The Soul of a Man
If the eyes are the windows to the soul, what do I see when I look into the eyes of the president? Pyschiatrist Justin Frank, writing in Bush on the Couch: Inside the Mind of the President, says the President has a ""lifelong 
streak of sadism, ranging from childhood pranks (using firecrackers to explode frogs) to insulting journalists, gloating over state executions ... [and] pumping his fist gleefully before the bombing of Baghdad." Even worse, Dr. Frank concludes, the President's years of heavy drinking ""may have affected his brain function - and his decision to quit drinking without the help of a 12-step program [puts] him at far higher risk of relapse." The President suffers from "character pathology," including "grandiosity" and "megalomania" -- viewing himself, America and God as interchangeable.
And then there's the mendacity beyond the meanness. This is more than the "unfeeling president" described by E. L. Doctorow. This is a man unfit to lead, a man incapable of leadership, a cipher for the shadow personalities with which he surrounds himself. He is the dark side of the American Dream incarnate.
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Ha ha, and he gets this from "looking into his eyes". Since this guy has never had the Prez on the couch, I'm gonna have to disagree with his medical diagnosis. I'll also have to point out how willing this "doc" is to violate someones privacy. Yes I know Bush isn't his patient, but don't you think there's a few medical ethics issues that are being stomped into the mud here.
If you would have just linked the guys name instead of Pyschiatrist, I probably would have skimmed over it.
So grif, are you going to grant your doc the priviledge to talk to me about the diagnosis of your mental health?? Not that this guy has any leg to stand on, he's not conferring with any of Bush's medical professionals, and merely spouting a partisan line.
Or maybe you'll be kind enough to link for us a similar diagnosis of President Clinton (would hve have a lifelong streak of predatory behavior toward women?).
Come on, you can't really be relying on this guys "what do I see when I look into the eyes of the president" and valid psychiatric analysis do you????
--Jason
Only those words enclosed by quotation marks are Dr.Franks' (or E. L. Doctorow's). The visage in that picture is what I see when I look in the eyes of the president.
I guess since you have labelled me a "libertine" (which, by my reckoning, is quite a presumptuous stretch on your part) you assume I approved of Bill Clinton's character aberrations. At least the man rose from out of the trailer park by his own bootstraps (isn't that the American Dream?). In what transgressions would George be indulging behind closed doors if he hadn't found Jesus?
Maybe you would trust lifelong Republican Kevin Phillip's analysis instead, in his book "American Dynasty: Aristocracy, Fortune and Deceit in the House of Bush."
Of course we had a budget surplus in the Clinton years. We weren't at war. And if we were (at war), would a Vice-President's former corporate nest be stealing the taxpayers blind on no bid contracts while feeding our troops rotten food?
You sure can muddle issues together can't ya.
My description of you as libertine, is coincident with your original assertion that I was a righty fundy, then as a wrong-headed libertarian. I didn't assume you approve of Clinton's dalliances, but rather wondered if you'd accept slanderous partisan commentary on the man as indicative of his psychiatric diagnosis. I can only assume you would since you're so ready to do it for Bush.
I've read Phillip's book, and generally find it to be full of exaggerations, half-truths, outright falsehood based on a simple premise not to examine, but rather to slander and destroy. This is but the continuation of a political philosophy which began in Nixon's administration where the finest example from the left is that Vietnam was "Nixon's war". One is hard pressed to find a leftist that will admit that it was Kennedy who started that war, Johnson who turned it into a debacle, and Nixon who got us out. Regardless of the facts, leftist will scream to high holy ground that it was 'Nixon's War', Phillips book is similarily disregarding of the facts and truth of his chosen subject matter.
Haliburton - Do you know of any company that could do the job that Haliburton is tasked with?? Perhaps you also are ready to attack Fairchild industries and Avondale Works. As someone who's worked with Bectel and Haliburton in the past I know a bit more than most about their activities.
Do you condemn Haliburton for their construction contracts which were granted with no-bid for reconstruction in Kosovo?? How bout Haiti? What about Haliburtons precedent company and their contract in Germany and Japan? Do you begrudge them building embassies around the world? How bout their construction projects in middle and south america, the tsunami stricken regions or their contracts to build infrastructure in the former soviet union.
It's well know that Cheney has completely divested from Haliburton with his election and it's also well documented that all future payments for past services rendered will be directed to charitable organizations.
Who would you suggest replace Haliburton for the type of work they do. I suppose also you're aware that Haliburton is more of a management company who in turn farms contracts and oversees logistics for smaller companies (ranging in size from 1 employee to many thousands, often employing local labor and building local markets).
It's easy for you to scream nepotism and decry Haliburton, but it's much harder for you to examine them with a critical AND honest eye. You're quick to slander and judge, but seem very reluctant to examine truthfully.
Do you also decry Turners growing stranglehold on the mediascape? Do you decry Microsoft's hold on operating systems. Do you decry the Heinz corporations and their destruction of independent farms throughout the midwest?
Haliburton is a collection of companies that do something unique in the world. They make record profits in the good years and have record losses in the bad. They are a public company and provide a service no other economic entity in the past 50 years has been able to. 68% of the Nations of the world have hired Haliburton in the last 35 years. From projects ranging from dams to provide water and power, to ports opening third world markets to international shipping. When another corporation arises that has the ability, resources, personnel and assets to handle tasks the same way, then maybe we'll see bidding but the fact of the matter remains that Haliburton is the only American company and one of the few in the world that can handle the tasks being asked of them without creating yet another huge government bureaucracy to oversee hundred or thousands of companies without the financial wherewithall to pull it off.
Again to Cheney's role with Haliburton, do you suggest that elected officials should not have employment in the private sector prior to election to public office. Perhaps you feel that only lawyers are qualified to hold public office. Your positions are quite cloudy and obtuse and your connections away from the issue at hand only belies an uncomfortableness to address the topic.
I'm having fun tho', so lets see where you'll go next. Maybe you'll even start ranting "it's the JOOOOOS" and all of Bushco's dealings are actually part of a ritualistic Zionist cabal intent on making us all wear the skullcap.
I didn't realize you were so perceptive when looking into someones eyes, that's quite a skill you have there. But at least you're holding most of your mud and haven't degraded into simpleminded profanity (you've been pretty mild so far) and your conspiracy theories are rather tame, which is good, there's hope for you to overcome socialist leanings and subscribe to a doctrine that emphasized freedom, democracy and personal achievement and embrace a system that actually has been proven to work (capitalism) rather than your current socialist mindset that only serves to degrade individuals and has failed at every turn.
Have a great night and a better tomorrow Avram.
--Jason
Ah, yes. Spin away. So why is Halliburton under investigation by the SEC? Socialist plot? And how perceptive of you to intuit that I am a self-hating Jew who in fact does see the tentacles of the Zionist-banker conspiracy all around me. And yes, I have tried to avoid the descent into profanity, into which VP Cheney apparently could not before the Senate.
"You're quick to slander and judge, but seem very reluctant to examine truthfully.
"Do you also decry Turners growing stranglehold on the mediascape? Do you decry Microsoft's hold on operating systems. Do you decry the Heinz corporations and their destruction of independent farms throughout the midwest?"
Turner owns very little of the mediascape at this juncture, particularly compared to Murdoch and Clear Channel. Conagra has done far more to destroy family farms than Heinz. And yes, I do decry Microsoft's hold on OS's and in fact use Linux.
Goodnight, Jason. Sleep tight. The cracks in the wall may just fix themselves while you slumber.
Ah yes, investigation equals guilt right????
Funny funny there.
As to the corps, yes, there are bigger corps and smaller corps, yet you want to have one "evil mega corp" and suggest that Cheney is somehow lining his pockets when in actuality all that money is going straight to charity. But that doesn't matter to you now does it.
And lets' get one thing straight, who started judging who first, remember grif, I'm one of those tricky atheist fundys???
Oh yeah, I'm a righty too, then I'm libertarian.
So who's the one that's quick to judge???
I'm also guessing you've never told anyone to "f*ck off"?? In a private conversation???
Oh wait, you're the one that puts medical diagnosis in the public domain, so privacy must mean that much to you.
Fast and loose with the facts you continue to be.
--Jason
As for the "jooos" comment, I think you're smart enough to realize that that is a condemnation of the anti-semetic left right now and wasn't squarely on your shoulders.
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