Bush Using Drugs to Control Depression, Erratic Behavior???

"Who owns Blue?

Hell, we're not sure. Last time we checked, we were owned by The Save America Foundation, which is owned by some other holding companies that confuses everybody except the IRS. All this confusion means we don't owe nuttin' to nobody (and, if we did, they couldn't find us to collect anyway)."

I searched Google and found nothing listed under The Save America Foundation.

BBB

A questionable article from Capital Hill Blue
With the above introduction information, I've taken the liberty of reposting an article from Capital Blue that was posted by cicerone imposter on another thread. ---BBB

Wow! Here's some explosive stuff on Bush.
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Last Updated: Jul 29th, 2004 - 09:12:13
Bush Leagues
Bush Using Drugs to Control Depression, Erratic Behavior
By TERESA HAMPTON
Editor, Capitol Hill Blue
Jul 28, 2004, 08:09
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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, ranging 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 program, 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."

© Copyright 2004 by Capitol Hill Blue

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Who is Doug Thompson, Publisher of Capital Blue?
Who is Doug Thompson, Publisher of Capital Blue?

Doug Thompson realized the value of capturing history 45 years ago as a 10-year-old schoolboy in Farmville, Virginia, when the community, caught up in a fight over integration, closed the public schools and opened an all-white private school.

Thompson wrote about his experiences and submitted his story to The Farmville Herald,the local newspaper. His essay was picked up by other newspapers around he country. He also took pictures for the paper.

When his family relocated to the Blue Ridge Mountain community of Floyd, the then 14-year-old Thompson took his photographs and stories to Pete Hallman, editor of the weekly Floyd Press. Hallman encouraged the young man to continue writing and taking photos, teaching him the ins and outs of the newspaper business.

Thompson went on to join the staff of The Roanoke Times where he covered the police beat, emerging racial turmoil in the city and tackled other tough subjects. His story about a young girl who obtained an abortion (illegal at the time) won the top feature writing award from the Virginia Press Association. Another, about street racers in the city, won another feature writing award while his coverage of the murder of a Southwest Roanoke couple and the abduction and rape of their teenaged daughters brought the top news writing award from the association

After moving on to The Telegraph in Alton, Illinois, Thompson continued to win awards for writing and photography, capturing the Illinois Associated Press Managing Editors top prizes for news, feature and column writing as well as first place awards from the Illinois Press Association.

Thompson took a sabbatical from newspapers in 1981 and moved to Washington and work on Capitol Hill, where he served as press secretary to two members of Congress, Chief of Staff to a third and then Special Assistant to the Ranking Member of the House Space, Science and Technology Committee.

The committee worked with the National Science Foundation to bring the Internet into the private sector and Thompson saw the tremendous potential of the 'Net as a communications tool. He used that foresight to start a web hosting and design company in 1994 and that same year launched Capitol Hill Blue as the web's first political news site.

Besides Blue, Thompson also publishes a number of other web sites, including D.C. Darkside. http://www.dcdarkside.com/

Despite his success in new media, Thompson remains a newspaperman at heart and lives by the creed that it is the role of a newspaperman to "comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable."

Is he better off taking prescribed antidepressants or a stiff drink to revive his courage and optimism? I suppose each are documentable, both looking bad in various lights... I really think Dubya ought to take up yoga. It would improve his outlook, help him improve his concentration, and limber him up physically... Poor guy, I almost feel sorry for him, hope he finds time to take a nice long vacation soon, like, maybe for years... It'd be all for the best, yeah?

Princess
Princess, please be aware that none of us know whether or not this story (posted by another A2K member) is true. That's why I posted all the background info I could find. The main stream Media has not picked it up.

BBB

Re: Princess


Gotcha there. I should've begun my post w/"hypothetically speaking..."

But it made me wonder which would play out more favorably to the country? In my family of origin, I remember adults quipping, "I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy," and just somehow thought Bush would go with a self-prescribed cure over a medical one... Of course, antidepressant drugs are much less mind altering than a frontal lobotomy, but still...

:wink: PP

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=39078

The plan seems curiously complementary to some of his other domestic policies... Maybe he began the screening with himself so it would seem to trickle down from the top...

Naturally this is all supposition...

PP

An unnamed source once told me that when you cannot debate the issues themselves, the next move is to throw a lot of mud and see if some of it sticks.

I get many emails from friends in the US and from around the planet. I'm not in a position to confirm the claims made by all the articles received, but they do make interesting reading if even partially true. This one was sent to me by a writer-friend that lives in Georgia. He's usually pretty good about factual information, but I'm not sure he's done his homework on the article I posted earlier. At any rate, here's the link that it came from. http://www.capitolhillblue.com/

BTW, I checked Snopes on this article/issue, but could find nothing.

http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_4930.shtml

This may or may not be true, but sometimes they really are all out to getcha...

Triumph of the Trivial

July 30, 2004
By PAUL KRUGMAN

Under the headline "Voters Want Specifics From Kerry," The
Washington Post recently quoted a voter demanding that John
Kerry and John Edwards talk about "what they plan on doing
about health care for middle-income or lower-income people.
I have to face the fact that I will never be able to have
health insurance, the way things are now. And these
millionaires don't seem to address that."

Mr. Kerry proposes spending $650 billion extending health
insurance to lower- and middle-income families. Whether you
approve or not, you can't say he hasn't addressed the
issue. Why hasn't this voter heard about it?

Well, I've been reading 60 days' worth of transcripts from
the places four out of five Americans cite as where they
usually get their news: the major cable and broadcast TV
networks. Never mind the details - I couldn't even find a
clear statement that Mr. Kerry wants to roll back recent
high-income tax cuts and use the money to cover most of the
uninsured. When reports mentioned the Kerry plan at all, it
was usually horse race analysis - how it's playing, not
what's in it.

On the other hand, everyone knows that Teresa Heinz Kerry
told someone to "shove it," though even there, the context
was missing. Except for a brief reference on MSNBC, none of
the transcripts I've read mention that the target of her
ire works for Richard Mellon Scaife, a billionaire who
financed smear campaigns against the Clintons - including
accusations of murder. (CNN did mention Mr. Scaife on its
Web site, but described him only as a donor to
"conservative causes.") And viewers learned nothing about
Mr. Scaife's long vendetta against Mrs. Heinz Kerry
herself.

There are two issues here, trivialization and bias, but
they're related.

Somewhere along the line, TV news stopped reporting on
candidates' policies, and turned instead to trivia that
supposedly reveal their personalities. We hear about Mr.
Kerry's haircuts, not his health care proposals. We hear
about George Bush's brush-cutting, not his environmental
policies.

Even on its own terms, such reporting often gets it wrong,
because journalists aren't especially good at judging
character. ("He is, above all, a moralist," wrote George
Will about Jack Ryan, the Illinois Senate candidate who
dropped out after embarrassing sex-club questions.) And the
character issues that dominate today's reporting have
historically had no bearing on leadership qualities. While
planning D-Day, Dwight Eisenhower had a close, though
possibly platonic, relationship with his female driver.
Should that have barred him from the White House?

And since campaign coverage as celebrity profiling has no
rules, it offers ample scope for biased reporting.

Notice the voter's reference to "these millionaires." A
Columbia Journalism Review Web site called
campaigndesk.org, says its analysis "reveals a press prone
to needlessly introduce Senators Kerry and Edwards and
Kerry's wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry, as millionaires or
billionaires, without similar labels for President Bush or
Vice President Cheney."

As the site points out, the Bush campaign has been
"hammering away with talking points casting Kerry as out of
the mainstream because of his wealth, hoping to influence
press coverage." The campaign isn't claiming that Mr.
Kerry's policies favor the rich - they manifestly don't,
while Mr. Bush's manifestly do. Instead, we're supposed to
dislike Mr. Kerry simply because he's wealthy (and not
notice that his opponent is, too). Republicans, of all
people, are practicing the politics of envy, and the media
obediently go along.

In short, the triumph of the trivial is not a trivial
matter. The failure of TV news to inform the public about
the policy proposals of this year's presidential candidates
is, in its own way, as serious a journalistic betrayal as
the failure to raise questions about the rush to invade
Iraq.

P.S.: Another story you may not see on TV: Jeb Bush insists
that electronic voting machines are perfectly reliable, but
The St. Petersburg Times says the Republican Party of
Florida has sent out a flier urging supporters to use
absentee ballots because the machines lack a paper trail
and cannot "verify your vote."

P.P.S.: Three weeks ago, The New Republic reported that the
Bush administration was pressuring Pakistan to announce a
major terrorist capture during the Democratic convention.
Hours before Mr. Kerry's acceptance speech, Pakistan
announced, several days after the fact, that it had
apprehended an important Al Qaeda operative.

[Paul Krugman is professor of Economics and International Affairs at Princeton University.]

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/30/opinion/30krugman.html?ex=1092187167&ei=1&en=9aadb476130150ac

Copyright 2004 The New York Times Company

This is interesting. In a speech today, George Bush said, "when talking about the economy and jobs, results matter." Somebody needs to inform Bush that his claim of having created 1.2 million jobs also misses the point that over 1.2 million people also lost jobs. Bush has the worst record for job creation since Hoover. Somebody brave enough to bring him bad news must do it, or he's going to continue to believe he's doing a good job. Maybe somebody did tell him, and that's the cause of his depression.