Once again it is time to play: How Effed Up IS Bush??

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Re: Once again it is time to play: How Effed Up IS Bush??

Postby chiggerbit » Fri Sep 01, 2006 2:30 pm

Parry does it again! This guy is good.<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.consortiumnews.com/2006/082606.html">www.consortiumnews.com/2006/082606.html</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>Bush's Disdainful Presidency<br>By Robert Parry<br>August 26, 2006<br> <br><br>The U.S. news media always makes light of George W. Bush’s tendency to put down others through disparaging comments about their personal appearances or by assigning them silly nicknames. It’s just the “inner frat boy” coming out, we’re told.<br><br>So, when U.S. News cited “a top insider” describing how Bush likes to fart in the presence of junior White House staffers as a joke on them, the item was given the boys-will-be-boys title: “Animal House in the West Wing.”<br><br>According to U.S. News, Bush was just “a funny, earthy guy who, for example, can’t get enough of fart jokes. He’s also known to cut a few for laughs, especially when greeting new young aides.” Bush was described, too, as someone who “loves to cuss [and] gets a jolly when a mountain biker wipes out trying to keep up with him.” [U.S. News, Aug. 20, 2006]<br><br>But Bush’s behavior could be viewed in a less sympathetic light. Given his famous thin skin whenever he feels slighted, his eagerness to demean others could be interpreted as a sign of his dynastic authority, a modern-day droit du seigneur in which he can humiliate others but they can’t return the favor.<br><br>Indeed, this tendency to assert his superior position over others by subjecting them to degrading treatment has been a recurring part of Bush’s persona dating back at least to his days as an “enforcer” on his father’s presidential campaigns.<br><br>In 1986, for instance, Bush spotted Wall Street Journal political writer Al Hunt and his wife Judy Woodruff having dinner at a Dallas restaurant with their four-year-old son. Bush was steaming over Hunt’s prediction that Jack Kemp – not then-Vice President George H.W. Bush – would win the Republican presidential nomination in 1988.<br><br>Bush stormed up to the table and cursed Hunt out. “You fucking son of a bitch,” Bush yelled. “I saw what you wrote. We’re not going to forget this.”<br><br>Later in the campaign, when Newsweek ran a cover story with the image of George H.W. Bush on a boat with the headline, “Fighting the Wimp Factor,” a furious George W. Bush enforced a year-long punishment of Newsweek by barring the magazine’s reporters from access to key campaign insiders.<br><br>‘Don’t Kill Me’<br><br>Sometimes Bush’s sense of entitlement had an even nastier edge.<br><br>As Texas governor, Bush would mock people on Death Row. In a famous interview with conservative pundit Tucker Carlson, Bush imitated condemned murderess Carla Faye Tucker’s unsuccessful plea for clemency. “Please don’t kill me,” Bush whimpered through pursed lips, mimicking the woman he had put to death.<br><br>In another example of Bush’s put-down humor, the Texas governor lined up with a group of men for a photo and fingered the man next to him. “He’s the ugly one!” Bush laughed, before realizing that the incident was being observed by a reporter. [NYT, Aug. 22, 1999] <br><br>Other times, Bush showed how prickly he can be when facing criticism. During a campaign stop in Naperville, Ill., Bush groused to his running mate, Dick Cheney, about what Bush considered negative coverage from New York Times reporter Adam Clymer.<br><br>“There’s Adam Clymer – major league asshole – from the New York Times,” Bush said as he was waving to a campaign crowd from a stage in Naperville, Ill.<br><br>“Yeah, big time,” responded Cheney. Their voices were picked up on an open microphone. <br><br>During a presidential debate in 2000, Bush was back to making light of Texas executions. While arguing against the need for hate-crimes laws, Bush said the three men convicted of the racially motivated murder of James Byrd were already facing the death penalty. <br><br>“It’s going to be hard to punish them any worse after they’re put to death,” Bush said, with an out-of-place smile across his face. Beyond the inaccuracy of his statement – one of the three killers had received life imprisonment – there was that smirk again when discussing people on Death Row.<br><br>Bald Guys<br><br>Bush’s demeaning humor carried over into his presidency as he enjoyed razzing people about their looks, often in public when they could do nothing but blush and look down at their feet.<br><br>At a press conference at his Crawford ranch on Aug. 24, 2001, Bush called on a Texas reporter who had covered Bush as governor. Bush said the young reporter was “a fine lad, fine lad,” drawing laughter from the national press corps. <br><br>The Texas reporter then began to ask his question, “You talked about the need to maintain technological …” But Bush interrupted the reporter to deliver his punch line:<br><br>“A little short on hair, but a fine lad. Yeah.”<br><br>As Bush joined in the snickering, the young reporter paused and acknowledged meekly, “I am losing some hair.”<br><br>Bush’s joy in mocking bald men didn’t stop with reporters. <br><br>At a joint White House press conference May 16, 2006, with Australian Prime Minister John Howard, Bush slipped in a couple of zingers about Howard’s bald head and supposed homeliness.<br><br>Bush joshed, “Somebody said, ‘You and John Howard appear to be so close, don’t you have any differences?’ And I said, ‘yes, he doesn’t have any hair.’”<br><br>Getting a round of laughs from reporters, Bush moved on to his next joke: “That’s what I like about John Howard,” Bush said. “He may not be the prettiest person on the block, but when he tells you something you can take it to the bank.”<br><br>Howard played the role of gracious guest, smiling and saying nothing in response to the unflattering comments about his physical appearance.<br><br>Neck Rub<br><br>Besides publicly embarrassing people about their looks – while they are in no position to return the favor – Bush also demonstrates his power by invading personal space, cupping his hand behind a man’s neck or – in the case of German Chancellor Angela Merkel – giving her an unwelcome neck rub at the G-8 summit in St. Petersburg, Russia.<br><br>In a generally flattering portrait of Bush in the 2003 book, The Right Man, former Bush speechwriter David Frum acknowledged that Bush often used sarcasm to dress down his subordinates as well as his political opponents.<br><br>Bush is “impatient and quick to anger; sometimes glib, even dogmatic; often uncurious and as a result ill informed,” Frum wrote. When referring to environmentalists, Bush would call them “green-green lima beans,” according to Frum.<br><br>Other times, Bush’s harsh humor has complicated U.S. foreign policy, including the tense relations with North Korea. During a lectern-pounding tirade before Republican leaders in May 2002, Bush insulted North Korea’s diminutive dictator Kim Jong Il by calling him a “pygmy,” Newsweek reported. The slur quickly circulated around the globe.<br><br>While many Bush backers find his acid tongue and biting humor refreshing – the sign of a “politically incorrect” politician – some critics contend that Bush’s casual insults fit with a dynastic sense of entitlement toward the presidency and toward those he rules.<br><br>Dynasty<br><br>The Bushes show no modesty about their extraordinary political dynasty. At family events, George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush wear matching caps and wind-breakers emblazoned with the numbers 41 and 43, identifying their presidencies.<br><br>George W. Bush also relished the fawning news coverage that followed the 9/11 attacks, complete with suggestions from the likes of NBC’s Tim Russert that Bush’s selection as President might have been divinely inspired.<br><br>In a round-table discussion on Dec. 23, 2001, Russert joined New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, Cardinal Theodore McCarrick and First Lady Laura Bush in ruminating about whether divine intervention had put Bush in the White House to handle the crisis.<br><br>Russert asked Mrs. Bush if “in an extraordinary way, this is why he was elected.” Mrs. Bush disagreed with Russert’s suggestion that “God picks the President, which he doesn’t.”<br><br>This hagiographic treatment of Bush might have been intended to boost his confidence in the face of a national crisis. But the flattery instead seems to have fed an egotism that devoured any remaining self-doubts.<br><br>The swelling of Bush’s head was apparent in his interview for Bob Woodward’s Bush at War, .which took a largely flattering look at Bush’s “gut” decision-making but reported some disturbing attitudes within the White House.<br><br>“I am the commander, see,” Bush told Woodward. “I do not need to explain why I say things. That’s the interesting thing about being the President. Maybe somebody needs to explain to me why they need to say something, but I don’t feel like I owe anybody an explanation.”<br><br>So, Bush had come to see himself as beyond accountability, much as ancient royalty viewed their own powers as unlimited under the divine right of kings. In the traditional droit du seigneur, a nobleman had the right to deflower the bride of a male subject on their first night of marriage.<br><br>Now we’re told that George W. Bush has another way of demonstrating his supremacy over subordinates: when new White House aides are brought in to be introduced to the President of the United States, the President farts.<br><br> <p></p><i></i>
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Re: Once again it is time to play: How Effed Up IS Bush??

Postby chiggerbit » Fri Sep 01, 2006 2:46 pm

I'm not a professional, but read the above article, check out this link, and plug in these behaviors:<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.toad.net/~arcturus/dd/narc.htm">www.toad.net/~arcturus/dd/narc.htm</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--> <p></p><i></i>
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birthday gift?

Postby blanc » Sat Sep 02, 2006 4:18 am

maybe we should each send the us pres a cork <p></p><i></i>
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Re: Once again it is time to play: How Effed Up IS Bush??

Postby yablonsky » Sat Sep 02, 2006 8:18 pm

..from the steinberg piece:<br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>Lyndon LaRouche added a further strategic dimension to the mass-distraction efforts of the Bush-Cheney White House. LaRouche highlighted the overtime work of the "Plunge Protection Team"—centered out of the Treasury Department, the Federal Reserve, and other leading central banks around the globe—to cover up and carry out damage control for a major hedge-fund collapse, which threatens the entire world financial system. News of this hedge-fund meltdown had barely made it into the back pages of the financial press in Europe, but LaRouche had been warning for months about a major financial chain-reaction crisis before September, and the reports echoed precisely such an already ongoing event.<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br>if this had a modicum of credibility the particulars would be immediately highlighted on any number of bearish economic, investment or housing bubble sites and blogs - not to mention a major msm item. the idea that there exists the possibility of systemic risk to the global econmic system due to a hedge fund crisis or derivatives event is hardly news. what is this back page european financial press item? <p></p><i></i>
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Re: Once again it is time to play: How Effed Up IS Bush??

Postby yesferatu » Mon Sep 04, 2006 10:56 pm

<<"The problem is we get oil from some parts of the world and they simply don't like us," Bush said. "And so the more dependent we are on that type of energy, the less likely it will be that we are able to compete, and so people have good, high-paying jobs.">><br><br>Which of the two dozen things eff'd up about this latest from a speech made today should I comment on?<br>Aw, screw it. He is just <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>that</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> eff'd up, so as to make commenting an unnecessary practice. <p></p><i></i>
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Re: Once again it is time to play: How Effed Up IS Bush??

Postby chiggerbit » Mon Sep 04, 2006 11:20 pm

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Re: Once again it is time to play: How Effed Up IS Bush??

Postby chiggerbit » Tue Sep 19, 2006 12:03 am

Great pics. But, could we be headed for a Bush meltdown? I think if he faces even more opposition from a less compliant press, we may experience a psychological break of some sort. REVENGE is his key personality characteristic. Will he get to the point that he even wants revenge on the American public for their lack of loyalty? The media is the key, the way inside to his psyche. His staff have been successful in buffering , so far, but watch out for when the media can no longer buffer between him and the people.<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://bagnewsnotes.typepad.com/bagnews/2006/09/losing_it.html">bagnewsnotes.typepad.com/...ng_it.html</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>The question, at this point, is: Can Bush stand opposition? <br><br>Up to now, I've felt that Bush had the psychological strength to contain the anger and arrogance that underlies much of his behavior. Observing his press conference in the Rose Garden on Friday, however, I'm not so sure anymore. <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>Bush pulled off the Presidency perfectly well when things were going his way and people deferred to him (or cowered). (I'm speaking mentally, not politically.) <br><br>With the teflon all but gone, however, he's starting to come apart whenever challenged. You can hear it in his tone, and you can see it in his body language.</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> Besides Friday, it was quite evident, for example, in the recent "walk and talk" interviews Bush gave to Brian Williams in New Orleans and to Charles Gibson in Atlanta. (I used one image from the Gibson interview recently, but not in this context.) <br><br>Gibson decided to take Bush on regarding the tactic of questioning the capacity of Democrats to keep America secure. The blogosphere took good note of Bush's agitated response. I'm not sure the 'sphere, however, picked up the psychological fine points. Of course, Bush got offended. <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>If you watch the video, however, you'll see he also became retaliatory. (As retaliatory as one can get in a supposedly civil, grown-up conversation on national television.) A typical reaction of this kind involves a person aggressively moving forward into somebody else's physical space. If you notice, Bush literally gets into Gibson's face.</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> <br><br>The more diagnostic reaction came next, however. Like any good stage actor (and, especially one who spends most of his time being filmed and photographed), <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>Bush knows exactly where the cameras are and where to stand</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END-->. <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong> Literally unable to contain himself, however, Bush pivoted around and stepping in front of the camera, blocking the picture and denying Gibson visual access.</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> <br><br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>This need to "make it go away" is a very primitive response. Not just angered by being opposed, Bush's immediate move to censor, or cut things off, evidences a subtle, but despairing psychological act. (You could actually see a similar form of behavior during Friday's press conference. Bush reacted so angrily to early questions challenging his intelligence policy, he started filibustering, talking as long as he could to answer, thereby forestalling more questions -- and the need to, again, get himself worked up.</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> (At one point, he even quipped to a reporter who had asked a long-winded question: "I'm not going to apologize for talking too long.") <br><br>Behaviorally, these are troubling signs. Short of compromise (and the ego blow that seems to cause), where does Bush go if the outright opposition doesn't stop? <br><br> <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=chiggerbit@rigorousintuition>chiggerbit</A> at: 9/18/06 10:19 pm<br></i>
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Re: Once again it is time to play: How Effed Up IS Bush??

Postby greencrow0 » Tue Sep 19, 2006 12:19 am

<!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=2407508">abcnews.go.com/Video/play...id=2407508</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>chiggerbit<br><br>That was an amazing video interview for a couple of reasons, not the least of which is how bush AGAIN predicts with certainty that he is going to hold both the House and the Senate...I remember seeing him say exactly the same thing about the Presidential election...<br><br>I guess he really has it all sewn up.<br><br>I don't believe we will see a change in the guard in Washington...I do believe he will again fraudulate himself into maintaining power.<br><br><!--EZCODE EMOTICON START :o --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/embarassed.gif ALT=":o"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> <p></p><i></i>
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Re: Once again it is time to play: How Effed Up IS Bush??

Postby chiggerbit » Tue Sep 19, 2006 12:27 am

I don't know, greenie. When I read the polls before about whether people were happy with the way the country was headed, I always assumed that there were some misleading numbers, in that a lot of unhappy ultra-right people were being counted who thought that we weren't going "right enough", not that people were just unhappy with the general direction to the Dems. However, not so sure now. Take a look:<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://electioncentral.tpmcafe.com/blog/electioncentral/2006/sep/18/bushs_post_sept_11_bounce_evaporates">electioncentral.tpmcafe.c...evaporates</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--> <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=chiggerbit@rigorousintuition>chiggerbit</A> at: 9/18/06 10:31 pm<br></i>
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Re: Once again it is time to play: How Effed Up IS Bush??

Postby sunny » Tue Sep 19, 2006 12:32 am

This makes me feel like a horrible person, but then again, if my wish comes true, lives could be saved.<br><br>I wish Bush would truly lose it on live teevee. I wish he would start blubbering and cursing, spastically flailing his arms at non-existent flies. (like his father once did under the influence of Halcyon) I wish he would stick his thumbs in his ears and waggle his fingers and go "nanner nanner" to the camera.<br><br>Think they could spin that? <!--EZCODE IMAGE START--><img src="http://www.websmileys.com/sm/crazy/322.gif"/><!--EZCODE IMAGE END--> <p></p><i></i>
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Re: Once again it is time to play: How Effed Up IS Bush??

Postby chiggerbit » Tue Sep 19, 2006 1:16 am

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!! Nope!!! <p></p><i></i>
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Re: Once again it is time to play: How Effed Up IS Bush??

Postby chiggerbit » Tue Sep 19, 2006 1:39 am

I just wish Wetterling could win in Minnesota. She would be such a fantastic person to represent the state of Minnesota in Congress. <p></p><i></i>
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re:bush

Postby juno jones » Tue Sep 19, 2006 1:20 pm

Personally, I'd be happy to see him lose it and barf in Rev. Moon's lap..... <p></p><i></i>
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Re: re:bush

Postby DBtv » Tue Sep 19, 2006 1:44 pm

His supercilious saber rattling at the UN was met with stony silence showing how out of touch with reality this self absorbed megalomaniac is. <br><br>Why are the neo-cons commited to the total destruction of the USA? <p></p><i></i>
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