Posted on 11/11/2013 11:28:56 AM PST by RoosterRedux
Purdum, seeking to explain Obama's dysfunction -- for which he euphemistically uses terms such as "self-sufficiency" -- points out that due to parental neglect, Obama has "always been alone." But this warrants elaboration.
Children have a strong need to bond with their parents, so strong, in fact, that if a mother to whom a toddler is attached must leave him even for a time, he may cry in distress. And when a child is continually abandoned -- as Obama was by his father and, to an extent, by a mother who left him with grandparents -- the pain can be so severe that to ensure he won't be hurt again, he will keep people at arm's length and avoid bonding in the first place...
Therapist Peter Gerlach, who specializes in "bonding wounds," had this to say about such individuals:
Such children increasingly depend on themselves to get key needs met. This becomes normal, reflexive, and unremarkable. They neither expect [n]or ask for help.They observe how loving adults and kids behave, and become skilled at sounding and acting just like them -- but they don't feel attached, empathic, or committed.
These wounded people are often very attractive socially and professionally.
Sound familiar?
Of course, this is psychoanalysis from a distance, but it certainly would explain why Obama "really doesn't like people."
It may sound old-fashioned today, but this is why parents in ages past would try to ensure that a child's prospective spouse came from a "good family." But five years ago millions of Americans refused to look beneath the wrapper and married their nation to damaged goods. And he turned out to be an abuser who will leave nothing but damaged goods in his wake.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
"Death is riding into town with armor
they've come to take all your rights!
Hail To The King!"
“Death is riding into town with armor,
They’ve come to GRANT you your rights”
right
serf
you got it.
An amazing number of tyrants in history had father issues and were either abandoned by their fathers or lost them young - Napoleon, Hitler and Stalin all come to mind.
Slippery man sometimes slip in own oil.
--Charlie Chan
When asked if he prayed often, Obama offered this curious response: "It's not formal, me getting on my knees. I have an ongoing conversation with God. Throughout the day I'm constantly asking myself questions...."
So a "conversation with God" = "asking [himself] questions"? Literally interpreted, this means Obama considers himself God. Of course, allowing for loose talk, there's no saying the president is like an Egyptian pharaoh and actually believes he is a deity. But was his comment akin to a Freudian slip? Did it reflect not only how he is at the center of his own world, but how he naturally assumes he should be the center of the world?
Daniel 8:25 And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes; but he shall be broken without hand.
Daniel 11:36-37 And the king shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done. Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers, nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all.
He’s a malignant narcissist. I don’t care how he got there, because it isn’t fixable. I just hope that the SOB actually leaves office without a fight when the time comes.
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