Posted on 02/20/2009 7:51:48 AM PST by coffee260
Dr. Vaknin has written extensively about narcissism.
Dr. Vaknin States "I must confess I was impressed by Sen. Barack Obama from the first time I saw him. At first I was excited to see a black candidate. He looked youthful, spoke well, appeared to be confident - a wholesome presidential package. I was put off soon, not just because of his shallowness but also because there was an air of haughtiness in his demeanor that was unsettling. His posture and his body language were louder than his empty words. Obama's speeches are unlike any political speech we have heard in American history. Never a politician in this land had such quasi "religious" impact on so many people. The fact that Obama is a total incognito with zero accomplishment, makes this inexplicable infatuation alarming. Obama is not an ordinary man. He is not a genius. In fact he is quite ignorant on most important subjects."
Barack Obama is a narcissist.
Dr. Sam Vaknin, the author of the Malignant Self Love believes "Barack Obama appears to be a narcissist." Vaknin is a world authority on narcissism. He understands narcissism and describes the inner mind of a narcissist like no other person. When he talks about narcissism everyone listens. Vaknin says that Obama's language, posture and demeanor, and the testimonies of his closest, dearest and nearest suggest that the Senator is either a narcissist or he may have narcissistic personality disorder (NPD). Narcissists project a grandiose but false image of themselves. Jim Jones, the charismatic leader of People's Temple, the man who led over 900 of his followers to cheerfully commit mass suicide and even murder their own children was also a narcissist. David Koresh, Charles Manson, Joseph Koni, Shoko Asahara, Stalin, Saddam, Mao, Kim Jong Ill and Adolph Hitler are a few examples of narcissists of our time. All these men had a tremendous influence over their fanciers. They created a personality cult around themselves and with their blazing speeches elevated their admirers, filled their hearts with enthusiasm and instilled in their minds a new zest for life. They gave them hope! They promised them the moon, but alas, invariably they brought them to their doom. When you are a victim of a cult of personality, you don't know it until it is too late. One determining factor in the development of NPD is childhood abuse.
"Obama's early life was decidedly chaotic and replete with traumatic and mentally bruising dislocations," says Vaknin. "Mixed-race marriages were even less common then. His parents went through a divorce when he was an infant (two years old). Obama saw his father only once again, before he died in a car accident. Then his mother re-married and Obama had to relocate to Indonesia , a foreign land with a radically foreign culture, to be raised by a step-father. At the age of ten, he was whisked off to live with his maternal (white) grandparents. He saw his mother only intermittently in the following few years and then she vanished from his life in 1979. She died of cancer in 1995".
One must never underestimate the manipulative genius of pathological narcissists. They project such an imposing personality that it overwhelms those around them. Charmed by the charisma of the narcissist, people become like clay in his hands. They cheerfully do his bidding and delight to be at his service. The narcissist shapes the world around himself and reduces others in his own inverted image. He creates a cult of personality. His admirers become his co- dependents. Narcissists have no interest in things that do not help them to reach their personal objective. They are focused on one thing alone and that is power. All other issues are meaningless to them and they do not want to waste their precious time on trivialities. Anything that does not help them is beneath them and do not deserve their attention.
If an issue raised in the Senate does not help Obama in one way or another, he has no interest in it. The "present" vote is a safe vote. No one can criticize him if things go wrong. Those issues are unworthy by their very nature because they are not about him. Obama's election as the first black president of the Harvard Law Review led to a contract and advance to write a book about race relations.
The University of Chicago Law School provided him a lot longer than expected and at the end it evolved into, guess what? His own autobiography! Instead of writing a scholarly paper focusing on race relations, for which he had been paid, Obama could not resist writing about his most sublime self. He entitled the book Dreams from My Father.
Not surprisingly, Adolph Hitler also wrote his own autobiography when he was still nobody. So did Stalin. For a narcissist no subject is as important as his own self. Why would he waste his precious time and genius writing about insignificant things when he can write about such an august being as himself? Narcissists are often callous and even ruthless. As the norm, they lack conscience. This is evident from Obama's lack of interest in his own brother who lives on only one dollar per month.
A man who lives in luxury, who takes a private jet to vacation in Hawaii, and who has raised nearly half a billion dollars for his campaign (something unprecedented in history) has no interest in the plight of his own brother. Why? Because, his brother cannot be used for his ascent to power.
A narcissist cares for no one but himself. This election is like no other in the history of America . The issues are insignificant compared to what is at stake. What can be more dangerous than having a man bereft of conscience, a serial liar, and one who cannot distinguish his fantasies from reality as the leader of the free world? I hate to sound alarmist, but one is a fool if one is not alarmed. Many politicians are narcissists. They pose no threat to others...They are simply self serving and selfish.
Obama evidences symptoms of pathological narcissism, which is different from the run-of-the-mill narcissism of a Richard Nixon or a Bill Clinton for example. To him reality and fantasy are intertwined. This is a mental health issue, not just a character flaw. Pathological narcissists are dangerous because they look normal and even intelligent. It is this disguise that makes them treacherous.
Today the Democrats have placed all their hopes in Obama. But this man could put an end to their party. The great majority of blacks have also decided to vote for Obama. Only a fool does not know that their support for him is racially driven. This is racism, pure and simple. The downside of this is that if Obama turns out to be the disaster I predict, he will cause widespread resentment among the whites.
The blacks are unlikely to give up their support of their man. Cultic mentality is pernicious and unrelenting. They will dig their heads deeper in the sand and blame Obama's detractors of racism. This will cause a backlash among the whites.
The white supremacists will take advantage of the discontent and they will receive widespread support. I predict that in less than four years, racial tensions will increase to levels never seen since the turbulent 1960's.
Obama will set the clock back decades... America is the bastion of freedom. The peace of the world depends on the strength of America , and its weakness translates into the triumph of terrorism and victory of rogue nations.
He´s so narcissistic that he can´t even impress himself because he´s so amazing (think about that for a while…I´m brilliant).
Turn on CNN! Obama at the White House with No flag meeting the Mayors and sounding like Hitler.
“Barack Obama is a narcissist” Let us not forget he is also a racist.
You’re right on target but what do we do about it?
Hmmmm?
He is destroying our country.
Anyone who’s never had a real job and wrote two books about a completely undistinguished life has just the right qualifications to become a senator and then president.
It appears to be our lot in life that the 2006 movie “Idiocracy” was actually a documentary.
The Administration is a dream come true for liberals who have lived their lives free to say and believe all the crazy crap they FEEL because they never believed they would come true. It’s easy to expand those fantasies for decades if you can relax in the knowledge that the nation is going to stop you from carrying them out.
I think this administration is actually going to scare a number of liberals away because they are now forced to live in that world they only fantasized about, and they see how truly frightening it is.
But it won’t matter, because the people they thought would love them are no liberals like they are, but anarchists, who want to tear down those institutions and that society liberals played in freely.
Conservatives are like dad—you can call him names under your breath, talk him down to your friends, wish him dead when you’re angry—but you’d be on the street without him working 60+ hours a week to keep a roof over your head.
Liberals thought they would always have that buffer, that “dad” to protect them from themselves. They’ve been free bitching and complaining because they knew they would always be children protected by those they despise.
Now that all that is changing, they are betting that “the poor” and “the little guy” and “minorities” with whom they claimed solidarity will be their pals because, you know, *We* liberals were in the struggle with you guys, speaking truth to power, right, right?
The deafening silence they get in response from those who only want them the way a mugger wants a victim will be the beginning of awareness for those of them who are still capable of thought.
This is the world this self-obsessed “community activist” who has never managed anything is creating.
He had about 69 million enablers. They are a problem. 0bama could choke on a dumpling and be gone, but the people who put him where he is, will keep doing damage to America until it collapses.
Very dangerous.
My son told me to watch that movie. He said it was pretty dumb, but it has a strange type of reality to it.
Yep, it does. Even had a Pelosimobile in it.
I agree. It’s clear now that there is a pattern of race-baiting. Does anyone think Holder accidentally said what he did? That Sharpton just happened to find racism in a cartoon, when there was none (except to the racist himself)? More to come.
You mean it took a PhD to figure that out? ;>)
“Barack Obama is a narcissist”
WHAT??!?!??? I’m SHOCKED, I say... SHOCKED!!
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Got this as an email yesterday. You can see that it’s true just by watching how he reacted to last week’s GOP criticism of his stimulus bill. He thinks he’s a god.
This is the real problem, not one narcissist but the tens of millions of people so weak in their own character that they are "like clay in his hands". Get rid of Obama and these weak people remain thirsting for their next "leader".
That's one of the best and most insightful rants I've read here in a while.
I've always had that thought - what if the radical libs got everything they wanted and all the Christians, police, military, and hard working family-oriented 'Eurocentric' types just went away? Nothing would work and all the freedom and order they take for granted would dissolve. Also, it's very telling that most radicals seem to hate their father and, sadly, much of our Dear Leader's voting base seems to not have fathers. The (in my view, purposeful) destruction of the American family has led us to where we are.
I said this last May. He is also a pathological liar which goes hand in hand with narcissism.
Usually, they lie so frequently and often, they forget what they have lied about.
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