Posted on 10/27/2009 10:17:30 PM PDT by Scanian
The term "narcissistic rage" gets 26,000 citations in Google Scholar. It is a common feature of extreme or pathological narcissism.
While psychiatrists often say they can't do long-distance diagnosis, it really isn't that hard if you have a lot of information about a person and can watch how he operates from day to day. Intelligence agencies around the world have psychiatric staffs for exactly that purpose.
While most people are pretty hard to predict, extreme narcissists are comparatively simple. They constantly hunger for ego gratification, they are immature, constantly need to demonstrate their own superiority, often need endless sexual conquests (like Bill Clinton), are manipulative, constant liars, are completely cold about the human beings they harm (like John Edwards), and they deal with frustration by uncontrollable fits of rage.
I think that's what we saw last week with the White House lashing out at Fox News.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
This layman has no doubt about this...and I think that if his opposition doesn’t keep pushing his buttons to get this to come out, they are stupid. I think that’s conservatives’ best plan—if we keep plugging at his narcissistic side, it’s our best approach, IMNSHO (not humble, but not a narcissist ;-).
Rush said just the other day that he’s taken up permanent residence and living rent-free inside the head of the POTUS!!!
Good one and right on the mark.
I fear two things with Obama. One is if the GOP fails to elect a House majority in 2010 to keep Obama within the bounds of sanity. A GOP majority is essential for the safety of the country and the world. But even if Obama is defeated in 2012, he will just turn into an angrier version of Al Gore and Jimmy Carter. He will haunt the political future of this country as long as he is alive, because that famished ego never gets enough. Malignant narcissism often gets worse over time. And on the Left and among blacks, Obama will still have love and adoration enough to keep him supplied. He is an easy target for flattery by the Saudis, even the Iranians -- in fact, by all the real enemies we have.
So even if the voters throw out this very dangerous cult-like administration, you can expect Obama to be popping up in our politics for years to come. He will haunt the Democrats, which might be a good thing. But he will haunt the United States as well, even if he is defeated in 2012.
If he gets defeated in 2012 (please, God), we will never hear the end of the “R” word all the rest of his days, even though white America elected him. You betcha.
Obama probably has developed high blood pressure no doubt, he must be ready to chew the rug so to speak because millions of Americans are laughing at him, they are defying him, and they absolutely will NOT be convinced in any possible way to be his followers. He could mail a gold brick to all of America and we would still have a majority that is convinced he is a foreign invader, an usurper and has no loyalty for America.
Its all about cementing future socialism deep enough that it cannot be removed.
Even if he is.
Wow! That’s gonna leave several marks!!
The race excuse is already worn out, just like the Blame Bush excuse. But you’re so right, we’ll still be hearing it. It’s all they’ve got.
Obama and his groupies are truly pathetic.
GREAT line on Dennis Miller today ... if Obama were any more thin skinned, he'd have a reservoir tip.
Yeah, and the writer didn’t even get into analyzing the cause of the narcissism.
In my view it is “mommy problems” and “daddy problems.” Zero shares these issues with Bill Clinton. Both their mothers were, er, loose ladies and their fathers, assuming they even know who they really are, abandoned them. Clinton manifested his narcissism in a sexual way. Obama is much more interested in power, which makes him far more dangerous to society, as the author notes.
0bama is a cool operator while Bill Clinton was an effusive glad hander. Remember those “friends of Bill” and “Renaissance weekends”. Clinton loved to network
http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-814782.html
At least Bill Clinton had an American upbringing where he was a boy scout and shook hands with Pres Kennedy at a Jamboree. 0bama had an unAmerican childhood and college years
0bama was abandoned by two Muslim fathers and by one American hippie mother who dumped him off at the grandparents while she took her daughter back to Indonesia as she pursued her brilliant graduate student career in Anthropology
With her thesis on Indonesian rural blacksmithing (not joking) She also met Timothy Guithners father more than once because he was administering Ford Foundation grants in Asia which IIRC she got one to pursue her researcher into Indonesian blacksmithing and micro-lending to women entrepeneurs
Defeated? Uh, no, he should be arrested.
Mocking always works with the self deluded like Obama.
After the RNC Obama was a stuttering mess, he also threw hissy-fits about certain ads that mocked him.
Problem was we didn’t keep it up, he was cracking then and he’ll crack now. This tactic some people credit to Alinsky, but it’s always worked.
Now that’s a word picture — what a visual.
Chilling imagery ...
Zero is well on his way to bringing his presidency down.
Pathological narcissism seems to be a required malady for initiates into the club of despotic Democrats.
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