Is Dubya Delusional? (Dear Mr. Fantasy)

The Madness of George W. Bush: A Reflection of our Collective Psychosis

By Paul Levy

George W. Bush is ill. He has a psycho-spiritual dis-ease of the soul, a sickness that is endemic to our culture and symptomatic of the times we live in. It’s an illness that has been with us since time immemorial. Because it’s an illness that's in the soul of all of humanity, it pervades the field and is in all of us in potential at any moment, which makes it especially hard to diagnose. Bush's malady is quite different from schizophrenia, for example, in which all the different parts of the personality are fragmented and not connected to each other, resulting in a state of internal chaos. As compared to the dis-order of the schizophrenic, Bush can sound quite coherent and can appear like such a "regular," normal guy, which makes the syndrome he is suffering from very hard to recognize. This is because the healthy parts of his personality have been co-opted by the pathological aspect, which drafts them into its service. Because of the way the personality self-organizes an outer display of coherence around a pathogenic core, I would like to name Bush's illness ‘malignant egophrenic (as compared to schizophrenic) disease,’ or ‘ME disorder,’ for short. If ME disorder goes unrecognized and is not contained, it can be very destructive, particularly if the person is in a position of power.

Read the rest of the analysis at:

http://www.axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/article_15315.shtml

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There Is No Tomorrow
Bill Moyers


One of the biggest changes in politics in my lifetime is that the delusional is no longer marginal. It has come in from the fringe, to sit in the seat of power in the Oval Office and in Congress. For the first time in our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power in Washington.


http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/013105F.shtml

For George Bush is in his own Wonderland, and sees what he wants to see. In this fantasy world, no one questions and no one challenges. In this imaginary world, he has a mandate to continue his personal wars with impunity.

But what pleases him most is that no one is ever held accountable.

Let’s get this straight, so there’s no misunderstanding. President Bush claims that his re-election is a call for full absolution for him and his entire administration for all the death and destruction and chaos they have caused in Iraq. He insists the American people now hold no one accountable for any errors of judgment or planning that resulted in the greatest foreign policy blunder in recent history. ... Somewhere in all this, all logic disappears, and an aura of the Mad Hatter’s Tea Party emerges:

http://www.tvnewslies.org/html/inauguration_in_wonderland.html

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http://www.tucsonweekly.com/gbase/Opinion/Content?oid=oid:63670

DECEMBER 9, 2004
By CATHERINE O'SULLIVAN

Political alchemy is the ability to turn hard failures into gossamer triumphs. It does exist. The inauguration of President Bush for a second term proves it. ...

The President ... proclaims himself at the top of his game: ruler of the free world, liberator of Iraq and magnificent chief of the Grand Old Party. Most important, in his view, is that his view is shared by the American people. ...

Bush's unsurpassing achievement has been to make fantasy seem like reality and failure seem like success. He strides the world stage, a genuine smile on his face and a false mandate in his pocket. ...


Richard Cohen: Bush Master Of Delusion

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