In psychology, Stockholm syndrome is a term used to describe a paradoxical psychological phenomenon wherein hostages express adulation and have positive feelings towards their captors that appear irrational in light of the danger or risk endured by the victims, essentially mistaking a lack of abuse from their captors as an act of kindness. The FBI’s Hostage Barricade Database System shows that roughly 27% of victims show evidence of Stockholm syndrome. The syndrome is named after the Norrmalmstorg robbery of Kreditbanken at Norrmalmstorg in Stockholm, in which the bank robbers held bank employees hostage from August 23 to August 28, 1973. In this case, the victims became emotionally attached to their captors, and even defended them after they were freed from their six-day ordeal. The term "Stockholm Syndrome" was coined by the criminologist and psychiatrist Nils Bejerot, who assisted the police during the robbery, and referred to the syndrome in a news broadcast.[4] It was originally defined by psychiatrist Frank Ochberg to aid the management of hostage situations.
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How else can you describe the kind of behavior displayed by the President here?
Obama apparently spent today telling GOPers he wasn't bipartisan enough last year.
I want to laugh. I want to cry. I want to hurl. I want to shoot something. I want to pull my hair out. I want to throw something out a window.
Did President Obama completely forget every single day of 2009, and of 2010 save for the 31 days that remain?
Stimulus
Obama's first mega-initiative. It was too small, because it was loaded up with a bunch of fucking tax cuts because Republicans demanded them.
Republicans then all opposed the stimulus.
Guantanamo
This idea died quickly because nobody could come to any consensus. Obama, of course sought Republican support for it. He didn't get any.
Health Care
The health care bill was literally written years ago by Republicans. Mitt Romney installed it before Obama even ran for President.
Republicans smeared it, trashed it, lied about it.
Obama spent time with a "Gang of Six" including 3 Republicans and 3 Democrats. Not a single Republican was negotiating in good faith. Chuck Grassely told Obama at one point that it did not matter what Obama did, Grassely and by extension other Republicans were not going to vote for it.
Afghanistan
Obama upped the war effort in Afghanistan, over the cries of his liberal base. Republicans probably liked this. More war, more military industrial complex.
Tax Cuts
Obama cuts taxes for a gazillion middle class Americans, but doesn't promote it. Republicans call him a Socialist.
Obama looks all but ready to let bazillionaires get tax cuts when we can't afford it. He wants to extend just middle class only even though many people say those ought to go too.
Either way, Republicans are not budging. Give their richy friends what they want or nobody gets nothing.
Unemployment
Extending benefits for out-of-work Americans is stupid because they're fat, and lazy, and don't deserve it. Why don't they just get off their asses and get a job? That's the Republican line. What does Obama do? Give a sternly worded (maybe) speech somewhere about it.
BP
Republicans literally apologized to BP in the wake of the Gulf Oil Spill for being made to pay for their malfeasance. Obama Admin could have come down a lot harder on them, and did not.
Presidential Nominees, Dawn Johnsen, etc
Obama has had over 70-odd percent of his nominees stonewalled by Republicans just because they can. Dawn Johnsen was left to twist in the wind and she withdrew her own nomination when it became clear the Administration didn't care about her or fighting GOP.
Obama could recess appoint the shit out of people, but he doesn't, because that's not bipartisan.
Torture, etc
One of the Administration's high priorities right now is to hunt down Julian Assange for making them look bad.
Not Jobs, not Unemployed Americans, not Tax Cuts, not the Environment, not fighting the GOP, not helping real Americans.
No, going on a witch hunt against a whistleblower. God damn it.
Republicans have called Obama everything from Hitler to Commie to the Antichrist. The only word they haven't used in public is the "N Word" but it would not surprise me to hear that soon either.
The Republicans are holding the country and the President hostage to their extreme ways. And what does he want to do about it?
Work harder to make them like him. To maybe vote for him.
I'm going to be fucking sick.