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Edited on Wed Mar-10-10 12:40 PM by Bicoastal
...when I watched clips of him appearing on the Glenn Beck and Larry King shows.
I'm no psychologist, but it's my amateur opinion that the guy is on the verge of a complete nervous breakdown. You can see it in his eyes and body language, you can hear it in his voice. He's treading water, and he thinks that if he doesn't stop swimming, he'll sink. It's hard not to pity him. Every problem in his life--disagreements with his party leadership, worries about his own health, deep-seated guilt over ethical misconduct, questions about his own sexuality--has apparently spiraled out of control around the same time.
So what does he do? He conflates them all into a single amorphous crisis. He quits his job, announces he will disappear from politics and public life, and then immediately goes on two highly-watched, highly confessional TV shows. Worse, he clearly had no specific agenda at the time. At this point, he has publicly denied AND admitted everything (simultaneously!), and has begged the public for sympathy and attention on issues we have no control over or even much knowledge of. He wants people to feel sorry for him, but of course we naturally expect our politicians to posses a level of personal fortitude he clearly doesn't have.
Simply put, I've honestly never seen anyone in politics go to pieces so publicly. Thus, I will not be taking potshots at Congressman Massa, because I'm not a fan of kicking people when they're down. He's not a hypocrite or a coward or anything to really take offense at.
He's just ill.
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