We all have a bit of healthy narcissism, it is what helps us overcome negative situations and strive for goals and have a normal level of self-esteem. With Obama, as with other Narcissists, what evolves is a very unhealthy, unbalanced, need to be loved and appreciated because sometime in their life they suffered an extremes sense of being unworthy.
Obama's narcissistic personality probably resulted from not knowing who his father really was, being dragged to Indonesia by his mother to live with another man who, apparently, had no close or loving ties with Obama, and of course, being abandoned by Mom to live with grandparents who didn't seem to happy about the situation and having a bi-racial grandson.
All of his characteristics can be explained when one considers the bizarre childhood he had , not knowing who he was, where he fit in, and who cared about him. It is sad, really...but worse...it is dangerous for our country to have this sick man as our leader. Obama is a text-book-classic example of a malignant narcissist. Just as most dictators are and were.
It is not just a point of ridicule to say that and it is not meant to be a real criticism, because the man is really mentally sick. Obama has a very serious condition and I am sure those who are closest to him, and promote/support him are well aware that his psyche is quite disturbed. I am sure they have continually done whatever they could, whatever was necessary, to keep him from breaking down under the pressures of criticism and failures. But they have used him for their own anti-American, hateful goals because the Narcissist needs to be loved, adored, and needed every minute of his life and that makes him gullible. As long as his puppeteers feed his fragile ego, he willingly performs as they wish.
This is why, for years and years, I have said that all high level elected officials should have to undergo a thorough psychiatric test before being having their name on a ballot. Just like corporations and industries administer personality tests when choosing and employing people for leadership and management positions. Those tests are performed to help employers weed out people who are not emotionally well balanced, not able to handle pressures and criticisms, are not good team players, will lie, cheat, and steal, and whose leadership abilities are below par. People who run our country should be, at the least, subjected to the same scrutiny as those who are hired to serve in high administrative and management positions.
“This is why, for years and years, I have said that all high level elected officials should have to undergo a thorough psychiatric test before being having their name on a ballot.”
Down through the decades, I’ve seen news commentators apologizing during election campaigns for the usual silliness that goes on with campaign rhetoric, etc. In the final analysis, they contended that the saving grace of all this apparent political nonsense was that our political process made it impossible for a fool or a nut-case from becoming President.
Our problem now is that many of the old assumptions no longer hold. The American masses no longer have the common sense wisdom derived from responsibilities such as raising a family and acquiring a productive trade. Now we look more like Rome in its decline when the populace were in love with their crazy, depraved Emperors.
People with a paucity of useful skills or knowledge have been sold the idea that they were being victimized by an uncaring society. Working women demand the “right” of free contraceptives and instant free abortions to rectify the consequences of recreational sex, courtesy the taxpayer. Gay men have demanded, and attained, the right to openly express their sexuality in the armed forces in spite of long past experience that this has a devastating effect on morale. A black op-ed columnist recently wrote that George Zimmerman should volunteer to spend 8 to 10 years in prison to dissuade racial violence.
Such “victimized” groups, who in aggregate may actually form a majority of the population, have fallen for the romantic notion of the mysterious stranger who has come to save them from the miserliness of the few who just want to be left alone. They voted for someone whose past is virtually nonexistent, who promised during his campaign for president to “fundamentally transform” this country, and whose associations provide a certainty that he has always been a leftist radical. And after a disastrous first term, he has at least even chance of being elected to a second term in which is he will be virtually unaccountable for his actions. We’ve gone from common sense to irresponsibility on steroids.