Did the White House Just Schedule an Off-the-Record Meeting Between Obama and a Psychiatrist?

9 Oct 13 | Xzins

[sheik yerbouty]

Can Ktrauthammer get another physician to declare 0bama is mentally incompetent?

[xzins]

I doubt it. It would have to be an in-house revolt led by Biden. He has a lot at stake. If he had even a year as president, he could derail Hillary.

As things are now going, he will be toast against the Hillary lobby. He needs control of power centers to beat her.

The only way I can see to get anything firmly in his control is to depose Obama.

[Intolerant in NJ]

...but they could also be secretly soliciting Krauthammer’s observations of the president...again, I doubt seriously that Krauthammer - a leading conservative pundit, closely observed and listened to all over the country - would be the psychiatrist, or even a psychiatrist, White House insiders would go to if they had questions about Obama's mental status - and ethical concerns which require psychiatrists to be up front and direct with their patients would probably preclude Krauthammer from taking on such a secretive role anyway......

No, after seeing the way Krauthammer took a dive on the latest shaky polling data tonight, even agreeing with Juan Williams that evil Ted Cruz has apparently succeeded in increasing the popularity of Obamacare, I'm suspicious that the hush-hush meeting was to try to threaten and intimidate some of these up to now outspoken conservatives, maybe for Krauthammer some tidbit of information from his days as a 'rat advisor and speech-writer to whomever it was, Mondale or whatever - Krauthammer is the one who bears watching.....

[xzins]

So, you’re saying that purportedly former democrat Krauthammer, who agrees with Juan Williams, who is relentlessly attacking Ted Cruz... is a terrible pick to observe Obama because he’s a ....”conservative”???

[Intolerant in NJ]

No, he would be an unlikely pick to observe Obama because he is a prominent personality and would be acting in a public venue - any attempt to perform some sort of psychiatric evaluation or even to control the conversation to the extent that he could develop meaningful information while in a group of fellow visitors would be obvious to all present and eventually broadcast to the outside world - already people are guessing that Krauthammer was there for some sort of psychiatric purpose, probably the last thing the White House wants to get around - otherwise his opinions would be cursory and superficial, with not much more depth than could be developed by watching a few of Obama's unscripted pressers - and then there's the problem of how to follow up on his evaluation - his "findings" would have to be further substantiated and fleshed out - why involve him to begin with when world-class staff physicians and consultants are available to the administration already......

Krauthammer's sentiments are apparently conservative, to the extent that being a RINO Cruz-hater qualifies one as being conservative, and he seems to genuinely dislike Obama - but as he himself says, "I was young once too" - his dalliance with the 'rats might well have included some questionable activities known to his fellow lefties at the time which would be embarrassing if publicized now, and maybe could be used to try to get him to tone down his criticisms, even to the point of agreeing with Juan.....