I am not saying I believe this but........
Dr. Sam Vaknin is an Israeli psychologist. Interesting view on our new
president.
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.
It is no wonder that Ahmadinejad, Hugo Chavez, the Castrists, the Hezbollah,
the Hamas, the lawyers of the Guantanamo terrorists and virtually all sworn
enemies of America are so thrilled by the prospect of their man in the White
House. America is on the verge of destruction. There is no insanity greater
than electing a pathological narcissist as president.
"The best and quickest way to increase the size and power of government,
is to create a panic among the people, who will then surrender freedom and
liberty in exchange for security."
Example; Adding 40 million people to the health care system without adding
one extra doctor, nurse, or MRI tech, or MRI machine when there where other,
better solutions.
Example; Abolishing 2nd amendment rights and substituting an armed National
Civilian Militia, to what end nobody knows.
A narcissist? hmmmm
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