[StBernard] Israel Psychologists' view on Obama

[Westley Annis]

Israel Psychologists' view on Obama

 

Dr Vaknin has written extensively about narcissism.

 

'Narcissism' noun. exaggerated self-admiration; exaggerated self-love.

 

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.

 

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 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.  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 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 Castroists, 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.

 

Rena