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Tace Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-28-04 10:02 PM
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If * Has Been Medically Found To Be Insane, Would They Tell Us?
Edited on Sun Nov-28-04 10:15 PM by Tace
I use the colloquial term -- not sure of the medical term. He just seems to be so nuts. Especially telling, I think, were his reported comments during the opening of the Clinton library that a submarine would be able to attack the library.

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

Offstage, beforehand, Rove and Bush had had their library tours. According to two eyewitnesses, Rove had shown keen interest in everything he saw, and asked questions, including about costs, obviously thinking about a future George W Bush library and legacy. "You're not such a scary guy," joked his guide. "Yes, I am," Rove replied. Walking away, he muttered deliberately and loudly: "I change constitutions, I put churches in schools ..." Thus he identified himself as more than the ruthless campaign tactician; he was also the invisible hand of power, pervasive and expansive, designing to alter the fundamental American compact.

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.
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Goldeneye Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-28-04 10:04 PM
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1. Did they tell us about Reagan
Edited on Sun Nov-28-04 10:05 PM by Goldeneye
being in the early stages of Alzheimers?

...wasn't the thing about the submarine was a joke?
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Tace Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-28-04 10:25 PM
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10. HA! HA! HA!
Edited on Sun Nov-28-04 10:31 PM by Tace
I don't get it. Cheers

On Edit: Yeah, I suppose he could have been joking. And that would be a reasonable explanation.

He still acts like someone who has crossed the rubicon of sanity.
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Goldeneye Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-28-04 10:46 PM
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16. Rubicon of sanity...good one
:-) I agree...the mans got some problems
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Penguin31 Donating Member (208 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-29-04 03:33 AM
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22. His sanity is currently at an "undisclosed location" (nt)
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nadinbrzezinski Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-28-04 10:04 PM
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2. Did they tell you about reagan's alzheimers
There is your answer

For the record we would have to invoke the 25th ammendment which means we woudl get Dick
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Somawas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-28-04 10:04 PM
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3. No. They would not tell us.
eom.
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Journeyman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-28-04 10:06 PM
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4. They breathed nary a word about Reagan's alzheimers. . .
so I doubt we'd hear anything about Shrub's mental state.


(I didn't hear about the submarine comment. Got a link?)
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Tace Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-28-04 10:16 PM
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8. Please See My Original Post -- I Added Link To Guardian Story -- Cheers
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Journeyman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-28-04 10:39 PM
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14. Thanks, Tace. . .
Shrub is one scary fool. . . and more dangerous than even we believe, I fear.
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ooglymoogly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-28-04 10:07 PM
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5. how would they know?
they are all insane
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havocmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-28-04 10:08 PM
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6. No doctor prone to telling the truth would be allowed anywhere near him
If voters have to sign an oath to listen to a speech, how likely a loose cannon doctor would do an exam?
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ydya Donating Member (215 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-28-04 10:10 PM
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7. What do you mean "found to be"? Can he be any more nuts? He's
a crackhead lush with a God complex.
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gumby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-28-04 10:17 PM
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9. I remember hearing or reading this before the Internets,
but I clearly remember a story about the WH press corpse making bets on when Reagan would "loose it" next. They were taking bets !!! on Reagan's senility and they NEVER said a word to us commoners !!!!!
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number6 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-28-04 10:29 PM
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11. yea, What do you mean "found to be"?
he was nuts before 2000
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Skittles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-28-04 10:30 PM
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12. well, they haven't told us, have they?
nt
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Stand and Fight Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-28-04 10:30 PM
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13. Nope
Not a snowball's chance in hell. Even if we had proof or his diagnosing doctor came out and said it they would spin it. Not a snowball's chance in hell that they would tell us folks.
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karlrschneider Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-28-04 10:42 PM
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15. I think it depends on who "they" are...
If and when Chimp builds, or has built, a library, I'm betting it won't be anywhere close to horses...
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Mira Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-28-04 10:56 PM
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17. Now I'm reminded I wanted to read "Bush on the Couch" or whatever
that book is called.
I think the submarine comment is telling. It is a destruction wish by a person who is a destroyer. It comes from delusion of grandeur having to do with Man Date, and he has no clue how to use that power for good.
Despicable. Mentally unsound.
And no, they would not tell us. His inner circle is so small, and they are all deluded about what is real and what is sane.:crazy:
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leftofthedial Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-28-04 10:58 PM
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18. no
he's a RW blow-up doll anyway

it's not like he's calling the shots or anything
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Octafish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-28-04 11:00 PM
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19. What's there to tell. The crazy monkey's as nutty as a fruitcake.

He's one dumb stoned NAZI fuck, too.
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regnaD kciN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-29-04 02:50 AM
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20. What do you mean, "if"...?
:evilgrin:
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tom_paine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-29-04 03:02 AM
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21. As much chance as the Germans finding out about Hitler's amphetamine addic
tion.

Exactly that. No more and no less.

0%.
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