ubiquitous terrorism destroying Clinton's legacy with one blow? Or a projection of menace and messianism, with only Bush grasping the true danger, standing between submerged threat and civilisation? Perhaps it was simply his way of saying he wouldn't build his library near water."

For original source follow link:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1358966,00.html



:wtf:

[NMDemDist2]

1. welcome to Bush's Bizarro World

good grief

[OldLeftieLawyer]

2. Welcome to President Rove's world

Every time I see something like this, I'm convinced more of two things I already believe with all my heart:

The American press sucks, and

Shrub is mentally ill.

[gordianot]

3. I agree with the illness part.

Bush has a Narcissistic Personality disorder. I am not a clinician.

What worries me I think he means this on some level. The picture of him bumping Clinton going in is doubly disturbing.

Afraid this may be ignored on DU.

[DenverDem]

5. busholini is a sick fuck on many levels.

The punk assed bitch pushing to get out of the door first is merely a symptom of his multiple sociopathological disorders.

[OldLeftieLawyer]

12. I'm a clinician, and I think he fits the profile

of a sociopath, which really scares me.

For a fine, well-written, and quite discursive read, check out "Bush On The Couch" - http://harpercollins.com/global_scripts/product_catalog/book_xml.asp?isbn=0060736704

I think Dr. Frank nails the loony straight up and down.

Rove's not crazy, though, and that I find even more frightening.

And, still, the U.S. press elides all of this. We are living in a time so dangerous, most people don't realize how imperiled we are.

[cally]

4. It's on Salon, too.

* and Rove's comments are just bizarre. Then the pictures with * pushing through the doorway to get ahead of Clinton. Then consider the NY Times article talking about how congenial the whole day was. :eyes:

[charlie]

6. That boy is gone

He's cut his last tethers to reality. Whatever strange world he inhabits now, he's taking all of us there with him. Goddamn him.

[gordianot]

8. I hear kids say things like this.

They usually watch too many cartoons on Saturday morning.

[Kat45]

7. Maybe he thought 4 US presidents was a tempting target for terrorists

One thing I noticed while watching the opening: while U2 was playing, Clinton and dubya were chatting away. I thought that was weird.

[Princess Turandot]

14. Bono & Bill are pretty friendly..

so I'm sure he's heard them sing live quite a few times before.
Maybe the President was explaining to * what 'Sunday Bloody Sunday' was about. Maybe that's why * jumped into the Northern Ireland fray this week :eyes:

[John_Shadows_1]

9. Yeah, he really is a nutjob....

... I kind of guessed this at the debates - especially the second one where he was yelling like a madman. Man, God save us...

[AuntPatsy]

10. After reading this on a few threads today I have come to the

conclusion that he was just plain scared. It is extremely obvious he is not exactly liked, barring this delusional mandate that he says he has received from the American people...

To say something like that and to hightail it out of this event so quickly speaks fear to me, fear that he was just to open to feel at all comfortable...not nutty persay but definately paranoid of such happening..

My conclusion anyway and Rov, well, he is a sad character, he is only a man my goodness, so he likes to play hardball in such highly visible criminal means to keep his subjects in line, surely there are other's just like him, it is not like he is the only lone shark this country ever gave birth to...

He just might harm the wrong person some day, what goes around comes around..at least that is a philosophy that I try to live by...

[gordianot]

11. You hit on some good points.

He seems to me to frame his world around himself. Bumping out Clinton coming through the door is fascinating. This man is living in considerable fear and seeks control. At the same time he is in denial, for example; we are winning the war, he has a voter mandate, he is important and does not have to follow the rules during a debate yet threatens not to have a debate if his "opponent" does not abide by the rules.

He is not well and those who surround him are doing a disservice to him given his problems. They have been covering for him for years given his history of substance abuse.

This is not a healthy thing for the leader of the world's dominate power to say in public.

[AuntPatsy]

13. I agree, it is definatly not healthy to air your fear when you claim

to be the fearless leader of such a strong country as the USA but if we look back at his many past such blunders, they have always slid by the feeble minded who actually begin feeling sorry for him....

It is very confusing that he can show weakness so openly but yet still retain that ring of hollow truth's that he is such a might and fearless leader?

I still think that someone on DU had it right when he said that some Americans have been replaced by the POD people..a bit far fetched I know, but I honestly cannot see any other reasoning being valid enough when I take into account some of the people that I know which I had once thought to be so highly intelligent..

Maybe they haven't gotten me because I don't sleep all that much;-)