Professor rips into GOP: ‘Self-interest and self-righteousness are at the heart’ of Republican Party

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[oliverdarcy]

A tenured university professor penned an editorial in the Washington Post last week in which he skewered the Republican Party for its “self-interest and self-righteousness” and suggested President Obama had made a mistake for working with the GOP.

“Self-interest and self-righteousness are at the heart of the Republican Party,” wrote Professor Drew Westen in an article published last week in The Washington Post.

Westen, a tenured professor of psychology and psychiatry at Emory University, also argued that President Obama has a “penchant for unilateral bipartisanship” and made the “mistake” of working with the same Republicans who had just “decimated the economy.”

[kcvl]

Idiot retread....maybe he needs to look in the mirror. Projection much?!

Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Obama Fails to Battle Back Against Bullies

Press here

Westen points to two overriding failings of the Obama administration: (1) The president is a gifted orator who has failed to use those skills to communicate boldly with the American people; (2) The president is a constitutional scholar who has failed to stand up for fundamental matters of justice.

Under item No. 2, Obama has allowed himself to be bullied by Republican rivals who specialize in such tactics. Westen speaks eloquently on this point and notes the irony of our first black president being virtually clueless about the principles that drove Martin Luther King:

[GladesGuru]

“unilateral bipartisanship” ? ? ?

Having actually penned that line, the author should be brought before the Med School Board of Trustees and told “Psychiatrist, shrink thy head”.

[LS]

Big deal. I’m a tenured professor (I guarantee with more, and more popular, publications than this moron) and I think he’s a boob.

[dennisw]

Who is this pantload???

[Pining_4_TX]

Government should have no role at all in education. All education should be private and funded privately with charity for the poor.

The worst thing that ever happened to this country was when government essentially took control of education.

[This I Wonder32460]

1. Gifted Orator = Good at Reading a Speech from a Monitor ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. Constitutional Scholar ≠ Obama = Anti-Constitutional-Pro-Communist-Islamic Scholar -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3. Bullied by Republicans = GOP holds its ground against wrong-headed ideas of the Dems = GOP refuses to be Bullied by Obama and the Dems --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

[TASMANIANRED]

Are we to understand that the democrats are selfless and righteous?

Democrats are self righteous for sure.