[Houghton M.]

I’d be a bit cautious with this guy. I do think Obama is a narcissist. The problem is that Vaknin has a gadfly-resume, viz: http://samvak.tripod.com/cv.html He’s all over the map—has done high-tech stuff, commodities analysis, consulting to foreign governments—so he claims. His degrees are from suspicious sounding schools, though they may be legit—it’s hard to say.

Citing him as an authority, even though he may be right about the basic stuff here, is not wise. Can’t someone who is really credible on pathological narcissism write something on Obama?

[GOPJ]

His own autobiography! Instead of writing a scholarly paper focusing on race relations, for which he had been paid, Obama could not resist writing about his most sublime self. He entitled the book Dreams from My Father. Not surprisingly, Adolph Hitler also wrote his own autobiography when he was still nobody. So did Stalin. For a narcissist no subject is as important as his own self.

And the solution to dumping Obama will be (drum roll please) a CLINTON. Aren't these all (Salon included) Clinton supporters?