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WASHINGTON -- Barack Obama tiptoed Wednesday night along the seam that bifurcates the Democratic Party's brain. The seam separates that brain's John Quincy Adams lobe from its Sigmund Freud lobe.
The dominant liberal lobe favors Adams' dictum that politicians should not be "palsied by the will of our constituents." It exhorts Democrats to smack Americans with what is good for them -- health care reform, carbon rationing, etc. -- even if the dimwits do not desire it.
The other lobe whispers Freud's reality principle: Restrain your id -- the pleasure principle and the impulse toward immediate gratification. Settle...
A Lobe Divided Will Not Stand
IT IS ENOUGH TO MAKE A REASONABLE PERSON WONDER IF HE WAS THE LEADER OF SOME CULT IN A FORMER LIFE THAT SPENT HIS DAYS TRYING TO CONVINCE HIS FOLLOWERS THAT HE WAS SENT TO LEAD THEM TO THE PROMISED LAND, ONLY TO HAND THEM A CUP OF LACED KOOL-AID MEANT TO ENABLE THE JOURNEY.