[caww]

Hello Nathan...good post and interesting to read as always.

I tend to think BO has no defined loyalties at all. He seems to swing with the breezes within his party and any who might be trying to pull his strings.

He doesn't seem to me to have any gut held beliefs nor ideas other than to somehow hope everybody just loves everybody until he's done doing the job he wants to.....no matter if it makes him look like a Communist..a Muslim or whatever....he is simply a political machine with buttons to push.

[nathanbedford]

I see the man as essentially a narcissist who has seized upon a peculiar admixture of communism to provide himself with a worldview. His communism is peculiar in that it is a mixture of black liberation theology which we saw evidenced in his Association with Reverend Wright and more orthodox black Chicago style communism which we saw evidenced in his Association with his mentor Frank Marshall Davis and later in his associations with the black elite in Chicago.

The communism supplies him with a philosophy which supports his narcissism. I think aquila48 has kindly provided us with a good working definition of narcissism and it lists several characteristics which fit Obama right up and down the line. Obviously, Obama has some sympathies for Islamism in general and The Muslim Brotherhood in particular, witness his active support of the infiltration of his administration by The Brotherhood. It may be that his sympathy for Islamism is merely opportunistic because it furthers his socialist goal of tearing down America to clear the path for his utopian "transformation."

Whatever the particulars of the ideological mix which together leave us with a feckless foreign policy, I believe the key to understanding Obama the man is to see him as a narcissist who has found life-support through the communist philosophy of the likes of Saul Alinsky and Frank Marshall Davis with an overlay of black liberation theology and sympathies for aggressive Islam. In other words, Barack Obama is a man of limited personal achievements despite his meteoric rise to the summit of national power. He has gotten there feeding his narcissism by exploiting his skin color and his ability to manipulate people which he has done in every context in which we have seen him but where we have never seen him produce actual work product.

He sells a wonderful package typical of narcissists but there is no there, there. If we take away his leftist theology he is truly a hollow figure, actually an empty pathetic figure of a narcissist without a protective exoskeleton.