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To: TideGlider who wrote (988607)	12/17/2016 11:42:35 PM
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Obama Press Conference Distracts From What He Just Did With The Civil Rights Commission Via @dailycaller Peter HassonReporter, Associate Editor dailycaller.com The day before President Obama’s last press conference of the year, the White House quietly announced his presidential appointments of Dego Adegbile and Catherine Lhamon to six-year terms on the U.S. Civil Rights Commission. Both appointments are aggressive moves for a president on his way out the door. Obama previously nominated Adegbile to head the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division, but a bipartisan group of senators blocked the nomination in 2014 due to Adegbile’s defense of convicted cop killer Mumia Abu-Jamal. Adegbile’s appointment, which will not require congressional approval, left pro-police groups crying foul. John McNesby, president of the Philadelphia chapter of the Fraternal Order of Police, called the appointment a “kick in the teeth to the cops.” Sam Cabral, president of the International Union of Police Associations, called the appointment a “slap in the face to every law enforcement officer in this great nation” in a statement released Friday. A supporter of black political activist Mumia Abu Jamal holds a sign during a demonstration at the Federal courthouse in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, November 9, 2010. A federal appeals court entertained arguments from Abu Jamal concerning the sentencing phase of his trial for the 1981 murder of Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner. Abu-Jamal, a former member of the Black Panthers militant group, was convicted and sentenced to death in 1982 for murdering Faulkner in an early morning confrontation on December 9, 1981. REUTERS/Tim Shaffer Republican Senator from Pennsylvania Pat Toomey issued a sharply-worded statement calling on Obama to withdraw the appointment. “Mr. Adegbile did not simply defend a client. He supervised an effort to lionize unrepentant cop-killer Mumia Abu Jamal, who cold-bloodedly murdered Philadelphia police officer Danny Faulkner 35 years ago,” Toomey’s statement read. “Mr. Adegbile supervised the effort to spread misinformation about the trial and evidence, fabricate claims of racism, malign Philly police, and organize rallies across the globe that portrayed this brutal cop-killer as the victim.” “A Democrat-led U.S. Senate evaluated the facts and agreed that Debo Adegbile is not fit to represent the American people as an enforcer of civil rights. This judgment included the votes of seven Democrats. I call on President Obama to adhere to the bipartisan judgment of the U.S. Senate and withdraw his appointment of Debo Adegbile to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights,” the statement continued. Catherine Lhamon orchestrated the Obama administration’s overhaul of Title IX, co-authored the “Dear Colleague” letter mandating transgender bathroom use in public schools, and also played a key role in the now-infamous Rolling Stone hoax. Her appointment is a similarly aggressive appointment for a president with just over a month left in office. (RELATED: Obama Appointee To Activists: White House ‘Aggressively Engaged’ In Transgender Fight) Roger Clegg, president of the Center for Equal Opportunity, argued in a column for National Review that “the long tradition has been for outgoing presidents to leave to incoming presidents the appointments to vacancies occurring this late in the term.” The George Soros-funded Center for American Progress praised the appointments in a statement saying the two appointees’ “experience and passion will be crucial in meeting the fights that await the country as we continue to work on improving the lives of all Americans and protecting the Obama administration’s civil rights victories of the past eight years.” The two appointments were left largely passed over by the media, thanks in part to Obama’s press conference Friday which dominated the news cycle heading into the weekend. Obama’s press conference included zero mentions of either Lhamon or Adegbile. As of this article, neither the Washington Post nor CNN online coverage has covered the appointments.

To: TideGlider who wrote (988607)	12/18/2016 9:42:44 AM
From: Mongo2116	Respond to of 1583406

Psychiatry Professors Just Begged Obama To Give Trump A Mental Evaluation By Lou Colagiovanni Posted on December 18, 2016 SHARE TWEET SHARE EMAIL COMMENTS A trio of psychiatry professors, with one from the hallowed halls of Harvard Medical School, have written President Barack Obama a letter imploring that President-elect Donald Trump undergo a full medical and neuropsychiatric evaluation. Millions of individuals in the United States and around the world agree with their request. The professors in question are Judith Herman from Harvard, Nanette Gartrell and Dee Mosbacher who both represent the University of California. All three a licensed psychiatrists. In their letter to Obama they wrote of their “grave concern regarding the mental stability of our President-Elect.” However, to remain ethical, they also said “Professional standards do not permit us to venture a diagnosis for a public figure whom we have not evaluated personally.” This point was echoed earlier in the year by the American Psychiatric Associationthat said, “The unique atmosphere of this year’s election cycle may lead some to want to psychoanalyze the candidates, but to do so would not only be unethical, it would be irresponsible.” Perhaps psychiatrists find themselves hindered from offering a diagnosis of Trump without meeting him, but in the field of political analysis the behavior of Trump has been anything of that of a rational cognizently coherent mind. To wit the professors continued their plea: His widely reported symptoms of mental instability — including grandiosity, impulsivity, hypersensitivity to slights or criticism, and an apparent inability to distinguish between fantasy and reality — lead us to question his fitness for the immense responsibilities of the office. We strongly recommend that, in preparation for assuming these responsibilities, he receive a full medical and neuropsychiatric evaluation by an impartial team of investigators. In a perfect world President Obama would be able to enforce such a scenario, but that is not the job of a sitting president. Nor should it be, as such power could be easily and readily abused for partisan political leanings. One might imagine a president with nefarious intentions enforcing his will upon his political enemies by throwing them in psychiatric hospitals to be overseen by medical staff that were handpicked to make a diagnosis which favored a president’s preferred outcome. The point of Trump’s madness should not fall on deaf ears, as he clearly does not retain the ability to control all of his mental faculties. As he is preparing to assume the office of the most powerful and influential person in the world he will, for every American, soon be required to be at the ready at all times.