Walk of Shame. Bill Clinton's party.

NRO ^ | October 30, 2003, 7:26 a.m. | Jonah Goldberg

[theDentist]

Yeah, he and George just don't get along.

[Sabertooth]

As long as the Democrats attack Bush on his foreign policy, which is the great strength of his first term, they will remain losers.

If they had any wits, they'd sign off on 90% of what Bush wants in foreign policy, and neutralize the issue.

Only Lieberman and Gephardt have even a clue, but their campaigns aren't capable of otherwise gaining traction with hard-core Democrats. If the election was held next Tuesday (which starts the one year countdown to the real election), I'd guess Bush would take 58% to 60% of the polular vote, and 70% of the Electoral College.

BTW, if anyone wants to make easy betting money off of their Democrat friends, bet that the Democrat nominee won't get 50% of the popular vote. Only Johnson and Carter have pulled that off since Roosevelt's last run in 1944.

[PogySailor]

Great article.

IMHO, the Democrats have become nothing but a party of whiners. They offer no reason to vote FOR them to anyone other that the hardest partisans. I fully realized this during the 2002 FL governors race when the McBride campaign was nothing more than a "I'm not Jeb" platform.

[NutCrackerBoy]

They are left with no principle to stand on, no plan of their own to promulgate, and no credibility to trade with. -Jonah Goldberg

NRO has made a conscious shift from cerebrality to Coulteresque red-meat. I like it.

Case in point: Jonah writes a thoughtful article on the Venona vindication of McCarthy's going after traitors in government. (NPR also had a show on it in which the first line was "McCarthy was right".) No impact in either case. Coulter writes a book in her very pointed way on the same subject. Impact. Some of the insupportable but tenacious revisionism is gone forever.

[Phantom Lord]

Self Bump

[Brian Allen]

<< Its a hard thought to handle, but Bill Clinton may in fact be a high functioning sociopath/psychopath and hence was the First Psychopath in Chief of the US. >>

"Sociopath" requires a bit of a stretch, eh?

And "high-functioning," [Beyond even my wildest imaginings] quite possibly delusion.

Best ones -- Brian

[Helms]

The Psychopathic or Sociopathic Personality

Although he deliberately cheats others and is quite conscious of his lies, he appears unable to distinguish adequately between his own pseudointentions, pseudoremorse, pseudolove, and the genuine responses of a normal person.

Apparently blocked from fulfillment at deep levels, the psychopath is not unnaturally pushed toward some sort of divertissement. Even weak impulses, petty and fleeting gratifications, are sufficient to produce in him injudicious, distasteful, and even outlandish misbehavior.

Hervey Cleckley, The Mask of Sanity.

. . .a person lacking eros (love) can be charming. . .the presence of eros makes life difficult for people. . .Eros means caring, and if someone cares for whatever or whoever it may be, worries, nervousness, even neurotic tensions can be the result. Loving persons are seldom cool and relaxed, but people suffering from a deficient eros are unconcerned and so do not worry; often they are very relaxed and easy-going.

Relationships (for psychopaths) are things of the moment. . .their motto seem(s) to be "Out of sight, out of mind."

Adolph Guggenbuhl-Craig, The Emptied Soul.

You can't "negotiate" or bargain with psychopaths.

Dr. William Higgins.

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This website is dedicated in memory of my late father and crime writer Jack Olsen.

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If you've visited this website in the past, you may have noticed some changes. A brief summation of this website is that it has changed in scope because I have tried presenting alternative research regarding psychopathy, rather than give a stereotypical, one-sided viewpoint.

In truth, psychopathy knows no boundaries.

First of all, it is found among all social classes. Such character disordered people are not only the charming con men and dangerous gold diggers that Dr. Hare warns us about, not only are they the lower-class, drunken, drug abusing "sociopaths" which Dr. Black writes about, they are also people who hold high positions in society, as Jungian author Guggenbuhl-Craig has said, because those who cannot love want power.

Some may disagree, but it has been well known that the socially adept psychopath, while his personal life may lie in disarray, is not incapable of reaching the heights of power (Hitler is a very good example of this). Hervey Cleckley also wrote about the socially adept psychopath in great detail.

Only as of late, with all the Enron scandals and related crimes, people are waking up to the fact that the most dangerous psychopath of all is the educated, socially adept psychopath, in fact, Dr. Hare recently said that he would probably be able to find many psychopaths involved in the stockmarket. It is time for American to "wake up" says Dr. Wolman, because we are being threatened by a serious epidemic of psychopathy.

[SerpentDove]

[ought-six]

"Yep...and he said even more after Clinton finally signed the Welfare Reform Act. Reminds me of when Kerry called Clinton an exceptionally good liar."

John Kerry didn't say that. Bob Kerrey of Nebraska said that.

[Verginius Rufus]

Jesse Jackson was really ticked off at Clinton in 1992, after Clinton criticized Sister Souljah at a JJ-sponsored event (to show that he wasn't another Mondale or Dukakis, totally beholden to JJ). Just something to fool the uninitiated during the election.

[Bon mots]

Where did you get that information about Psychopathy? Can you give me a link? Thx!

[Helms]

http://www.geocities.com/lycium7/

[Helms]

http://www.cassiopaea.org/cass/psychopath.htm

[Charlie OK]

Dean is consistent — and consistently wrong — in that his position has always been "if Bush is for it, I'm against it."

Good for him. My position is that if the Democrats are for something, I am against it.

[cwb]

Thank you...but you obviously missed post #9 :)

[Bon mots]

Thanks!! Excellent source!!

[Brian Allen]

I'm familiar with the clinical diognoses for all of "sociopath," "psychopath" and "high functioning."

The clear distinction between "sociopath" and "psychopath," however, is that a sociopath essentially has no awareness of "right" and "wrong" and "good" and "evil" whereas a psychopath knows very well -- and simply doesn't care.

KKKling Tong is a predatory psychopath.

And, lizard brained at best and barely capable of operating independantly -- and never of taking descisions and of making choices -- is not only not "high functioning" but causes one to wonder if he has a brain at all.

[bray]

Not to mention this is the WORST economy since "Woodrow" clinton! Note to Commrade Dean: Hate and tax increases may work for your Raticals, but the rest of the country likes GW and Tax Cuts! Enjoy the landslide!

Pray for GW and The Truth

[hotpotato]

Look at the date. Clinton was not president. Was basically a nobody from Arkansas.