Yes, Our President Is Insane

There’s no more question about it. He’s a nut. I don’t know what the psychiatric term would be for this kind of insanity, but insanity it is.

From Melinda Henneberger @ HuffPo: [emphasis mine]

[...] And suddenly, it was 2000 again; Mr. Bush did not mention 9/11 or the global war on terror, Iraq or Afghanistan, Saddam or bin Laden: “Compassionate conservatism” was his legacy, he declared, and referred to the faith-based initiatives we haven’t heard much about in subsequent years. “I made a name by being compassionate.”

(To learn more about this cornerstone of the Bush years, I referred to the White House website, where I learned that key accomplishments in this area in 2006 include a pilot program that houses 141 homeless veterans in Chicago. Additionally, North Dakota became the first state to fully implement an extended web-based service referral system, and centers for faith-based and community initiatives hosted 110 grant-writing workshops around the country.)

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Certainly, his own position on Iraq could not be described as having evolved at all: “If we fail, it’s more likely they’ll come here and want to kill Americans,” he argued, as he has since before the war began.

Again, too, he asserted that there’s plenty of good news in Iraq, even now: “Most of the country is in good shape.”

I’d laugh, except that this is the moron with his finger on the trigger and a desperate itch to pull it.