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To: Patricia Trinchero who wrote (97921)	2/1/2007 3:40:13 AM
From: stockman_scott	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 361043

Bush on the Couch politicalwire.com New York magazine puts President Bush "on the couch" and asks a variety of pundits and writers to psychoanalyze him. Selected comments: Deepak Chopra: "One of the most unnerving things about George Bush is his smile... It’s been pointed out that until he became president, Bush didn’t smirk. It’s grown into a disturbing tic, expressing a mixture of contradictory traits: smugness, disdain, self-consciousness, doubt... Have we seen a more inappropriate smile from any politician since Nixon? I doubt it." Ted Sorensen: "I have enough sympathy for anybody in that position that I wouldn’t say that he’s mentally deranged: I feel sorry for him. I think he must know that he’s going to go down in history as the most incompetent president since Buchanan. He came to the White House knowing nothing about national and international policy and consequently relied on Washington veterans -- who proved to be incompetent ideologues who got him, and the country, into very deep trouble." Gary Hart: "He clings to a thought that in 20 or 25 years, history will maybe prove him right, and people will say he really knew what he was doing. But throughout all of this, he has seemed so blithe and casual about death and destruction. It would have kept me awake at night. I don’t know how he does it. He must just turn it off." Franklin Foer: "Even as his entire presidency has tanked, he shows no signs of acquiring psychological complexities. He remains the 'simple,' 'resolute' man that his hagiographers once venerated. If you put Bush on the couch, I’m afraid he'd still take a nap." Melvin Laird, counselor to President Nixon: "There are those who want to draw parallels between George W. Bush and Richard Nixon. But for those of us who were in the White House with Nixon, the differences could not be starker... George Bush has problems of his own, but he is not down, nor is he out. Bush is an inveterate optimist with a strong sense of self.” COMPLETE ARTICLE AVAILABLE HERE: nymag.com