IN THE NEW EDITION of Rolling Stone, cover boy Howard Dean puts George W. Bush on the couch: “This president is not interested in being a good president. He’s interested in some complicated psychological situation that he has with his father.”
That’s a pretty creepy statement coming from the frontrunner, at least through the weekend, for the Democratic party nomination. Can you say “projection”? But laying aside that obvious line of inquiry, it’s a sign of a fundamental rejection of the ordinary rules of American politics to substitute five-cent cigar psychoanalysis for the serious business of the presidency. I suppose Dr. Dean thinks his medical license puts him above the crowd when it comes to crank stuff like this, but it just makes him a crank with a degree.
