One of the most percipient books written during the 2004 presidential cycle was "Bush on the Couch" by eminent Georgetown University psychiatrist Dr. Justin Frank. Dr. Frank issued a stern warning that, given numerous danger signs evident from Bush's behavior during his first term in office, a second term would constitute a ticking time bomb. Full Story »
Posted by Melva Hackney
Kucinich's question and Justin Frank's book, "Bush on the Couch," both offer commentary that is reasonable to a degree (although both are controversial and colored by partisan political opinion), but this commentary in "The Smirking Chimp" does not add any new information or insight into either Bush's mental state or his likely future actions as president. It merely recycles a litany of Bush's wrongful actions in office and vaguely attributes them to some unspecified mental illness. I'm very far from being a Bush supporter myself, but I don't find this sort of analysis to be very illuminating.
