Trey Ellis, Huffington Post: "It's Official: I Now Pity George Bush"

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/trey-ellis/its-official-i-now-pit_b_19828.html

Before you start firing off rude, biting comments hoping to make me cry, just put yourself in his shoes for a minute. He's broken the United States of America. He was given the most powerful nation the world has ever known and driven it right into the ground. I mean, how would you feel? Especially if you came from a high-achieving family. Like most guys he tried to follow in the footsteps of his dad. But what if your dad was a decorated WW II fighter pilot, college baseball star, Ambassador to the U.N., C.I.A. Director and President of the United-States? You might not even try to amount to anything for, say, the first forty-seven-years of your life.

But you watch your little brother Jeb get the good grades and the praise from the 'rents. You can't just sit back and watch him rise and rise without making one last stab at success. Like two kids playing Risk, you divide up the nation. You run for governor in Texas, little Jeb takes Florida. This time you're the one who wins. Jeb has to try again.

Now everything's changed. You're on your way to showing that hardass dad of yours that he was wrong about you all these years. And by the way, he might have been a great war hero but he was only a mediocre President. You'll get to the White House and laugh last and so loud they'll hear you all the way back in Midland. No mediocre Presidency for this son. No. You're swinging for the fence.

---SNIP---

First veteran White House correspondent Helen Thomas calls you the "Worst President in American History." You laugh it off. She's an old crank anyway. Then professor Sean Wilentz writes a cover story for Rolling Stone calling you, again, the worst President ever. Not only that, but 81% of his fellow history professors have already declared your reign a failure. It's finally starting to sink in that Iraq is officially a defeat, the strongest military in the world dispirited and on its way to breaking, you've run up more debt than a drunken sailor before payday, your seemingly bulletproof political party looks headed back out of favor, Latin America is slipping out of your nation's sphere of influence for the first time in over a century, North Korea has acquired The Bomb. All on your watch.

[The HL]

1. Throw his ass in jail

All of it planned by Daddy sr.

[acmavm]

2. Regardless of the very accurate and pathetic description

of blivet's reign, I still couldn't scrape up an ounce of pity for the SOB no matter how bad it gets, or how much it hurts him and his.

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

I have no pity for something that he created, BUT...

I never thought I'd live to see such an Oedipal tragedy played out in real time.

The book "Bush On The Couch" needed a wider audience. If more people had actually read it and understood who this man is, how he was raised, what motivates him...MAYBE he would have gotten a second term, but I have my doubts.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00076F0M0/sr=8-1/qid=1146158653/ref=pd_bbs_1/002-3611833-7625619?%5Fencoding=UTF8

Book Description

"I don't spend a lot of time trying to figure me out. ... I'm just not into psychobabble."

-- George W. Bush

For all his simplicity and affability, George W. Bush has remained, to paraphrase Sir Winston Churchill, "a mystery wrapped in an enigma." In Bush on the Couch, Dr. Justin A. Frank, a well-respected Washington, D.C.–based psychoanalyst and professor of psychiatry, unwraps that mystery, assembling a comprehensive psychological profile of President Bush. Using the principles of applied psychoanalysis -- the discipline of psychoanalyzing public and historical figures pioneered by Freud -- Frank fearlessly builds his case ... and reaches conclusions that are at once highly persuasive and deeply disturbing.

Through a close analysis of Bush's public statements and behavior, as well as the historical record provided by journalists, biographers, and those who have known the president well, Frank traces the development of Bush's character from childhood to the present day. Examining closely the role of the president's parents -- especially Barbara Bush, an acknowledged disciplinarian whose own insecurities may have prevented her from adequately nurturing her son -- Frank finds in Bush's childhood the roots of a dramatic psychic split that remains a dominant influence on his adult worldview. Frank argues that this split has inevitably hampered Bush's ability to manage his emotions, charging his psyche with restless anxiety, and conditioning him to view the world in the black-and-white terms that have so evidently shaped his administration.

Among the other subjects Frank explores:

* Bush's false sense of omnipotence, instilled within him during childhood and emboldened by his deep investment in fundamentalist religion

* The president's history of untreated alcohol abuse, and the questions it raises about denial, impairment, and the enabling streak in our culture

* The growing anecdotal evidence that Bush may suffer from dyslexia, ADHD, and other thought disorders

* His comfort living outside the law, defying international law in his presidency as boldly as he once defied DUI statutes and military reporting requirements

* His love-hate relationship with his father, and how it triggered a complex and dangerous mix of feelings including yearning, rivalry, anger, and sadism

* Bush's rigid and simplistic thought patterns, paranoia, and megalomania -- and how they have driven him to invent adversaries so that he can destroy them

:patriot:

[acmavm]

5. ...Frank traces the development of Bush's character...

Total impossibility. He has none.

[Democrats_win]

3. He deserves a googleplex times more suffering and humiliation.

[The Backlash Cometh]

4. This all happened because Texas was more fucked up than Florida.

No, really. If Florida had elected Jeb Bush as governor instead of Lawton Chiles, Jeb Bush would have had a leg up and ready to run for the presidency in 2000. Then we really would have seen our country dismantled more efficiently, instead of the hack job that George is doing.

[Dhalgren]

6. Fuck Bush. He should be thrown into Spandau prison and the

key thrown away...

[gordianot]

7. "W" will have a special chapter in American history.

With Aaron Burr, Jefferson Davis, Richard Nixon, George W Bush will be viewed as a giant in this grouping.

To Poppy Bush yes Junior has smeared the "Walker" name, not that his immediate "Bush" lineage had any reputation beyond war collaborators, cheats, liars and traitors.