DR. KEITH ABLOW: A Psychiatrist's Advice for President Obama

President Obama’s State of the Union speech on Tuesday night symbolically kicked off the 2012 Presidential campaign.

So, here’s what I heard Tuesday night: I heard a man reading a script, acting out a part. The words the President spoke about reducing our national debt, reining in the size of government and working collaboratively with both Republicans and Democrats sounded—to my third ear—like the words of an alcoholic who tells me that he won’t drink, that I should just believe him, even though that he can’t share any compelling insight (let alone a true moment of epiphany) as to why he started anesthetizing himself with booze to begin with, nor any compelling narrative as to why he now believes he has to be sober to walk the path ahead. In short, he sounded like a man with new words, but without the new perspective that would make them his own, and, thereby, make them either credible or moving.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2011/01/27/dr-keith-ablow-president-obama/#ixzz1CaOSWVRS