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"Jeffrey McCann" writes:

At least, I've always heard that he was quite likeable in person.

While on drugs

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Bush Using Drugs to Control Depression, Erratic behavior
By TERESA HAMPTON
Editor, Capitol Hill Blue
Jul 28, 2004, 08:09




President George W. Bush is taking powerful anti-depressant drugs to
control his erratic behavior, depression and paranoia, Capitol Hill
Blue has
learned.

The prescription drugs, administered by Col. Richard J. Tubb, the
White
House physician, can impair the President’s mental faculties and
decrease
both his physical capabilities
]

He does fall off things with wheels a lot ....

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and his ability to respond to a crisis,
administration aides admit privately.

“It’s a double-edged sword,” says one aide.
“We can’t have him
flying off
the handle at the slightest provocation but we also need a President
who is
alert mentally.”

Tubb prescribed the anti-depressants after a clearly-upset Bush
stormed
off stage on July 8, refusing to answer reporters' questions about his
relationship with indicted Enron executive Kenneth J. Lay.

“Keep those mother****ers away from me,” he screamed at
an aide
backstage.
“If you can’t, I’ll find someone who can.”

Bush’s mental stability has become the topic of Washington
whispers in
recent months. Capitol Hill Blue first reported on June 4 about
increasing
concern among White House aides over the President’s wide mood
swings and
obscene outbursts.
]

IIRC None of that is news. Well known from when he was in Texas ...
but they try to keep it out of the press.

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Although GOP loyalists dismissed the reports an anti-Bush
propaganda, the
reports were later confirmed by prominent George Washington University
psychiatrist Dr. Justin Frank in his book Bush on the Couch: Inside
the Mind
of the President. Dr. Frank diagnosed the President as a
“paranoid
meglomaniac” and “untreated alcoholic” whose
“lifelong streak of
sadism,
ranging from childhood pranks (using firecrackers to explode frogs) to
insulting journalists, gloating over state executions and pumping his
hand
gleefully before the bombing of Baghdad” showcase Bush’s
instabilities.

“I was really very unsettled by him and I started watching
everything he
did and reading what he wrote and watching him on videotape. I felt he
was
disturbed,” Dr. Frank said. “He fits the profile of a
former drinker whose
alcoholism has been arrested but not treated.”

Dr. Frank’s conclusions have been praised by other prominent
psychiatrists, including Dr. James Grotstein, Professor at UCLA
Medical
Center, and Dr. Irvin Yalom, MD, Professor Emeritus at Stanford
University
Medical School.

The doctors also worry about the wisdom of giving powerful
anti-depressant
drugs to a person with a history of chemical dependency. Bush is an
admitted
alcoholic, although he never sought treatment in a formal program, and
stories about his cocaine use as a younger man haunted his campaigns
for
Texas governor and his first campaign for President.

“President Bush is an untreated alcoholic with paranoid and
megalomaniac
tendencies,” Dr. Frank adds.

.......

One long-time GOP political consultant who – for obvious
reasons – asked
not to be identified said he is advising his Republican Congressional
candidates to keep their distance from Bush.

“We have to face the very real possibility that the President
of the
United States is loony tunes,” he says sadly.
“That’s not good for my
candidates, it’s not good for the party and it’s certainly
not good for the
country.”

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or during the long-famed temper tantrums & hissy fits?
--
Cliff