BS: Bush on Meds

Subject: BS: Bush on Meds
From: GUEST,Frank
Date: 11 Aug 04 - 08:36 PM

Interesting developments.


Bush Using Drugs to Control Depression Erratic
Behavior
By TERESA HAMPTON Editor, Capitol Hill Blue Jul 28,
2004, 08:09
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_4921.shtml
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 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."
Angry Bush walked away from reporter's questions. 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 motherfuckers 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.
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, rangin g
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 p rogram, 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.
The White House did not return phone calls seeking
comment on this article.
Although the exact drugs Bush takes to control his
depression and behavior are not known, White House
sources say they are "powerful medications" designed
to bring his erratic actions under control. While Col.
Tubb regularly releases a synopsis of the President's
annual physical, details of the President's health and
any drugs or treatment he may receive are not public
record and are guarded zealously by the secretive
cadre of aides that surround the President.
Veteran White House watchers say the ability to
control information about Bush's health, either
physical or mental, is similar to Ronald Reagan's
second term when aides managed to conceal the
President's increasing memory lapses that signaled the
onslaught of Alzheimer's Disease.
It also brings back memories of Richard Nixon's final
days when the soon-to-resign President wondered the
halls and talked to portraits of former Presidents.
The stories didn't emerge until after Nixon left
office.
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."

Subject: RE: BS: Bush on Meds
From: Peace
Date: 11 Aug 04 - 08:48 PM

"That's not good for my candidates, it's
not good for the party and it's certainly not good for
the country."

I trust that's not in order of importance.

Subject: RE: BS: Bush on Meds
From: Blackcatter
Date: 11 Aug 04 - 08:57 PM

Is there any verification for this article on the main stream press?

Who, or what, is Capitol Hill Blue?

Here's what they say about themselves:

"Capitol Hill Blue was launched by ex-newspaperman Doug Thompson in October 1994. That makes us the oldest surviving news site on the Internet. But don't take our word for it. Go to Google and see if you can find anything older.

Blue's editor is Terry Hampton, another journalist who began her career with newspapers. She is joined by a rotating group of current and ex-newspaper men and women. Some still work for news organizations and use Capitol Hill Blue as an outlet for the stories their outfits don't have the guts to publish. Others are retired, but can't give up the Muse.

Nobody here draws a salary. Blue is a not-for-profit operation where everyone donates their time. Although we run ads, all revenue from those ads goes to charity."

Subject: RE: BS: Bush on Meds
From: Peace
Date: 11 Aug 04 - 09:10 PM

I visited about twenty sites and all attribute the article to CHB. Can't find support for it elsewhere.

Subject: RE: BS: Bush on Meds
From: Bobert
Date: 11 Aug 04 - 10:30 PM

If true, this explains a lot...

Just say no....

Bobert

Subject: RE: BS: Bush on Meds
From: GUEST,peedeecee
Date: 11 Aug 04 - 11:43 PM

Capitol Hill Blue relies on reports from people inside the Beltway who are well-connected politically. They get tips from (for instance) Republicans who are unhappy with the Bush Administration, and that's apparently from where this story came. Another story that CHB broke was the White House staff being ordered not to see Fahrenheit 9/11, on pain of being fired.

I belong to a purely political forum on which many political aides, assistants, lobbyists, etc. post. They all have good things to say about CHB.

Subject: RE: BS: Bush on Meds
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 12 Aug 04 - 01:26 AM

As detestible as I find Bush, this is all just too transparent.

"President Bush is an untreated alcoholic with
paranoid and megalomaniac tendencies," Dr. Frank adds.
The White House did not return phone calls seeking
comment on this article.


The article is like a cobbled collection of descriptions of all past presidents' problems (Kennedy among them) and reads like something written on a dare. It also sounds like several first ladies--Mrs. Lincoln and Pat Nixon and Betty Ford, to name a few. Kerry would be a fool to pay any attention to it, or to consider touching an atom of this as he runs his race to the presidency. If there's only one source of the information, that's all the more suspicious.

Unless Karl Rove is running a whisper campaign against his boss, like he did against Ann Richards in Texas.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Bush on Meds
From: Joe Offer
Date: 13 Aug 04 - 12:49 AM

Well, I hope the meds help. Lord knows, he needs something...

But I guess I really won't believe he's on any sort of psychotropic medication until we hear it in the legitimate press.

-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: BS: Bush on Meds
From: Peace
Date: 13 Aug 04 - 02:00 AM

If Bush IS on meds, he shouldn't be.
If he ISN'T on meds, he should be.

Subject: RE: BS: Bush on Meds
From: Joe Offer
Date: 13 Aug 04 - 06:10 PM

Amen, Bruce.
Succinct, but profound.
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: BS: Bush on Meds
From: Charley Noble
Date: 13 Aug 04 - 08:32 PM

I was amused by this story when someone sent it to me. However, I agree that there is little evidence to back it up that Bush is a sick puppy, other than his record over the past 4 years.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: Bush on Meds
From: GUEST,Frank
Date: 14 Aug 04 - 03:55 PM

Well there's always the mainstream press to give you the real news. That is, of course the news they want you to hear and that they call real.

Does anyone wonder why Bush's last months in the Guard was never reported? Is it possible that he was under a doctor's care?

How does one explain the erratic behavior that lead to the pre-emption in Iraq?

How can the world be more safe from terrorism if it's not safe from the man who occupies the White House?

Let's see the mainstream press actually print a health record of Bush. As for Clinton, aside from his encounter with Monica and the false Right-wing charges in the Paula Jones case and the Flowers, his health was rather apparent. He was intelligent, and the country was running rather smoothly under his guidance compared to what it is today. I don't think he was on meds. Someone would have reported it since they were throwing all kinds of Right-wing brickbats at him such as the trumped-up Whitewater stuff.

Frank

Subject: RE: BS: Bush on Meds
From: Amos
Date: 14 Aug 04 - 04:05 PM

G.W.B. is a murderous and oblivious lunkhead.

He probably believes he is a man of principle, but he is oblivious to the priciples of the nation's history, and repeatedly flies in the face of them. He is too stupid to be a safe President.

A

Subject: RE: BS: Bush on Meds
From: GUEST,m. robertson
Date: 28 Sep 04 - 10:52 PM

I think Bush should be prosecuted for war crimes.

Subject: RE: BS: Bush on Meds
From: Ebbie
Date: 28 Sep 04 - 11:02 PM

First, m. robertson, we get him out of there.

Unless the incoming president 'pardons' the outgoing president? It's been done before...

Subject: RE: BS: Bush on Meds
From: GUEST
Date: 28 Sep 04 - 11:14 PM

and if President Bush remains in office then mister Kerry could be prosecuted, and perhaps given the nobel option of harri-karri thereby saving his family an impossibly ignanimous face to have to live down through the passing generations

Subject: RE: BS: Bush on Meds
From: Amos
Date: 28 Sep 04 - 11:28 PM

Absurd proposition.

A

Subject: RE: BS: Bush on Meds
From: GUEST,Duane D at work
Date: 29 Sep 04 - 01:10 PM

The article has been removed from the Capitol Blue site, but has reference to another one at this location: http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_4704.shtml

You may find this one as interesting.

Duane.

Subject: RE: BS: Bush on Meds
From: dianavan
Date: 30 Sep 04 - 01:07 PM

Meds? I think he acts more like a cocaine addict.

d

Subject: RE: BS: Bush on Meds
From: Bagpuss
Date: 01 Oct 04 - 11:25 AM

THIS IS AN OUTRAGEOUS SLUR......




























On the very many people who live with mental health problems and are NOT a danger to others!

Subject: RE: BS: Bush on Meds
From: kendall
Date: 09 Jun 07 - 03:37 PM

Duane, that kink doesn't work.