Posted on 03/25/2015 6:51:06 AM PDT by nikos1121
It is safe to say that most politicians these days could be diagnosed with a range of mental conditions, and many would likely be labeled sociopaths or psychopaths.
The terms psychopath and sociopath are often used interchangeably, even by mental health professionals. The symptoms are somewhat consistent between the two: lack of conscience, no moral compass, manipulative, low range of emotions, interpersonally insensitive. The psychopath is deadly. He is well spoken, charismatic, fearless, controlling, socially potent, a habitual liar, calm to a disturbing degree in the face of chaos and cold hearted. He is a master at blaming others.
David Freeman, in an Huffington Post science piece, quotes clinical psychologist Dr. Stout, who points out that though the psychopath may not feel “higher emotions” like love and guilt, they may not have actual consciences, but they study those of us who do – and “simply pretend.”
Psychologists say early signs of psychopathy include compulsive lying, blaming others for any failures or shortcomings and often torture of animals for curiosity sake. Psychopaths tend to do things to study consequences, without concern for long-term impact. I know, it sounds like most politicians today. And it probably is, not to mention any names.
As Mr. Freeman points out in his article, psychopaths make a great first impression. He points to other characteristics, too. He points to the initial popularity of Pol Pot, Hitler, Ceausescu and others, but the golden boy image quickly fades to one of a ruthless, inhumane manipulator with very dark intentions.
Order Gina Loudon’s book “Ladies and Gentlemen: Why the Survival of Our Republic Depends on the Revival of Honor” – how atheism, liberalism and radical feminism have harmed the nation.
No one can make a mental diagnosis from afar, and I am certainly not qualified to make that diagnosis. But it is interesting to consider some characteristics when combined with actions of President Obama since he took office. He certainly had the initial charisma and likability. He had the perfect-looking family with the perfect-looking face at the perfect time for America to fall for him. No matter what his opponents pointed to, no one questioned him for fear of being labeled racists.
Psychopaths often act audaciously, without regard for those affected. They get away with actions that others in their positions haven’t, because of their ability to remain calm even when committing atrocities, and their ability to manipulate whole groups of people.
Obama has taken more luxury vacations than any other president, and he has done so as the American economy was in collapse for his policies. He has taken his entire family and spent tens of millions of dollars in exotic, luxe locations like Hawaii, Vail, Europe and Africa. His predecessors made Americans increasingly familiar with places like Camp David and Martha’s Vineyard or their own vacation homes such as the Bushes’ Kennebunkport, the Kennedys’ Cape Cod, the Reagans’ Rancho Del Cielo in California or George W’s exotic locale, Crawford, Texas. Other presidents were exceptionally sensitive to the state of the American people, foregoing vacations when the American people were mourning or hurting economically – not the Obamas. When the economy was at its worst, gas prices were at record highs, and Americans were going without vacations and other needs, Obama extended his wife and daughters’ vacation in Spain.
But luxe vacations are just the beginning. Obama has golfed more than any other president. On days when America has been under attack, on days when military heroes have died, on days when the nation is mourning – still Obama finds time for a game of hoops with a hip-hop star or a round of golf with a key contributor. His advisers had to pull him off the golf course to talk him into taking out Osama bin Laden.
When conservatives decry this point, the statist media scoff. Tone deafness and personal excesses are only relevant when Republicans are accused. Remember the ridicule over the fake issue over Bush 41′s apparent introduction to the grocery store scanner? Such media protection emboldens.
Nothing has changed.
After the second round of murders of government-guaranteed defenseless Fort Hood soldiers last week, Obama mustered a tear or two for cameras before slipping out the back door to head to a $32,000-per-plate party for himself.
This pattern of inauthenticity would be very difficult, even debilitating for someone with an intact conscience, in my opinion.
But audacity is a manifestation of psychopathy, and Obama is a master of audacity. He has exacted more items into law by the capricious act of executive order than any other president in such a short period of time. Traditionally, this is only done in very rare instances, because presidents know that the American people will not stand for that sort of tyranny. In Obama’s case, it is explained away, if mentioned by media at all, with whinings of “the other party’s obstructionist acts” or “someone else forced the president to act so cavalierly.”
That brings us to another habit of the psychopath – blaming others. First, Obama and his cronies blamed President Bush for just about everything. They blame the tea party for any bad press, the Koch brothers for any mishaps and Congress for Obama’s tyrannical executive orders and the removal of the filibuster as a means of defense against Obama’s imperial appointments.
The truly skilled psychopath can make his own biases look like they are the shortcoming of his opponent. When the New Black Panther thugs with clubs were intimidating voters during the 2008 election, those who voiced concern were called racist and alarmist for even bringing up the issue. Once elected, Obama had his attorney general, Eric Holder not only drop all charges but actually drop convictions! President Obama accuses others of racial bias, when it is he who is one of the worst.
One of the psychopath’s favorite tactics is the pity party. In a recent interview with New Yorker Magazine, the president continued to complain about those who hate him for his race. The psychopath will use those who call them out for their actions to gain sympathy and President Obama is adept at using anyone who criticizes him to get the public to feel sorry for him. As mentioned earlier, he is able to blame his tyrannical abuse of the executive order power on those terrible obstructionist Republicans who hate him because he is black.
Another common trait of the psychopath is a mysterious and shady past. We know very little about President Obama’s formative years and little about his college years. Records are sealed or withheld, and requests for them are dismissed as ridiculous requests from paranoid detractors.
The psychopath is great at connecting personally with people and convinces everyone that he is just like them. President Obama is just a normal guy who likes movies, basketball, golf and likes to play video games. Experts call it mirroring.
Perhaps the most frightening symptom of the psychopath is to kill while keeping their own hands clean. Obama takes full credit for killing Osama bin Laden to the point of both stealing the glory from our Navy SEALs and at the same time betraying the existence of SEAL Team Six and exposing them to unwarranted assassination risk – risk that resulted in the worst catastrophic loss of life in the history of the SEALs. Did Obama take responsibility for that? He certainly spent far less time mourning their loss or taking responsibility for their deaths than he did taking credit for being tough dealing with terror.
While he did take credit for bin Laden, he has not taken any responsibility for deaths resulting from Fast and Furious, the gun-running operation that has put guns in the hands of Mexican drug cartels that have most certainly cost American and other lives. He has not only never expressed any sense of responsibility for that, he has shown no remorse. And worse, he capitalizes on the situation by singing the praises of gun control.
Perhaps most flagrant act of this president, if we are looking at evidence of psychopathy, is the lack of any substantive remorse, or responsibility shown for what happened to two Navy SEALs, an American ambassador and an information management officer, at the hands of vicious terrorists in Benghazi. The American public has repeatedly expressed outrage and fury for the lies and manipulations that cost these precious American lives, but the administration has arrogantly dismissed, excused and ignored any culpability or held anyone to account.
No one knew that Pol Pot, Hitler or Ceausescu were psychopaths until they knew. Could America be more perceptive, more insightful, more predictive of a psychopath in leadership before it is too late?
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2014/04/is-obama-a-psychopath/#ATpytcEIL3IT5Ajc.99
Yes! Next question!
More likely sociopath with narcisstic personality complex.
Next question...
Jewish establishment sounds alarm as White House rhetoric intensifies [Israel]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3271564/posts
Leading figures in Washington’s pro-Israel community are calling on the Obama administration to turn down the temperature.
For years defensive of their support for US President Barack Obama and his White House, Washington’s pro-Israel establishment now fears that the train of US-Israel relations is “running off the tracks.” Speaking to The Jerusalem Post, their reactions ranged from deep concern to “bewilderment.”
“The fact that the outcome of a Democratic election in Israel seems to be of great concern” to the Obama administration, said David Harris, executive director of the American Jewish Committee, “is cause for deep anxiety and puzzlement.”
“Whatever the failings of the prime minister, the way this is unfolding runs completely contrary to the spirit of US-Israel relations,” Harris said. “The US appears to have a reasoned interest in prolonging the crisis.”
“As someone who was critical of several steps by [Netanyahu] during the campaign leading up to his re-election,” said Abe Foxman, longtime national director of the Anti-Defamation League, “I am even more troubled by statements now coming out of the White House.”
“What we are hearing from the Obama Administration raises deeper questions about their intentions and perspectives,” Foxman said. “From the beginning of the Obama years, there was a disturbing indifference to the mindset of the Israeli public.”
Yes, I agree. The WH has seized on Bibi’s campaign rhetoric and is not going to let him re explain himself, EVEN THOUGH TO LISTEN to what he said is logical and understandable.
Why should we force Israel to develop a separate Palestinian State? ARabs do well as citizens of Israel. A separate state will be GAZA PAX DEUX
As the former head of Johns Hopkins Neurosurgery Dr. Carson knows a diseased brain when he sees one.
It ain’t brain surgery, is meant to say brain surgery requires a smart guy, and Carson is so smart. If he thinks
Obama is mentally ill, maybe he shouldn’t be in his POTUS lofty position.
For later
Agree 100%! I am a recovering narcissist from my 20's to early 30's (now 50). I see all of those traits in him and can spot a narcissist from a mile away (in a 'takes one to know one' type of way). Thankfully, I only have three acquaintances who are sociopathic narcissists and each one of them absolutely adores and admires B-HO - and likely because he reflects their own false image. Romney, for a glimmering moment, had him by the throat but let go. A clever political/psychiatric adviser might have been able to trip him up and expose him in debates, if they understood the underlying turmoil that's seething to get out. We may still see a public unraveling of B-HO....
Krauthammer knows, but won’t admit it publicly for obvious reasons.
IIRC, Krauthammer HAS admitted it publicly.
I think if Barky gets put under too much pressure he will blow. Everyday he seems to be getting more out of control.
Obama is not anything like this. He is an idiot who can read cue cards. He would make for a fine network news reader.
People have to remember Obama is nothing more than the face of the 1960’s radicals who put him in the white hut. He was manufactured to be President. Think about it. Everything about Obama is real, but hidden from plain view by Alinsky and Cloward Piven accolytes. Hillary is the same way.
Look at the czars in the administration. Almost every one of them is from Chicago and part of that 1960’s Marxist team. There are only two other people that can be part of this movement. ELizabeth Warren and Julian Castro.
That’s the lineup for 2016. Clinton, Warren and Castro. No one else will fill the squares.
There is a book by M. Scott Peck called, “People of the Lie”, in which the author attempst to describe what makes people evil. Very worthwhile read! Essentially, evil people don’t give of themselves - at all - they only take from others and suck all the oxygen out of others lives. They have no conscience. For evil people, everyone else exists only for their benefit. If you read this book today, you will see Barack Hussein Obama more clearly.
Lets hope That Bear never gets Constipated
In that he’s an islamist, definitely.
This is b.s.. Pursuing this kind of reasoning makes freepers and those with common cause look insane.
O is simply a U.S. hating commie. I still haven’t decided whether he falls in the “true believer” or “useful idiot” category, mostly because of his buy-in to racist views.
In case you haven’t noticed, true psychopaths/sociopaths like Manson, Bundy, etc.. commit their crimes directly. People with these defects simply cannot lead normal lives.
Even though politicians can do horrid things through government tyranny, this makes them power hungry, not mentally deranged.
I bet even if Stalin had to kill some of those Soviet victims with his bare hands he would’ve at least hesitated.
So, there’s a certain level of detachment with gov’t. Sort of like how folks are more aggressive behind the wheel than face-to-face.
This is a fundamental reason why gov’t should have limited powers, because it ALWAYS gets out of hand.
Compulsive lying and blaming others is more than just a hobby with Obama it’s a goal.
He will destroy anything and everything that gets even remotely in his way of GETTING his way; he has all the traits of a serial murderer and more, and may even be demon-possessed.
I believe that he thinks that the series of attacks that he is actively about to bring on this country, even though it may well decimate a great number of the population / land, it will still leave him enough of the population / territory to rule.
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