Posted on 03/21/2015 9:38:25 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
OTOH, here’s an article claiming he was imprisoned and tortured.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/deadlineusa/2008/dec/03/obama-grandfather-maumau-torture
Noticed a couple major flaws in this story, however. It claims he was arrested in 1949 for being associated with the Mau Mau and imprisoned and tortured for two years.
The Mau Mau didn’t start up till 1952.
Obama gramps was a Luo. The Mau Mau were very, very exclusively Kikuyu. Doubt he would have been allowed to join.
This article also contains no actual evidence any of this happened to Obama, as opposed to others.
The key ingredient to the sociopathic/narcissistic tendency is not the presence of something pathological. It’s the absence of something normal. That ‘normal’ thing is, however you want to call it -> Compassion, Empathy, Identification, Kinship with other human beings.
Consider that you are putting shingles on your roof. You are capable of pounding the nail not because you hate the nail, but because do not identify with what it feels (of course in the case of a nail, it feels nothing.) But the point is that it’s not that you have the ‘presence of hate’ for the nail that you can hit it -> it’s that you have an absence of compassion or identification with the nail.
That’s what makes an Obama so dangerous. It’s not that he has some great pathology that OVERCOMES his sense of being a kind human, it’s that ... there is no kindness, simply because there is no relationship to anyone else.
That’s why he (and others like him) can lie, inflict damage, with such dispassion. How much did you have to hide your compassion for a baseball the last time you hit one? You didn’t -> you HAD no compassion. It was an object, and ... if you needed a home run ... then ... it needed to be hit ... and that’s all there is to it.
Obama lies to you because you need to be lied to in order for him to get his aim. That’s it -> all there is to the equation. No interfering ethical function involved.
Given the right government structure -> I guarantee you he would commit genocide without a second thought. He doesn’t hate the Constitution on any ethical or philisophical grounds. He hates it because it’s in his way. It’s a nail that needs to be hit. So are you.
So -> the defining characteristic is not PRESENCE OF SOMETHING EVIL but ABSENCE OF SOMETHING GOOD. He cares about you just about as much as a train that hits you if you lie down on a track.
In this way -> it would be perfectly legit to describe evil as merely the absence of God, there is no need for a devil, except to actually name the space where God isn’t.
... so the NAME for that absence of Kinship/Identity with your fellow man or sentient beings is ... Sociopath/Narcicsisst ... Borderline’s have it too, but they also have the presence of screwed up cognition. O’ has no screwed up cognition. Perfectly rational - just no identification with the human race. When he does seem to identify with people (as on the golf course), it’s for the pain they can take away from him by treating him as someone special or worth caring about -> it’s not any true friendship/kinship.
Sucks to be us w/him as president ... and because he lacks kinship with humans including himself, he has no concept of how much it sucks to actually be him. Were he to wake up ... it would be an ugly redemtion -> he’s far far far past that.
As for sociopaths/narcissists -> I firmly firmly believe that they chose, even if some under very difficult circumstances, to turn off the human being. Essentially ‘sacrificing the world for their own pain’ -> the reverse of Christ. There was a choice, and there is no escaping the consequences. God doesn’t play the ‘But you made it sooooo hard to be a good person’ game at all.
That aside, O’ and those like him are characterized by a missing part, not a malfunctioning part.
He’s a Natural Born Liar.
Sure, there’s a ton of stories repeating Obama’s bio tales. No facts to back them up. The Mau Mau story had to have been made up in Chicago.
That said, why would it be surprising that some random Luo was mistreated by Brits in ‘49? He might have also been mistreated by MMs for working for the British and blamed it on the Brits. Brits were pretty tough in ‘49.
Of course. Next question.
Someone needs to do a comparison of Marxism and Islam in the means justifying the ways department. Seems to be a multiplying effect in the minds of the administration.
Is Bill Clinton a serial sexual offender?
You are correct and I’m surprised the author didn’t do a bit of research.
For all, I found this online, pretty easy...
“Pathological lying (PL) is a controversial topic. There is, as yet, no consensus in the psychiatric community on its definition, although there is general agreement on its core elements. PL is characterized by a long history (maybe lifelong) of frequent and repeated lying for which no apparent psychological motive or external benefit can be discerned. While ordinary lies are goal-directed and are told to obtain external benefit or to avoid punishment, pathological lies often appear purposeless. In some cases, they might be self-incriminating or damaging, which makes the behavior even more incomprehensible”
http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/articles/pathological-lying-symptom-or-disease
Gramps was a Mau Mau.
I think it’s a distinction without a real difference. Marxism operates with a little more subtlety until it reaches the Holomodor level. Both are ruthless with “the end justifies the means” philosophy. Obama seems to operate comfortably in both spheres.
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