Thank you both. I got my experience the hard way: by living up close & personal with an addictive-dysfunctional personality. I see it writ large in Obama. This is a guy who never stayed long with any one job in the past. I believe three or four years was his limit? Now he’s stuck in the same job for five yrs & counting. He’s going nuts. He travels, he vacations, he parties, he drinks, he likely smokes & many suspect he does drugs. There are too many accounts of marathon ESPN sessions to write it off as mere rumor. Then there is likely some kind of personal hanky panky, & it has never, ever looked as if Michelle is the object of those affections. (Part of her anger is certainly race based, but I bet part of it is being married to a guy who doesn’t like having sex with her. He actually acts like a man who doesn’t enjoy her proximity. Hmm.)
I don’t mean to downplay the rude, classless, gauche, childish & reprehensible behavior Obama exhibited on Normandy Beach. I just see him as an addictive-dysfunctional wreck, unable to maintain a shred of personal dignity even for the short time he attended that ceremony. How long will his handlers be able to mask his issues? Not through the entire next two & a half yrs, that’s for sure.
Interesting. I know some addicts/alcoholics up close and personal too, but haven’t seen those symptoms in Obma because I NEVER watch him.
Not sure about the short-term jobs as a symptom of addiction, though. Can you say more about that? I rather think others saw the potential in him and kept him moving upward, probably faster than he could actually digest. Which would contribute to his insecurity/arrogance dichotomy.
He’d be an interesting character in fiction. (Which is why I call him Obma.) Speaking of which, I’m reading Leon Uris’s THE HAJ, which explains a lot about Arabs, Muslims, and the situation we’re in today. They’re NEVER going to go away. Or even improve. Perhaps Obma’s muslim beliefs are bringing about a great deal of his discomfort, contributing to dysfunctional/addictive patterns of behavior. A lot of pressures on him, perhaps he will break before the end of his term.