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April 30, 2008 at 05:47:39

Textbook descriptions of George Bush reveal psychopathy, and much worse.

by Ed Martin Page 1 of 2 page(s)

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The research of Dr. Hervey Cleckley and Dr. Robert Hare exploring the personality and character traits of psychopaths, when applied to George Bush, shows that Bush fits exactly the profile they developed for the psychopath. Demographis show that Republicanism is much worse than psychopathy.

An excerpt from the book Blood Relations, by Eric Konigsberg, about his great-uncle Harold, a convicted murder:

Hervey Cleckley in his book, The Mask of Sanity, describes the psychopath as a certain type of cruel manipulator whose harmful actions are accompanied by an absence of delusion. The psychopath, he wrote, "does not hear voices. In theory, he can foresee the consequences of injudicious or antisocial acts." A psychopath is a person who knows full well the difference between right and wrong and yet, without compunction, chooses to do wrong. Checkley cited the protagonist of The Incredible Charlie Carewe, a novel by Mary Astor, as a quintessential psychopath. "Charlie is a genius in reverse with dangerous charm. Sisters lie for him, parents defend him, friends obey him. While calmly and casually, Charlie Carewe literally gets away with murder."

George Bush has calmly, casually and gleefully murdered a million innocent Iraqis. So far, he's gotten away with it.

Robert Hare got first hand experience with psychopaths while working at a prison near Vancouver. Hare describes one inmate as having a winning personality, and he used it to test the limits of what Hare would do on his behalf. He lied endlessly, lazily, about everything, and it disturbed him not a whit whenever something in his file contradicted one of his lies.

Reid Meloy, a forensic psychologist at the University of California, San Diego, says of the psychopath, "Typically the way a person like this maintains an inflated view of the self is by devaluing other people, taking advantage of them. If you look at the trail of a psychopath, you will see it littered with wounded, angry people."

Yes, better than 70% of the people in the United States alone, not counting more than 20 million people in Iraq and an untold number in the rest of the world are wounded and angry.

George Bush uses a derogatory nickname for just about everyone around him. Turdblossom. He also uses the diminutive to belittle. Brownie for a grown man.

Hare developed a system of identification for psychopaths that includes various personality and character traits:

Glibness/superficial charm, grandiose sense of self-worth, pathological lying, cunning/manipulative, lack of remorse or guilt, shallow affect, callous/lack of empathy, failure to accept responsibility for own actions, parasitic lifestyle, lack of realistic, long-term goals, irresponsibility, criminal versatility.

I don't have to list examples of Bush's actions and behavior for you to match them up with the above list, but let's take one, failure to accept responsibility for own actions. When Bush was asked if he had ever made any mistakes, he replied that he couldn't think of any. That's just one. Another is parasitic lifestyle. Bush has lived off of relatives, friends and the government all of his life. He now lives in government provided housing and receives government provided funds to live on. Perfect examples. The rest fit just as well.

Some more character traits of the psychopath that fit George Bush perfectly:

Uses defense mechanism of projection, blaming others for own faults, impervious to anxiety, depression, unremorseful, lack of self insight, no self humor, can't stand to be the butt of jokes, uses neologisms, makes up strange new words, lack of probity, courtesy, doesn't tolerate society's niceties or obligations, does not learn from mistakes, tends to think in concrete black or white terms.

That last one is the same as Bush's "You're either with us or you're against us." Another perfect example.

From the inordinately high number of Republicans who exhibit some or all of these psychopathic traits, such as Limbaugh, Hannity, Coulter, Rove, Addington, Cheney, Rice, Wolfowitz, Pearle and Feith, to name just a few, and those such as Cunningham, Abramoff and others who are in prison for their psychopathic acts, we would have to think that either psychopaths naturally became Republicans or that Republicans, for some abnormal reason, admire and elevate psychopathic behavior as the highest ideal to be emulated.

Normal distribution would show the rate of psychopaths born to be evenly distributed among the population. But, as we have seen, there is an abnormal nimber of psychopaths among Republicans. There just can't be that many more psychopaths born to Republicans than to anyone else. It has to be learned behavior by people brought up as Republicans. Their immersion in Republican culture and society naturally warps their minds and leads them to think that psychopathy is normal, ordinary behavior. They've been taught that way of thinking as the highest ideal and that it is the only way to deal with the world.

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I don't care to write a bio for now. Maybe later.
Cathy K.I don't care to write a bio for now. Maybe later.

This is a truely bizarre article.

First of all, I don't think I (and perhaps you) have enough info to say accurately that George Bush is a psychopath. But I think it is entirely possible. If he is, though, by those same measures, Bill Clinton was probably also a psychopath.

But to equate these qualities with Republicanism is a leap of large proportions. And to say that it is because they were raised in Republican families is another leap.

To say that would be to say that these aberations represent traditional republican principles, and they do not. Ron Paul was raised as a Republican. He exhibits the opposite of these (psychopathic) qualities. And he supports traditional Republican principles.

These other guys promote the mantra that "everything changed since 911" (a relatively new philosophy).

Should you gather evidence to suggest that a large number of Republicans in power exhibit psychopathic qualities, perhaps you might more accurately theorize that psychopaths tend to gravitate towards positions of power. And right now, the Republicans happen to control the executive department. But I predict if a Democratic president is elected, the balance will change. You will find many more Democrats exhibiting "psychopathic qualities". (Though I use that term lightly...maybe even tongue in cheek.)

We will have this problem as long as we are a nation of sheep, who accepts the kind of behavior we have seen in our recent presidents, without getting rid of them...and as long as we accept unquestioningly the point of view portrayed by the media. As long as we accept government as benign, and do not fufill our responsibility to limit their power, we will have some people gravitating towards positions of power who exhibit the qualities you have referred to.

by Cathy K. (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 7 comments) on Wednesday, April 30, 2008 at 10:16:29 AM

Ed Martin is an unindicted curmudgeon. He is not a Democrat, Republican, conservative, liberal, deist, atheist, or a member of any -ism.
Ed MartinEd Martin is an unindicted curmudgeon. He is not a Democrat, Republican, conservative, liberal, deist, atheist, or a member of any -ism.

Bizzare

Thanks, Cathy. I'm glad you recognized that the article is bizzare, since the article must match the bizzare subject matter. Any description of the bizzare Bush administration will inevitably be bizzare. Can't be helped.

The first descriptions of the dinosaurs were unbelievably bizzare. But, that did not lessen the fact that dinosaurs existed, just as the bizzare Bush administration exists.

Having George Bush as president is as bizzare as having a Tyrannosaurus Rex as president. It's literally unbelievable that we have come to this level of political ineptitude.

Ed.

by Ed Martin (104 articles, 0 quicklinks, 30 diaries, 109 comments) on Wednesday, April 30, 2008 at 10:54:27 AM

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vin agamenone58 yr old liberal activist from NJ. Moved to NV in '06.
Worked on Mondale & Dukakis campaigns. Other than news & politics, like sports especially baseball ( Yankees fan ) played till 40.
Also interested in nutrition. vegetarian since 1979.
Semi-retired now. 2 engineering degrees. 29 yr career as software engineer. Had work published in 1989. Victim of outsourcing. Have home-based business now. Build & repair pcs. Keeps me off the streets.
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psyco

verrrry interesting. got my attention quite absolutely

by vin agamenone (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 2 diaries, 14 comments) on Wednesday, April 30, 2008 at 12:09:25 PM

Bob Trowbridge is a former Presbyterian minister with 40 years experience as a spiritual counselor. He has also been a counselor and assistant manager in residential facilities for mentally ill adults. Bob is a spiritual teacher with dozens of articles mostly on spiritual topics. His first book is "The Hidden Meaning of Illness" from the A.R.E. Press.
BobBob Trowbridge is a former Presbyterian minister with 40 years experience as a spiritual counselor. He has also been a counselor and assistant manager in residential facilities for mentally ill adults. Bob is a spiritual teacher with dozens of articles mostly on spiritual topics. His first book is "The Hidden Meaning of Illness" from the A.R.E. Press.

Psychopathic President

Thanks for the article, Ed. I have known for years that George W. Bush was a sociopath/psychopath. I know three sociopaths personally, one dead and two still living (as far as I know). Two are/were family and one was a "friend."

A good book on sociopaths is "The Sociopath Next Door" by Martha Stout, Ph.D. She claims that 4% of the population is sociopathic. That doesn't sound like very many until you realize that it is one in 25. Since most of you know and/or associate with far more than 25 people, there's a good chance that you know a socipath or two. If you don't know any, you may be the sociopath (just kidding).

Four percent of three hundred million is 120,000. If you look at Iraq and count mercenaries, we have a minimum of 500,000 armed invader/occupiers. That gives us 20,000 armed psychopaths in Iraq. The number is probably much higher as psychopaths love to kill people. The mercenaries probably have a very high percentage of psychopaths.

Bush demonstrated his psychopathic tendencies as a child. He stuck firecrackers down the throats of frogs (or horned toads) and blew them up. In Yale, as president of his fraternity, he enjoyed torturing pledges by shoving hot wire coat hangers up their ass. And of course he enjoyed sending inmates to their death as governor of Texas.

A psychiatrist, whose name I can't recall, said that psychopaths make good CEOs. That's because many of our company heads are nothing more than obscenely operpaid liars. Psychopaths, as mentioned in the article, are consummate liars.

Kathy K. is right about the power issue. Doesn't anybody wonder why, in a nation of 300 million human beings, we can't find a few thousand good women or men who would make the best president this nation has ever seen? Of course we can. Why don't these paragons of virtue ever run for public office?

The sad fact is that the people who run for public office tend to be people who do not feel powerful. People who do not feel powerful tend to seek positions of power. Unfortunately, those positions of power do not make them feel powerful so they must exercise their power. It never works and never will.

Psychopaths/sociopaths fundamentally do not feel powerful. Everything Bush has done in his life has represented an attempt to feel powerful. He has failed at everything. He stated, while still governor of Texas, that he wanted to be a great president. It was his assessment that all of the great presidents were war presidents and so he wanted to be a war president. Specifically, he wanted to go to war with Iraq. He said this to a family biographer and ghost-writer.

This is why Bush loves to call himself Commander-in-Chief and silly things like "The Decider." He has a juvenile comic-book view of the world and wants to see himself as a superhero. He is able to successfully deny his failures and even twist them into successes. When the deaths in Iraq decreased after the escalation (I mean "surge"), he claimed success. When the deaths escalated shortly after that, he claimed that also as a sign of success.

As for Republicans, I am astounded that they have rolled over and allowed a man to become president who has gone against all of the stated ideals of the Republican party. I can only assume that they were more concerned with staying in power than in following their own principals.

But most people who seek high public office do not experience a high level of personal power, Democrats included. Those people who do experience personal power are not interested in positions of power. That's why this country is in such a mess. The powerless and the power hungry are the same folks.

by Bob (1 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 34 comments) on Wednesday, April 30, 2008 at 1:17:36 PM

You're right

You're right, Bob. Its people with spectacular, monumental inadequacies who seek positions of power to compensate. You and I, being normal, don't have those inadequacies and have no need to prove otherwise. I have some inadequacies, such as procrastinating paying the bills and mowing the lawn. That's about all. And, that's why I have no desire or need to be president. I've already proved myself to myself, adequately. I'm satisfied with myself, know who I am and do not need to belittle and humiliate other people to make myself feel that I'm better than they are. Other people cannot give you a sense of self worth. Only you can do that.

Descartes said that the test of a person's courage was to go to your room. And, that room he was talking about didn't have a TV to use as a substitute for yourself. You were there, all alone with only yourself to contend with. That's why most people can't do it.

Ed.

by Ed Martin (104 articles, 0 quicklinks, 30 diaries, 109 comments) on Wednesday, April 30, 2008 at 1:48:44 PM

Michael McCoy is a free American, Vietnam era vet and has ensured that he can withstand an IRS audit and any sudden, unannounced search of his home and documents, in his absence or otherwise. He obsesses about nothing but abscesses over the perversion of his country's ideals, values and democratic due process by cleverly disguised dictators. He has a passion to see the real mass murderers of 911 exposed with all due disgrace - and each conspirator/liar that sought the invasion of Iraq and the s...

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Michael McCoyMichael McCoy is a free American, Vietnam era vet and has ensured that he can withstand an IRS audit and any sudden, unannounced search of his home and documents, in his absence or otherwise. He obsesses about nothing but abscesses over the perversion of his country's ideals, values and democratic due process by cleverly disguised dictators. He has a passion to see the real mass murderers of 911 exposed with all due disgrace - and each conspirator/liar that sought the invasion of Iraq and the s...

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Two psychopaths for the price of one

I often observe, quite in stunned silence, (I realized ranting does no good), the man-child George Bush stumbling from one bumbling to another, and ponder the stark, debilitating delusions that he suffers. With an obvious, sickening lack of grasp, he seems yet able to maintain a core support among the diehards.

A sensible overview of his life reveals a juvenile, contempuous approach to life and an utter failure at each endeavor he undertook, with papa ever close by to bail him out.

I have become convinced that George Bush was recognized early for what he is, and groomed carefully to fulfill the role as the grandest of puppets. On the world stage, in a world that he has fashioned post 911, the men behind the curtain must be thrilled to see the puppet dance so nicely to their every song. And with Cheney looking over Bush's shoulder, prompting, cajoling, prodding - the fact that two psychopaths are better than one is painfully clear.

Michael McCoy

by Michael McCoy (1 articles, 0 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 139 comments) on Wednesday, April 30, 2008 at 1:53:19 PM