The guv of Kiev has a legislatively mandated mental exam, apparently provoked by some behavior that would be considered rather vin ordinaire by LA standards, or by Illinois gubanotorial standards for that matter. Is the Mayor Fit for Office? No Sure Answer reports some classic behavioral antics of elected officials with what the shrinks may call “narcissistic” tendencies:
When Parliament members said he was acting bizarrely and needed a psychiatric exam, he went to a stadium where he jogged for the cameras before yanking off his shirt and doing pull-ups. He swam laps and flexed his muscles like Charles Atlas. Then he held a news conference — in his tiny bathing suit.. . .
He later explained (to paraphrase): “Healthy body, healthy mind”. I think this was provoked by all those shirtless-on-horseback photos of Mr. Putin. More (to paraphrase)
- Interrupting meetings by singing meloncholy songs (“Who sings better than me? No one.”)
- Firing a zoo director for failing to find a mate for an elephant
- Convinced his electorate loves him
- Appears to be spaced out potentially substance or alcohol abuse
- Refused to pay doctors (“money grubbing wolves and thieving bandits” he claimed) after the doctors’ union “diagnosed him with some sort of a mental illness”
- “My voters are ordinary people, and I speak to them in one language, the language of ordinary people, even though, of course, I am not an ordinary person.”
This reminds me of a certain Midwestern politician, now on a Daily Show segment, “Rod Blagojevich’s Quest For Rock Bottom,”: (2:51):
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Your loyal bloggist is of course well versed in larger than life politicos, having personal experience with internationally known Wrestling Personalities, (natch, and who wouldn’t use these individuals as stellar exemplars of political potential? I digress. ) After a particular wrestler was elected to be governor of a certain very cold, lutefisk-luvin’ state, I met another one at a party just before the 2000 elections who said he was going to run for president on the basis: “If that guy can be governor, I’m better, I should be president.” This rather large individual ran off to Atlanta to get some campaign finance money, but never got on the ballet. Tragic.
My favorite wrestling move is where there are 2 guys in the ring and a third jumps in and grabs each by the forelock and smacks their heads together. So query: Where would we be if someone from the WWF had run the White House for the 2000-2008 period?
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