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Look, I’m not sure I can add much to this–it would be gilding the lily.
Blue Bush does ‘a lot of crying’
WASHINGTON – President George W. Bush is prone to bouts of crying caused by the stress of his job and claims to have seen ghosts emerge from the Lincoln Bedroom in the White House, according to a new book on his presidency.
In a series of remarkably candid admissions by a sitting president, Bush confides to author John Draper that he has been “sustained by the discipline of the faithful experience” during the most difficult days of his presidency.
“I’ve got God’s shoulder to cry on. And I cry a lot,” Bush says in Dead Certain: The Presidency of George W. Bush, which was released to U.S. bookstores Tuesday.
“I do a lot of crying in this job. I’ll bet I’ve shed more tears than you can count, as president. I’ll shed some tomorrow.”
Yes, that’s what I want: someone with his finger on The Button who is not only relentlessly anti-rational, but also extremely emotional unstable. That makes me feel safe.
Oh, then then this:
Perhaps the oddest revelation is an episode from 1992, when his father was still president and he was visiting the White House.
Bush found the White House a “creepy place,” Draper writes. After exercising in a White House gym one evening, Bush has told a friend he froze in his steps while approaching the Lincoln Bedroom.
Bush insists “he saw ghosts — coming out of the wall,” according to a friend.
That’s even better: irrational, unstable, and hallucinating something right out of Lost Weekend. (Let us leave out the question of intelligence, since it is not addressed in the piece.)
And I thought it couldn’t get worse.
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