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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: geode00 who wrote (51017)	1/12/2006 6:31:45 PM
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Comments from the author of 'Bush on The Couch'... huffingtonpost.com Sam the Sham By Justin Frank* 01.12.2006 When you apply for a job, you tell your prospective employer what he or she wants to hear. It’s that simple. Only the most self-destructive or arrogant applicant would do otherwise. Sam Alito is neither self-destructive nor arrogant; that is clear. But during his interchange with Senator Schumer (D-NY) at Wednesday’s hearings, Judge Samuel Alito unwittingly revealed that he was in fact “Sam the Sham” – smiling for the camera as he admitted in public that he lies on job applications. I don’t know anyone – and I’m ten years older than Alito – who doesn’t remember groups he belonged to in college, especially groups he used as references. The forgotten group in question is the Concerned Alumni of Princeton, an extremely reactionary organization founded just after Alito graduated in 1972. Time and again different senators asked him why he joined the group, why he “plucked” it from a list of possible groups to use as references for a job in the Reagan White House. CAP had a magazine with articles written by its members. One such article in 1983, two years before Alito put the group on his job application, said "People nowadays just don't seem to know their place. Everywhere one turns, blacks and Hispanics are demanding jobs simply because they're black and Hispanic. The physically handicapped are trying to gain equal representation in professional sports. And homosexuals are demanding the government vouchsafe them the right to bear children." Judge Alito is the nice guy who hates one person/one vote; he is the affable son of Italian immigrants who hates affirmative action; he is the loving husband who hates a woman’s right to privacy. There are two common denominators, but only one is visible: nice guy. All who question him are put into the category of not-nice guys. In much the same way, nice-guy patriot George W. Bush paints into a corner those who protest his administration’s wiretapping or its conduct of the war in Iraq. The other common denominator – revealed in the CAP article - is hate, hidden behind Sam’s smile, and lied about in the blandest of ways. But Alito slipped up as he blundered through Schumer’s efforts to get him to explain why he used that group as a reference. He showed his hand when he explained that what he “was trying to outline were the things that were relevant to obtaining a political position.” In other words, he openly admitted that he tells people what he thinks they want to hear. But in 1985 Alito meant what he said: for the next twenty years, both in the Reagan White House and as an Appellate Judge, he worked to promote CAP’s ultra-reactionary agenda. Suddenly, the week of January 9, 2005 he admits that he is, or was always, Sam the Sham. ________________________________________________________ *Justin Frank M.D. is an expert in the field of psychoanalysis. A clinician with more than thirty year's experience, Dr. Frank has also been a former columnist for Salon magazine and is a frequent writer on topics as diverse as politics, film, and theater. He is the co-director of the Metropolitan Center for Object Relations in New York, a clinical professor in the Department of Psychiatry at George Washington University Medical Center, and a teaching analyst at the Washington Psychoanalytic Institute. Dr. Frank used the principles of applied psychoanalysis to assemble a comprehensive psychological profile of President George W. Bush in his book Bush on the Couch: Inside the Mind of the President (ReganBooks). Dr. Frank did his psychiatric residency at Harvard Medical School and was chief resident at the Cambridge Hospital. Dr. Frank was also awarded the DuPont-Warren Fellowship by Massachusetts General Hospital.. Dr. Frank lives in Washington D.C. where he teaches and practices psychoanalysis.