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Default The Brain-Dead Left

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000...googlenews_wsj

The Occupatzie's never fail to exert their right to look (and be)
stupid.

The left's embrace of a "movement" based on nonsense is a symptom of
its own intellectual bankruptcy. Drew Westen--best known for his
massive New York Times op-ed in August calling on President Obama to
govern by telling fairy tales, has more comedy gold in an online Times
piece in which he puzzles over why Obama has so often delayed the
taking of decisions and implementation of policies, ranging from the
Keystone XL pipeline to ObamaCare. He toys with the idea that it is a
psychological defect:

Decades ago, psychoanalysts identified a particular personality
style common among high-achieving men (although not limited to them),
and in recent years researchers have been hot on its trail. People
with this style (not narcissism, although that would be a good guess)
prefer to see themselves as logical and rational, uninfluenced by
emotion, and to think in abstract and intellectualized ways, as if
emotions were irrelevant or inconsequential to decision making--when
in fact they are essential to it. Whether that describes this
president I cannot say, although he has been described by a close
aide, and similarly by others, as "the most unsentimental man I've
ever met."

"A second possibility," he writes, "is that the president either
doesn't know or doesn't want anyone else to know what he believes":

During the 2008 election, I remember listening incredulously to
focus groups as swing voters would repeatedly say about a man they had
watched for two years, "I don't know who he is." Now I understand what
they meant. No modern American president has ever managed to make it
through nearly three years in the White House with so few people
really having any idea what he believes on so many key issues--let
alone what his vision for the country is.