I think the detachment masks HUGE amounts of anger — anger at a dad who abandoned him, anger at a step-father who did the same, anger at a mother with terrible judgement about men who shuttled her son back and forth without regard for his best interests...
Even a deep anger at the ONLY people who ever stepped up and did anything to help him — his affluent,elderly, white grandparents... with whom he desperately wants to get even.
Over time he has learned to surpress and mask his anger — but he does so with a phony intellectualism... he channels all of his anger into a nasty and desire for class warfare.
Honestly — he is a seriously damaged human being — and I am afraid he wants to make us all pay for the pain he has experienced in life.
Maybe he was sexually abused by his grandfather, just like Mohammad was by his.
We could have a very disturbed and dangerous person about to get his hands on a lot of power.
Bowen’s Family systems theory would also indicate Obama has those kind of problems. Detachment, a deep reserve of anger.
Perfect explanation for this bizarre creature, but alas the American people WANT to believe in him, as they did “Bill” Clinton (an alias).
I agree. If you read ‘Dreams From My Father’, it is obvious he has huge issues with his family. He resolved them by abandoning his white family and embracing his black Kenyan extended family.
He didn’t visit his Mom to help her in her final days. When he recently vacationed in Hawaii, after not seeing his white grandmother for 19 months, he visited her - with some campaign aides, for a bit over one hour, without his wife or daughters. He made no further attempts to see her.
He had a miserable childhood brought about by a miserable excuse for a mother. His anger turned to hatred of his white family. He only uses them as props now for his campaign.
The ‘damaged goods’ part of Obama really concerns me.
We went thru 8 years of a similarly psychologically damaged POTUS and I do not look forward to another 4 or 8. I wish these men would grow up on their own time and not drag the nation through it.
Read the writings of Ayers, Wright et al" they are the same - unresolved issues, they project onto others instead of dealing with them themselves. Instead of dealing with the feelings that arise from accepting life as it is, and not as one thinks it ought to be; they blame others for life/society/people not being as they think it should be. As with so many who claim the victim position; they themselves are the bullies.
We are going to be governed by a bunch of immature co-dependants, who are going to radically screw things up, instead of dealing with their own issues.. It ain't going to be pretty.
A very wise man said to me once that denial is the root of all evil. I now see how true that is.
Clinton was dumped by his father, step father. His mom was all over the place.
Maybe it’s nothing, eh?
apparently, his grandparents on THAT side were unitarian universalist loons ...