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

According to liberal source "Politico", President Obama held a meeting on October 8, with "conservative journalists" Charles Krauthammer, Paul Gigot, Kathleen Parker, Byron York, and Robert Costa. The meeting was described as "off-the-record". When questioned about that meeting the next evening by Bret Baier of Fox News, Krauthammer gave no real information.

This is worrisome news because Krauthammer graduated from Harvard Medical School in 1975 with his MD and was board certified in psychiatry by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology in 1984. As recently as 2009, President Obama called upon Krauthammer's medical stature, inviting Krauthammer to a signing ceremony involving bioethics. Krauthammer, who has in the past given his medical support for euthanasia, declined the invitation citing differences on cloning.

The president has displayed alarmingly bad judgment in recent months. Bizarre equivocation is the only way to describe Obama's disastrous approach to Syria after reports of WMDs atrocities. Saving face through the intervention of Vladimir Putin, the President afterwards pushed his media teams to retell the actual events of his Syrian embarrassment in larger than life, self-congratulatory terms.

The list of unusual decisions involving the so-called, government shutdown continues to grow. He has ordered WWII vets barricaded out of their Washington DC memorial. He has ordered the Vietnam Wall barricaded to prevent Vietnam Vets from visiting. He has allowed illegal aliens to use the very locations he has forbidden the veterans to use. He has ordered no benefits be paid for heroes killed overseas, and just today had to reverse that position following a huge, public outcry. The timing of these horrendous, public relations stumbles amidst a shutdown debate has pro-Obama pundits sprinting to cover for him, and even has his friends scratching their heads over his bizarre decision making. A plunging approval rating suggests the American people are beginning to see the unusual behavior on the part of the president.

Petulance describes the Obama refusal to recognize that the House of Representatives, also an elected body in the American governmental system, is only doing its job when it says they do not want to increase his credit card limit. Slinging charges of extortion and blackmail at a governmental body doing its job of controlling his exploding credit card spending, the president again is alarmingly petty, overwrought, isolated, and ominously excitable .

These are just a few of the oddities making one wonder why, under cover of "conservative journalism", the White House invited a psychiatrist to an "off-the-record" meeting. Such a meeting allows both plausible deniability, and the reliability of medical confidentiality. Even if leaked, the decision to use "conservative journalists" as the cover would provide an immediate counter to what Obama’s inner circle could call an attack by political enemies. Since the meeting was "off-the-record", there is also no means of verifying any "off-the-record" private sessions with the president.

In short, the White House invited a brilliant psychiatrist. The president has been making odd, obstinate, embarrassing, and unfathomable decisions.

The Constitution provides in the 25th Amendment, Section. 4. "Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President."

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.

...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.....

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.....

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