Bush is ....Bobby in Dallas???

This post started as a short commentary response/paen to Cosette about the fact that her psych-doctor friends think Bush is headin' for the deep end of the swimming pool.  I've written other comments about this today (since I'm on a writing deadline and my whole life today is DKos and the computer!!)...

So here's my response to her/him: it kind of expanded to the width of a diary.

MY DEAR COSETTE: I'm glad you and your doc friends noticed.  I posted on an open thread earlier that I had noted Bush is increasingly referring to HiSSelf in the third person these days -

i.e. the speech that got Cindy all fired up, he referred to himself as "The Commander in Cheif"....and today he used that term and then "The President" - twice.  And remember that infamous phrase, "Being the President.  That's Power."  I'm not talking about really appropriate times to use these titles - I'm talking about Bush using them as replacements for the Personal Pronoun.

I'd like to ask our tecchie friends out there, can a search be done for third-person references in the latest Bush's media bytes and can they be analyzed against past third-person references?

Yikes.  Ask your doc friends, isn't referring to oneself repeatedly in the third person a clear sign of bad ass (not a clinical term) narcissism? Isn't it a sign of a person DIVORCING HIMSELF FROM REALITY - AND FROM HIMSELF?   I mean, we know the man is a sociopath.  I personally - not professionally but with a soupcon of education about the subject - think he's becoming a sociopath raging out of control - remember Ted Bundy during his last days in Florida before he did himself in? (but Bush could take out a lot more people than Bundy in his 'last throes' of sanity. Bush and his gang are dangerous animals being threatened and we should all be ready for anything from them.)

From what I've read about Bush, the man has been protected FROM DAY ONE from BAD NEWS, by everybody around him.  Anybody who dares give him bad news is sacked.  (Can you say COLIN POWELL? RICHARD CLARKE?  JOE WILSON?  THE GENERAL WHO FIRST TOLD RUMMY WE'D NEED 150,000 TROOPS? THE 'ADULTEROUS' GEN. BYRNES?  EVERYBODY ELSE OUTSIDE OF THE LIARS CIRCLE?)

Condi is one of Bush's most trusted parrots -er - sorry,  advisors. Me being a professional woman, a feminist who is totally self-made from a poor family and all like Condi, she should inspire me, right?  Sorry, Condi. If I were African American, I'd be even more ashamed of you.  Yesterday, Condi made a VERY bad showing referring to her husban-no, er, oops - the President - on her last talking heads appearance.  I mean, this is a PhD?  She is supposedly the best of the best of American women?  She sounded like a confused, ditsy, stoned high school kid...when I was working to become a "woman of influence", MY equivalent of her ONE performance on such a show would've pretty much tanked my career as a female leader - for years.   And you know, it was hard enough.  And I was fucking white and blonde, for God's sake.  Should be an advantage, right?  (Well, for a man, but for a woman, well, we know that's another diary.)

Condi's certainly not alone, bless her buck teeth (damn girl, I paid $10,000 to get my teeth straightened in my 30's because my parents couldn't afford it when I was a kid.  To me that was a good thing - and I don't have TMJ headaches anymore, either.  You make about ONE HUNDRED TIMES what I make.  You couldn't afford a friggin' RETAINER???)  No, Condi is but one  of a gang of complicit criminals:  Rove, Rummy, Uncle Dickie - they must all be investing more and more of their precious workaholic taxpayer-funded energies into "controlling" the President; into keeping the really bad news from him, and into managing his anxiety when he starts to realize that most of the country is dead set against him. The  Buscho posse's whole lives are no longer about doing their jobs and managing America's relations with the world, they are instead all about keeping GW Jr. safe and sane...so he can parrot the Company Policy convincingly.  This is an important point for us to stress.  HOW CAN OUR LEADERS RUN OUR FOREIGN POLICY IF ALL THEIR ENERGIES ARE DIRECTED INTO DEFENDING THEIR OWN?

I'm a director (of actors, and real people too) and I can assure you, NO CASTING DIRECTOR IN NY OR HOLLYWOOD WOULD EVER HAVE HIRED GEORGE BUSH, EVEN FOR A CALLBACK for the role he is currently playing  - even before this debacle called Iraq. Well, I can't speak for the Adult Film Industry, but -- hey, that outfit on the "Mission Accomplished" tape would at least have got him an audition for more "mature entertainment!"  But as far as acting/lying abilities, it seems that America has much lower standards than Hollywood, when, if you look at Arnold, or Keanu Reeves, is a pretty big comment on America's low standards.  But let's think of GW as the actor who gets a great role based on his looks, or popularity, or whomever he slept with last(Karl Rove?  Jeff Gannon?)  No, seriously.  Let's think of him in movie terms, like, say, a Ben Affleck.  Cute and bankable but DUMB.  Or in TV terms, going back in time, he's much like Patrick Duffy. Remember him - "Bobby Ewing" from DALLAS?"

Okay, so - apologies to the young'uns who don't know about the "Dallas" phenomenon (and it was international, by the way - (GKW: God Knows Why!).  It was a series about a family of AMORAL OIL BARONS FROM...YOU GUESSED IT...TEXAS.  Larry Hagman starred as the amoral evil guy that you love to hate to love to hate... J.R. Ewing...that is, before his (larry's) liver gave out and he got a free one ahead of like a thousand others on a list, despite years and years of persistent alcoholism. (Again forgive me, I am from a family on both sides of Irish alcoholics and I get the perils of that particular addiction.  Larry is a great guy from all accounts, but let's face it, he did skip past a lot of slots on the list because of being Larry Hagman.  Who else had bad livers - what kids were born with them?  They took a back seat. And some of them, well, they died. But that IS America.  It's a capitalist country, before it is a democracy.  Even in the best of times.)

JR aside, his fictional brother (the characer, "Bobby"aka George Bush)and the actor playing him had to have the other actors prop him up to get him through, his character was often so superficially drawn. But Duffy still had to - somehow - believe his lines in order to deliver them.  Even Patrick Duffy wouldn't have bought it if a script he was handed had Bobby (on Dallas for you young'ums)  becoming, say, a Wiccan rain dancer.  Okay, after this long winded parallel, that's where George Bush and Patrick Duffy (in Dallas) converge.  GEORGE IS BEING HANDED A SCRIPT SO IMPROBABLE, IT WOULD TAKE THE DEAD LEE STRAUSBERG TO GET GEORGE THROUGH ACTING IT OUT *

*THE PROBLEM WITH CINDY is that she is there, 24-7, to remind Bush that the script he's been handed won't fly.  She will not go away and she will not be denied.  As much as they spin to him, as many new "rewrites" of the script they hand him, there's that PROTEST THANG out there on the road to Crawford.  And the leaks start seeping in.

Up 'till now, I think the Inner Circle has done an amazing job of letting the truth fail from piercing the George Bush Bubble (and believe me, Georgie has WANTED it that way!)  But everybody's starting to falter under the weight of all this -- of all this -- gee, this GODDAMNED --- TRUTH!

So, Patrick's gonna have to ask for a complete rewrite on Bobby's character, or he's gonna have to leave South Fork.

Right now, Mr. Bush played by Patrick Duffy is startin' to go a little bonkers over all this inner conflict.  Remember, "the source of all neuroses are inner conflicts that aren't solved or not even solveable! This is actually how researchers create neuroses in animals - giving them tasks they can't possibly complete" In this fashion, Mr. Bush's pea brain is starting to ...er...BOIL OVER?

And please, my apologies to Patrick Duffy, who I understand is a wonderful guy, a good American, and a really committed father.  It's not his fault his biggest role was "Bobby."  At least he's laughing all the way to the bank, okay? Forgive me, Pat...no one (living) deserves a direct comparison to this guy, meaning GWB.