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describes her reaction to Barack Obama’s appearance in Berlin: “After it was over I picked up
the phone and called a friend back home. ‘It’s worse than we thought,’ I told him. ‘The guy’s actually crazy.’”
Guttman was talking about candidate Obama’s agenda as he presented it that day, in which he promised to take on the terrorists in
Afghanistan, take on the drug dealers, rebuild Afghanistan, eliminate
the building nuclear threat, secure all loose nukes, decrease arsenals from another era, form a new global partnership that will end terror networks, redistribute wealth, save the planet, withdraw all troops from Iraq, keep the oceans from rising, end famine, and reduce carbon output. Most politicians would have quit after two or three such ambitious proposals.
Incredibly, there are Obamanutz among us who honestly don’t realize that Barack Obama is a narcissist of the worst kind. Most people erroneously presume that
narcissism is something akin to egomania or an unusually high sense of self-esteem. The truth is the reverse. Narcissists suffer from self-loathing, not too much self-love.
It takes a bit of narcissism to wake up in the morning and think, “Hey, I really ought
to be leader of the free world.” Coming to such a conclusion in the fourth grade is, to say the least, ambitious. Having some narcissistic traits does not a narcissist make. However, according to the
Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders, grandiosity is the most important single trait in narcissism.
Obama’s grandiosity is striking. It’s in his body language and
posturing. It’s in his derisive comments about “bitter clingers.” In office, Obama has demonstrated early on his sense of entitlement and his belief that he is above the law.
The
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM IV-TR) is the diagnostic manual used by
mental health professionals. A diagnosis of narcissism requires five out of nine characteristics. Note these traits must endure over time and must not be reactions to a particular situation or environmental stressor:
- Grandiose sense of self-importance.
- Preoccupation with fantasies of unlimited success, power, beauty, or ideal love.
- Sense of specialness, belief he can only be understood by or should associate only with other special or high-status individuals or institutions.
- Need for excessive admiration.
- Heightened sense of entitlement, leading to unreasonable expectations that others should treat him especially favorably or comply automatically with his expectations.
- Tendency to be interpersonally exploitive. A person with NPD does not hesitate in taking advantage of others to meet his own ends.
- Lack of empathy, an inability or unwillingness to recognize or identify with the feelings or needs of others.
- An envy of other people, or conversely, a belief that other people envy him.
- A tendency toward arrogant behavior or attitude.
In his
essay on Obama’s narcissism, Sam Vaknin references Obama’s haughty body language and condescending attitude. Vaknin also points out Obama’s “emotion free language.”
At the same time Bill Ayers was hijacking our schoolchildren, the popular culture was decomposing. With the advent of the Great Society and the disintegration of the nuclear family, the decline of our pop culture parallels the disintegration of our educational system.
Radicals grabbed control over both.
The entertainment industry has made pernicious narcissism seem unexceptional.
The narcissist in chief’s cavernous lack of empathy becomes more obvious as his presidency rolls on. It could hardly be called empathic behavior when Obama decided to drop all charges against Cole bomber Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri before Obama’s scheduled meeting with the families of the Cole victims.
Barack Obama lied to us throughout the campaign and continues to do so as the president. How did over half of the country not notice? The simple answer is that we are just not very good at recognizing when someone is lying to us. Our deception detection skills are inadequate.
Barack Obama is acting out his pathology at our expense. His appalling treatment of British Prime Minister Gordon Brown could be written off as another example of this administration’s incompetence. But it also looks as if Obama also has his own ax to grind with the Brits and
lacks the emotional maturity to deal with it like a grown-up.
When children experience overwhelming trauma, they protect themselves as best they can with a variety of
defense mechanisms. There is no question that life for little Barry Soetoro was traumatic, full of chaos and abandonment, as well as genuine fear. The adults in his life betrayed him and taught him hate and mistrust. Otto Kernberg, in his research on narcissism, states that it evolves as a defense against a cold and unsympathetic parent. The child withdraws part of himself from the unavailable parent and turns it back toward himself, creating a grandiose sense of self. Healthy emotional development was just not possible in young Barry’s environment.
The truth about No Drama Obama is that his early life was perpetual drama, which had to have done plenty of damage. What is most disturbing is his failure to deal with it. People do recover from early trauma and abuse, but only if they acknowledge it and allow themselves to experience the feelings that they had to block when they were too little to manage them. Eventually, the experiences have to be integrated into the adult personality; and not infrequently, abuse survivors benefit from professional support.
The current leader of the free world is not in touch with reality. The toady press gleefully accepts his fabrications and denials. And mental health professionals have shown a remarkable lack of curiosity about the mental health of the President of the United States.
It’s not in the nation’s best interest to put a narcissist in the White House. Bill Clinton’s debauchery demonstrated his willingness to put his need for narcissistic supply ahead of the well-being of the country he was hired to serve. Clinton’s narcissism was manifestly less toxic than Barack Obama’s.
For all of the narcissist’s grandiosity, he is driven by a relentless need to pursue and maintain a source of narcissistic supply. A narcissist is at his most menacing when he perceives a threat to his perpetual supply of admiration and affirmation. No drama Obama is already showing the truculence typical of narcissists when they sense a threat to supply. The same president who remains steadfast in his willingness to meet with Iran’s barbarian in chief, Mahmoud Ahmedinejad, is bleating about imagined desecration by Fox News. That would be the same network which liberal hack, Terry McAuliffe, applauded for its fair and balanced reporting during the 2008 primaries.
The narcissist in chief has been needling private citizens on talk radio and Fox News for insufficient veneration. The leader of the free world is impelled to use his standing to rebuke talk radio hosts while Iran is on fire, his economic policies are having catastrophic repercussions, and lunatics in North Korea are planning to launch a missile at Hawaii.
For the narcissist, nothing matters more than maintaining his supply. From Obama’s perspective, being chided by a cable news commentator really is a more pressing exigency than the possibility of Iran amassing nuclear weapons.
It’s no coincidence that many, if not most domestic abusers are narcissists.
Domestic violence experts concur that the most perilous time for the victim is when she endeavors to flee from her abuser. The victim’s abandonment is felt as an inexorable threat to his narcissistic supply and will evoke panic and rage.
As Obama’s poll numbers drop and continue to slide as his ruinous failures accumulate, expect his acting out to escalate. This is not the psychological profile of a guy we want as commander in chief.
Excerpted from: Obamanutz: A Cult Leader Takes the White House. Available 8/11/09, pre- order 7/24/09.
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Joytiz.com, born in Chicago, recalls when many democrats were actually normal people who were just wrong about everything. Joy holds a M.Sc. in psychology and a JD in law. She practiced law in the 1990’s but quickly grew weary of having to constantly explain the Constitution to unelected judges.
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Obama, a Narcissist?
Obama, a Narcissist? Jeezzz!!!
God Bless America!!
God Bless America!!
What's more amazing is how
What's more amazing is how the media worships the antichrist. How many times we've seen it in the news that this antichrist spends more of his White House coverage having his entourage accompanies him at McDonalds or Popeye’s Fried Chicken (I’m just guessing the names of the fast food places) instead of spending time solving at least one of the problems he promised to solve during the presidential campaign? It’s like having Parish Hilton or Lindsay Lohan for president. Naïve people flock around him yelling and shouting like the antichrist is a rock star and none of them yelled why the heck he is goofing around during work hours. It wouldn’t have mattered going through a drive through to get his food but no, that’s not good enough, he’d rather spend most of the precious time shaking people’s hands on the street as if it’s still campaigning time boosting the charge of his narcissistic battery. And why the heck a person buying cheese burger and fried chicken is in the news anyway?
Obama yesterday prefered to
Obama yesterday prefered to go out for ice cream as Iranians fighting for freedom were being beaten and killed by Islamic thugs.
its amazing 100s' 000 are protesting again, watching new vidoes on CNN right now. the Iran people are not backing down from death threats.
To freedomfighter67, Obama
To freedomfighter67, Obama likely is evil and under the control the the spirit of antichrist, he is not The Antichrist as the antichrist is or will be a gay muslim from Turkey, not a gay muslim from Kenya masquerading as an american 'christian'. Otherwise I agree with you.
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Zombie Fried Chicken, The
Zombie Fried Chicken,
The antichrist is a gay Muslim from Turkey? What the hell! That's the funniest thing I've ever heard here in FFI. HA HA HA HA!!!!!
"Barack Obama lied to us
"Barack Obama lied to us throughout the campaign and continues to do so as the president. How did over half of the country not notice? The simple answer is that we are just not very good at recognizing when someone is lying to us. Our deception detection skills are inadequate."
That's because over half a country has suddenly become very stupid and that's why there are people who are still in love with him, including the media.
In regards to Obama's lack of empathy, just take a look at what his wife did while at the University of Chicago Medical Center:
From American Thinker
The First Lady helped create a notorious program that dumped poor patients on community hospitals, yet the national media ignore the story. Imagine if her husband were a Republican.
The University of Chicago Medical Center has received a good deal of justly opprobrious press over its policy of "redirecting" low-income patients to community hospitals while reserving its own beds for well-heeled patients requiring highly profitable procedures. Substantial coverage was given to a recent indictment of the program by the American College of Emergency Physicians. ACEP's president, Dr. Nick Jouriles, released a statement suggesting that the initiative comes "dangerously close to ‘patient dumping,' a practice made illegal by the Emergency Medical Labor and Treatment Act, and reflected an effort to ‘cherry pick' wealthy patients over poor."
Oddly absent from most of the unflattering press coverage of UCMC's patient-dumping scheme is any mention of the role our new First Lady played in devising the program. A laudable exception has been the Chicago Sun-Times, which reported last August that "Michelle Obama -- currently on unpaid leave from her $317,000-a-year job as a vice president of the prestigious hospital -- helped create the program."
On the rare occasions when other "news" media have bothered to connect the Urban Health Initiative to its glamorous creator, they have attempted to whitewash this tawdry program. Typical of such disingenuous coverage was a story in the Washington Post, which described it as "an innovative program to steer the patients to existing neighborhood clinics."
But no amount of journalistic lipstick can hide the reality that Mrs. Obama's initiative is a patient-dumping scheme. Such "cherry-picking," as Dr. Jouriles accurately describes it, was, at one time, fairly common. Prestigious institutions like the University of Chicago Medical Center routinely "dumped" Medicaid, uninsured and other unprofitable patients on less mercenary community hospitals. Many patients suffered needlessly, and more than a few actually died, as the result of this practice. So, in 1986, President Reagan signed the Emergency Medical Labor and Treatment Act (EMTALA) into law. EMTALA made such "redirection" illegal, but many high profile hospitals still chafed at being forced to treat poor patients. Enter Michelle Obama, UCMC's "Vice President for Community and External Affairs."
Mrs. Obama first hatched the UCMC program as the "South Side Health Collaborative," which featured a gang of "counselors" whose job it was to "advise" low-income patients that they would be better off at other hospitals and clinics. The program was so successful in getting rid of unwanted patients that she expanded it, gave it a new name, and hired none other than David Axelrod to sell the program to the public. According to the Sun-Times, "Obama's wife and Valerie Jarrett, an Obama friend and adviser who chairs the medical center's board, backed the Axelrod firm's hiring." Axelrod helped the future First Lady formulate a public relations campaign in which the "Urban Health Initiative" was represented as a boon to the community actuated by the purest of altruistic motives.
The resultant PR campaign was a study in Orwellian audacity. Chicago's inner city residents soon began hearing that UCMC's patient dumping program would "dramatically improve health care for thousands of South Side residents" and that the medical center was generously willing to provide "a ride on a shuttle bus to other centers." Likewise, the people who ran the community hospitals to which these unwanted patients were being shuttled began to read claims in local media to the effect that the Urban Health Initiative was good for them as well. Dr. Eric Whitaker, the Blagojevich crony who succeeded Mrs. Obama as Director of the program, repeatedly assured gullible reporters that the financial impact on these hospitals would be positive: "The initiative actually is improving their bottom lines." The CFOs of those hospitals were no doubt relieved to learn that treating Medicaid and uninsured patients is profitable.
But you just can't please some people. In one of the few frank passages of the Post article, we discover that many members of UCMC's medical staff believe the program is nothing more than an "attempt to ensure that the hospital retains only affluent patients with insurance." And another association of emergency physicians has joined ACEP in denouncing the Urban Health Initiative. The Chicago Tribune reports that Dr. Larry Weiss, president of the American Academy of Emergency Medicine is unhappy about UCMC's failure to consult its own ER physicians before initiating the program: "Not including emergency-room physicians ... would be analogous to changing the way surgery is performed in an operating room without involving any surgeons." Dr. Whitaker assures us, however, that such critics are merely "opposed to change."
Presumably, he would be similarly dismissive of Angela Adams, who brought her son to the medical center's ER after his lip had been partially torn off by a pit bull. As the Tribune puts it, "Instead of rushing Dontae into surgery ... the hospital's staff began pressing her about insurance." Unfortunately for Dontae, he was covered by Medicaid. So, all he got from the UCMC emergency department was a shot, some antibiotics, and instructions to "follow up with Cook County." Angela had to take her son across town to John Stroger Hospital, where he was immediately admitted for reconstructive surgery. Like doctors Jouriles and Weiss, Angela is having trouble seeing the community benefit of the Urban Health Initiative.
Meanwhile, the program's parents, Michelle Obama and David Axelrod, have moved to Washington. As the First Lady and the President's closest advisor, they wield enormous power. Indeed, they may be the most powerful people in the Obama Administration, aside from the President himself. If these two characters were willing to betray their Chicago neighbors -- the South Side's most vulnerable citizens -- with a disgraceful program like the Urban Health Initiative, what sort of mischief will they devise for the hapless denizens of flyover country?
Come to think of it, isn't Obamacare being sold to us in pretty much the same way the Urban Health Initiative was sold to Chicago?
"There is no question that life for little Barry Soetoro was traumatic, full of chaos and abandonment, as well as genuine fear. The adults in his life betrayed him and taught him hate and mistrust."
Lets see his father left him, his mother married an Indonesian, move the kids to Indonesia, they got divorced, and his mother decided she wanted to save the world, dumped Barry with his grandparents and went globehopping.
"The narcissist in chief has been needling private citizens on talk radio and Fox News for insufficient veneration. The leader of the free world is impelled to use his standing to rebuke talk radio hosts while Iran is on fire, his economic policies are having catastrophic repercussions, and lunatics in North Korea are planning to launch a missile at Hawaii."
"For the narcissist, nothing matters more than maintaining his supply. From Obama’s perspective, being chided by a cable news commentator really is a more pressing exigency than the possibility of Iran amassing nuclear weapons."
That's why he wants to bring back the fairness doctrine and the Obama bots have been going after Rush Limbaugh.
Mr.Jah Jah. Your comment is
Mr.Jah Jah. Your comment is irrelevant and macabre (not unlike Islam itself). Why all the cutting and pasteing JAH JAH? Oh yeah... i forgot for a moment... We here regular commentators and readers at FFI know that you are just another typical Mohammedan Moron whos opinions do not hold water and who has no true thoughts of his own to share.
Maybe you should perform some more Salat (lol) JAH JAH? Maybe your Allah will guide you better (lol) and give your more goodies in paradise to boot? Now you enjoy all that Salat brother JAH JAH. I know how sincere it is.
Great article about
Great article about Mr.Barrack HUSSEIN Obama. Little Barry Soetoro certainly seems to have been deeply damaged at an early age. This guy may indeed turn out to be a catastrophic fraud. I wonder if he will go down in history as a deceitful criminal like pathetic little Muhammad of Arabia.
Excellent article. Actually,
Excellent article. Actually, the blindness of the public has been developing by intention since the 1960's. Most special interest rights groups were targeted by marxists for ideological control. (I've even heard this from a one time member of the american communist party.) If marxists expressed themselves as "communists" no one would have listened to them. Instead, they worked their way into the leadership of various advocacy groups and began conning people within the groups and changing the ideology to a socialistic one. Thus, so called "women's rights" groups could care less about the rights of conservative women, or Christian women, or women who oppose abortion, etc. All that matters is the socialist agenda as far as it can be tied to women, or Blacks, or the environment, etc.
The media and public school systems were also a primary target of marxists, just as Marx exhorted them to do. Our young people, and young voters are showing the effects of this kind of "brain washing" today.
One impact of the takeover of special interst groups is what we are seeing today in peoples' desire to see what they want in Obama, and to steadfastly ignore what they don't want to see. I must confess, I hear this the most from women. They want a "Daddy" government to take care of them.
As an example of what I have said, because of the feministas' rantings for the past 40 or so years, we now have a huge number of single women with children, with no male support of any kind in their lives. Many if not most of these women have been convinced that they don't need a man in their lives for any reason other than temporarily to get pregnant. According to the nonstop mantra of the socialist "women's rights" proselytizers, "A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle." Now feminists will go berserk at this idea, but generally women don't like risk, and most won't take risks, especially financial ones. (That's why the group called "high risk takers" is mostly younger men.) Example: Small businesses are not primarily started by women, especially single ones, not because of any "oppression" that feminists have fabricated in their own minds, but because it is very risky to start any new business, and it has the potential for severe financial hardship. That scares most women out of trying it on their own, though they will support a spouse in his efforts, if they have one.
Women, generally speaking...with some exceptions, want financial security. Nowdays this all translates into a significant number of single women, without male support in their lives, and some married women as well, wanting "Daddy" government to take care of them, no strings attached. They don't want the responsibility of dealing with an adult relationship, having to compromise, share, and to consider someone else with a different way of seeing things, and so forth. It then doesn't matter whose small business is ruined by the government takeover of our economy, nor the ruination of the free market, "Just give me what I "deserve" seems to be the new attitude for too many women today.
I say this as one who grew up around strong, hard working, productive, self reliant, morally powerful women, who believed in both freedom and responsibility. They had no use for the notion that someone else owed them a living. They freely did their share of the work and contributed to the support of their families. They spoke their minds freely and were listened to with respect for their opinions, and certainly did not consider themselves oppressed. Frankly, they were much braver than the feministas of today, who seem to be afraid of everything, while claiming to be fierce. These are the women who I admire, and I hope to see a resurgence of their ethic in the near future.
I hope that enough of our people will come to their senses, see Obama and other liberals/socialists for the con artists they are, and where all of this is heading to if we don't change our own behavior and quit voting these crazy narcisists into office.
Is Islam not an evil cult
Is Islam not an evil cult disguised as a kind and just religion...?
Is Muhammad not a DEEPLY disturbed cult leader...?
Is it not odd that so many people seem to be afraid to express themselves about these matters...?
If so what is their problem and where are they coming from...?
Is all this stuff not plainly obvious to you...?
About Obama, America and the
About Obama, America and the world.
Under a good democratic system I like to accept all manner of stupidity, corruption, deception in government, as democracy is best in control, although certainly not perfect.
Obama is elected, so the only problem I COULD have with him is his influence on the Islamic world, his defence of the free world.
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