Posted on 05/01/2005 1:24:15 AM PDT by stm
Laura Bush has explicitly denied saying this. She said she merely said W should take it easy.
A "psychiatrist" who believes he can analyze a person because we all supposedly fit these "types" tells you all you need to know about the dangers of psychology entering the courtroom, for example. Even a raging lib like director William Freidkin once said that bringing psychiatry into the courts has ruined our legal system. This is different, but a symptom of the same bizarre trend that's been going on for a century. I am NOT saying psychiatry is complete trash, because it isn't, and it's an essential tool in helping understand the criminal mind, for example. But "causes" aren't supposed to be what justice is about.
I bring this up only to compare how we deify psychotherapists in the courtroom, and look where that's gotten us; I am sure many folks will listen to this fool, nod, and think "Hey, he's a shrink, he KNOWS this stuff." When in fact, we are all individuals and cannot be diagnosed from afar...though the libs would like us to believe otherwise, that we are all just robots waiting for programming.
I'm a recovering addtci/alcoholic. I'm in my 15th year of sobriety. I've worked at three recovery facilities. I've helped hundreds and seen thousands of people in their recovery. The hallmark of a person that is stagnant in their recovery program is when they focus on another persons recovery and critically judge it. This is little different from the morally bankrupt jackass running around yelling at religious people "judge not lest ye be judged......judge not lest ye be judged."
The Left is nothing if not tediously repetitive, and predictable. Much like those small monkeys at the zoo who like to toss their droppings at visitors, hoping some will stick.
The President has an actual record of accomplishments, things he has gotten done. What does this scribbler have? Words. Empty words on a piece of paper.
I wonder what an article about "progressives" on the couch would say?
Amazing that a professional would diagnose (in detail) a person who he has never meaningfully met, interviewed, or treated.
Amazing that a professional would diagnose (in detail) a person who he has never meaningfully met, interviewed, or treated.
The religious right-wingers frighten and terrify me, conjure images of dungeons and inquisitions, or remind me of Iran. But Dubya's half (it's not really half, you know, more like 1%), just flat pisses me off. The way these people wallow in luxury, and in welfare provided by the tax-payer (even Dubya's salary should be considered as welfare), and how arrogant and stuffed full of cupidity they must of course be,is enough to send me into mega-fits of 100 proof apoplexy. Consider for example the following:
"Amazing that a professional would diagnose (in detail) a person who he has never meaningfully met, interviewed, or treated."
I once knew a doctor who was fired from his hospital for doing exactly that in a public newsgroup during the course of an extended "flame war".
He used his "medical credentials" to "diagnose", defame and discredit another poster and it bit him in the @ss.
I often use(d) little tricks to help me remember to spell. For instance; to get her = together. See?
When I broke therapist in half, I had the rapist.
I challenge anyone to read any psycho-whatever and substitute the rapist for therapist and a whole new perspective emerges.
That would be cruelty to animals! You can go to jail for that, ya know!
I'd say it's a case of "psychiatrist, diagnose thyself".....:)
WHERE IS THE MAJOR BARF ALERT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This author is one sick person that needs to get saved, I will pray for him.
And I'm sure he wouldn't mind someone doing to him what he does to W in this article. Of course, it's so much easier to see what his problem is than it is to analyze the President; this guy is, to put it lightly, obsessed.
What a total loon. Wanting to put judges in who match his ideas is now the equivalent of MURDER? Get a grip!
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