[DanMiller]

Is this the direction in which we are headed?

[gorush]

[gorush]

[Buddy Sorrell]

Unless there is drastic change, this place is headed towards a Zimbabwe-like future. It will be a country rich in natural resources dominated by corrupt, incompetent ethnic groups who were told for a hundred years that they were discriminated against. There will be deprivation, rape and mass murder.

[Windflier]

[Gay State Conservative]

Mao and Osama Obama are the first two names that come to mind.

[x]

The narcissism may range from anywhere between healthy and destructive.

The Biography channel is showing a program today about Spitzer, Weiner, Edwards and other politicians who came undone through scandal their own arrogance and stupidity.

One of the experts said that some degree of narcissism is found in all politicians and enables them to get as far as they do. You have to look at how politicians actually behave (he said) to be able to tell if that narcissism is healthy or destructive.

The problem is compounded by the ambiguity of the term narcissism. Sometimes people use it to mean a symptom. Some times they use it to signify a disorder or diagnosis.

People who use it in the first sense have found the Connecticut shooter "narcissistic." People who use it in the second sense would object that "narcissism" wasn't his problem but a byproduct of whatever disorder or disease or evil possessed him.

[Biggirl]

Cult of personality, sadly.

[familyop]

Contemporary politics: good for a laugh, worthy of ridicule.

[familyop]

"Is this the direction in which we are headed?"

The bandwagon approach is the most obvious and common contemporary campaign tactic for political primaries--bandwagons hauling trash, hurling insults and false accusations. Isn't political speech pretty now?

[Robert A Cook PE]

He would be nowhere without his ABBCNNBCBS press corpse.

Good writeup.