In case you need confirming that GWB has "issues"

[sfbeary]

From Capitol Hill Blue http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artma...cle_4921.shtml

Bush Leagues

Bush Using Drugs to Control Depression, Erratic Behavior

By TERESA HAMPTON
Editor, Capitol Hill Blue
Jul 28, 2004, 08:09

President George W. Bush is taking powerful anti-depressant drugs to control his erratic behavior, depression and paranoia, Capitol Hill Blue has learned.

The prescription drugs, administered by Col. Richard J. Tubb, the White House physician, can impair the President’s mental faculties and decrease both his physical capabilities and his ability to respond to a crisis, administration aides admit privately.

“It’s a double-edged sword,” says one aide. “We can’t have him flying off the handle at the slightest provocation but we also need a President who is alert mentally.”

Angry Bush walked away from reporter's questions.

Tubb prescribed the anti-depressants after a clearly-upset Bush stormed off stage on July 8, refusing to answer reporters' questions about his relationship with indicted Enron executive Kenneth J. Lay.

“Keep those motherfuckers away from me,” he screamed at an aide backstage. “If you can’t, I’ll find someone who can.”

Bush’s mental stability has become the topic of Washington whispers in recent months. Capitol Hill Blue first reported on June 4 about increasing concern among White House aides over the President’s wide mood swings and obscene outbursts.

Although*GOP loyalists dismissed the reports an anti-Bush propaganda, the reports were later confirmed by prominent George Washington University psychiatrist Dr. Justin Frank in his book Bush on the Couch: Inside the Mind of the President. Dr. Frank diagnosed the President as a “paranoid meglomaniac” and “untreated alcoholic” whose “lifelong streak of sadism, ranging from childhood pranks (using firecrackers to explode frogs) to insulting journalists, gloating over state executions and pumping his hand gleefully before the bombing of Baghdad” showcase Bush’s instabilities.

“I was really very unsettled by him and I started watching everything he did and reading what he wrote and watching him on videotape. I felt he was disturbed,” Dr. Frank said. “He fits the profile of a former drinker whose alcoholism has been arrested but not treated.”

Dr. Frank’s*conclusions have been praised by other prominent psychiatrists, including Dr. James Grotstein, Professor at UCLA Medical Center, and Dr. Irvin Yalom, MD, Professor Emeritus at Stanford University Medical School.

The doctors also worry about the wisdom of giving powerful anti-depressant drugs to a person with a history of chemical dependency. Bush is an admitted alcoholic, although he never sought treatment in a formal program, and stories about his cocaine use as a younger man haunted his campaigns for Texas governor and his first campaign for President.

“President Bush is an untreated alcoholic with paranoid and megalomaniac tendencies,” Dr. Frank adds.

The White House did not return phone calls seeking comment on this article.

Although the exact drugs Bush takes to control his depression and behavior are not known, White House sources say they are “powerful medications” designed to bring his erratic actions under control. While Col. Tubb regularly releases a synopsis of the President’s annual physical, details of the President’s health and any drugs or treatment he may receive are not public record and are guarded zealously by the secretive cadre of aides that surround the President.

Veteran White House watchers say the ability to control information about Bush’s health, either physical or mental, is similar to Ronald Reagan’s second term when aides managed to conceal the President’s increasing memory lapses that signaled the onslaught of Alzheimer’s Disease.

It also brings back memories of Richard Nixon’s final days when the soon-to-resign President wandered the halls and talked to portraits of former Presidents. The stories didn’t emerge until after Nixon left office.

One long-time GOP political consultant who – for obvious reasons – asked not to be identified said he is advising his Republican Congressional candidates to keep their distance from Bush.

“We have to face the very real possibility that the President of the United States is loony tunes,” he says sadly. “That’s not good for my candidates, it’s not good for the party and it’s certainly not good for the country.”

© Copyright 2004 Capitol Hill Blue

[markydefad]

Gee, thanks Barry. It does make ya wonder how Clinton ever got though his ordeal, doesn't it? And who's really got nerves of steel here? I think Dubya needs another "v-a-c-a-t-i-o-n in the summertime"!!!!

[Videoskooter]

I don't know the site. Is it a serious one? Hope not.

Actually, I'm scared now :oops:

[DISCODISK]

Originally Posted by Videoskooter

Actually, I'm scared now :oops:

VIDEOSKOOTER youre only scared NOW,i was scared the day he got in :o

[Discovery]

Originally Posted by sfbeary

“lifelong streak of sadism, ranging from childhood pranks (using firecrackers to explode frogs) to insulting journalists, gloating over state executions and pumping his hand gleefully before the bombing of Baghdad” showcase Bush’s instabilities.

Considering who his father is, I'm not surprised.

[NickNack]

WORLD NET DAILY, CAPITOL HILL BLUE, OUTSIDE THE BELTWAY...

I don't know. All these 'news sites' sound so extreme it's difficult for me take anything they say seriously. If the "everyday citizen" wanted to verify any of this, what does he/she do? I'm sure Drs. Tubbs and Frank will readily accept my phone calls. :roll: And I know the 'reporters' at WND and OTB will share their sorces. :P I have a hard enough time dealing with mainstream media. These places just seem out of control. :x

[markydefad]

Former Vanity Fair/New Yorker editor Tina Brown had that psychiatrist Dr. Justin Frank who wrote the book analyzing Bush (BUSH ON THE COUCH) on her MSNBC chat show a few weeks ago. So it's not all fantasy. The doctor and the book exist.

Hey if the Clintons could be accused of killing 70+ people by the right wing wackos, I'll give the left wingers license to "speculate" that Bush is taking anti-depressants.

This article made my day. :D :D :D

[markydefad]

Tall Paul,

I'm waiting for your comments on this most tantalizing article.

BTW, that Tina Brown show was rerun yesterday on CNBC. The doctor psychoanalyzed Bush and then Christopher Hitchens (that wacko Brit) and Gail Sheehy chimed in with their analyses.

Bush does seem awful short-tempered lately, no? The doc says it stems from his learning disabilities, dyslexia, inability to quickly process information resulting in that deer in the headlights look, a cold withholding mother, an absent father, the death of his younger sister that was never resolved with him by Babs , the alcoholism issues that replaced the bottle with God, the list goes on....

[paul]

Originally Posted by markydefad

Tall Paul,

I'm waiting for your comments on this most tantalizing article.

BTW, that Tina Brown show was rerun yesterday on CNBC. The doctor psychoanalyzed Bush and then Christopher Hitchens (that wacko Brit) and Gail Sheehy chimed in with their analyses.

Bush does seem awful short-tempered lately, no? The doc says it stems from his learning disabilities, dyslexia, inability to quickly process information resulting in that deer in the headlights look, a cold withholding mother, an absent father, the death of his younger sister that was never resolved with him by Babs , the alcoholism issues that replaced the bottle with God, the list goes on....

Well I have been hearing stories that the Pres and Cheney are a potty mouth bunch ever since Cheney told that Senator to go fuck yourself. This story is new to me though and I have mixed emotions about it. I will see if I can dig up anything on it. If true though, in adddition to being even more concerned about the decision making process in the executive branch, I strangely feel sorry for Bush. I guess my gushy liberalism knows no limits but with the health issues you mentioned Marky, I hope he can find a proper balance in his life.

[Videoskooter]

I've seen Dubya on the news today and the guy is so stressed!!

Maybe you guys can do him a favor and don't re-elect him so that the poor man can have some rest and a nice retirement.

:D