Obama Going Off the Deep End

East Valley Tribune ^ | April 10, 2010 | Floyd and Mary Beth Brown

[TCH]

A recent analysis by Roger Simon of PJTV Media maintains that Obama is showing signs of mental illness. A wide variety of commentators have observed that Obama displays severe narcissism. Obama is conceited, and he is demonstrating a serious disassociation from reality.

A recent case in point was Obama's bizarre and meandering 17-minute, 2,500-word answer to the simple question about how he could justify raising taxes for ObamaCare during a recession when citizens are already overtaxed. Obama's wildly inappropriate answer left the audience stunned and led commentator Charles Krauthammer to mockingly say, "I don't know why you are so surprised. It’s only nine times the length of the Gettysburg address, and after all Lincoln was answering an easier question, the higher purpose of the union and the soldiers who fell in battle."

This lapse of delusion occurred in front of a friendly audience. Overall, Barack Obama seems to be slipping into a slightly more delusional state these days.

On Monday, following his embarrassing answer on Saturday, Obama stopped by the Washington Nationals home opener to loft an effeminate toss toward home plate constituting the ceremonial first pitch. After this display, Obama was mucking it up in the press booth talking about his love of the Chicago White Sox. The announcers asked Obama which players he supported growing up a White Sox fan. After hemming and hawing for about 30 seconds, Obama responded that he grew up in Hawaii and was actually an A's fan. Again, he avoided mentioning any players by name. Obama seems to believe that he can say whatever he wants, and not reap the consequences or be forced to defend his empty assertions. Obama behaves in a manner so disconnected from reality that he is shocked when someone has the audacity to question him. Obama acts like his word is infallible.

In March of last year Obama was on “60 Minutes” with Steve Kroft. Throughout the interview as Kroft questioned about the economic downturn and people losing their life savings, Obama just kept laughing. A one point CBS’s Kroft stopped him and asked, “Are you punch drunk?" How will the American people react to seeing their president laugh off their predicament? Obama’s inappropriate laughter clearly demonstrated he has lost touch with the pain that people are feeling.

Obama portrays himself as the larger-than-life figure towering above the political fray. At the summit when Obama was pushing his health care package through Congress, he attempted to act as if he were the chief arbiter of truth. With petty insults, he slapped down what the Republicans proposed and audaciously claimed his was a “bipartisan bill.” Obama distorts the truth with such frequency that one must start to question if Obama even realizes he is lying or is so disassociated from the truth that he believes what he says.

A further example of Obama’s delusions of grandeur occurred when he gave himself a “good solid B plus.” Believing that his presidency was an above average success when America is hurting is absurd. Obama went so far as to claim that he would give himself an “A” once health care was passed. Obama is not living in the same reality as the rest of us.

As Charles Krauthammer wrote, “Not that Obama considers himself divine. (He sees himself as merely messianic, or, at worst, apostolic.) But he does position himself as hovering above mere mortals, mere country, to gaze benignly upon the darkling plain beneath him where ignorant armies clash by night, blind to the common humanity that only he can see."

Obama sees himself as the greatest man to be president in all time. He truly believes it when he said "we are the ones we have been waiting for," and "this is the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and the planet began to heal." He believes that he can do anything he pleases and the people will love him for it. Obama plans to radically transform this country and go down in history as, in his mind, the greatest ever. Obama is clearly disconnected from reality.

Obama is, according to Newt Gingrich, “potentially the most dangerous (president), because he so completely misunderstands reality.” Gingrich was referring to Obama’s inept and weak stance on missile defense amongst other things. Even Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has said that Obama is an amateur; so much for wowing the world. Obama lives in an alternate universe where he treats our friends poorly and expects our enemies to change and become our friends. Here’s hoping that the voters help to connect this president back to reality in November.

[Cindy]

SNIPPET from post no. 1:

"Obama is, according to Newt Gingrich, “potentially the most dangerous (president), because he so completely misunderstands reality.”"

[onyx]

He’s going to have to be removed from office, but it’ll take a Republican House and Senate and cooperation from some serious democrats. The Marxist is mentally unfit along with being completely unqualified..

[ransomnote]

What about concealing him from view for awhile while lobbing dark hints of Tea Party drones threatening him and how he must be protected from them? That would activate his faltering base for awhile, further divide the country, perhaps even get racial tension to rise.

[ransomnote]

Sociopaths and narcissists tend to care only about themselves so they are not as prone to suicide as some of us might suppose. They are unfortunately far more prone to rage, revenge etc. He will make his own downfall as damaging to the country as possible. (of course, if he has other mental issues and drug use, the chance of suicide would go up but right now he seems to be so completely ego centric that I suspect he will want to pull everyone down with him instead of harming himself)

[The Wizard]

Moogly the man cub is just that....he has all the characteristics of a grown up whose younger years were spent be spoiled and allowed to do whatever the little darling wanted.....his development was arrested like an alcoholic’s is when they start drinking...

He shows all the classic signs of the addict who started his addiction at a young age and never grew emotional past that starting age.....

You can see it in any alcoholic. We have a child as president, (small “p” intended)

[WashingtonSource]

From what work are you quoting? It’s very good stuff.

[nathanbedford]

Here is my take on the man's narcissism written quite some time ago which anticipates, I think, some of the discussion to follow about whether he is a sociopath or a narcissist. Now we have recently read the opinion of Ron Paul in the Wall Street Journal that Obama is not a socialist but a corporatist. I think that paradigm fits Ron Paul's libertarian views that there should be a plague on both parties, but I don't think it much matters what particular economic/political model Obama has used in the service of his narcissism because both are negative and dangerous.

Here is the reply:

"I think he is a narcissist who survives and prospers not by addressing problems but by manipulating people. Narcissists like Bill Clinton or Barack Obama are not stupid, they are wonderfully clever and exceedingly effective in reading their victims and manipulating them.

I think that Barack Obama has a worldview provided to him, posthumously, by Saul Alinsky which gives him a framework for analysis. In other words, Obama does not "analyze", rather he "sorts" and puts data into their appropriate slots provided by the philosophy of Saul Alinsky. He has learned a vocabulary which enables him to contrive a front of effectiveness, a seriousness of purpose and depth of character which is all a sham.

Think of Barack Obama as the professional coordinator at an Alinsky meeting. For those old enough, think of Barack Obama as the leader of an EST meeting of the 1970s. These experiences give him an eschatology, a vocabulary, a forensic ability to manipulate, and ego satisfaction. What was he doing as editor of the Harvard Law Review if he was not producing actual work? He was acting out as a community organizer with the shtick modified to fit a new venue. If one examines his career at every level the pattern is the same. As a constitutional law lecturer he produced no written work but he was evidently perfectly fit to the culture of the law school. In the Illinois Senate he voted present but ingratiated himself with the Daley machine. He barely passed go in the United States Senate but he knew the vocabulary and he passed muster with the likes of George Soros. In each instance, Barack Obama behaves as a narcissist, very shallow, producing no work product, but selling a great package.

If one takes away the Marxist belief system provided to him or reinforced in every step of his development from his mother to Frank Marshall Davis, to Columbia University, the Harvard Law school, William Ayres, to Reverend Wright, one is left with a truly hollow man. That is why Obama is such a dangerous ideologue. There is no Obama apart from a lifelong sham, a compensation for always being advanced beyond his competence because of his race and his ability to manipulate. He simply cannot stop the act and get off stage because there is nothing but the act.

Obama is a man without a soul and without a spiritual compass. His relationship to Reverend Wright reveals that he has no real spiritual quality to him for there could hardly be a more rank apostasy than in the church which he attended for 20 years. It has nothing to do with spirituality and everything to do with ego satisfaction. It is the opposite of the Judeo-Christian message.

Obama cannot abandon his radicalism because there is no other there there. He is a massive compensation system. His body is a life-support system for his narcissism and the narcissism is utterly dependent on the received wisdom from Saul Alinsky and the rest of them."

[Cindy]

Re post no. 22:

http://www.google.com/search?&rls=en&q=Narcissistic+leadership+often+poses+as+a+rebellion&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

[knarf]

"What about concealing him from view for awhile while lobbing dark hints of Tea Party drones threatening him and how he must be protected from them? That would activate his faltering base for awhile, further divide the country, perhaps even get racial tension to rise."

Shortly after he was "elected", I predicted this would happen.
He would invent a death threat type of attitude and disappeaer from public view, thus becoming the real "Big Brother" on large TV screens.

The TV part is a fait accompli, but he hasn't disappeared.

I guess the analysis is correct that his narcisism does not allow him to go away, but to become even more visable.

I don't know, but there's no doubt ... this man(?) should not be in a position where what he says or does has a direct affect on other peoples lives ............ including fatherhood.

(Though I'm not so sure of THAT .... Does ANYONE have pictures/news items of Mitch's pregnancies?)

[knarf]

Hokey Smoke, Bullwinkle ... !

Along with the birth certificate and school records ... where's all the pregnancy/birth data regarding his(?) daughters ???

Where's the newspaper announcements?

Are there any PG pics of Mitch ?

[skimbell]

"...Are there any PG pics of Mitch..?"

Actually, it'd be pretty hard to tell. In a lot of the pictures you see of Ms. Glamor today, she could pass for pregnant.

[Just Slightly To The Right]

Maybe this is how we get the job done.

Section 4. Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President.

Thereafter, when the President transmits to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his written declaration that no inability exists, he shall resume the powers and duties of his office unless the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive department or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit within four days to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office. Thereupon Congress shall decide the issue, assembling within forty-eight hours for that purpose if not in session. If the Congress, within twenty-one days after receipt of the latter written declaration, or, if Congress is not in session, within twenty-one days after Congress is required to assemble, determines by two-thirds vote of both Houses that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall continue to discharge the same as Acting President; otherwise, the President shall resume the powers and duties of his office.

[knarf]

HERE'S a scenerio ...

The powers that be hatch a plot to take over the world, the one, major obstacle being the United States. So they brainstorm ala "Wag The Dog" and develope the story line, search for actors and actresses and select a man, a woman and two kids, promote them as a family ... and flesh out the story line as time goes on and people ask questions.

Every question asked and answered becomes part of the bio.

NOW cue the big screen TV's in every home

I'm leaving for church and beg God's forgiveness for using His gift of my imagination immorally and improperly.

[SkipW]

Do you think that Biden would be any worse?

[BelegStrongbow]

Like I’ve been saying, this guy is Nero revivus. Just hope he doesn’t take up the lyre.

[Rappini]

I don’t know but his left eye isn’t aimed right.

[freekitty]

Oh great, we have a country being run by a druggie.

[Maverick68]

I’ve said many times: cocaine and narcissism...

[freekitty]

He was selected. It’s that simple just like McCain.

[Cheryllynn]

Can’t wait to see what this turd does to destoy the country this week.