by robertdreed » Fri Sep 29, 2006 12:41 pm
Bipolar disorder sufferers lack control over their responses and actions.<br><br>By contrast, the "mood swings" of people like Rumsfeld and others in the Bush administration are purposefully designed like the actions of an abusive parent or spouse, to keep those over whom they have power guessing- off-balance and in their thrall. <br><br>That's what's interesting about so much of their rhetoric, which can glide from honey-sweet platitudes and conciliatory gestures to veiled threats and venomous hate in the course of a few paragraphs. <br><br>Mindwar. <br><br>I don't think Keith Olbermann is a shill, but he's suffering from the tendency of many predominant liberals to buffer a situation, to offer a patronizing diagnosis instead of cold-eyed realism. Therefore, the character of the Bush administration is "stupid" or "emotionally disturbed."<br><br>If so, how is it that they keep getting what they want? <br><br> <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=robertdreed>robertdreed</A> at: 9/29/06 10:45 am<br></i>