Thanks for your further thoughts. Here are two more items to consider. First, what happens every single time Obama gives a speech, without exception? Multiple people immediately count up the number times he says I, me, mine, etc., and publish it online.
Further note that it is always an extraordinarily, almost impossibly high number. Offhand, you can’t name anyone who comes close. Bill Clinton probably ranks second, but it’s not a close second.
Secondly, if you’ve been paying attention to Obama, you will have noted the really, truly nasty barbs he slips into people, usually with a disarming smile or friendly chuckle, so as to discount any malicious intent.
I don’t have time to give many examples. Two will have to suffice. First, recall the time he charmingly cautioned anyone from getting between Michelle and a tamale. This was so cruelly vicious, I really don’t have time to unpack it all. The short version is that he has a very large wife with weight/eating issues. She’s not the world’s most feminine woman either. So Obama lightly, smilingly, paints an image of her trampling people down—buffalo-like—on her charge toward a not-very-feminine food object (some associate tamales with gas).
That was pure, unmistakable Malignant Narcissism in action. That’s one of their foundational MOs—to sweetly stick the knife in, twist it, add salt, and then innocently protest, hey, it was just a joke. Does no one have a sense of humor?
Secondly, there are at least four photos of Obama giving people he hates the middle finger. Of course, in true MN style, he does it with plausible deniability. Hey, I was just resting my chin on my hand! Anybody reading more into it than that has a foul mind!
I could go on, but the point is Obama is MN to the marrow. It’s who and what he is.
By contrast, we never play the I, me, my game with Hillary. If she were a narcissist, we could and would. But she isn’t.
Second, you cannot cite a single sly, sneaky, mean and vile insult Hillary has leveled while pretending it was nothing. Nor does she obliquely shoot people the bird. She insults Trump as best she can, but with nowhere near the efficiency or effectiveness of an MN. Likewise she doesn’t play the snide it’s-a-middle-finger/no-it-isn’t game, or anything like it.
She just doesn’t have the MN gene/routine. She has a major personality disorder, but it’s not MN.