Speaking as a person who is currently in a nuthouse, who has met all kinds since I've been in a nuthouse (ooo, the stories I could tell you ... !), I wonder why Bush is allowed to not only roam freely throughout our country at the taxpayers' expense, but why he is in the White House, of all places, with his finger on the red button? What am I blabbing on about? The recent interview with Brit Hume, that's what. Part of the transcript follows below the fold. (Italics are my comments).
Hume: "I've just spent some time in the company of people who were for you, who are worried about you, just as you described your parents are. They think that your presidency has run aground on the shoals of Iraq and that you must be -- they feel almost sorry for you. What do you say to those people?"
Bush: "Yeah, I don't think people are -- at least the ones I run into -- look, I had a bunch of our buddies from Texas up here this weekend, and they're kind of -- they look at you, and go, man, how come you're still standing? It's not so much the presidency on the shoals because of difficult decisions I made; it's more, the weightiness of this thing must be impossible for anybody to bear. And I tell them it's just not the case, that I'm inspired by doing this job. . .
Has problems answering a direct question, is evasive and cannot formulate a logical verbal argument.
"I also remind them, Brit, that Laura and I are sustained by the prayers of millions of people. That's hard for some to, you know, I guess, chew on."
Delusional thinking.
Hume: "You sense that."
Bush: "Absolutely."
Delusional and magical thinking.
Hume: "I know they tell you that, when you see them out on the hustings. But do you sense that?"
Bush: "I feel it."
Hume: "You feel it."
Why would the flying spaghetti monster take a personal interest in George Bush?
Bush: "Yeah. Because the load is not heavy, I guess is the best way to describe it. Look, somebody said to me, prove it. I said you can't prove it. All I can tell you is I feel it. And it's a remarkable country when millions pray for me and Laura. So therefore I'm able to say to people, that this is a joyful experience, not a painful experience. And yeah it's tough, but that's okay. It's tough times."
And they say I need to be in a nuthouse! But Bush is a true Forrest Gump lunatic.
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I think that what he is saying is true. For him, what he is doing is a joyful experience, not a painful one. He has no idea how much pain he is causing millions of people - those who don't have enough money to feed their families decently, those who don't have money for prescription drugs. Remember, he was born with a "silver spoon in his mouth". He has never had to worry about money, whenever he screwed up, which he did several times, Daddy's friends bailed him out. He is enjoying what he is doing because he is transferring great amounts of money to his friends who, in turn, tell him that he is doing a great job.
You're hardly the first person to suggest that Bush is clinically insane. My own shrink actually theorized bipolar disorder (basically checking off various visible oddities) but I suspect that's simplistic.
My own guess is uglier. He's certainly narcissistic as hell, but I suspect he might even be a sociopath. That would certainly help explain how he managed to succeed despite his dubious intelligence....
(Disclaimer: I am not a shrink, and most shrinks would utter such a diagnosis in hushed tones.)
Anybody who genuinely believes that they can "feel" the "prayers of millions," yeah, that is delusional. This guys whole presidency has been based on believing he is on a mission chosen for him by God. All of his decisions are based on "gut instinct" and "faith" while utterly disregarding any hard evidence that contraindicates his decisions. Typical fundy thinking and very dangerous as we have seen. It has been suggested before, and I think there may be some truth to it, that he is still an addict who has simply turned his addiction from alcohol and coke to "Jeebus."