The Madness of King George, continued

"Given the stakes in Iraq and the war against terrorism, it would be petty to poke fun at Bush for calling credibility 'incredibly important.' His routine misuse of the word 'incredible,' while illiterate, is harmless. His misunderstanding of the word 'credible,' however, isn't harmless. It's catastrophic."

To W, credibility means never having to say you're sorry. Read more of William Saletan's Slate article here if you're at all interested in what goes on in the president's brain.

("Why, anybody can have a brain. That's a very mediocre commodity. Every pusillanimous creature that crawls on the Earth or slinks through slimy seas has a brain.")

Saletan seems to be the leading journalistic psychoanalyst on the Bush beat. He has another trenchant piece on the subject here.

Relevant to all this, I think, is the Narcissistic Personality Disorder. I once worked for someone with NPD, and every day was a mental scourging. I wonder if that's what working in the White House is like for some people these days.

(via Bad Attitudes, via lies.com)

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