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.
Which wouldn't be a problem were it not for his narcissism.
Reagan perhaps. George Washington certainly.
The author makes an interesting distinction between a puffed up ego and narcissism, that challenges the idea of even blow hards of necessarily being a narcissist.
Every president is subject to them and found mentally ill by certain segments of the opposition. It gets old.
An even older and ubiquitous trend is for some to conclude the president is doing well, yet some conclude they are not, and yet others conclude its a mixed bag. However, old and common these patterns are, one of these groups is more correct than the others.
Yet, isn't that a main part of narcissism? I'm no fan of psychological evals from afar, either, yet it's important we understand what we're up against. I contend this guy isn't a "run of the mill" narcissist. This isn't a case of yet another arrogant politician, this is a guy who *literally* sees himself as a kind of god. And, no, I'm not kidding. People like that CAN'T be reasoned with. At all.
“It?s not his narcissism that is the problem it?s his inability to see that everything he knows isn?t so.”
Um, that’s part of narcissistic personality disorder, a key part actually. Also, NPD is to typical politicians’ narcissism what ebola is to a cold...
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