This is a really a psychological profile of President Bush? While I don't have any degrees in psychology, I would have thought it would be necessary to spend some time with the subject in order to complete a psychological profile. Am I incorrect?

>As promised a psychological profile of bush. Kind of explains everything. And at the sametime makes everyone I know who read this wish they could move the clock ahead a couple years so we can get past this:
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>Bush and the Psychology of Incompetent Decisions
> By John P. Briggs, MD, and J.P. Briggs II, PhD
> t r u t h o u t | Guest Contributors
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> Thursday 18 January 2007
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> President George W. Bush prides himself on "making tough decisions." But
>many are sensing something seriously troubling, even psychologically
>unbalanced, about the president as a decision-maker. They are right.
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> Because of a psychological dynamic swirling around deeply hidden feelings
>of inadequacy, the president has been driven to make increasingly incompetent
>and risky decisions. This dynamic makes the psychological stakes for him now
>unimaginably high. The words "success" and "failure" have seized his rhetoric
>like metaphors for his psyche's survival.
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> The president's swirling dynamic lies "hidden in plain sight" in his
>personal history. From the time he was a boy until his religious awakening in
>his early 40s, Bush had every reason to feel he was a failure. His continued,
>almost obsessive, attempts through the years to emulate his father, obtain his
>approval, and escape from his influence are extensively recorded.
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> His biography is peppered with remarks and behavior that allude to this
>inner struggle. In an exuberant moment during his second campaign for Texas
>governor, Bush told a reporter, "It's hard to believe, but ... I don't have
>time to worry about being George Bush's son. Maybe it's a result of being
>confident. I'm not sure how the psychoanalysts will analyze it, but I'm not
>worried about it. I'm really not. I'm a free guy."
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> A psychoanalyst would note that he is revealing here that he has been
>worrying about being his father's son quite a lot.
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> Resentment naturally contaminated Bush's efforts to prove himself to his
>father and receive his father's approval. The contradictory mix showed up in
>his compulsion to re-fight his father's war against Iraq, but this time
>winning the duel some thought his father failed to win with Saddam. He could
>at once emulate his father, show his contempt for him, and redeem him. But
>beneath this son-father struggle lies a far more significant issue for Bush -
>a question about his own competence, adequacy and autonomy as a human being.
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> We have seen this inner question surface repeatedly, and we have largely
>conspired with him to deny it.
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>On September 11, 2001, we saw (and suppressed) the image of him sitting
>stunned for seven minutes in a crowd of school children after learning that
>the second plane had hit the Twin Towers, and then the lack of image of him
>when he vanished from public view for the rest of the day. Instead, we bought
>the cover-up image, three days after the attack, of the strong leader,
>grabbing the bullhorn in New York City and issuing bellicose statements.
>In 2004, we saw and denied the insecurity displayed when the president refused
>to face the 9/11 Commission alone and needed Vice President Cheney to go with
>him.
>In 2003, we saw and suppressed the dark side of the "Mission Accomplished"
>aircraft carrier landing, in which a man who had ducked out on his
>generation's war and dribbled away his service in the Texas Air National Guard
>dressed up like Top Gun and pretended that he was a combat pilot like his
>father.
>Asked by a reporter if he would accept responsibility for any mistakes, Bush
>answered, "I hope I don't want to sound like I've made no mistakes. I'm
>confident I have. I just haven't - you just put me under the spot here, and
>maybe I'm not quick - as quick on my feet as I should be in coming up with
>one." What we heard, and yet didn't hear, was a confession of his feelings of
>inadequacy and an arrogant denial those feelings all at once.
>In early 2006, when his father moved behind the scenes to replace Secretary of
>Defense Donald Rumsfeld and the son responded, "I'm the decider and I decide
>what's best" - and when he clenched his fist at a question about his father's
>influence, proclaiming, "I'm the Commander in Chief" - we glimpsed what was
>going on.
> To cover up and defend himself against his feelings of his inadequacy and
>incompetence, Bush developed a number of psychological defenses. In his school
>years he played the clown. (His ability to joke about his verbal slip-ups is
>an endearing adult application of this defense to public life.) His heavy
>drinking was a classic way to anesthetize feelings of inadequacy. Indeed,
>drinking typically makes the alcoholic grandiose, which has led some
>commentators to argue that Bush has the "dry drunk" syndrome, where the
>individual has stopped drinking but retains the brittle psychology of the
>alcoholic. Other defenses now play especially powerful roles to protect the
>president against his internal feelings of insufficiency.