Well said.
He’s not going to pull off a major coup by leading from behind. Passive aggression is his style.
Another good point.
He’s probably flirting with the idea of resigning. In his mind, this would be the ultimate punishment of the American People. We don’t appreciate him—fine; he will deprive us of his unique, singular wonderfulness. Whether he’ll actually follow through is another matter.
Resigning can be taken as an an admission that he made mistakes or wasn't up for the job. And he won't do that. Is he "flirting" with the idea of resigning? It may have occurred to him but politicians don't like to do unexpected things. I don't think he seriously considered stepping down (and Hillary most likely will run -- she'll do the expected thing herself).
I don't know about the whole "malignant narcissist" thing. Politicians tend to be narcissistic -- Obama more than most. Narcissists may have grandiose self-conceptions, but they tend to be petty people who end up shooting themselves in the foot -- sabotaging themselves through their own neediness and obsessions and manipulations. Case in point: Jimmy Carter.
Wanting garden variety narcissists to be malignant or pathological narcissists is part of the meme that wants them to be Hitler or Stalin, preparing tyranny or apocalypse. That doesn't mean narcissism is a good thing, but people do tend to get carried away. Bill Clinton was a "pathological narcissist" when he was in office. Now he's a run-of-the-mill narcissist in comparison to Obama (who will be run-of-the-mill in comparison to the next presidential narcissist).
People also get caught up in words: "pathological" needs don't necessary add up to or amount to a pathology, and "narcissistic" behavior isn't always a sign of a narcissistic personality (let alone of pathological narcissism).
Malignant Narcissism is certainly an issue I can discuss. I’m an expert on the topic. But first, for the record, I don’t think Bill Clinton is merely a garden variety narcissist. He doesn’t have the same malignant streak as Obama, but he is way beyond a person who is simply so caught up in himself that he is scarcely aware of those around him. BC is a good enough pol to have trained himself to notice & pretend to care for those around him. But his self-obsession was & remains colossal. Far beyond any average, garden variety narcissist.
But back to Obama. Two points. First, he has the classic childhood of a malignant narcissist. It was a scarily changing, unfair & unloving place. For example. When SAD brought him to Indonesia, she could scarcely pawn him off onto a live-in tranny nanny fast enough. This gay man slept in Obama’s bedroom—no one disputes that report. The tranny himself related an incident in which he hit Obama hard. Obama screamed his head off, & SAD ignored him. In the tranny’s words, ‘She knew if I hit him I had a reason’.
Now this might not seem like much but it is. When a young child cries for all it’s worth, it wants its mother. When she turns a stone deaf ear to it, incalculable damage is done.
But of course SAD wasn’t through. She next dumped Obama on the grandparents while she took her daughter back to Indonesia with her. If you honestly believe this didn’t hurt you just might be a sociopath yourself. A boy needs to feel his mother loves him. He needs to know he is special in her eyes. When she as much as says, ‘I don’t want you around me, but I do want your sister’, the wound is all but irreparable.
Next we have Gramps introducing Obama to his mentor, the pedophile Frank Marshall Davis. We don’t know much about that relationship. But all you have to do is read the poem Pop to know something horrible was afoot/amiss.
The end result was that Obama dropped out of the real world with all it’s abuse, rejection & pain. [Oops; forgot to mention his father abandoned him & wanted nothing more to do with him. Add that to the witch’s brew; it’s critical.] He created an alternate reality in which he was so wonderful that everybody liked & admired him. He became, in his more-real-than-reality alternate world, the person he had never been in the real world—i.e.: the person who was too amazing, singular & wonderful to ignore, abandon or fail to love.
Which brings us to the second point: namely, that he had one helluva massive chip on his shoulder. He seriously hated the way he had been treated, & revenge upon anybody & everybody he could associate with it was as much a part of his new persona as his unique awesomeness.
It’s not hard to see this side of him. Sometimes it’s small stuff. He has a wife who suffers with weight issues. So he ‘jokes’ that you don’t want to get between Michelle & a tomale. (1) Tomales aren’t very feminine food, so it was a jab at her on that level, & (2) it depicts her as a charging rino, dangerous to anyone that gets in its path. Maybe you have to be a woman/wife to know how hurtful such a ‘joke’ can be. Or perhaps you are empathetic enough to understand regardless.
But now think back to the government shutdown. Obama went out of his way to hurt anybody & everybody he didn’t like. He chained aging veterans away from what, in some cases, was their ONLY chance to see their own memorial. To do that cost money; it didn’t save one penny. But it was pure malignancy—the type in which Obama specializes. [He did the same in many parks & other venues; he was on a punishment tear, & don’t think he wasn’t loving every minute.]
Another thing. He has gone to unbelievable extremes to humiliate & demean the military. For instance, he’ll stage a lavish vacation at the same exact time he denies our warriors in the field a hot breakfast. They get to eat cold cereal, while he spends millions relaxing in the HI surf. He does things like that relentlessly. Oh, & did you know we have a suicide EPIDEMIC in the military??? Look it up. It is real. Obama brought that about personally, & if he’s not ***loving*** it, then why is he continuing to demoralize the troops daily. [The latest: he’s converting their bases into illegal alien crash pads. The military will be conscripted into caring for the illegals. Pls don’t tell me you think this is good for the military. Nobody is that blind.]
There are so many more examples. The mean streak in Obama runs very, very deep. To cite just one more example. When his mother was on her death bed, dying of ovarian cancer, Obama didn’t go to see her. He had just released Bill Ayers’ book, Dreams From My Father, you understand. That was way more important than spending a bit of quality time with his mother toward the end of her life. Priorities, priorities.
Anyway, the bottom line is that I don’t use ‘malignant’ lightly. Obama is the very worst type of narcissist. He has an ax to grind as big as all outdoors. & grind it he does, at the expense of literally everyone around him. [& if you don’t see Obama’s betrayal of the country into the hands of foreign invaders, then what on bleeding earth in the matter with you? Bill Clinton never did anything like this. Obama is literally destroying the USA—& you see no malignancy whatsoever???]