I would like to introduce one thought into the mix here although the article was absolutely riveting - thank you to the member who posted it for us.
I have a slight caveat in that Obama is not 100% psycopathalogic - where he fits much of the model offered, I think there is confusion within his mind as to his role because he had such a scattered and fractured childhood upbringing - being fed from all sources in his family - from bright intellectuals who absolutely hated society as we know it to strict individuals who acquainted him with
non-traditional value systems opppositional to what we in the western world thrive upon.
I think he strives for normalcy but given power, that drive then becomes his focus and he loses what warmth and humanity may still reside within.
He is not good leadership material - never will be.
He has great potential to do much harm to our original ideals and traditions which have created much success for the U.S. as a nation and we as a people.
He believes himself to be a monarch - and that much of him is purely pathologic but it determines his goals.
btt