It’s as predictable as sunrise and sunset. First comes the SOTU speech, then come the responders, then comes Keith Ablow with his smear-job disguised as psychoanalysis.  Today was no exception. In an op-ed on foxnews.com,  Ablow took us “Inside Obama’s Mind at the State of the Union Address.” And what’s in Obama’s mind? The same as it's been before. The trauma of having been abandoned as a child, which left him both hungry for power and anxious to coddle us all into a state of spineless dependency.

“Having been abandoned as a boy by his father, and then his mother, only to then learn that his grandmother feared people of his race, he seems inherently to distrust individual initiative and intention and to place his trust only in the collective—i.e. the state. When a child’s guardians keep letting him down in profound ways, that child can grow up to want a lot of power himself and distrust the idea of giving anyone else very much." That’s why he wants to stick it to the rich: “Because, you see, wealth really does confer power on those who amass it, and giving that kind of authority to individuals, rather than the collective, is anathema to the President.”.

More than that, gentle reader: Obama doesn’t want people to think they can take care of themselves and make their own decisions. Which is why he wants to take away your guns, because guns “.. happen to empower tens of millions of American individuals, …They promote in individuals the idea that they can take care of themselves and make their own decisions...” Which Obama obviously doesn't want. He'd rather Entitlement Nation care for you as he wished someone would have cared for him when he was a poor little abandoned boy.

I wish I could see inside Ablow’s mind. Did some childhood trauma lead him to prostitute the healing arts to score political points? Do you think?