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There is an article on a companion thread which describes the negative influence of Valerie Jarrett on the President of the United States and many FReepers have offered up their theories as to why she should have such power over Obama. I tend to think of it as not so much a power that Jarrett enjoys over Obama but a common worldview they mutually possess and mutually reinforce.

Obama is very articulate and he's very clever, as most narcissists are, and he is smart enough and wary enough not to betray himself often but I think he shares everyone of the preposterous notions outlined in this article but he is too clever and too articulate to be caught out often.

I have a completely different take on this thought.

I do believe that Obama shares a common worldview, and is articulate in front of a crowd when he has a teleprompter to read from. He's a stammering idiot without one, though.

For a more relevant, though fictional, comparison, I'd say that Valerie Jarrett is more like Angela Lansbury's Mrs. Iselin and Obama is more like James Gregory's Senator Iselin from the original movie The Manchurian Candidate.

Jarrett is clearly handling Obama, and sending him out day after day with a very scripted and pointed message for the day. The daily message is crafted to conflict with prior messages so as to get the media to focus on the changing side-story and not about what is really going on. In other words, creating a distraction from the real agenda.

In my view, Obama is a puppet, saying and doing what he's told to say and do. When he strays, just as Iselin strayed, he gets flustered and runs back for help. Obama is not the clever, articulate, and smart person that Jarrett has presented him to be. From the other article, Jarrett NEVER leaves his side. She eats with him in the residence, she travels with him on vacations, she's the only non-family who calls him by his first name. She is the brains behind the outfit, and Obama is just the straight man.

-PJ

I do not accept the assessment that Obama is inarticulate when unscripted. I think that assessment is similar to the idea that Obama commits mistakes rather than acts deliberately in furtherance of his radical leftist philosophy which is to say that he is acting willfully against the interests of America.

I believe that he was advanced in the ranks of politics precisely because he is articulate off-the-cuff as well as behind a Teleprompter. He has seduced the likes of George Soros to divert from supporting Hillary to supporting Obama in 2008. He appears well in his interviews in the sense that he appears presidential. He performed well enough in all his the dates except one debate against Mitt Romney. He projects "gravitas."

Obama is not stupid, he is not inarticulate, he is malevolent.

He is not Valerie Jarrett's puppet, they mutually use each other to reinforce their worldview. He wants her to keep the barbarians outside the gate and knows exactly what she is doing.

We make a gross error if we continue to judge Obama as someone who is bumbling from crisis to crisis and speaking only as a sock puppet. He is engineering crises and exploiting crises fully in concert with the likes of Valerie Jarrett and the Attorney General Holder but not as the stooge of anyone, Valerie Jarrett included.

Barack Obama is an empty suit in the sense that he has not personally accomplished anything other than winning elections to warrant his office. He got his office by virtue of his ability to seduce people-a typical trait of a narcissist. He uses Valerie Jarrett just the she uses him-two narcissists in a symbiotic relationship. We make a fatal error when we think Barack Obama is stupid, he is not. He Got through Harvard Law School with very little background by virtue of his wits. He has been living on his wits all his life and he has substituted that for genuine accomplishment.

He is an empty suit, a narcissist who knows how to con people. He is not stupid, he is not inarticulate, he is dangerous.