Bush: 'Life is good,' 'unsettled' people disapprove

[Veronica.Franco]

RAW STORY
Published: Friday May 19, 2006

In an interview with MSNBC's Hardball, U.S. President George W. Bush has blamed the war for his low approval ratings, and laughed off suggestions that people disapprove of his job performance.

A transcript of one exchange follows:

MSNBC: Let me ask you about your leadership. In the most recent survey, your disapproval rating is now one point lower than Richard Nixon’s before he resigned the presidency.

BUSH: laughs]

MSNBC: You’re laughing...

BUSH: I’m not laughing.

MSNBC: Why do you think that is?

BUSH: Because we’re at war. And war unsettles people. Listen, we’ve got a great economy. We’ve added 5.2 million jobs in the last two-and-a-half years, but people are unsettled. They don’t look at the economy and say, 'life is good.' They know we’re at war. And I’m not surprised that people are unsettled because of war. The enemy’s got a powerful tool — that is to get on your TV screen by killing innocent people. And my job is to continue to remind the people it’s worth it. We’re not going to retreat hastily. We’re not going to pull out of there before the job’s done and we’ve got a plan for victory.

MSNBC: They’re not just unsettled, sir. They disapprove of the job you’re doing.

BUSH: That’s unsettled.

MSNBC That’s how you see it?

BUSH: Yeah, I do. I see it as the war has… the war is… the war is difficult. And I understand that. I understand why people wonder whether we can win the war or not. But there’s a big difference between some of us who believe we’re doing the right thing and moving forward and a group of people who want to pull out before the jobs is done.

http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Bush_Life_good_unsettled_people_disapprove_0519.html

GW Bush ... the edge of his own reality ...

[RoseMead]

1. Dunno about unsettled

but this administration is making me feel more and more unhinged everyday.

[rman]

22. Becoming unhinged

from a fake reality, that's not to bad.

Welcome to DU.

[newyawker99]

23. Hi RoseMead!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[RoseMead]

27. Thanks

Good to be here. :)

[gordianot]

2. He has the same ability to understand the common man as did his father.

Actually a lot less. They should not turn him loose off his chain?

[BrklynLiberal]

3. I don't think he EVER existed int he same reality as most people.

Since his assoication with KKKarl Rove, his hold on reality has diminshed to almost none at all.

[maxsolomon]

4. jesus h christ

BUSH: laughs]

MSNBC: You’re laughing...

BUSH: I’m not laughing.

:crazy: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy:

we're in worse trouble than i thought

[Julius Civitatus]

5. He lives in a bubble. He just happy fishing perch, screw the rest

[Barrett808]

6. "Disapproval rating is now one point lower than Richard Nixon’s"

That's not quite true yet. Check out the Pollkatz graph:


http://www.pollkatz.homestead.com

[Spazito]

7. Hmmm, the last time the U.S. public were this unsettled....

Nixon ended up resigning, rofl.

[Emillereid]

8. This man is certifiable!

Bush Is Certifiable

George W. Bush is suffering from a peculiar but not that uncommon form of madness in which a pathological part of his psyche has co-opted all of the healthy parts into its service.
See also The Madness Of George W. Bush

By Paul Levy

05/18/06 "Information Clearing House" -- -- Speaking about such a pathological condition, Jung commented that “…an unknown ‘something’ has taken possession of a smaller or greater portion of the psyche and asserts its hateful and harmful existence undeterred by all our insight, reason, and energy, thereby proclaiming the power of the unconscious over the conscious mind, the sovereign power of possession.”

Bush has been taken over by an unconscious complex of the collective unconscious. We speak of a mother complex, or a father complex, but Bush has what we could call a savior complex. Jung said, “The savior complex is an archetypal image of the collective unconscious, and it quite naturally becomes activated in an epoch so full of trouble and disorientation as ours.” The archetypal figure of savior is literally dreamed up into incarnation by the field to be both a compensation for and an expression of the disorientation and dissociation in the field.

Being a reflection of the greater underlying unified field, this figure will embody the unconsciousness of the time. Because of the unconsciousness in the field, the person playing the archetypal role of savior will reflect this unconsciousness and become inflated, blown up out of human proportion by the power of the archetype. He will then, of necessity, be compelled to act out his hubris in a way that is destructive for all who are under his dominion.

Inflated by the power of the underlying archetype, Bush is suffering from delusions of grandeur, and has become megalomaniacal. He is unconsciously identified with the archetype of the Messiah. Bush told an Amish group in 2004 that “God speaks through me.” Bush imagines that God actually speaks to him as well; in 2003 he told Palestinian ministers that God told him to invade Iraq. Jung commented, “One should listen to the inner voice attentively, intelligently and critically, (Probate spiritus!) , because the voice one hears is the influxus divinus consisting, as the Acts of John aptly state, of “right” and “left” streams, i.e., of opposites. They have to be clearly separated so that their positive and negative aspects become visible.” John 4:1 says, “Do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits whether they are of God.” ................

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13100.htm

[Dudley_DUright]

9. Life is good if you are a millionaire with no family in Iraq

(like oh I don't know, Bush and Cheney), but most of us are more than just a little "unsettled". :mad:

[roguevalley]

10. he's disturbed and he's reacting to criticism like he always does:

its someone else's fault.

[porphyrian]

11. Does "unsettled" mean "broke because of bush?"" - n/t

[Veronica.Franco]

13. Code for "unstable" ...

He laughs because he is so delusional he believes that anyone who questions him MUST be insane ...

[porphyrian]

14. I guess when crazy's normal to you, normal looks crazy. - n/t

[AndyTiedye]

25. "Unsettled" Means that a Storm is Coming

[mdmc]

12. Just ban coverage in Iraq, and everyone will be happy happy

GHWB knew that occupying Iraq would be a disaster. A disaster that would make it back into every American livingroom.

The real scary thing is that w. thought that this would be easy.:scared:

[silvertip]

15. 5.2 Million jobs

Where are they, how much do they pay, and who is working at
those jobs?

[Skittles]

17. that one is a total mystery, silvertip

it's just conservative crap.....welcome to the DU :hi:

[silvertip]

21. Cons. Crap!

I agree and thank you. It just ticks me off every time i hear
some A****** trying to tell us how good the economy is, when
all you have to do is open your eyes (remove head from A**)and
you can see that things aren't going very well at all. Low
wages, no med. ins.,high gas. prices,poor & hungry people
& Etc. Etc. Etc. Ad Nauseam.(right spelling ?)

[Skittles]

37. but that is the conservative way, silvertip

piss on our shoes and tell us it's raining....they've always done it; what is disconcerting to me is how many voters actually fell for it - can you you imagine actually believing bush was even remotely capable of being president? STILL having faith in him? It will forever boggle my mind.

[Ino]

16. He's not a liar!

He laughs, then immediately says he didn't laugh. So it must have been a chuckle, or perhaps a snicker. Maybe it was a snuffle-sneeze like my dog makes to clear his smell receptors. At any rate, it is NOT proof that Bush is a such habitual liar that he would immediately deny, on camera, something that he JUST said or did... on camera.

(sarcasm off)

[Veronica.Franco]

24. Reminded me ...

of that "elderly" Aunt or Uncle we've all met at one time or another (in our own families or someone else's)... they're babbling away to themselves and when someone asked them, politely, what they just said, they reply, unconsciously still, "Nothing" ...

He's checked out ...

[tenshi816]

18. "I understand that."

Jeebus. Every time I hear that little pissant say those three words, I want to reach through the TV screen and smack that condescending smirk off his face.

He understands nothing.

[Disturbed]

20. BUSH: I’m not laughing.

I am not laughing either! This loon and his criminal Junta need to be removed and then tried as War Criminals.

[BlooInBloo]

19. Denial's not just a river in Egypt....

... gw's statements are clearly a psychological defense technique, protecting him from the imminent brain implosion if what passes for his brain were to understand the fact that no one likes him, approves of his existence, or approves of anything he has ever done.

It's his protective mental bubble.

[AzDar]

26. From zero to Nero....

Good lord, we're in more trouble than we knew.

[Cha]

28. Hey IDIOT! I'm very SETTLED!

And my opinion is that you're doing a very bad job..you don't work Hard Enough!

Even if the war you started on lies weren't happening you would still get a VERY LOW GRADE..-F!

Bullshiter~

[Deja Q]

29. 5.2 million jobs... retail jobs?

I see retail everywhere.

I don't often see anything juicy.

And what there is, the competition is astounding.

Never mind the entry requirements for some of those jobs. Apparently a Bachelor's degree is necessary for a $12/hr HELPDESK job. :wtf:

If a Bachelor's degree is required for a poverty-wage job... especially when a 4 year degree is tens of thousands of dollars... never mind needing the Associates' as prerequisite... Gimme a break. There is an imbalance afoot.

[Justice]

30. David Gregory asked the questions - I thought it was on the Today show

I think people sit around the white house thinking up the word for bush et al to use. rove said sour on monday - a trial ballon - which fell flat. bush served up unsettled today. both words have double meanings - they but some of the reason for the feeling on us.

Again, no accountability. I am plenty settled thank you - Settled on being really, really angry at this administration and what they have done to our country.

[Iris]

31. Yeah, we're at war - a freakin' CIVIL WAR in our own country

for God's sake.

[Kahuna]

34. Yep! That's the worst part of it. He has America more divided than

I've ever seen it during my life time. America has probably not been this divided since the Civil war. Dems should definately make that the main issue.

[linazelle]

32. I just watched. That transcript is not correct.

MSNBC: Why do you think that is?

BUSH: Because we’re at war. And war unsettles people. Listen, we’ve got a great economy. We’ve added 5.2 million jobs in the last two-and-a-half years, but people are unsettled.

MSNBC: They’re not just unsettled, sir. They disapprove of the job you’re doing.

BUSH: That’s unsettled.



This part came later:

They don’t look at the economy and say, 'life is good.' They know we’re at war. And I’m not surprised that people are unsettled because of war. The enemy’s got a powerful tool — that is to get on your TV screen by killing innocent people. And my job is to continue to remind the people it’s worth it. We’re not going to retreat hastily. We’re not going to pull out of there before the job’s done and we’ve got a plan for victory.

How did the transcript get switched from what he actually said?

[Zorra]

33. If someone does not disapprove of Bu*h,

it is because they have their head up their ass, and have always had their head up their ass.

There's not much to see from there...think of Plato's allegory of the cave.

[TahitiNut]

35. Poor George. Just another VICTIM of the 'War' in Iraq.

:puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke:

[bluefish]

36. What did he say when it 70 approving?

I bet he agreed with the polls then.