“But Obama, given only what we know so far — he could be a Stalin and Hitler combined. He’s no Mao. No Il Duce. But he does fall in the same family and childhood psychological model as both Stalin and Hitler.”
I’ve been thinking he fits the mould of mohammad - abandoned by his mother, cared for by an uncle, sexually assaulted as a young boy, told from a young age he was headed for great things;
Obama believed his father was an African Prince, called himself King Obama whilst still in school in Hawaii...his father probably told him the story of the caliphate in East Africa, when the territory was ruled by a despot who claimed to be the ‘mahdi’ -
From ‘The White Nile’ - The Moslem Revolt:
Mohammed Ahmed Ibn el-Sayyid Abdullah, the Mahdi, follows the true tradition of the warrior-priests of Islam. Like a sandstorm in the desert he appears, suddenly and inexplicably out of nowhere, and by some strange process of attraction generates an ever-increasing force as he goes along. Confused accounts were given of his origins: some said he came from a family of boat-builders on the Nile, others that he was the son of a poor religious teacher, others again that he was the descendand of a line of sheikhs. It was generally accepted, however, that he was born in the Dongola province in the North Sudan in 1844 (which would make him 37 years of age at this time), and that quite early in life he had achieved a local reputation for great sanctity and for a gift of oratory that was quite exceptional. His effects, it seemed, were obtained by an extra-ordinary personal magnetism.
“There was a strange splendour in his presence, an overwhelming passion in the torrent of his speech.’
He was a man possessed. Mohammed had promised that one of his descendants would one day appear and reanimate the faith, and Abdullah now declared, with an unshakable conviction, that he himself was that man...
Mohammed Ahmed Ibn el-Sayyid Abdullah’s bio sounds an awful lot like...Mohammed Baraka Hussein Obama.
Yes, both Mohammed and Ibn el-Sayyid are good and apt childhood family dynamic models. Yet his childhood the similarity to Stalin is also strong. I may have overstated the case wrt/ Hitler though.