Just like President Clinton, I can departmentalize my thoughts----think of more than one thing at a time intelligently, but also can bring one to bear that is more important when necessary, but not forgetting the others which are also important, and eventually get them all done without forgetting anything happening at any time. Such a man, such a man! Man do we miss him.

So, you're "just like President Clinton" in the thinking department? You can "think of more than one thing at a time intelligently"? That's good to find out. I'd never have guessed it.

"without forgetting anything happening at any time" -- Did you remember to take your meds?

Maybe you should re-read Bad PTC's post, "$, get some help," and think about our previous discussions, after taking your meds.

I believe that the word you meant to use was compartmentalize, not departmentalize. Those little prefixes do make a difference.

Compartmentalization, in psychology, is a form of thought control used to make it easier to inhibit certain ideas, especially those that make one uncomfortable. It is a dissociative state in which some integrated part of a person's life becomes separated from the rest of the personality and attempts to function independently.

Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID), originally named Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD), is a controversial mental condition whereby a single individual supposedly evidences two or more distinct identities or personalities, each with its own pattern of perceiving and interacting with the environment (such as in The Three Faces of Eve and Sybil). This condition is not an equivalent for schizophrenia. The term schizophrenia comes from root words for "split mind," but refers more to a fracture in the normal functioning of the brain rather than the personality.

Dissociation at its simplest means that two or more mental processes or contents are not associated or integrated, elements that should normally be associated or integrated in conscious awareness and memory in a mentally stable person. Multiple personalities occur when the identity of a person dissociates to the extent that he supposedly has separate existences from his own identity.

Compartmentalization is a process of separating parts of the self from awareness of other parts and behaving as if one had separate sets of values. When in public with one's wife, a husband acts happily married; but when alone with an attractive (or maybe not) female, the same husband says, "Hillary, who?"

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"COMPARTMENTALIZE THIS"

The Clinton years have created a whole Jeopardy category of words and phrases that will outlast our president's Trumanesque legacy of school uniforms and handgun trigger locks. Among the words imbued with new meanings and phrases drained of old ones are: "parsing"; "no controlling legal authority"; "I did not have sexual relations with that woman . . . .

But the word that wins — hands down — for epitomizing moral relativism and craven political hypocrisy is . . . "compartmentalization." What does it mean? Well, for the president's sycophants and apologists, it means that he can be a great president, but a failed man. A consummate liar, but a force for good. A sexual predator, but a champion of women's rights. As a matter of logic and fact this is indisputable. One can excel at one's job but fall short elsewhere.

But compartmentalization is a moral fraud and the Left knows it, although it has been at the core of the Left's arguements [sic] for generations.

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Compartmentalization is not only an affront to the secular relativism of "the personal is political" but also an affront to old-fashioned morality and plain character. For centuries a hallmark of art, literature, film, religion, and fable has been to depict rich and powerful men behaving abysmally in private but admirably in public. These men are invariably the villain. Compartmentalization turns this ancient and morally vital observation on its head. Not only is it okay to be evil in private but good in public — it is admirable.

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"Character Matters"

There was a time when Bill Clinton bragged about his uncanny gift for "compartmentalization." To the cheers of the mainstream press, Clinton and his spinners insisted that he could keep his "worlds" separate, that his "personal" problems had no effect on his ability to govern.

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All of this always struck many of us as nonsense. The notion that we can treat different parts of our own lives as if they existed in parallel dimensions with no contact with or impact on one another is simply an unsustainable fiction [maybe like Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde?].

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Video (1920 silent film, starring John Barrymore, 1 hr. 22 min.)

I believe that would be "shock and awe," instead of awesome President!

It's shaping up to be a fun night on the Citizen. Catch up with you later. Either Longhorn or Carraba's is calling and I've got a date with three cute chicks tonight.

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