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Mon Oct-31-05 09:52 AM
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Will Shrub have a nervous breakdown? |
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With or without Rove, with or without Cheney - will he hit the bottle again or have a nervous breakdown? Interestingly, Nixon became increasingly incoherent and irritiable, while Clinton became more resolved and defiant. In part perhaps because of the nature of the crimes - one truly impeachable, the other "simply" immoral and disgusting, one a betray of the country, the other a betrayal of his wife. But I don't see Shrub with the flexible strength of Nixon. He's stiff as a Reed (pun) and will break.
And what is or will be the role of his father or mother?
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Mon Oct-31-05 09:53 AM
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1. Shrub is a nervous breakdown for the U.S. n/t |
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Mon Oct-31-05 09:56 AM
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2. Gotta have a car to have car trouble, |
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Mon Oct-31-05 10:12 AM
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Mon Oct-31-05 09:56 AM
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3. He's an untreated alcoholic. Therefore, |
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he's a walking nervous breakdown and has been for years. We're the ones who suffer for it.
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Mon Oct-31-05 10:03 AM
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4. But will it get to the point where it's obvious? |
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Wilson, FDR and JFK hid illnesses. Wilson's wife as a de facto president, and JFK was a profile in courage, considering how he functioned with a debilitating illness. Grant's drinking was well known. At some point, though, the media will pounce on a politician whose addictions or weaknesses show through.
Or maybe not. Look at the Oxy Moron.
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Mon Oct-31-05 10:07 AM
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with you, the real point is, if and when it will become noticable? Will it become impossible to deny his obvious impairment?
Think drunk driving is dangerous...
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Mon Oct-31-05 10:21 AM
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8. This country needs a Designated Leader |
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Mon Oct-31-05 10:06 AM
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5. I think they'll just prop him up, like they've always done |
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My understanding is he's already back on the bottle, is taking meds for his emotional condition, and takes other meds to sleep. Who knows what he's taking. imho, he's already broken down, but is being tugged along, still in the drivers seat, acting like he's steering the wheel when really he's just playing with it, honking the horn, having a good time.
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Mon Oct-31-05 10:29 AM
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It's rumored that in the first Kasparov-Karpov world championship match, Karpov was also on drugs. Kasparov kept the match going, over 80 games, so that Karpov's meds would tear up his body and he'd collapse. The match was stopped before that happened.
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Mon Oct-31-05 10:37 AM
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10. Bush is and always has been a figurehead |
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If Cheney and Rove depart, there are others to keep him propped up for the photo ops.
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Mon Oct-31-05 11:04 AM
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11. Why would he have a nervous breakdown? He has not been victimized! |
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He was creating myths and now he has to face the truth. There is no shock in that. He was in control to begin with. Wasn't as if he was set up. Sure he is a puppet but if he didn't know that after 20 years of being groomed and told what to say by handlers.. his problem is mental acuity.
He was the most powerful man in the world and got to make choices. He choose to be aggressive. He made his world.
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Mon Oct-31-05 11:07 AM
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12. When you walk around in a shroud of lies and your minions |
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start to get caught, chances are when you're an untreated alkie and can't stand imperfections, you will have a nervous breakdown.
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Mon Oct-31-05 11:25 AM
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14. Bush admires Sharon! A great deal. Bush is not an innocent. Remember |
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Edited on Mon Oct-31-05 11:25 AM by applegrove
he was his father's enforcer.
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Mon Oct-31-05 11:35 AM
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18. I thought a nervous breakdown had to do with being beyond your |
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ability to cope. Someone who has been in politics most of his life and run many campaigns.. knows a thing or two about fighting hard. I would say that Bush is likely to act passive for a bit, then once his numbers have improved, come on heavy again with the "agenda".
Remember - the man doesn't care about people. Or the news.
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Mon Oct-31-05 11:12 AM
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The docs will keep him walking and talking with a cocktail of drugs, synthetic hormones, and chewable human adrenal glands. I listened to Bush** make the SCOTUS announcement this morning. They guy literally cannot complete a sentence. Tardive Dyskenisia and Tardive Dementia..thats my guess.
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Mon Oct-31-05 11:31 AM
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16. We've discussed Tardive Dyskenisia here before. |
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I believe you are correct.
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Mon Oct-31-05 11:28 AM
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15. he is already nervously broken down |
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Like Hitler in the Bunker in 1944-45. All twitches, stammers, weakness, delusion and paranoia.
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Mon Oct-31-05 11:34 AM
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17. I read that * is enjoying his training wheels coming off, |
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meaning that he likes having no minders. God help us.
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