[jyro]

sounds a lot like President Obama

[PGalt]

Great post. Thanks. More background on many of our elected representatives. Enablers/co-conspirators are just as bad.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tro2U-cezqo

[BenLurkin]

Sociopaths never apologize....

[Chode]

11) They look like a Kennedy

[LearsFool]

#3) Sociopaths are incapable of feeling shame, guilt or remorse. Their brains simply lack the circuitry to process such emotions. This allows them to betray people, threaten people or harm people without giving it a second thought.

And yet they're still commanded to "do unto others as you would have them do unto you."

[bboop]

Romney should use this in an ad.

[RegulatorCountry]

I have an acquaintance of going on twenty years, who fits the profile to a tee. Fascinating storyteller, very pleasant company, absolutely magnetic to certain sorts of people.

He relieves that certain sort of money, quite convincingly. Early on, I tried to intervene, to warn people that they'd never see that $10,000, $20,000, or even more than that, ever again, let alone get the fantastic returns that he very compellingly yet vaguely described, never on paper and never to the point of there being any legal consideration, always just beyond actionable. Under the law, his “investors” just gave him the money. I looked into it.

They believed him then, believe him still and think I'm the bad guy. Some have continued to give him money. He lives very well, two Mercedes-Benz, Italian suits, you name it.

The guy would've knocked the corporate world dead, just brilliant, very persuasive, very personable. But, no, he prefers whatever it is that he's doing.

I've kept in touch out of curiosity, just to see how long it takes for somebody to do him grievous bodily harm, but nothing so far. He'll likely go to his grave with all the hangers on that he's fleeced still believing in him and expecting their windfall.

It's just the most amazing thing. It's as if he hypnotizes them.

[SunkenCiv]

Withholds birth certificate.

Fakes birth certificate and releases it through an “independent” online site wholly owned by the sociopath.

Fakes another birth certificate, acts like no other fake had previously been released.

...

Thanks jyro.

[Chickensoup]

Sociopaths are not necessarily intelligent. Prisons are full of stupid sociopaths with no consciences who kill and torture people and animals.

[fieldmarshaldj]

...and his paler twin, Willard.