January 5, 2007

  • Clinically Speaking, Is Dubya a Sociopath?

    I was recently referred to an interview with Justin A. Frank, M.D., author of "Bush on the Couch".  He posits that Bush Jr., our pResident, has sociopathic personality disorder.  I've been pretty certain of this for years, but it's nice to have it confirmed by a "mental health professional".  Here's the link:  http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/interviews/049

    In other news, below is a brief commentary on Bush's latest "signing statement", a device he has pioneered and perfected - no doubt at the instigation of his handlers - as a way to negate the intent of the legislation he's signing, and to impose his unilateral executive will on our unsuspecting asses.

    Apparently in December, Bush added a signing statement to a
    bill related to the US Postal Service.  Though the bill
    "explicitly reinforced protections of first-class mail from
    searches without a court's approval", Bush's signing statement
    construes an exception "which provides for opening of an item
    of a class of mail otherwise sealed against inspection in a manner
    consistent ... with the need to conduct searches in exigent
    circumstances."

    But of course, we're always living in an emergency.   So our
    administration has given itself license to open any postal mail
    it deems interesting.

    A "top Senate Intelligence Committee aide" promised that this
    signing statement is "something we're going to look into."

    Article, originally from the New York Daily News, at
    http://www.commondreams.org/headlines07/0104-01.htm

    EDIT:  Here's a little movie especially for Trun(sic)thePaige, who takes pleasure in calling me a fool for believing that Saddam Hussein received assistance from the United States in developing his weapons of mass destruction program: 

    Have a nice day.

Comments (31)

  • *EEK* I will be so glad when he is out of office...but what/who then?

  • Trust me, I know sociopaths, and that man is no sociopath.

    He's just dumb.

  • If Bush wasn't already a sociopath before the execution, just wait until the angry ghost of Saddam Hussein comes to haunt Bush much like in Macbeth ............. at that point he will need the Exorcist (more details coming in a few days).

  • :P Great minds think alike, Ecc my good friend.

  •  How right you are.. Happy New Year to you.

  • Most leaders, great or otherwise, are sociopathic to some extent. (Think of Bill Clinton, Richard Nixon, or pretty much anyone in 1970s South America.) And whether someone is a sociopath doesn't necessarily have anything to do with intelligence. However, for some reason, there's a high correlation between lawyers and sociopathic tendencies.

    Based on the definition of what a sociopath is, I say that Bush is a maybe. He does exhibit a lack of anxiety and a lack of guilt, but he may think that his actions are ultimately the right thing to do. If he were a sociopath, he would be aware that his actions are not acceptable, but would still feel that lack of anxiety/guilt.

    As for the rest of the definition: Maybe. He does have a tendency to twist laws to his own liking and bend rules, but I see no instance in which he could be fairly labeled as "impulsive." 

  • RYC: The Arab chick is probably somewhere in Maryland getting it on with her emo-looking boyfriend. It's a long story about why I don't like her, but it's mostly because she insulted a friend of mine and has been sending her retarded little minion friends to troll on my site.

    As for Bush and whether he's a sociopath, I really wouldn't be surprised either way. We ought to be able to have him take the MMPI and see the results.  

  • Sociopath? Ehhh maybe but he's definately a NUT JOB! Haw Haw! Seriously...

    justsayin...

    *wink*

    John, it seems you and I share the same "luv" for Georgie.... *GAG*

    ~Namaste~  )0(

  • dubya is dumb....that's for sure!

  • THUNK!!  That was another of our rights crashing onto the floor.

  • Hello there Eccentrique!  This is your old sparing partner Clare Chenault!  I happened to be visiting Ninoochka and her hubby this weekend with my family.  Ninoochka said she saw some of your postings with  and thought I would say 'Hello'!  While I have not found it benefical nor profitable to continue with Xanga...I have thought of you often.

    I hope you had a wonderful holiday season.  As a side note, I thought of you when the Dem's took over congress the other day.  I look forward to the liberals creating peace in our time.  As I read the folks posting on your site today...it is a bit disconcerting to see their commentaries being denatured to simply 'Oh yeah, Bush is dumb'.  Very powerful arguments! 

    Seriously though, may the Lord bless and keep you in 2007.  Congrats on the Dem's sweep!  I miss being able to communicate with you on a regular basis.

    In His Grace - Clare Chenault!

  • yeah, this signing statement has pissed me off.

    and the book the sociopath next door basically proves dumbya is a sociopath

  • In my deepest thinking, I really don't think the pResident is a sociopath.  I think he's under-educated for the postition and a little slow to learn.  I do agree that the signing statement is another bad decision of his.  He needs to get away from it all and see it from a different perspective.  I have no doubt he'd be the first to shout if someone else had tried to pull off such an injustice.

  • I think he has some traits in common with a sociopath ,and that he is not terribly bright...what weirds me out is that he gets to make big decisions..... I only wish he had gone into a less meddlesome line of work.

  • I finally figured out who Dubya  was....I am slow.

  • Oh my Gosh... He's worst than Hannibal Lecter! He's George W. Bush our "greatest" sociopath in bringing our country down the fuckin' drain! 

  • "Dare I ask why?"

    no i dont, yes you may, i wont answer tonite tho, , , its 6am and i need to go to bed, , , amazingdoggo is expecting me to take him to work in the morning, , , i havent read this post either, , , so i have to return tomorrow anyway.  i will get back with you, , , i promise.

  • Why do they call George Bush Dubya?

  • "a fool for believing that Saddam Hussein received assistance"

    you believe, , , i know, , , well, , , you probably know too and are purposely using the theory word.

    he, as well as 99.9% of our enemies have recieved assistance from the us govt. . .  and always will as long as our current class of thieves and liars are in office.

    this includes democrats and republicans alike, , , we trained osamid bin lobby as well and him and him and him, , , its common knowledge, , , not theory.

    by participating in the un, , , we allow our enemies to bark orders at us while we jump around like frogs on a frozen pond.

    i never thought about dubya, , , i guess it makes cents, , , but i prefer to just call him jr.

  • You hit it right on with the "we are always living in an emergency".  That is the thing that bothers me.  all this stuff passed will someday come back to haunt us.

  • Wow an argument by assertion using flash. I so impressed, now if you were to ever back anything up, I would stop laughing at you.

    You're only proving your point to the fools that already believe what your saying, before you say it.

    "that Saddam Hussein received assistance"

    Now you are lying, you said received WMD's and yes you are fool to believe it. Not true and proven so. He received targeting information during the Iran war, that is assistance, but not weapons. Unlike you I actuality know what I am talking about.

    I really did not want to tear you up on your own site again. That being a very easy thing for me to do. Intellectually you are far below me on this type of subject. But you linked to my site and people came. Thank you for not talking behind my back. As you should know I have not been back to your site since our last spat.

    I will come back someday, so I can use your cut and pastes as examples of logical fallacies.

    Assertion, Begging the question,Straw man,Association fallacy, Appeal to ridicule etc. I could write book on the subject, using just your material. Ok it is not your stuff, but you endorse it.

  • Ok, last I checked tempering with mail was a felony? Happy New Year by the way. Yes Bush is a psycho -- don't need a PhD to tell you that.

  • ryc: i needa talk to you, i think. sigh.

  • RYC, "Shows me that the voters in this poll don't really know anything about Satan." Indeed, they don't. They have been deceived by the "Great Deceiver". Check out http://www.bushisantichrist.com/ and tell me if this guy does or doesn't make quite a case. "Bring democracy to the Middle East", indeed. Maybe they DO know something about Satan, they just didn't know that they knew.

  • SAW a Republican congresswoman from maine who was shocked when she found out what GW intended to do with that postal bill...but y'all voted for the Clown Prince TWICE...so what do you expect, especially since he "joked" that the cuntry would be so much better off if it was a dictatorship as long as HE was the dictator NOW everyone can experience that prison feeling

  • You probably WOULD hate my favourite Howard Stern whackpacker, Debbie Schlussel but you know me...i LVE going to Reich-wing sites and stirring up the shit i ALSO find it amusing that the daughter of a rabbi could be SO rabidly Republican, especially since THAT is the final solutioning party

  • ryc: definitely a neophyte.

  • Ok, so maybe he's not a sociopath...

    He's a d*ckhead....

    justsayin.......

  • ryc: by psychoanalyzing my friendship with daniel, you were, in effect, doing the same for me. not that i mind in any way; you helped -- and still do. the post was all in good fun, which i think i mentioned in the post isteslf.

  • ryc: like i said, i KNEW... i was just appalled that that is an actual item in our contract with iraq.  what balls our stupid president has.

  • I don't know if you know this, but signing statements have no power whatsoever- the executive branch is not legally empowered to override the legislative branch on a matter of procedural law. Putting it there is arguably comitting treason, and, in my knowledge, is only useful if he wants to claim later, while under indictment in a court of law, that he thought the law meant something else and that he shouldn't be punished for treason for directly countermanding a legally-ordered act of congress.

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