Entries categorized as ‘Bush’
Karen Finley gave this interview to The Nation in which she offers us her take on the Bush psyche:
“What I’m trying to do here is take an analytic approach and look at his pathology as the reason for our fascination. I think that I try to explore his reasons for going to war and his failures as a human being. I also think that his pathology is based on his desires of patricide. I feel that he wants to get rid of his own father. Bush’s sister died of leukemia when he was very young and his father was not around…When children came to the door and asked him to play, he would tell them, ‘I’m sorry, but my sister died. I have to take care of my mother.’ I feel that he resents his father to a degree that’s Oedipal and that he has disguised his own desire of getting rid of his father with his desire to get rid of Saddam Hussein. I could never understand why he was so fixed on tying Saddam to 9/11. I think he is replacing his wish to get rid of his father with Saddam’s wish to get rid of his father. He’s not protecting this country. He’s actually destroying America with his death wish for his father. He’s the evildoer. He’s the man with the weapons of mass destruction. His psychology is so simple.”
What’s scary is this sounds quite plausible.
Categories: Bush
Ever wondered about Bush’s work ethic? Ever wondered just how well-read he is? Here’s a glimpse of what his work-day was like when he was governor of Texas.
“As Governor, Bush stuck to a routine with a rigidity that was arguably comforting to his dyslexic and A.D.D tendencies. Clay Johnson, his chief of staff described Bush’s work day as broken up into a series of 10 or 15 minute meetings, with a two-hour break in the middle of the day during which he exercises and plays video games. Bush declines to read written reports, demanding oral summaries, instead. According to Johnson, Bush expects his staff to recommend a course of action. This, it would seem, relieves Bush of the responsibility for performing any analysis himself.”
What do you bet not much has changed since then?
Categories: Bush
Karen Finley gave this interview to The Nation in which she offers us her take on the Bush psyche:
“What I’m trying to do here is take an analytic approach and look at his pathology as the reason for our fascination. I think that I try to explore his reasons for going to war and his failures as a human being. I also think that his pathology is based on his desires of patricide. I feel that he wants to get rid of his own father. Bush’s sister died of leukemia when he was very young and his father was not around…When children came to the door and asked him to play, he would tell them, ‘I’m sorry, but my sister died. I have to take care of my mother.’ I feel that he resents his father to a degree that’s Oedipal and that he has disguised his own desire of getting rid of his father with his desire to get rid of Saddam Hussein. I could never understand why he was so fixed on tying Saddam to 9/11. I think he is replacing his wish to get rid of his father with Saddam’s wish to get rid of his father. He’s not protecting this country. He’s actually destroying America with his death wish for his father. He’s the evildoer. He’s the man with the weapons of mass destruction. His psychology is so simple.”
What’s scary is this sounds quite plausible.
Categories: Bush
Ever wondered about Bush’s work ethic? Ever wondered just how well-read he is? Here’s a glimpse of what his work-day was like when he was governor of Texas.
“As Governor, Bush stuck to a routine with a rigidity that was arguably comforting to his dyslexic and A.D.D tendencies. Clay Johnson, his chief of staff described Bush’s work day as broken up into a series of 10 or 15 minute meetings, with a two-hour break in the middle of the day during which he exercises and plays video games. Bush declines to read written reports, demanding oral summaries, instead. According to Johnson, Bush expects his staff to recommend a course of action. This, it would seem, relieves Bush of the responsibility for performing any analysis himself.”
What do you bet not much has changed since then?
Categories: Bush
With Gore being honored on stage at the Academy Awards last night for his role in inspiring the making of An Inconvenient Truth, I was reminded of the Grammys won by President and Mrs. Clinton. From The New Zealand Herald:
LOS ANGELES – Former US President Bill Clinton won the second Grammy Award of his career, when he was honoured in the spoken word category for his best-selling memoir My Life.
Clinton, who was not present to accept his award at the Los Angeles Convention Centre, also won a Grammy last year in the spoken word for children category. His wife, US Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, won a spoken word Grammy in 1997 for her memoir It Takes A Village.
Between President and Senator Clinton, they have three Grammys. Amazing. Between Cheney and Bush, on the other hand, there are three DUI convictions.
Categories: Bush · Cheney · DUI · criminals · jail
With Gore being honored on stage at the Academy Awards last night for his role in inspiring the making of An Inconvenient Truth, I was reminded of the Grammys won by President and Mrs. Clinton. From The New Zealand Herald:
LOS ANGELES – Former US President Bill Clinton won the second Grammy Award of his career, when he was honoured in the spoken word category for his best-selling memoir My Life.
Clinton, who was not present to accept his award at the Los Angeles Convention Centre, also won a Grammy last year in the spoken word for children category. His wife, US Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, won a spoken word Grammy in 1997 for her memoir It Takes A Village.
Between President and Senator Clinton, they have three Grammys. Amazing. Between Cheney and Bush, on the other hand, there are three DUI convictions.
Categories: Bush · Cheney · DUI · criminals · jail
As the 2008 campaign warms up, we’re going to see lots of accusations of candidates having shifted their positions on this matter or that. It might be helpful to remember how the great “Decider in Chief” has taken different sides on the same issues.
Here, thanks to Jackson Thoreau, is a fairly comprehensive listing of some famous Bush flip-flops. See also here and here, or even here.
Categories: Bush · flip-flopping · politics
As the 2008 campaign warms up, we’re going to see lots of accusations of candidates having shifted their positions on this matter or that. It might be helpful to remember how the great “Decider in Chief” has taken different sides on the same issues.
Here, thanks to Jackson Thoreau, is a fairly comprehensive listing of some famous Bush flip-flops. See also here and here, or even here.
Categories: Bush · flip-flopping · politics
According to this article in the Niagra Falls Reporter, Bush and the US are hated around the world. Seems everything Bush touches turns to shit.
The Reporter’s Bill Galagher writes:
DETROIT — President George W. Bush has managed to alienate nearly the entire world, and in a relatively short span of time the United States has become an international pariah. Forget about the terrorists who “hate us because of our freedom,” the “axis of evil,” the “Islamofascists,” or whatever label Bush uses to demonize people and spread fear.
The true measure of just how much Bush has systematically nurtured antipathy toward the United States is found in Europe, and especially in Italy. It is stunning how shattered the relationship now is.
I asked a friend, an Italian-American who often visits family there and had just returned from a Christmas trip, what Italians are thinking of Americans these days. His answer was grim and crisp: “They hate us.”
It will take decades to undo the damage done by Bush to America’s reputation.
Categories: Bush · politics
According to this article in the Niagra Falls Reporter, Bush and the US are hated around the world. Seems everything Bush touches turns to shit.
The Reporter’s Bill Galagher writes:
DETROIT — President George W. Bush has managed to alienate nearly the entire world, and in a relatively short span of time the United States has become an international pariah. Forget about the terrorists who “hate us because of our freedom,” the “axis of evil,” the “Islamofascists,” or whatever label Bush uses to demonize people and spread fear.
The true measure of just how much Bush has systematically nurtured antipathy toward the United States is found in Europe, and especially in Italy. It is stunning how shattered the relationship now is.
I asked a friend, an Italian-American who often visits family there and had just returned from a Christmas trip, what Italians are thinking of Americans these days. His answer was grim and crisp: “They hate us.”
It will take decades to undo the damage done by Bush to America’s reputation.
Categories: Bush · politics
