June 16, 2004
Psychology Of Bush
Salon.com Books | The inner W.Salon has an article about a book that psychoanalyzes Bush from a distance. Now, that's enough to raise an eyebrow right there, but I have to admit it is pretty entertaining to read.
One thing that captures the imagination is the idea of Bush being taught that all negative emotions are evil, leading to him projecting those qualities on others and then punishing them for it. It ties in quite nicely with the perception that I've written about of Bush being a bully. But, the intriguing part is the idea of him projecting because he's trying not to feel that way about himself.
One of my basic beliefs is that when we do too much of that, it comes back to bite us. It's this mysterious part of life - we're going to learn our lessons one way or another. The harder we try to resist them, the more damage they could do when they become unstoppable.
If that's what is happening here, Bush is engaging in a Herculean effort to avoid it. I mean, this is heavy stuff - he's staking the presidency of the United States on his hypothetical self-delusions. If the facade crumbles and the reversal rocks his world at the wrong time, it could hurt a lot of people besides just himself.
Or, it could just be entertaining. Like the image of Bush bull-rushing Kerry onstage at a debate when Kerry calls him a mere shadow of his father.
As we watch the lack of control that we see in Bush's temper during the debate,is it reasonable to fear that he may do something that he may do the unthinkable.He has already shown that he will invade another country and will tell an untruth to do it. It shows that we have seen him take office without being voted in by the people.We must make a choice between good and evil.We can not vote for our security of this nation in that we were more safe when Clinton was in office.
Posted by: Linda at October 6, 2004 07:54 PM