JUSTIN FRANK MD

I was interviewed Friday by Lloyd Grove of the Daily Beast about Obama’s recent “cow pie of distortion” remarks toward Romney.  One section of the article was also picked up by Andrew Sullivan on his blog The Dish, which quotes me:

“There are two kinds of fighting—narcissistic fighting and Oedipal fighting. Oedipal fighting is father and son rolling up their sleeves and duking it out. Narcissistic fighting is putting yourself above the opponent by putting him down. I think Obama does both. He knows how to be a narcissistic fighter and an Oedipal fighter. He knows how to argue about policy and argue with people. Be he also has this other part of him—and I don’t know where it comes from—that’s like this pocket of nastiness.”