Insight by Peggy Noonan

[question everything]

Rambling about the notes by Diane Blair, who was a close confidant of Hillary Clinton.

And then she concludes:

The Blair papers remind us that in the past quarter-century the office of the presidency has become everyone's psychotherapy. There is an emphasis on the personality, nature, character and charisma of the president. He gets into dramas. He survives them. He is working out his issues. He is avenging childhood feelings of powerlessness. He is working through his ambivalence at certain power dynamics. He will show dad.

This wouldn't be so bad—it would actually be entertaining!—if the presidency were not such a consequential role. People can lose lives when presidents work through their issues. This Endless Drama of the Charismatic President is getting old. And dangerous.

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303704304579381482225092174

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Oh yes. we know one recent president who decided to "show dad." Show dad how one fights in Iraq and people really lost lives.

[MADem]

1. From the loon who no doubt writes romantic "fan fiction" about herself and Saint Ronnie

in her locked diary that she keeps under her pillow....

Peggy Loon-an has stayed far too long at the fair. She needs to shut up and stop throwing stones in that glass house of hers....