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Professor rips into GOP: ‘Self-interest and self-righteousness are at the heart’ of Republican Party
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Posted on 08/02/2012 6:49:30 AM PDT by oliverdarcy

A tenured university professor penned an editorial in the Washington Post last week in which he skewered the Republican Party for its “self-interest and self-righteousness” and suggested President Obama had made a mistake for working with the GOP.

“Self-interest and self-righteousness are at the heart of the Republican Party,” wrote Professor Drew Westen in an article published last week in The Washington Post.

Westen, a tenured professor of psychology and psychiatry at Emory University, also argued that President Obama has a “penchant for unilateral bipartisanship” and made the “mistake” of working with the same Republicans who had just “decimated the economy.”

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1 posted on 08/02/2012 6:49:35 AM PDT by oliverdarcy
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Uh huh... and laziness, ignorance and Anti-Americanism is at the heart of the Democratic party!

Spare me!!!


2 posted on 08/02/2012 6:54:53 AM PDT by SMARTY ("The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings. "Henri Frederic Amiel)
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All tax supported tenure should be abolished. Not only at public universities but at private institutions that accept tax dollars.


3 posted on 08/02/2012 6:56:02 AM PDT by allendale
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‘Self-interest and self-righteousness are at the heart’ of Republican Party

Talk about self-parody -- as if there is a more self-righteous creature on the face of the planet than a progressive leftist.

4 posted on 08/02/2012 6:56:24 AM PDT by Maceman
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I agree with his partial use of the word RIGHTEOUSNESS, if it is "right" as in moral ... then we are filled with that description ... if it is righteous ... then we are inspired and privileged to be filled with that description.

So what does he think we should be -- sheep such as he?
5 posted on 08/02/2012 6:57:15 AM PDT by AKA Elena (St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle! SHOULD BE OUR DAILY PRAYER!)
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And one more self-interested than a tenure-seeking public employee (as he was before securing his personal gravy train)?


6 posted on 08/02/2012 6:59:46 AM PDT by grobdriver (Proud Member, Party of NO! Nobama, No Way, No How!)
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To: oliverdarcy

This putz ought to read a little less Karl Marx, and a little more Adam Smith:
“It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own self-interest... [Every individual] intends only his own security, only his own gain. And he is in this led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention. By pursuing his own interest, he frequently promotes that of society more effectually than when he really intends to promote it.”


7 posted on 08/02/2012 7:00:31 AM PDT by TruthShallSetYouFree (I didn't write this by myself. Obama helped me. Everyone helped me.)
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RE: Uh huh... and laziness, ignorance and Anti-Americanism is at the heart of the Democratic party!

Right on the money!!!


8 posted on 08/02/2012 7:01:01 AM PDT by Perseverando (Gun control? It's the OBOTS who are filling up prisons for violent crimes, not the Tea Party.)
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To: oliverdarcy

Are we to understand that the democrats are selfless and righteous?


9 posted on 08/02/2012 7:03:10 AM PDT by nonsporting
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In November 2011, The New Republic ranked Westen among its list of “overrated thinkers,” writing “he appears to be giving a deeper, more inward analysis, when in fact his knowledge of politics is amateurish.” [from Wikipedia article on this professor.]


10 posted on 08/02/2012 7:04:52 AM PDT by docbnj
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"... also argued that President Obama has a “penchant for unilateral bipartisanship”...

"Unilateral bipartisanship" ... to the professor that must mean 0bama has the wisdom to decide what the other party is entitled to ... no need to bring them into the decision process.

I'd call it an oxymoron, myself.

11 posted on 08/02/2012 7:07:42 AM PDT by Tellurian (Obama's allegiance is to his father's dreams)
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Doesn’t Emory host Jimmy Carter’s Center for World Peace for Useful Idiots, or some such?


12 posted on 08/02/2012 7:08:47 AM PDT by Calvin Locke
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Somebody hasn’t been showing up for his electroshock treatments? Choking the chicken whilst writing hope and change on your bathroom mirror is no substitute for the Tesla tickle.


13 posted on 08/02/2012 7:12:53 AM PDT by Cyman
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“It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity, but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own necessities but of their advantages. Nobody but a beggar chuses to depend chiefly upon the benevolence of his fellow citizens.”

Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations, vol.1, p.16

14 posted on 08/02/2012 7:13:32 AM PDT by Bigun ("The most fearsome words in the English language are I'm from the government and I'm here to help!")
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To: nonsporting

Ah, Emory University, that bastion of conservative thought where all future leaders must attend for their fascist indoctrination. /s

Actually, I have a new rule. I don’t read any words beyond a headline which contains the phrase “University Professor Says.”


15 posted on 08/02/2012 7:14:01 AM PDT by ibytoohi (What the hell has happened to my country?)
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Westen, a tenured professor of psychology and psychiatry at Emory University, also argued that President Obama has a “penchant for unilateral bipartisanship” and made the “mistake” of working with the same Republicans who had just “decimated the economy.”

Evidently Emory University hands out tenured professorships in psychology and psychiatry to anyone who collects and redeems enough cereal box tops. It can't possibly grant them based on intelligence, insight, capability for deep thinking, honesty, or quality of scholarship.

16 posted on 08/02/2012 7:15:26 AM PDT by Zeppo ("Happy Pony is on - and I'm NOT missing Happy Pony")
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“Westen, a tenured professor of psychology and psychiatry at.....”

That clinches it...he’s certifiably nuts, like all liberals!


17 posted on 08/02/2012 7:17:50 AM PDT by Forty-Niner (The barely bare, berry bear formerly known as..........Ursus Arctos Horribilis.)
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Lessee now... professor-for-life, WaPoObama, “Republicans are Evil” meme recycled...

“Unilateral bipartisanship”? Unilateral means working alone (remember that Evil BushCo went “unilateral” into Iraq, doncha know)...

And “bipartisanship” means working together with the opposition (which is Leftist doublespeak for “pass our agenda if you know what’s good for you”).

So, it means “working together by yourself”?


18 posted on 08/02/2012 7:18:27 AM PDT by Old Sarge (We are now officially over the precipice, we just havent struck the ground yet)
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Self interest and self righteousness is the GOP’s problem so the president should not bother to try and work with the other half of America?!

Sounds like Self righteous selfishness to me.

Amazing how STUPID professors are in Government sponsored indoctrination centers.

19 posted on 08/02/2012 7:24:34 AM PDT by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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The prof misued the word “decimated.”

Apparently, not only is his word wealth weak, but he cannot count.

Pity.


20 posted on 08/02/2012 7:25:35 AM PDT by RexBeach (Mr. Obama Can't Count.)
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