Thread: Krauthammer on the Obama Underappreciation Syndrome

October 22, 2010

'Obama Underappreciation Syndrome?'

Rick Moran
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Charles Krauthammer on the latest line of attack by Obama: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co ... 04856.html

Opening a whole new branch of cognitive science -- liberal psychology -- Obama has discovered a new principle: The fearful brain is hard-wired to act befuddled, i.e., vote Republican.

But of course. Here Obama has spent two years bestowing upon the peasantry the "New Foundation" of a more regulated, socially engineered and therefore more humane society, and they repay him with recalcitrance and outright opposition. Here he gave them Obamacare, the stimulus, financial regulation and a shot at cap-and-trade -- and the electorate remains not just unmoved but ungrateful.

Faced with this truly puzzling conundrum, Dr. Obama diagnoses a heretofore undiscovered psychological derangement: anxiety-induced Obama Underappreciation Syndrome, wherein an entire population is so addled by its economic anxieties as to be neurologically incapable of appreciating the "facts and science" undergirding Obamacare and the other blessings their president has bestowed upon them from on high.
I have a better explanation. Better because it adheres to the ultimate scientific principle, Occam's Razor, by which the preferred explanation for any phenomenon is the one with the most economy and simplicity. And there is nothing simpler than the Gallup findings on the ideological inclinations of the American people. Conservative: 42 percent. Moderate: 35 percent. Liberal: 20 percent.

Charles spells it out for the president; trying to cram down a liberal agenda in a center right country is going to get a lot of people mad at you. And they are likely to take that anger out on your party come election day.

It really is that simple - even if we don't appreciate the president in quite the same way he obviously appreciates himself.

Hat Tip: Ed Lasky

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/201 ... yndro.html

Thank you for posting .

Originally Posted by AirborneSapper7

anxiety-induced Obama Underappreciation Syndrome, wherein an entire population is so addled by its economic anxieties as to be neurologically incapable of appreciating the "facts and science" undergirding Obamacare and the other blessings their president has bestowed upon them from on high.

ROFL!!!