For President
Posted on 10/19/2004 9:09:58 PM PDT by CHARLITE
Look Inside Kerry's Mind and You Find a "False Personality" Written by Joan Swirsky Wednesday, October 20, 2004
There's a term to explain why the clearly haughty and self-important John Kerry repeatedly calls George Bush "arrogant."
In psychology, it’s called projection: attributing to others what, in fact, perfectly describes the person hurling the insult.
Similarly, there’s a term to explain why Kerry, a lifelong pacifist after his four-month foray in Vietnam, is now trying to convince the public that he would fight the war against terrorism more effectively than President Bush.
It’s called self-delusion.
Another term explains why Kerry has changed his mind and his votes on just about every critical domestic and foreign policy issue in his 19 years in the Senate.
It’s called indecisiveness.
Yet another term explains Kerry’s Dean-like outburst – “That’s none of your business!” – when an attendee at a recent forum asked the Democratic candidate to name the foreign leaders he claimed had told him they hoped he wins the election.
It’s called thin-skinned (or intemperate, defensive or just plain nasty).
One more term explains Kerry’s accusation that President Bush has failed to give our troops adequate support, when in fact the president has increased economic support to veterans by 8 percent and increased defense spending by 10 percent.
It’s called lying.
To date, the only thing the American public knows about Kerry is that he is a blame-the-other-guy, self-deluding, indecisive, thin-skinned, lying candidate.
Is this the “real” John Kerry?
The DSM-IV – popularly known as the diagnostic “bible” of the American Psychiatric Association – goes on at length about Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID), in which separate identities take on a life of their own. Changing among those personalities is called "switching," which DID people manage with amazing facility.
Whether or not Kerry has this disorder is a moot point. The public has the right to know who the self-described “real deal” John Kerry really is.
Is he the guy in full biker regalia who rides his Harley onto the stage of “The Tonight Show” to show his macho side, or the Ivy League aesthete who sells his Renoir for campaign funds?
Is he the guy who uses the “f” word in a Rolling Stone interview to show how hip he is, or the one who imitates President Kennedy to convey an air of elegance?
Is he the guy who says he’s “strong” on defense, or the guy who voted against every major weapons system in our military and against increased defense spending after the bombings of the World Trade Center in 1993, the Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia in 1996, the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998, the USS Cole in 2000, and – two weeks after Sept. 11, 2001 – the World Trade Center and the Pentagon?
Is he the guy who claims to identify with the economic plight of “regular” Americans, or the wealthiest member of the Senate (married to one heiress and then another) who lives the high life in multimillion-dollar homes and on yachts?
Is he the guy who tells you that, after Bill Clinton, he will be the second black president, or the guy who, unlike Clinton, only spends time in black churches when he’s on the campaign trail?
Is he the guy who is a born-and-bred Catholic, or the guy with Jewish blood coursing through his veins who has taken pains not to reveal his heritage? This fact was exposed in fascinating detail in a Boston Globe article in 2002 but never picked up by the “mainstream” media. Now, on the campaign trail, Kerry is starting to speak before Jewish audiences of his Jewish “roots.”
Is he the guy who invokes highfalutin oratory when he’s in front of the camera, or the guy who tells a crowd – “not knowing” that his microphone is on – that his opponents are crooks and liars?
Is he the guy who wants terrorists to lose their war against America, or the guy who has voted against the $87 billion to support our troops in Iraq (“I voted for it before I voted against it!”)?
Significantly, Kerry was rated by the Washington, D.C.-based Center for Security Policy “among the worst” legislators on national security and defense, with a score of 5 out of a possible 100. More recently, they rated him zero!
Is he the guy who wants Americans to believe he will make our country safer, or the guy whose campaign promises are aired on Al Jazeera and whose candidacy has been endorsed by the arch-terrorist Yasser Arafat; the murderous Communist leader of North Korea, Kim Jong-il; the virulently anti-Semitic and America-hating prime minister of Malaysia, Mahathir Mohamad, and the new terrorist-appeasing president of Spain, Jose Luis Zapatero, who Kerry urged to “stay the course”?
What course? Abandoning Spain’s commitment to fighting terrorism in Iraq, withdrawing its troops and joining the “global community” of appeasers, including the United Nations, which Kerry to this day embraces.
Today, predictably, candidate Kerry has distanced himself from Spain, the better to convince the American public that he is not the socialist he really is!
It now appears that Kerry – with advice from the “scorched earth” tacticians of the Clinton crowd – is nothing more than a sleight-of-hand magician who wants you to believe that the rabbits he pulls out of his campaign hat are “the real thing.”
Magic, however, is not reality but illusion – cloaked in an ever-so-thin veil of credibility. Some people will settle for illusion, but most people know when they’re being snookered!
Given his pathological inability to make up his mind, it is no mystery why Kerry has yet to offer any credible policy that will lead our nation to victory over the terrorists who have targeted us for annihilation, or – save for encroaching socialism – any suggestion that will improve our recovering economy or enhance our education or health-care systems.
In short, Kerry appears to be a “false personality” – a function of what experts call “externally influenced ambition.” This means that he is so driven by the need to fit in, to be popular, to get votes, to keep himself front and center that he’ll do and say anything to advance his own – not the nation’s – agenda.
Kerry is not the first “complicated” man to run for office. The history of the American presidency includes many men whose characters, mindsets, motives and “track records” were appropriately questioned on the campaign trail.
Unlike Kerry, however, few had such a lengthy history in elective office – a history that now gives the public a uniquely birds-eye view of what it can expect from a Kerry presidency.
This is not a man the public has to guess about, unless, that is, you believe that Kerry’s “inner” intentions are what matters and his behavior doesn’t, or that his votes, statements, flip-flopping, explanations, rationalizations and backtracking are less important than his track record.
The eminent ethicist and psychiatrist Willard Gaylin could well have been speaking to Kerry when, in a 1977 op-ed New York Times article, he said, “You are, for the most part, what you seem to be; not what you would wish to be, nor, indeed, what you believe yourself to be.”
Gaylin continued: “The inner man is a fantasy. Like any fantasy, it serves your purposes alone. It has no standing in the real world that we share with each other. Those character traits, those attitudes, that behavior – that strange and alien stuff sticking out all over you – that's the real you!”
If history is any guide, Americans overwhelmingly prefer leaders who are “authentic” personalities, such as George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Harry Truman, Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush, all of whom took office in history-altering times. And all for the better!
About the Writer: Joan is a writer and a journalist who lives in New York. Joan receives e-mail at joansharon@aol.com.
For me, suffice to say, he's a communist sympathizer who has no intention whatsoever of having to live under any of the laws he'd pass. That pretty much sums it up.
Bottom line: Kerry is nuts and he"s Dangerous.
HAVANA, Oct. 19, 2004 -- A multitude of unlikely volunteers is working the phones for Sen. John Kerry in the swing state of Florida. His campaign is unaware of the support, as the volunteers do not live in the United States, but in Communist-run Cuba.
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Dang. It's back to HTML Boot Camp for me.
LOOK INSIDE KERRY'S MIND AND YOU FIND A "FALSE PERSONALITY"
Thanks!
Must read bump!
Some soldiers spent more time in Boot Camp than Kerry spent in Vietnam.
As anyone else noticed just how many of the really anti-kerry hit pieces are authored by women? This lady lives in NYC as well. I do believe it is becoming chique to be a conservative. Perhaps this explains the phenomenal viciousness of the left's campaign this year. I get the sense that they can barely contain the coming eruption, and if she blows (that is, Bush wins), being a leftist liberal will stop being "cool", a mantle it has worn my entire thinking life. The Democratic party is about to be destroyed, if Kerry loses. If he wins, we all may face destruction.
KERRY STINKS!
For President
Yes. If women go conservative, liberal men go nuts. "Women's liberation" always meant "you are now free to listen to ME instead!"
John Kerry has a big problem!
Diagnostic criteria for 301.81 Narcissistic Personality Disorder (cautionary statement) A pervasive pattern of grandiosity (in fantasy or behavior), need for admiration, and lack of empathy, beginning by early adulthood and present in a variety of contexts, as indicated by five (or more) of the following:
(1) has a grandiose sense of self-importance (e.g., exaggerates achievements and talents, expects to be recognized as superior without commensurate achievements)
(2) is preoccupied with fantasies of unlimited success, power, brilliance, beauty, or ideal love
(3) believes that he or she is "special" and unique and can only be understood by, or should associate with, other special or high-status people (or institutions)
(4) requires excessive admiration
(5) has a sense of entitlement, i.e., unreasonable expectations of especially favorable treatment or automatic compliance with his or her expectations
(6) is interpersonally exploitative, i.e., takes advantage of others to achieve his or her own ends
(7) lacks empathy: is unwilling to recognize or identify with the feelings and needs of others
(8) is often envious of others or believes that others are envious of him or her
(9) shows arrogant, haughty behaviors or attitudes
A TOTAL MIND-GAMING, SHOCK-SUFFERING LOON.
And he talks like the super millionnaire, Thurston Howell III
Too many aspects about his miscalculated lies point to the fact that his every move is CONCIOUS, PREMEDITATED, and CALCULATED. Witness the little things that take on greater meaning in assessing his mindset, like the "Can I get me a hunting license here?" remark. It spoke volumes.
I think, in short, he suffers from great self-felt inadequacies that go WAY back from his odd childhood.
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