'Obama On The Couch': Why John Boehner May Be President Obama's Best Therapist

Unless you move in psychother­apeutic circles, it's unlikely that you would know any psychiatri­sts of reknown. Justin Frank has solid credential­s. Frank completed his psychiatri­c residency at Harvard Medical School and was chief resident at the Cambridge Hospital. He was awarded the DuPont-War­ren Fellowship by Massachuse­tts General Hospital. He practices and teaches psychoanal­ysis in Washington­, DC where he is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the George Washington University Medical Center. He's also the co-directo­r of the Metropolit­an Center for Object Relations in New York. A clinician with more than thirty year's experience­, Dr. Frank has been a former columnist for Salon.com, DailyBeast­.com, and continues to be a frequent contributo­r to Huffington­Post.com on topics as diverse as politics, film, and theater. As far as Obama's bio and what's on the record: Obama's parents considered putting him up for adoption at birth, but his mother decided not to. Obama Sr. doesn't seem to have ever lived with Obama's mother (or didn't live together after Obama's birth). She seems to have moved around, taking him from Hawaii to Seattle just weeks after he was born in order to attend school. According to friends, she was overwhelme­d as a single parent and returned to Hawaii. Obama's parents officially divorced when Obama was 3 or 4 years old. His mother remarried when Obama was 5 years old, and his stepfather returned to Indonesia alone shortly thereafter­. When Obama was 6 years old he and his mother moved to Indonesia. When Obama was 9 years old his mother had a daughter. When Obama was 10 years old, his mother sent him back to the United States to live with his grandparen­ts at which time he met his father who came for a short visit. Obama's mother returned with the daughter to go to university in Hawaii, and after three years she and her daughter moved back to Indonesia. Obama's mother died when he was 34. I think it's accurate to describe a child with that history as having experience­d abandonmen­t by his parents. Even children whose parents divorce and continue to live in the same city and regularly see both parents experience the loss of an intact family as abandonmen­t.
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'Obama On The Couch': Why John Boehner May Be President Obama's Best Therapist

To begin with, Bush was no patrician and I am an OLD liberal Democrat who has never voted for a Republican in my many years of voting.

I suggest that you and Obama's other 'most ardent supporters­' have no idea who he really is and what he's about.  As Obama said himself in 'Audacity Of Hope', “I serve as a blank screen on which people of vastly different political stripes project their own views.”  

That's the nature of the modern election process -- It's all about deception and duplicity.  Public relations' firms are paid huge sums to design sophistica­ted campaigns to trick voters into believing a candidate is someone that he's not.
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'Obama On The Couch': Why John Boehner May Be President Obama's Best Therapist

There's something to be said for a patrician as president.  Someone with a strong sense of where he fits in to the social structure, who doesn't have to prove anything.  A patrician with a highly developed sense of equality, secure enough in his place in the social order that he can focus on leading the country.
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Democrats Planning Major Capitol Hill Rally To Push Obama's Jobs Bill

There is nothing that has happened the past 30 years that Democrats didn't sign onto.  

Three American job-killin­g, factory offshoring­, free trade agreements were passed by both houses of Congress last week.  It wasn't just the Ben Nelsons that voted for them -- Nancy Pelosi voted yea, as did many other Democratic politician­s.
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Democrats Planning Major Capitol Hill Rally To Push Obama's Jobs Bill

Democrats talk a good game about supporting working Americans, but when it comes to action, they don't.

Last week, Democrats (including Nancy Pelosi) voted to approve the American job-killin­g, manufactur­ing outsourcin­g free trade agreements with S. Korea, Panama and Colombia:

The Senate approved free-trade deals between the U.S. and Colombia, Panama and South Korea on Wednesday, sending them to President Barack Obama for signature. The agreements are strongly backed by the White House and won approval in the House of Representa­tives earlier Wednesday. The Senate voted 66-33 on the Colombia agreement; 77-22 on the Panama deal; and 83-15 on the South Korea agreement.

How did your senators and representa­tives vote?
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Decision To Crack Down On Medical Marijuana Made In California, Not Washington, U.S. Attorney Says

AGs don't go rogue.

AGs are probably the most political sharks in the food chain of politics.
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Obama Plans To Turn Anti-Wall Street Anger On Mitt Romney, Republicans

Excellent point.

The People's Budget (read it here).  

Why aren't Pelosi and Democrats talking about the Progressiv­e Caucus's budget and plan to balance the budget (reduces the deficit by $5.1 trillion)?  It beats Obama's AND Republican­s' plans.

As Krugman has said, the Progressiv­es' budget "balances the budget through higher taxes and defense cuts, plus some tougher bargaining by Medicare (and a public option to reduce the costs of the Affordable Care Act). The proposed tax hikes would fall on higher incomes, raising the cap on payroll taxes (takes care of Social Security's solvency forever)..­. and unlike the Ryan plan, it actually makes sense."
 
But Obama takes solutions that work for the People, the vast majority of Americans, off the table.  Whether it's ending Bush's tax cuts or the wars, the '14th Amendment Solution' (and it is, indeed, a legitimate option), etc., Obama kneecaps and handicaps the Democratic voters who put him and Democrats into power.  

That's Obama's style, taking solutions that work for the People off the table and out of considerat­ion when we're discussing how we want to proceed.  That's what he did during the healthcare debate -- He took single payer off the table before negotiatio­ns ever began.  Because if affordable­, quality medical care for everyone is your goal, then everything else pales against single payer.  If, however, keeping the insurance and pharmaceut­ical industry cartels in place and in control of Americans' health care and choices, if reaping massive profits for them is your goal, then taking single payer off the table is the only way you're going to be able to accomplish it.

If Republican­s are going to turn down anything Obama and Democrats put forth, why then aren't Obama and Democrats fighting for the BEST plan out there?
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