Obama's essence

The American Thinker ^ | March 16, 2009 | James Lewis

[Scanian]

Undisciplined. Disorganized. Overreaching. Dangerous. Even the Democrats are taking off the upside-down plastic buckets they've kept over their heads, like David Broder, David Ignatius, and even David Brooks, the house conservative at the NYT, who keeps trying to hug that dangerous median strip on the superhighway of life, dancing and dodging between all the whizzing cars and trucks.

But the commentariat still doesn't understand that Obama is the worst control freak to occupy high office in the history of the United States. Obama is the Nanny to end all Nannies. Socialism is not a political philosophy for him. It's the other way around. Control freakery is Obama's basic personality. Socialism is just his way of making it look good to his buds on the Left.

It's called obsessive-compulsive personality, and if he can get himself a good doctor he might be able to get a pill for it. But he doesn't see it as a problem for one Barack (Barry) Soetoro Obama, the Reinvented Man. He sees it as everybody else's problem, including the stock market, high-paid executives, people who objected to his weird appointee's weird choice of Chas Freeman for a top intelligence post, and just about everybody else who doesn't march in lockstep with his frantic fantasy life. We all just need a leetle more controlling and he'll be just a titch happier with us.

[lentulusgracchus]

Lenin was a control freak, too. Look where he took Russia ..... millions of dead later.

Russians like to distinguish the "good" Lenin from "bad" Stalin. Both of them killed millions, and Russians are kidding themselves when they claim to discern substantive differences (i.e. in terms of consequences to Russia).

[txhurl]

Eau d’ 0... ralph.

[PhilDragoo]

The mother an American-hating atheist desperately seeking Muslim men of the Third World.

The father awash in the Marxist Mau Mau morass, crashing his car, taking his life--the son would crash our nation and survive.

Granddaddy smoking pot with fellow commie Davis the pedophile pervert extolling the glorious Red Army and infusing the impressionable Barry with America-hatred.

Saul Alinsky the Lucifer-worshipping fellow traveler--looming large in Barky's legacy.

Bomber copkiller Ayers & Dohrn launching Hussein.

Al-Mansour frontman for Prince Taleel making Harvard happen.

Wright infusing twenty years of obscene race hate, America hate, Jew hate.

Behold the Islamo Commie from Kenya with a Stalinesque narcissistic agent-of-history entitlement.

Who can't complete a sentence without a teleprompter. . .

. . .and without a doubt cannot pass a drug test.

A little blow?

"If you could afford it. . ."

Hey, hey, Hussein Obey, how many uhs have you uttered today?

Idiot savant, the one we have been waiting for. . .to be overtaken by his inadequacies.

[livius]

Very amusing article. Obama is nutty on so many levels that it’s hard to know where to begin. He is certainly a control freak, or perhaps, better said, somebody with a serious megalomania problem who brooks no opposition. The author seems to believe that the American character will successfully resist his attempts to control it; possibly, or possibly, once the insanity brought by the propaganda storm wears off and the effects of his complete incompetence become too obvious to ignore, he’ll move to the next level - the use of force to ensure compliance.

[Scanian]

I think that if the truth could be known, Zer0 would turn out to have enough complexes and hangups to keep a squad of psychiatrists busy for the rest of their lives. His “daddy” problems are abundantly evident. I’m not one to delve into five cent psychoanalysis but it is really hard to avoid believing that he must have had a strong sense of abandonment and neglect as a kid which might be finding expression today as he pursues policies which make no sense except to destroy the society and culture which he grew up resenting as an “outsider.”

[hershey]

But Obama is black, well, sort of, so whatever idiocy he commits and whatever harm the country endures will be excused by the MSM. They shoved black ‘culture’ down our throats for years and this is the result. I was watching one of those reality cop shows recently and saw one kid after another being arrested, waving arms and gesticulating in the black ‘rap’ manner. Only they weren’t black, they were Hispanic or poor whites. Stunning.

[autumnraine]

I’m beginning to think American Thinker has the most brilliant writers anywhere. Seriously, every article is just outstanding.

[Scanian]

My next door neighbor and I recently had a little “rap is crap” discussion with her 13 year old, 1/2 Mexican, 1/2 Anglo son who is trying to play the “gansta” role with his buddies. “Wannabeism” is a real problem among the “yoots,” that’s for sure. I seem to recall some “uptight” preachers and moralists trying to warn us about just that back in the ‘50’s. But they were just silly, racist alarmists, weren’t they?

[Scanian]

I agree. They typically publish several first-class articles every single day.

[nathanbedford]

I wrote this before the election. I have seen nothing since the inauguration which suggests that I should recant any of it:

THE OBAMA PATHOLOGY

The idea of the Authoritarian Personality originated in The Frankfurt School as a means of undermining the position of the father within the family circle and thereby undermine the family itself and ultimately the nation as a bulwark against communism. It was heavily larded with pseudo-Freudian analysis and was expanded to subvert all institutionalized authority. Every season we see an article, usually by some college professor with too much time in his hands or sometimes by psychiatrists acting either singly or in gaggles, opining that the current president, if he be Republican, is somehow psychologically deficient. No Republican president or Republican candidate in my lifetime has escaped this ritual psychoanalysis.

A recent excrescence of this genre is the book by Naomi Wolf in which she ludicrously argues that America, led by George Bush, is on the verge of descending into fascism. I have posted my objection to this sort of pseudoscience and I have tried to debunk this cheap propaganda so I am reluctant to engage hypocritically in the same game now. Well, I am going to do it anyway. I aim to indict about half of our whole society. The half, and likely more than half, that will vote for Barak Obama. My psychological conclusions do not pretend to the trappings of the "science" of the psyche and adorned with the word games of Freudian analysis, rather they are rooted in common sense.

The conclusion of anyone with common sense who has seen the films of innocent children singing their Obama songs or who has watched the quasi-military chanting and saluting of the Obama Youth in military garb must conclude that there is something very, very wrong with these people. I remember when I first saw the YouTube Children singing their Obama song I became conscious after a while that my mouth was gaping open, so appalled was I. My reaction to seeing the paramilitary gang marching into the karate hall was a mixture of embarrassment that these kids would make such fools of themselves and anger that adults would so brazenly manipulate children. Then I felt a creeping sense of unease that there was something potentially very sinister going on. Dear merciful God, this is Orwellian!

Beyond a very healthy repugnance to the spectacle of brainwashed children put on display, beyond the inescapable Maoist symbolism of it all, a commonsense person asks, what kind of man would permit this to go on in his name? What kind of parent would not seek to protect his child from such a man? What kind of pathology would lead parents who presumably love their children to consign those children to the demons of mind control? How could Americans fall for such a transparent cult of personality?

Unfortunately, we need not be uncertain about what kind of man would permit this grotesquerie to be advanced in his name. History provides us with plenty of examples: Hitler, Stalin, Mao, and Kim Jong-Il come to mind and now we add Barak Obama to the list. Why has he not spoken out and repudiated this? Would not a decent man do so if only for the children?

If Obama will not speak out now as a candidate when a little modesty, even false modesty, would advance his chances, what will he do when he gains office with no resistance anywhere on the horizon; no opposition in either the House or the Senate, no voice in traditional media to be raised against him, no institutional resistance on a national level of any kind organized to discourage him? Because he condones this obscenity one must ask, Is Obama really a narcissist as has been claimed? If so, how far will he go when he has the levers of power in his hands when there is no effective resistance to his ego?

How dangerous is Barak Obama?

Is he too dangerous to be put in a place where he could literally get us all killed? Or Is he the indispensable man in some sense? I do not think so. There is nothing in his career that suggests that he is the man for this season. In a time of war he has no military experience. In a time of looming financial disaster, he has no economic credentials. If he is potentially dangerous and if he is not indispensable, why would so many people want to put him in a position where he could do us harm, even get us all killed?

My commonsense explanation is that there must be a pathology, a mass psychosis, that brings people to the point where not only are they eager to make him the most powerful man in the world but they are invoking his name and calling upon him to be their savior. This they do rather than falling on their knees out of fear of The Real God.

This is the Obama pathology.

To a middle-class conservative who instinctively rejects conspiracy theories and normally wants to think the best of people because that's what he learned in Sunday school, this deification of an empty suit is as bewildering as it is frightening. What in the world are these people thinking? Do they not weigh the risks of consigning their fate to an unqualified man, worse, a person tainted his whole life with stunningly dangerous confederates including felons and Communists and terrorists? What is the upside? What is it about this man whose career is utterly uninterrupted by any accomplishment which would motivate these people to risk their children and my children to whatever he might do to them? How do they know? How can they be sure? Don't they have any doubts?

My problem is that I am seeking after that which I cannot find. I want to find an explanation in logic for a phenomenon of emotion. It is easy for middle-class conservatives to overlook the power of emotion even though history provides plenty of examples even within our own culture in America. Can logic explain why so many drank Jim Jonse's Kool aid? Why Charles Manson commanded such blood loyalty? How many cheered OJ Simpson's acquittal? Why did princes Diana's passing traumatize a nation? These are not questions which are answered with everyday commonsense. One almost has to go to the Bible to see the answer in Old Testament allegory which lets us know that evil is and there will always be worshipers of the golden calf.

I fear that in November we conservatives might find ourselves involuntarily embarked upon a journey that is foreign to our epistemology. We may be going into dark places and we might well be pushed into a netherworld where our common sense values are of no use because it is a place where down is up and black is white, a place where gravity does not pull but pushes, a place where we will need a pocket translator in order to converse in English with our government, our children's teachers, and our keepers even though they superficially use the same words we do. We sense we are about to be overwhelmed by forces guided by the ghost of Saul Alinsky.

I fear the downside of the Obama Pathology after his election may extend to dimensions we cannot begin to fasten to our everyday understanding or to our common sense. We have no way of knowing what will come because we don't know anything really about Barak Obama. We do not know if he is purely evil, we do not know if he is a committed communist, we do not know if he is a racist, we do not know if he wishes to see the submergence of the United States into a greater world order, we do not know if he is a megalomaniac, we do not even know, God help us, if he hates America. We do not know, in short, if we are backs - to- the- wall confronted with the Liberals' quadrennial nightmare: A real Authoritarian Personality.

We do know that Barak Obama has already encouraged a cult of personality whose implications are truly frightening and fundamentally un-American.

[Twinkie]

Interesting article.

[wxgesr]

Excellent commentary nathanbedford. We will find out after the fact what kind of man he is, and it won’t be good. I do not like this experiment.

[Beckwith]

“But Obama is black, well, sort of...”

Obama is pissed at his white mother for sending him away. He has transferred his anger at his mother towards the whole white race.

Obama would write in “Dreams...,” - “I ceased to advertise my mother’s race at the age of twelve or thirteen, when I began to suspect that by doing so I was ingratiating myself to whites.”

From his early teens onward, Obama desperately wants to be black. In “Dreams,” he writes, “I was trying to raise myself to be a black man in America, and beyond the given of my appearance, no one around me seemed to know exactly what that meant.” Honolulu’s paucity of African-Americans means he has to learn to be black from the media: “TV, movies, the radio; those were places to start. Pop culture was color-coded, after all, an arcade of images from which you could cop a walk, a talk, a step, a style.”

“...never emulate white men and brown men whose fates didn’t speak to my own. It was into my father’s image, the black man, son of Africa, that I’d packed all the attributes I sought in myself...”

Obama even describes his grandparents, the people who would raise and nourish him, as “white folk.”

[Scanian]

Yeah but he went out of his way to ingratiate himself to those marxist “white folk” by becoming a good little commie, didn’t he?

[Darwin Fish]

Yup, control freak. All socialists are, but like the author points out, control freaks generate socialism, not the other way around.

[livius]

Something I keep puzzling over is the chicken-and-egg effect here.

Bambi is not very smart and has never really done anything in his entire life, but he is ruthlessly ambitious because this is his way of defining himself. He’s obviously ideologically on the authoritarian extreme left side and is a socialist if not a downright communist, but what he’s really and truly all about is - himself.

However, he was put into power by people (Ayers, Dorhn, Emmanuel and other radical leftists, using Saudi and other foreign money) who thought that their ideological program was the important thing and that he would make a suitable vessel for it and make it electable. They are ideologues.

At a certain point, they are going to see that Bambi is too dumb to carry it off; at the same time, he’s going to get tired of their expecting him to do something other than be his own splendid project. The question is, will they get rid of him, or will he get rid of them?

History points to the dictator always being able to get rid of the ideologues who put him in power in the first place. Hitler did it, Stalin did it, Mao did it. Obama is going to try it.

[MeekOneGOP]

bump !!!

[potlatch]

Good graphic Phil.