What single thing drives bush? Money or power? Or...?

[tuvor]

Trying to discern the thoughts of a madman is futile at best, but what the hell.

[onehandle]

1. Hooch. nt

[roguevalley]

27. delusion. remember how we live in 'reality' and they make their own?

[Quantess]

2. Possibly demons.

But I would bet MONEY.

[Maven]

3. Narcissism. n/t

[TahitiNut]

30. Yep. 'Xactly.

[TygrBright]

4. Vanity. Ego. Keeping his pathetic little flabby wasted self-esteem...

...inflated and polished. Proving that he really IS 'the guy.'

Oh, yeah, and BETTER than Dad, because HE managed to steal TWO elections.

disgustedly,
Bright

[napi21]

5. I has to be power. Whyelse has he worked for 5 1/2 years to

move all power to the executive branch and eliminate the need for congress?

[Swede]

6. Stupid brain

[Jigarotta]

7. Destruction. nt

[BillZBubb]

8. Oedipus Rex.

Bush is the classic Oedipal sociopath. He tried self-medicating with drugs and alcohol. He has to win his mother's love by being "better" than his father. So, he one-ups the old man at every chance, even if the results are dismal. He'll take foolish risks. He'll lie, even when he has nothing to gain by doing so.

[LunaC]

16. my choice too

you beat me to it.

[Oeditpus Rex]

17. Ahem

:rofl:

But, yeah — I was gonna say he's looking for a pat on the head.

Typical egocentricism, that; completely oblivious of what the point would do to the patter's hand.

[hfojvt]

29. ironically enough

I think he is trying to win his father's approval too.

[genieroze]

9. oil

[bluerum]

10. Stupid pills.

[Fridays Child]

11. Money, power, and psychosis.

[MazeRat7]

12. Power because he's always had money.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

13. tiny-penisitis

same thing that makes some men buy hummers and shoot big guns.

[shanti]

31. yes

the flight deck photo op brought that into full focus, lol! he tries too hard.

[Swamp Rat]

14. BRAINS!

:D

[sam sarrha]

15. the "Voices".. he said, "I have heard the Voices".. he's F'n Nuts

[CPMaz]

18. Imminent Rapture

...and arrogant selfishness, and money, and power, and narcissism, and stupidity, and....you get the idea.

No one thing drives this guy, but all the things that do are bad for the country, and the world.

[pansypoo53219]

19. it' all

oedipal.
and napoleon complex. he's the pipsqueak of the family. why he lies about his height and wears heels.

[upi402]

20. society

he is sick, undrunk. he is compelled by his own brand of insanity. he seems to seek to prove that he's not an absolute dolt in the leagues of the well monied.

and he's a religious zealot -so delusional to some degree or another

[Rocknrule]

21. The imaginary friend in his pinky that says "REDRUM!"

who he mistakes for God

[bluerum]

35. No - must say BLUERUM!

[dchill]

22. Madness.

[politrix]

23. EVIL

When you're THAT evil, it congeals around you while you sleep and you can peel it off in the morning and throw some sugar and milk on it.

I hear it's pretty sweet. Lots of roughage for the colon, too.


WHY ELSE would he do what he does? He HAS money.

[mikelewis]

24. The Devil

By their fruits you will know them. Do people pick grapes from thornbushes, or figs from thistles?

Just so, every good tree bears good fruit, and a rotten tree bears bad fruit.

A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a rotten tree bear good fruit.

Every tree that does not bear good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.

So by their fruits you will know them.

[OneBlueSky]

25. lifelong feelings of inadequacy . . . now he's overcompensating . . . n/t

.

[shanti]

33. well, you can't deny

that he IS a little pissant. :evilgrin: but i have always wondered, why him and not one of his brothers? is he the dullest knife in the *ush drawer?

[leftofthedial]

26. pure arrogance and ego--narcissism

[NAO]

28. Severe Personality Disorder Manifesting as Collective Psychosis

THE MADNESS OF GEORGE W. BUSH: A REFLECTION OF OUR COLLECTIVE PSYCHOSIS
http://www.awakeninthedream.com/georgew.html

excerpt:

George W. Bush is ill. He has a psycho-spiritual dis-ease of the soul, a sickness that is endemic to our culture and symptomatic of the times we live in. It’s an illness that has been with us since time immemorial. Because it’s an illness that's in the soul of all of humanity, it pervades the field and is in all of us in potential at any moment, which makes it especially hard to diagnose. Bush's malady is quite different from schizophrenia, for example, in which all the different parts of the personality are fragmented and not connected to each other, resulting in a state of internal chaos. As compared to the dis-order of the schizophrenic, Bush can sound quite coherent and can appear like such a "regular," normal guy, which makes the syndrome he is suffering from very hard to recognize. This is because the healthy parts of his personality have been co-opted by the pathological aspect, which drafts them into its service. Because of the way the personality self-organizes an outer display of coherence around a pathogenic core, I would like to name Bush's illness ‘malignant egophrenic (as compared to schizophrenic) disease,’ or ‘ME disorder,’ for short. If ME disorder goes unrecognized and is not contained, it can be very destructive, particularly if the person is in a position of power.

In much the same way that a child's psychology cannot be understood without looking at the family system he or she is a part of, George Bush does not exist in isolation. We can view Bush and his entire Administration (Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice, Wolfowitz, etc), as well as the corporate, military industrial complex that they are co-dependently enmeshed with, the media that they control, the voters that support them, and ourselves as well, as interconnected parts of a whole system, or a "field." Instead of relating to any part of this field as an isolated entity, it’s important to contemplate the entire interdependent field as the ‘medium’ though which malignant egophrenia manifests and propagates itself. ME disease is a field phenomenon, and needs to be contemplated as such. Bush's sickness is our own.

Bush supporters are not merely disinterested in seeing that they are in denial of reality; on the contrary, they actively don’t want to look at this, which is to say they resist self-reflection at all costs. Bush and his supporters perversely interpret any feedback from the real world which reflects back their unconsciousness as itself evidence that proves the rightness of their viewpoint. All of Bush’s supporters mutually reinforce each other’s unconscious resistance to such a degree that a collective, interdependent field of impenetrability gets collectively conjured up by them that literally resists consciousness.

People who don't recognize Bush's illness and support him are unconsciously colluding with and enabling in the co-creation of the pathological field that is incarnating itself into the human family. People who support Bush become unwitting agents through which this non-local disease feeds and replicates itself. By supporting Bush they are collaborating with and becoming parts of the greater, interconnected and self-organizing field of the disease.

The situation is very analogous to when seemingly good, normal, loving Germans supported Hitler, believing he was a good leader trying to help them. The German people didn't realize that the virulent pathogen malignant egophrenia had taken possession of Hitler and was incarnating itself through him. By not seeing this and supporting Hitler, they became agents used by this non-local, deadly disease to propagate itself. This was a collective psychosis, and this is what is taking place in our country right now.

full article at above link

[benny05]

32. Inferiority

Although he has been able to carry the Bush Reign of Terror longer than Dad, GHWB looks nothing like Ropesperre. That man was insecure--and like W, wasn't the greatest success at many things.

Unlike the French, I would not hang or put W in the chopper. Throwing him in cooler and throwing away the key for the 750 plus laws he has broken would suffice nicely, with no conversations with family, Grumpy, Condi, or Nasty (Rove).

[rucky]

34. After a certain point, money is just how you keep score.

my vote's for power.