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In Meeting, "Wild-Eyed" Bush Thumped Chest, Repeating "I Am The President!"

thinkprogress.org — Georgie Anne Geyer writes today in the Dallas Morning News about President Bush: "But by all reports, President Bush is more convinced than ever of his righteousness. Friends of his from Texas were shocked recently to find him nearly wild-eyed, thumping himself on the chest three times while he repeated 'I am the president!'"

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  • DJShay, on 10/11/2007, -35/+281Which is why we need to keep religious zealots out of the White House.
  • JCSaint, on 10/11/2007, -36/+236He thinks he's doing God's will. Bush is under the impression that he is an agent of God and that God wants him to bring democracy to the Middle East. There is no arguing with someone like that. Even if everyone is against him, it doesn't matter because the only opinion that matters is God's.

    [FYI: American Theocracy is a fantastic book]
  • smoothmedia, on 10/11/2007, -69/+236I'm normally not one to defend Bush, but this report is likely complete BS.

    1) This is an opinion piece written by a left leaning columnist.
    2) The only "sources" she cites are " Friends of his from Texas", so its complete hearsay.
    3) Bush would never admit (even candidly) that he was making sure that his successor "couldn't escape the country's destiny" in Iraq.

    Stories like this only serve to undermine the credibility of blogs such as ThinkProgress, which usually holds it self to a higher standard that its right wing counterparts. Apparently, now some at TP now feel that its OK to post any juicy negative gossip they can find about the administration, regardless of its truth value (like *gasp* Michelle Malkin).

    Lastly, we shouldn't care even if this story is true. We have plenty of reasons to criticize Bush; we don't have to resort to tabloid stories.
  • JCSaint, on 10/11/2007, -22/+93smoothmedia,

    I'd tend to agree that it wouldn't be newsworthy except for the fact that it's not an isolated incident. There are plenty of accounts of Bush seemingly losing touch with what's going on and possessing a self-assuredness that seems to have crossed over into outright arrogance and self-righteousness.
  • Insightful, on 10/11/2007, -8/+63Bush was later observed screaming at top of his lung "THIS IS SPARTA!" as he kicked his Texan friends in the chests down a big hole.

    [Unlike Cheney Bush does not usually carry a shotgun with him or otherwise who would have shot them too.]
  • shawnfassett, on 10/11/2007, -6/+61Can we start drug testing our "leaders"?
  • scrytch, on 10/11/2007, -2/+52@smoothmedia,

    As someone from Australia, I just don't understand this "left/right" crap - can't you people have an individual thought without it having to be boxed up, stamped and categorised?

    When I discuss with my friends, family and work colleagues political topics, quite often I find that I don't agree with everything the person in power is doing, and it's the same story with the people wanting to be in power.

    I personally think everyone can (and should) be constructively criticized, and that this can be done without some form of hidden or personal agenda. Boxing me in with other people that *may* share that opinion and saying I am "left leaning" or "right leaning" just to me sounds like a complete arbitrary limitation - people are capable of thinking their own thoughts.

    I'm done :)

    Regards,
    Shane.

  • JCSaint, on 10/11/2007, -19/+67smoothmedia,

    I think you give the man too much credit.
  • Dumbledorito, on 10/11/2007, -7/+53*fling's presidential poo*
  • pinoyboy82, on 10/11/2007, -8/+51This is not a Democracy! This is a Chimpocracy! *Thump Thump Thump*
  • inactive, on 10/11/2007, -15/+56"...thinkprogress.org is nothing but Fox News for the left."

    Haha. That's rich.



    unlike fox news, thinkprogress has good articles mostly based in fact. that whole george soros hierarchy is a bunch of *****, bill o'reilly is a moron.

    "Reality has a liberal bias." -Stephen Colbert
  • smoothmedia, on 10/11/2007, -8/+47Ray Nagin: "Our people need help! This is madness!"
    Bush: "THIS IS BUREAUCRACY!"
  • Dumbledorito, on 10/11/2007, -5/+41You'd probably get something that started with "that's an excellent question. I unnerstand that we all want 'Merica to succeed. I unnerstand that."

    Then it would dissolve into talking points about taxes, "good progress in Iraq," and probably why he needs to wiretap your phones and internet connection to preserve your liberty.
  • valdo, on 10/11/2007, -5/+37Out of curiosity... What is our country's destiny?

    I am not being sarcastic, or anything - just curious... where are we heading?

    That is the only question I have for the President.
  • JohnFive, on 10/11/2007, -7/+36He probably did a fat rail of coke.
  • unloud, on 10/11/2007, -7/+35For the first time I feel compelled to say something I've buried many others for:

    Chimpeach!
  • smoothmedia, on 10/11/2007, -25/+52jcsaint: Indeed. However, I think we are all pretty aware of Bush's apparent self-righteousness by now. Bush's "stay the course" policy when the course was clearly misguided is a perfect example of the arrogance we're talking about. However, this alleged incident is essentially a caricature of the self-righteous Bush that us lefties love to think he is. In all likelyhood, "his friends from Texas" were really some people who didn't really like him that attended a function with him, and their description of his chest pounding and such is likely exaggerated at best.

    Essentially, this story is too perfect to be true.
  • edrift101, on 10/11/2007, -7/+32Now that is damn funny, but not in a good way.
  • Dumbledorito, on 10/11/2007, -1/+25@ThePeteStanis: And if you're going to gripe about someone's misuse of an apostrophe, that's called "punctuation," not "spelling." Just thought you might want to know before you went for your PhD or anything.
  • orientis, on 10/11/2007, -15/+38Is anyone here familiar with biblical end-time prophecy?

    You know that part about the leader that demands unquestioning worship? Yeah. Perhaps the fundies picked the wrong poster boy.
  • i208khonsu, on 10/11/2007, -7/+30Well at least The Decider has decided to stop being The Commander Guy and actually become The President.
  • hawkeye17, on 10/11/2007, -10/+31Great...our President is Dennis the Menace. The man is a childish fool.
  • gmprunner, on 10/11/2007, -5/+26Hey, I saw that movie!

    Happy Feet, right?
  • therealmrpinks, on 10/11/2007, -6/+27maybe if we got him a kitten and taught him sign language he would be happier and wouldnt have these tantrums.
  • hplasm, on 10/11/2007, -1/+21How very dare you! There is nothing wrong with Dennis the Menace!
  • neuros, on 10/11/2007, -2/+21yes, that and an IQ, ethics, and reasoning test plz.
  • frimple, on 10/11/2007, -2/+21I've got a dollar on him cremating and snorting Bush Sr.
  • rhabd0mancer, on 10/11/2007, -4/+22Bush is clearly unstable, messianic.

    "I trust God speaks through me. Without that, I couldn't do my job." -- President Bush
  • iTorrey, on 10/11/2007, -5/+21Mr. Bush,

    While being President is something to be proud of, there are limits on your power. These limits are placed on you by the People and you are bound to these limits due to your elected position. Should you wish to step outside of these limits you are violating the oath you took when you accepted this position that the People elected you to.

    You are not the supreme ruler of the land. You are not the final say nor the 'decider' on most issues. There is a process we follow in this country. These limits may come as a surprise to you, however I suggest you read up on them. I believe you can find a copy of these limits in a document you surely haven't read, it is titled "The Constitution of the United States of America". It is a pretty good read, check it out some time.
  • zephc, on 10/15/2007, -2/+17Cocaine is a hell of a drug.
  • GideonCDingle, on 10/11/2007, -4/+19God sure picked a peculiar earthly surrogate.
  • statik99, on 11/03/2009, -6/+20He's really building up the insanity plea with crap like this. Forget charging him with high crimes or lies, just bring this out in main stream media that his mental state is deteriorating. Some people don't think elderly people should drive cars... well mentally ill shouldn't be running a country.
  • InfamousAtheist, on 10/11/2007, -13/+26I don't think it's drug use. I believe the country's being run by a group of sociopaths. Unfortunately, there are no +/- tests for mental disorders displayed by Bush, Cheney, Gonzalez, Rice, etc. Not that they would do any good, I'm sure they'd spin any result as biased, no matter what the outcome.
  • MacintoshSauce, on 10/11/2007, -4/+16Like I have said before... Bush is an absolute disgrace to the USA. He should be impeached along with Cheney.
  • cwcentral, on 10/11/2007, -10/+22"He thinks he's doing God's will."

    And he will be continuing this nonsense as along as congress AND THE PEOPLE do nothing as shown this past week. This public display of opinion is getting ridiculous.
  • countrygirl31, on 10/11/2007, -7/+18well, this supposed comment falls in line with, "I am the decider".
  • inactive, on 10/11/2007, -11/+20"he then grabbed a nearby school child and bit into his neck and spit his blood on his parents as the kid tried to scream (only blood came out)"
  • 0crabby0, on 10/11/2007, -12/+21Bush = Stroke victim
  • pitlord, on 10/11/2007, -3/+11Pics or it didn't happen.
  • iTorrey, on 10/11/2007, -1/+9Actually it is ONLY Congress that can declare war. No war was declared. In fact, Ron Paul introduced a bill into congress asking for a declaration of war before the Iraq invasion for this very reason. You can't just have a president declaring war. You can't just have congress give up its duty to declare it. They don't have that right. They can't give up their duty. It's just not how it works.
  • Apox89, on 10/11/2007, -4/+12I'd say one big thing Bush is forgetting is the seperation of powers. He views himself too much as "the leader of this country" instead of "the head of the executive branch and the representative of this country" (in which he does a horrible job representing).
  • EochaidRiata, on 10/11/2007, -2/+10Good job George. Now go play with your finger-paints while the grownups talk.

  • inactive, on 10/11/2007, -1/+9Quick! Shoot the messenger!
  • Endemoniada, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7@Scrytch

    I wonder the same thing. As I'm from Sweden, I find this left/right crap completely insane. Here, we have at least seven major parties, and countless smaller ones. While I sometimes think we might have too many parties to vote for, I still appreciate being able to vote for whoever has the best agenda.

    Having to choose between just two sides, both equally corrupt, all the while being told that voting for anyone BUT the two major parties makes your vote "not count", seems utterly insane to me. EVERY vote counts, who ever you vote for. Even if you vote for that tiny, third party, that's one less vote for BOTH the major ones. Think about that.

    DO NO settle with what they decide you should settle for. Decide for yourself, and only yourself.
  • fuzzmeister, on 10/11/2007, -6/+13He wants America to rule the world, period. PNAC is not a good thing.
  • sremick, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7Endemoniada & Scrytch:

    I'm from/in the USA and I agree with both of you.

    Digg:

    Your boneheaded reply system means that my response is nowhere near who/what I'm responding to and so readers have to do 20 times more work to figure out what the hell I'm talking about.
  • inactive, on 10/11/2007, -4/+11Complete article from the Dallas Morning News


    Georgie Anne Geyer: A spreading terror

    Iraq now set up as a school for insurgents ready to be exported

    11:44 AM CDT on Thursday, May 31, 2007

    Anyone who knows anything about cancer knows that the danger point comes when the cancer suddenly and unexpectedly appears in another supposedly "clean" part of the body. As when, say, breast cancer, an implacable traveler, reappears in the bloodstream or the bones.


    That there are stunning similarities between what happens medically in the body of man and what occurs sociologically and militarily in the societies of men is far less noticed – but just as frightening and dangerous.

    Think of what has happened in only the last week in the Middle East. In northern Lebanon, in the long-established Nahr el-Bared Palestinian refugee camp, out of the blue arose a new al Qaeda-related insurgent group, Fatah al-Islam. Within days and even hours, the recurring hell of the Middle East was loosed, and refugees poured out of the camp in terror.

    There had been none of this kind of terror networking in these northern camps. Indeed, since this camp was established in 1949 to accommodate refugees from northern Palestine after the creation of Israel, it has housed one of the more formal and conservative of peoples.

    But it was soon established that these new "insurgents" or "terrorists" – or whatever they really are – had arrived at the camp only recently, that they marched in one day with brand-new weapons, ready to fight.

    Two points grip you:

    •The first is found in the words of French scholar Bernard Rougier, author of Everyday Jihad: The Rise of Militant Islam Among Palestinians in Lebanon. "The main point is that these camps are no longer part of Palestinian society," he told The Washington Post . "They are only spaces – now open to all of the influences running through the Muslim world."

    •The second is that Iraq, where we were supposed to be "containing terrorism," is now clearly exporting insurgents to other regions – to Lebanon, to Syria, to Gaza, to Bangladesh, to Kurdistan.

    And so, on the one hand, you have weakened societies vulnerable to the "new answers" of "new insurgencies," and on the other hand, you have Iraq set up as a school for terrorists with American troops and policy providing the constant inspiration for their fight.

    This, of course, is not the way the Bush administration sees it.

    The White House sees terrorists as born, not created by history, bearing the mark of Cain, not the mark of circumstance. There is a scarlet "T" written on their foreheads at birth and the only answer is to destroy them. This kind of thinking, of course, relieves the thinker of any responsibility for the presence of the insurgent-terrorist-whatever in our innocent midst.

    What's more, there is not much real give in the administration's policies. True, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and other American diplomats met Memorial Day weekend with the Iranians in Baghdad (a good first move but limited, since the Iranians have most of the power because of our incredible stupidity in Iraq). But by all reports, President Bush is more convinced than ever of his righteousness.

    Friends of his from Texas were shocked recently to find him nearly wild-eyed, thumping himself on the chest three times while he repeated "I am the president!" He also made it clear he was setting Iraq up so his successor could not get out of "our country's destiny."

    The truth of the steadily deteriorating situation in the Middle East is, of course, quite different. The Palestinian people of 40 and even 30 years ago were formal, conservative people who remained closely tied to their families, clans and religious groups. Theirs was a highly stratified society, which has now been shattered.

    In the institutional vacuum that is a camp like Nahr el-Bared, a few hundred men trained and tempered in Iraq can make a huge difference. At the same time, the Turkish military is ready to go into northern Kurdistan, al-Qaeda operatives from Iraq are popping up in hitherto untouched places, and the American military's advice to its troops is, "Get down with the people – listen to them!" Only four years and thousands of bombs and night missions too late.

    Georgie Anne Geyer is a syndicated columnist. Readers may contact her through ltarry@amuniversal.com.
  • stepnw1f, on 10/11/2007, -1/+8You are describing a dictator, not a president.
  • Dumbledorito, on 10/11/2007, -1/+8The longer Bush goes into this downward spiral, the more he's reminding me of Nixon, and I'm not talking Watergate. New information from Nixon's presidency is showing that he was a depressive, paranoid, self-medicating, hateful and spiteful man, who was often drunk off his ass to the point he couldn't make decisions.

    I hope his cronies at least have the sense to restrain Bush should he get that bad (assuming he hasn't already).
  • spinchange, on 10/11/2007, -4/+11Agreed. The editorial where this anecdote came from is much more instructive than the just ThinkProgress excerpt. If true, the story behind the story is that as things go from really bad to much worse (by an insurgency from Iraq spreading throughout the rest of the Middle East), so does Bush's state of denial.
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