[Sans-Culotte]

Blasphemy

[svcw]

Love those Canadians.

[Minn]

I’m not a big fan of these psychological evaluations from afar. Every president is subject to them and found mentally ill by certain segments of the opposition. It gets old. Obama may be more narcissistic than average, but what presidential candidate isn’t? It’s not his narcissism that is the problem it’s his inability to see that everything he knows isn’t so.

[Prole]

"Barack Obama is a narcissist of the worst kind."

Dr. Charles Krauthammer, a very respectable psychiatrist, has also noted that Obama is a narcissist.

[Sequoyah101]

If one would but read the article one would see that the author give examples of almost every instance of the characteristics of the narcissist. I thought I was going to have to do it myself and could think of examples illustrating every symptom listed.

ZERO is off his nut, is already dangerous and as his narcissistic supply wanes he will lash out becoming every more dangerous. He is cracking already and we will be the victims. If he makes it to run for reelection and is rebuffed he will become hellish.

[FourPeas]

Ignoring the mention S. Vaknin, this is an exceptional article. I look forward to reading the author's book.

[GOP Poet]

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[piytar]

Let’s not forget the opportunity that this presents us. Narcissists are horrible to deal with, esp. If they have power over you.(Cf abusive relationships). That said, if you recognize that you are dealing with a narcissist early enough, they can be easily manipulated. One of the best techniques is to turn them against their allies until they are alone or weak. To that end, we should push each and every time the donks and his sychophants cross zero so he blames THEM for his loss of ego-boosting adoration. Any people with connections to talk radio lurking? Do that, and zero will burn his own allies until he is alone and politically vulnerable.

[Intolerant in NJ]

How did over half of the country not notice?...well, there is also the psychiatric term "Folie a deux" - the craziness of two, in which the pathologies of two people complement and play off of each other creating a super craziness more potent and relentless than that of each by itself. With Obama and half the country, we seem to have a "Folie de plus", in which Obama's need for power and the adoration of the masses meshes perfectly with the need of much of the population to feel that they are more righteous and sophisticated than others, and are involved in a great movement which will lift them above their ordinary, drab lives - they vote for the Obama who promises change and hope, and he provides them with the inspiration and superiority they can't obtain otherwise - and neither side has enough insight to break the bond - it's a scary and dangerous sickness.....

"Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one" - from Charles McKay's Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, on the Dutch Tulip mania of the 17th century.....

[Dr. Eckleburg]

This is a great article. Well worth the read...

"...The narcissist in chief's cavernous lack of empathy becomes more obvious as his presidency rolls on.  It could hardly be called empathic behavior when Obama decided to drop all charges against Cole bomber Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri before Obama's scheduled meeting with the families of the Cole victims.

Barack Obama lied to us throughout the campaign and continues to do so as the president.  How did over half of the country not notice?  The simple answer is that we are just not very good at recognizing when someone is lying to us.  Our deception detection skills are inadequate. Barack Obama is acting out his pathology at our expense..."

[Dysart]

Positive dx. The rx is 2010/2012.