The Shock of Barack

The American Thinker ^ | March 31, 2010 | Robin of Berkeley

[Scanian]

I've been feeling funky since Black Sunday, the day of the health care debacle. As a therapist, I'm usually able to identity my feelings. But this one had left me stumped.

I went through the usual laundry list of emotions: Am I depressed? (A little, but that's not it.) Worried, scared? (Yes, but who isn't?) Angry (Very, but that's still not what's bugging me.)

It took a conversation with a conservative friend, Nancy, for me to pinpoint the feeling. Nancy told me that a Jewish co-worker, a staunch Obama supporter, was feeling "shell shocked" by Obama's vilifying Israel.

Bingo. That's what it is: stunned, shell shocked, traumatized.

But it's not PTSD -- post traumatic stress disorder -- because then Obama would be ancient history. It's trauma happening right here, right now, at lightning speed.

Trauma means witnessing something that humans are not designed to see, a horror that is more than the self can absorb. The brutality of war, a gruesome crime scene, the sudden death of a loved one. Or the evil that unfolds through unchecked power yielded by megalomaniacs.

For me, trauma was that cloudless November day, years ago, when I exited an Oakland restaurant at noon and soon thereafter, lay prone on the concrete, bloody and broken.

Just moments before, I had looked into the eyes of a man who didn't know that I was human, or who knew but didn't care. I saw something sinister in him, but ignored my gut. I was still steeped in liberal political correctness and didn't want to appear racially insensitive.

When I see what Obama is doing to this country, how he is treating its citizens, I'm reminded of the man who mugged me.

[padre35]

Normal people, when confronted by psychopathic behaviors, normally quickly feel confusion as it is such an offcentre situation they were unable to prepare themselves mentally beforehand.

[MtnMan101]

Sheepeople who hold their hands over their eyes and follow beautiful voices will soon slam into a wall or fall into a ditch. Do your homework first.

[Ann Archy]

Bammy is opening up DRILLING off our shores so that he can TAKE THEM OVER when they start producing!!

[y6162]

I’m not surprised.

[Freddd]

He has been verbally assaulting, phsycholically, and emotionally assaulting America for years now...

[MtnClimber]

In his eyes I sense evil. In some leftists eyes I just sense stupidity, but in a majority I also sense evil too.