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To: neverdem
Quin Hilyer has a better take on this in Not the American Way over at American Spectator. Obama's biggest enemy is Obama...

There is something way off balance in the character of Barack Obama. Something in the realm of zealotry, with a touch of megalomania, and perhaps an authoritarian impulse too. He combines Alinskyite tactics and outlook with an air of self-assumed moral superiority in a way that fails to respect the usual, small 'r' republican limits on American presidents. All presidents, of course, think at some level that they know best about policy choices. But almost none of them (Woodrow Wilson perhaps excepted) were so willing to disdain, in pursuit of such radical policy upheavals, such intense and overwhelming public opinion as has been evident in the current health takeover attempt.

Grandiose plans are one thing. Most presidents fall prey to them. It's another thing entirely, though, to refuse to accept the ordinary republican restraints on implementing grandiosities without public support, and furthermore to do so by A) bending existing rules; B) directly violating multiple personal pledges; C) ignoring constitutional limits; D) directly lying; and E) demanding that other politicians sacrifice their own political careers.


5 posted on 03/06/2010 1:26:11 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
This is not the way the system is supposed to work. This is not the American government we grew up with. This is not the national ethos that we love.

Yet Obama pushes on, perfectly cognizant of what he's doing, intentionally upending the American Way. This is a form of mania -- megalo- or otherwise. And, by any and all legitimate means, it must be stopped.

Thanks for your link. Check this one. I believe that it was written by a psychiatrist who uses the pen name of James Lewis.

Obama's Malignant Narcissism

25 posted on 03/06/2010 2:10:25 PM PST by neverdem (Xin loi minh oi)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

a TOUCH of megalomania???


32 posted on 03/06/2010 2:46:47 PM PST by omega4412
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Yeah, that is better. Obama is Captain Ahab.


45 posted on 03/06/2010 4:19:45 PM PST by Obadiah (Democrats and their life partners, the MSM)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
...and perhaps an authoritarian impulse too.

All liberals are closet totalitarians. Even the bleeding heart ones.

The world would be a better place if you would just do what they say.

50 posted on 03/06/2010 4:55:31 PM PST by okie01 (THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA: Ignorance on Parade)
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