3 posts tagged “president”

I looked up Delusional Disorder on Wikipedia and it really seems to fit Hillary.

Just look at the indicators:

1. The patient expresses an idea or belief with unusual persistence or force.
2. That idea appears to exert an undue influence on his or her life, and the way of life is often altered to an inexplicable extent.
3. Despite his/her profound conviction, there is often a quality of secretiveness or suspicion when the patient is questioned about it.
4. The individual tends to be humorless and oversensitive, especially about the belief.
5. There is a quality of centrality: no matter how unlikely it is that these strange things are happening to him, the patient accepts them relatively unquestioningly.
6. An attempt to contradict the belief is likely to arouse an inappropriately strong emotional reaction, often with irritability and hostility.
7. The belief is, at the least, unlikely.
8. The patient is emotionally over-invested in the idea and it overwhelms other elements of his psyche.
9. delusion, if acted out, often leads to behaviors which are abnormal and/or out of character, although perhaps understandable in the light of the delusional beliefs.
10. Individuals who know the patient will observe that his belief and behavior are uncharacteristic and alien.

When you read through them it really starts to sound like it applies. She persists in the belief that she is the next president, despite continuing evidence that it's not likely. I know some could argue that she is just determined, however there is no likely scenario, and hasn't been one for weeks, where she can win.
 

Of course, seeing this truth she has resumed her call to count the disallowed delegates from Florida and Michigan. She's quick to ignore that everyone involved agreed that they wouldn't count. In order for her to maintain her delusion and convince other to believe it she is willing to suspend reality and ignore any rule that impedes her. Something that further shows she should not be president because she has an absolute lack of respect for rules. I think the last eight years has shown us that we need a president that respects rules.

NOTE: The opinions expressed in this blog post are not those of a psychotherapist, psychologist, or any other mental health professional. They are just my observations of what I see.

Last night Bonnie and I caucused for the first time. It was very exciting to go down to Victor's elementary school and stand up for our candidate. The turnout was amazing and it was so great to see all the committed Democrats coming out for their candidate.

We started out in the cafeteria but our precinct had too many people and was moved to the art room. In the end we had 46 people. It was a diverse group that ranged in my estimation from 21 to 80 years of age. There was a good division of men and women. In our initial vote we had about seven undecided voters.

We had about a half an hour of debate with some good speakers who made good points for their candidates. There were also passionate speakers who did nothing to convince me that they had thought their decision through. In the end all but one was persuaded to vote for Obama. Our final vote for precinct 94 was 31 for Obama and 15 for Hillary.

Then we voted for our delegates to the county meeting. Our Hillary delegate was a 21 year old college student. She was very excited to be chosen. Our two delegates for Obama were a middle-aged man and woman. The man seemed to be very knowledgeable and had experience working on Capital Hill several years ago. The woman said she had been a Republican until two months and two days ago. She said three men had made her a Democrat; Bush, Cheney, and Obama. Her story was inspiring and she was very optimistic about the prospect of a President Obama. I think our three delegates are excellent choices and I hope that some of them can be elected as delegates at the next level of the nomination process.

I also put my name in to be a delegate and was elected as an alternate. I'm OK with this since the first two were so well suited to perform the task.

In the end our efforts combined with the rest of the state to give Obama a 2-1 win over Hillary in Colorado. The reports of the turnout for the Democrats are five times the previous year's Democrat turnout. It was also more than double the turnout for the Republican caucus.

I can't hope but to feel optimistic that this trend of the Democrats turning out twice the number of voters as the Republicans is a sign of how the general election will go in November.

The presidential election is officially on and the first vote is in.

After all those debates and months and months of lead up the winners of stage one are Obama and Huckabee. I'm not a fan of Huckabee but I really like Obama so overall I am happy with this first round of results.

It's funny to see the all the Republican favorites, Guliani, Romney, and Thompson all come up short. Granted Romney is a close second, still, it's interesting to see.

The Democrats on the other hand aren't a surprise to me. Obama, Clinton, and Edwards being so close together has been the general consensus for a while.

Another thing that makes me optimistic about this election is the voter turnout numbers for Iowa. The Democrats had a record turn out of 280,000 according to CNN. Of those many were 17-29 an looking for change.

On the other side Huckabee got strong support from strongly religious voters. It's always been scary to know that there is a large group of voters who are so profoundly ignorant as to vote for someone based on his religious beliefs.

Well, I guess we will find out more next week when New Hampshire votes.