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[andrewducker]

More scary religious news from The White House:

President George W. Bush’s increasingly erratic behavior and wide mood swings has the halls of the West Wing buzzing lately as aides privately express growing concern over their leader’s state of mind.

In meetings with top aides and administration officials, the President goes from quoting the Bible in one breath to obscene tantrums against the media, Democrats and others that he classifies as “enemies of the state.”

In interviews with a number of White House staffers who were willing to talk off the record, a picture of an administration under siege has emerged, led by a man who declares his decisions to be “God’s will” and then tells aides to “fuck over” anyone they consider to be an opponent of the administration.

“We’re at war, there’s no doubt about it. What I don’t know anymore is just who the enemy might be,” says one troubled White House aide. “We seem to spend more time trying to destroy John Kerry than al Qaeda and our enemies list just keeps growing and growing.”

Aides say the President gets “hung up on minor details,” micromanaging to the extreme while ignoring the bigger picture. He will spend hours personally reviewing and approving every attack ad against his Democratic opponent and then kiss off a meeting on economic issues.

The President's abrupt dismissal of CIA Directory George Tenet Wednesday night is, aides say, an example of how he works.

"Tenet wanted to quit last year but the President got his back up and wouldn't hear of it," says an aide. "That would have been the opportune time to make a change, not in the middle of an election campaign but when the director challenged the President during the meeting Wednesday, the President cut him off by saying 'that's it George. I cannot abide disloyalty. I want your resignation and I want it now."

But the President who says he rules at the behest of God can also tongue-lash those he perceives as disloyal, calling them “fucking assholes” in front of other staff, berating one cabinet official in front of others and labeling anyone who disagrees with him “unpatriotic” or “anti-American.”

“The mood here is that we’re under siege, there’s no doubt about it,” says one troubled aide who admits he is looking for work elsewhere. “In this administration, you don’t have to wear a turban or speak Farsi to be an enemy of the United States. All you have to do is disagree with the President.”

from here

Comments

[themongkey.livejournal.com]

Well, what does one expect from a man with a history of drug and alcohol abuse?

[garnetquest.livejournal.com]

It's things like this that make me so very proud to be an American! Good thing it's election year! :p

[kimberly-a.livejournal.com]

I question the reliability of the source. I mean, I loathe the Shrub and vigorously agree with the bumper stickers so prevalent in our neighborhood that say "Re-Defeat Bush in 2004" ... but even with how much I hate the guy, I have to admit that this article sounds pretty wacked. It sounds more like something I'd read in The Onion than something I'd read in a legitimate news source. But maybe that just means the country has crossed the line between tragedy and farce.

[andrewducker]

I also worried about the quality of the source(s), but thought it sounded at least possible.

But then lots of things sound possible to me :->

[douglasbryant.livejournal.com]

There is alot of news out there, that has dubious sources.
For example if you told me that dubw bush was concerned about the effects (x) is having on (n), then I wouldn't believe it, but what your saying fits like a well made hand shoe.
I would just like to add, that he's evil, but every non american knows that anyway, oh yes and Farsi is the common language spoken in Iran, by Persians, which by the sounds of it, is probably his next target.