I think you are confusing Bush with Lyndon Baines Johnson.

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Washington Shrink
Calls Bush a Paranoid,
Sadistic Meglomaniac
By Staff and Wire Reports
Capitol Hill Blue
6-14-4

A new book by a prominent Washington psychoanalyst says President George
W. Bush is a
"paranoid meglomaniac" as well as a sadist and "untreated alcoholic." The
doctor's
analysis appears to confirm earlier reports the President may be
emotionally unstable.

Dr. Justin Frank, writing in Bush on the Couch: Inside the Mind of the
President, also
says the President has a ""lifelong streak of sadism, ranging from
childhood pranks (using
firecrackers to explode frogs) to insulting journalists, gloating over
state executions
.. [and] pumping his fist gleefully before the bombing of Baghdad."

Even worse, Dr. Frank concludes, the President's years of heavy drinking
""may have
affected his brain function - and his decision to quit drinking without
the help of a
12-step program [puts] him at far higher risk of relapse."

Dr. Frank's revelations comes on the heels of last week's Capitol Hill
Blue exclusive that
revealed increasing concern by White House aides over Bush's emotional
stability.

Aides, who spoke only on condition that their names be withheld, told
stories of wide mood
swings by the President who would go from quoting the Bible one minute to
obscenity-filled
outbursts the next.

Bush shows an inability to grieve - dating back to age 7, when his sister
died. "The
family's reaction - no funeral and no mourning - set in motion his
life-long pattern of
turning away from pain [and hiding] behind antic behavior," says Frank,
who says Bush may
suffer from Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.

Other findings by Dr. Frank:

His mother, Barbara Bush - tabbed by some family friends as "the one who
instills fear" -
had trouble connecting emotionally with her son, Frank argues. George H.W.
Bush's
"emotional and physical absence during his son's youth triggered feelings
of both
adoration and revenge in George W." The President suffers from "character
pathology,"
including "grandiosity" and "megalomania" -- viewing himself, America and
God as
interchangeable. Dr. Frank has been a psychiatrist for 35 years and is
director of
psychiatry at George Washington University. A Democrat, he once headed the
Washington
Chapter of Physicians for Social Responsibility.

In an interview with The Washington Post's Richard Leiby, Dr. Frank said
he began to be
concerned about Bush's behavior in 2002.

"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 told
Leiby. Bush, he said, "fits the profile of a former drinker whose
alcoholism has been
arrested but not treated."

Dr. Frank's expert recommendation? ""Our sole treatment option -- for his
benefit and for
ours -- is to remove President Bush from office . . . before it is too
late."

White House spokesman Scott McClellan refused to comment on the specifics
of Dr. Frank's
book or the earlier story by Capitol Hill Blue.

"I don't do book reviews," McClellan said, even though he last week
recommended the latest
book by the Washington Post's Bob Woodward to reporters at the daily press
briefing.

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