It sounds to me as if there is a certain confusion over harmonizing the concepts of weakness & malignancy. I.e.: the idea that to be truly malignant, a person must be strong. Nothing could be further from the truth. There is a singular ugliness about weak malignant narcissists. Their malignancy is no less than that of strong MNs, but it is by necessity slithery, slimy, conniving, underhanded, backhanded, sneaky, cunning & sometimes petty. That is why, for example, Obama has repeatedly given people he doesn’t like the middle finger, but he does it in such a way that he can deny it. It is a puerile, cowardly gesture, but nasty nonetheless.
Take the speech to the Marines Obama gave. Twice he called them “corpsemen”. People like to slam him over not knowing how to pronounce the word. Get real. He rehearses those speeches. He knew the right pronunciation. He just wanted to demean the Marines two ways: (1) by pretending he didn’t care enough to know how to pronounce what they were—what they take great pride in, & (2) by actively calling them “corpse” men: i.e.: men who makes corpses. That really encapsulates his disdain of the military—he comes to the Marines, the best of the best, & humiliates them in the lowest, snarkiest, nastiest way possible. & if anybody calls him on it, he gives that fake, sickening ‘innocent’ look & claims he knew no better.
Probably what it comes down to is how much you know about psychology. If you don’t know much, all this will seem like hyperbole. If you are very knowledgeable. you see in Obama a textbook case of Malignant Narcissism. Nor is psychology something you can learn overnight. It takes time. But people as knowledgeable as I, & some far more so, have identified Obama as a MN. Go to your favorite search engine & type in Obama malignant narcissism. You’ll see two things. Liberal sites saying it’s just hysterical conservatives resorting to hyperbole, & all the other sites explaining exactly how & why Obama fits the Malignant Narcissistic Personality Disorder to a T. Do try it. The results will be instructive.
I agree with you. Very interesting. We must take him down, b/4 he takes us down.