Do you think Bush may have Aspergers?

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With all the mincing in his speech, all the stubborness, keeping troops in Iraq, etc, someone has to diagonse Dubya with something.

I diagnose him with a severe case of "Stupid."

I just think his independence of thought and making himself follow through on what he feels like the correct course of action, in his own mind, without licking his finger and holding it up to the wind is just more of a conservative thing.

You saw the same things with his dad, you saw the same with Reagan, popularity meant less to them than doing what they thought they needed to.

On mincing his words though, yeah, he definitely doesn't explain himself that well and there are so many problems in terms of PR that he could have solved pretty quick if he had the kind of charisma and word skill that some other people have had (talking about the war and God in the same sentence - middle America may have loved it but that just about made me cry and it scared the p--- out of Europe).

He is dyslexic, which means he is more likely to mangle his words. And he has some symptoms that some have described as typical for alcoholic brain damage.

His stubbornness is just a personality trait. There might be a touch of hubris in there, too.

He is very good with faces/names. When he pledged a fraternity, he supposedly was the only one who knew the names of every member in the first week. He tends to govern that way - when he likes a person or policy, he tends to stick with it. He once said he looked into Putin's eyes and saw his soul, and that Putin was a good man. Of course, since then, the two have fallen out. But it is more of a power struggle - Putin didn't want to support Bush, so he's out.

Pretty interesting stuff there monty, wasn't even aware of most of it.

Pffff, yeah and that wasn't a lie....

Don't burden us with THAT idiot.

I think he's about as far from aspie as anyone can get...

he's a user. it explains it all. he uses drugs which affects his speech pattern, his stubbornness is mostly defined by this belief in a definite right or wrong which is attributed to his religious devotion which goes back to him using but he has substituted religion instead of alcohol and his keeping troops goes back to his stubbornness which goes back to...well...you get the point...he's a broken fragment of a human being which if he wasn't so damned spoiled, most of us would probably feel sorry for. but hey...when daddy can make you president...most of us lose the sympathy and just go for out and out "wow this is a worthless human being....why is he in a position of power and authority?"


and supposedly his user status spawns back to the death of his sister who died in infancy. so it's mildly tragic if it weren't for the whole death of a few million other humans due to his personal suffering and inability to come to terms with it.


oh yeah...and he is definitely NOT an aspie...this is purely his environment at work....if not also of his own want.

Do you think Bush may have Aspergers?

Sticking with the generalized label thing.

I think we would be lucky if he was. I don't think we'd be in the mess we are.

Yeah so throw the rotten vegetables at me, it was a generalization from what I have observed here. I know there are "evil" aspies as well. If I wonder about any of that crew, I wonder about Karl Rove.

I was wondering if he wasn't back into the booze. Seen some hints here and there. Nothing concrete. The Wife thinks it could be hidden by the press, I don't know if I agree with her on that one. Still, I wonder.

The press has hidden such things before. I'm not sure it's the same animal now as it was. Main stream hasn't changed all that much, but the net is a wonderful thing.

Being a European myself, I think you just shouldn't whine so much about Bush being incompetent and all. Remember, about half of you elected him to the White House, and *more* than half of you re-elected him. So, if he really is the wrong guy for the job (which is probably the case), you've only got each other to blame - well, and maybe the Supreme Court for not granting a recount in Florida. And besides, by the end of this year he'll be packing, so then you can get yourselves a decent president - which would be the first time since FDR...

Whine? Little strong, I b***h though. And talk about rage? I swear a blue streak at the TV, when W starts handing out the pablum.

In my life I have been in two different countries wondering if I should return. That I make any real difference in an imperfect government, I doubt it. But I cast my vote every time and have since I turned 21. I can't force a man or woman to vote the way they do and I'm not always right, even if loath to admit it.

People say there is voter apathy in this country, I say there isn't. Those that don't physically cast a ballot, do, just by being here and doing what they do. I'm not blind, nor are others on the other side of the economic scale, they cross the street is all and I don't.

My Wife's Grandmother always referred to FDR as, "that man", she would not say his name. FDR was no saint.

I was one them and I still think the fact that he actually had the security and war on terror bit right means that while he's not the greatest he's still much preferable to Gore or Kerry.

I didn't canonize FDR; he darn near fornicated himself into the White House, and he waited too long to get involved in the European part of the War. But if a man gets elected *easily* (unlike GWB) for three terms in a row, and probably a fourth if he hadn't died, it's got to mean something. I'd put him up there with George Washington, good old Abe and Teddy.

WHAT are you babbling about here?
He engineered US involvement AGAINST
the will of the people. Once the war started,
the majority of effort was spent in the European
theater, from the very start. Ah, and US entry was
also essentially engineered by FDR.

I'm no fan of the man, but more for bamboozling
the populous into a war, than anything else.

The reelection is very debatable, voting machine fraud was rampant, call me a conspiracy theorist if you want, you're an idiot if you do because that's a tactic that is used to discredit the truth. http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/ ... ion_stolen

I would have voted for Kerry in '04 if I could. I couldn't vote in '00 either but I would have voted for Gore. I have free speech so I'll complain about him as much as I please, I don't care that some European thinks I shouldn't whine about it. People who did vote for him do deserve some of the blame though.

FDR does not deserve to be considered on the same level as Washington, Roosevelt, or Lincoln. He was too much of a corrupt crook to be considered as great as those. I consider FDR to be more on the level with Ronald Reagan, popular and charismatic, but far from perfect.

And the next election looks like it will be Clinton vs. Thompson/Giuliani. No decent choice there either.

And to stay on topic. I think Dick Cheney is much more likely to be an Aspie than George Bush, who almost certainly isn't one.