Fwd: Please try to calm down, Mr. President!

[Harry Edwards]

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> From: Roger Baker <rcbaker at EDEN.INFOHWY.COM>
> Date: August 25, 2005 6:02:23 PM CDT
> To: GHETTO2 at LISTS.WHATHELPS.COM
> Subject: Please try to calm down, Mr. President!
> Reply-To: Remembrances of Austin Ghetto <GHETTO2 at LISTS.WHATHELPS.COM>
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> “Who gives a flying fuck what the polls say,” he screamed at a recent 
> strategy meeting. “I’m the President and I’ll do whatever I goddamned 
> please. They don’t know shit.”
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> http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/printer_7267.shtml
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> From Capitol Hill Blue
> BUSH LEAGUES
> Bush's Obscene Tirades Rattle White House Aides
> By DOUG THOMPSON
> Aug 25, 2005, 06:19
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> While President George W. Bush travels around the country in a 
> last-ditch effort to sell his Iraq war, White House aides scramble 
> frantically behind the scenes to hide the dark mood of an increasingly 
> angry leader who unleashes obscenity-filled outbursts at anyone who 
> dares disagree with him.
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> “I’m not meeting again with that goddamned bitch,” Bush screamed at 
> aides who suggested he meet again with Cindy Sheehan, the 
> war-protesting mother whose son died in Iraq. “She can go to hell as 
> far as I’m concerned!”
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> Bush flashes the bird, something aides say he does often and has been 
> doing since his days as governor of Texas.
> Bush, administration aides confide, frequently explodes into tirades 
> over those who protest the war, calling them “motherfucking traitors.” 
> He reportedly was so upset over Veterans of Foreign Wars members who 
> wore “bullshit protectors” over their ears during his speech to their 
> annual convention that he told aides to “tell those VFW assholes that 
> I’ll never speak to them again is they can’t keep their members under 
> control.”
>
> White House insiders say Bush is growing increasingly bitter over 
> mounting opposition to his war in Iraq. Polls show a vast majority of 
> Americans now believe the war was a mistake and most doubt the 
> President’s honesty.
>
> “Who gives a flying fuck what the polls say,” he screamed at a recent 
> strategy meeting. “I’m the President and I’ll do whatever I goddamned 
> please. They don’t know shit.”
>
> Bush, whiles setting up for a photo op for signing the recent CAFTA 
> bill, flipped an extended middle finger to reporters. Aides say the 
> President often “flips the bird” to show his displeasure and tells 
> aides who disagree with him to “go to hell” or to “go fuck yourself.” 
> His habit of giving people the finger goes back to his days as Texas 
> governor, aides admit, and videos of him doing so before press 
> conferences were widely circulated among TV stations during those 
> days. A recent video showing him shooting the finger to reporters 
> while walking also recently surfaced.
>
> Bush’s behavior, according to prominent Washington psychiatrist, Dr. 
> Justin Frank, author of “Bush on the Couch: Inside the Mind of the 
> President,” is all too typical of an alcohol-abusing bully who is 
> ruled by fear.
>
> To see that fear emerges, Dr. Frank says, all one has to do is 
> confront the President. “To actually directly confront him in a clear 
> way, to bring him out, so you would really see the bully, and you 
> would also see the fear,” he says.
>
> Dr. Frank, in his book, speculates that Bush, an alcoholic who brags 
> that he gave up booze without help from groups like Alcoholics 
> Anonymous, may be drinking again.
>
> “Two questions that the press seems particularly determined to ignore 
> have hung silently in the air since before Bush took office,” Dr. 
> Frank says.  “Is he still drinking? And if not, is he impaired by all 
> the years he did spend drinking? Both questions need to be addressed 
> in any serious assessment of his psychological state.”
>
> Last year, Capitol Hill Blue learned the White House physician 
> prescribed anti-depressant drugs for the President to control what 
> aides called “violent mood swings.” As Dr. Frank also notes: “In 
> writing about Bush's halting appearance in a press conference just 
> before the start of the Iraq War, Washington Post media critic Tom 
> Shales speculated that ‘the president may have been ever so slightly 
> medicated.’”
>
> Dr. Frank explains Bush’s behavior as all-to-typical of an alcoholic 
> who is still in denial:
>
> “The pattern of blame and denial, which recovering alcoholics work so 
> hard to break, seems to be ingrained in the alcoholic personality; 
> it's rarely limited to his or her drinking,” he says. “The habit of 
> placing blame and denying responsibility is so prevalent in George W. 
> Bush's personal history that it is apparently triggered by even the 
> mildest threat.”
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