so in his case, his chemical disorder was great enough that it caused him to commit suicide. please understand that when someone is that depressed, the amount of psychic pain that they re feeling, don, they really believe that suicide is the only choice to alleviate their pain. what about the pressure of growing up in the spotlight, the son of someone who is so famous? lots of people have famous children, that doesn t happen. is that a factor? yeah, i think you answered your own question. we don t know the details of this family dynamics or the special circumstances having to do with his mental illness. his depression. i will tell you that it s a hard road to walk, to grow up as a young person knowing that you ll never been more successful than your parents. and, in fact, many young people are feeling this in this generation that are coming out of college. because they may not be as successful as baby boomer parents, for instance. certainly the children of
in the oval office right now, leading on the sensitive issue of these forced budget cuts. one of the things i thought was very hopeful and interesting about what mitt romney said was his acknowledgement that the sequester is bad news. this is not our first step toward a rational deficit reduction program. it s bad news. and if we could at least al agree on that, we could get away from these cuts that are landing on the defense budget. $47 billion is going to come out the defense budget between now and the end of the fiscal year. even as the united states is winding down two wars. this is not the way to go. i m glad mitt romney is saying that. everybody agrees this is not the best way of cutting spends. across the board, meat clever spending. they would like to do it with a scalpel but we haven t come up w a deal. with all due respect to mr. romney, he ain t the solution. i m glad it s killing him. i m glad. because you know it s killing the middle class. at least he s suffering a