OH PLEASE – AT 12:27 P.M. ET:  This is going much too far.  From College Fix: 

It’s going to be an interesting coming four years, to say the least.

According to The Huffington Post, three professors, two from Harvard and another from UC-San Francisco, tell the president in a letter dated November 29 that they have a “grave concern regarding the mental stability of our President-Elect.”

“Professional standards do not permit us to venture a diagnosis for a public figure whom we have not evaluated personally,” they write. “Nevertheless, his widely reported symptoms of mental instability — including grandiosity, impulsivity, hypersensitivity to slights or criticism, and an apparent inability to distinguish between fantasy and reality — lead us to question his fitness for the immense responsibilities of the office.”

The profs — Judith Herman, Nanette Gartrell, and Dee Mosbacher — “strongly recommend” Mr. Trump get a “full medical and neuropsychiatric evaluation” before assuming his duties as president.

COMMENT:  This was tried by psychiatrists in 1964, when Barry Goldwater ran for president on the Republican ticket.  A group of shrinks got together and claimed he was psychiatrically unqualified.  Their outrageous "diagnosis" of a man they'd never met led to the stiffening of ethical standards for psychiatrists.

Now we find three professors doing pretty much the same time to Donald Trump, while inserting the qualifying language that they cannot actually do a diagnosis, but urging someone else to do it.

Trump might have some mental-health issues.  So might Obama.  So might Bill Clinton, given his sexual behavior.  But why is it that "professionals" are only concerned about conservatives?

Senator Thomas Eagleton of Missouri, George McGovern's choice for vice president in 1972, had to leave the ticket because of psychiatric issues, but he had an actual history of treatment.

I know very little about this area.  Maybe there should be some means of evaluating candidates.  But the standard should be applied equally.  This new stunt looks entirely political, not medical.

January 20, 2016