It’s that non-threatening aspect of his personality that allowed him to be elected president in the first place, but also makes him almost totally unwilling to challenge his normal allies within the Democratic Party, even when they’re leading him off a cliff. An Obama who was more aggressive and (possibly) more willing to go against his own clique would be a better politician today, but he never would have met the threshold to be elected the first African-American president of not reminding swing voters of Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson.

The big question is if Obama loses on health care, cap-and-trade and other issues like card check, will be be willing to throw his longtime allies overboard to save his presidency, or will he bond closer with the left in his party and try to use even more hardball Chicago-style politics on his perceived enemies. Rahm Emanuel spent years working with Bill Clinton and knows “triangulation” and spent four years recruiting Blue Dog Democrats to run in swing districts to give Nancy Pelosi control of the House. So it’s not as if noone in the White House is aware of the blueprint on how to move to the middle to save your own skin, but I don’t know if Obama will be able to do it unless he’s got Emanuel and a bunch of other people providing the muscle to break out of his current ideological bind.

“But Honey, wasn’t he on just 20 minutes ago?”

“Yea, but now he’s talking about health care.”

The thing that strikes me the most is the urgency, the need to do it all right now without thinking or talking about it.

Just trust me Obama says.

Why not wait until the recession is behind us? Maybe balance the books. Reform entitlements…. and then after a lot of debate try to come up with something that most Americans are comfortable with… Or not, but at least debate the topic in an open and above board way…. But oh nooo, we have to act as if our collective hair is on fire.

That just seems a tad off putting if you know what I mean.

The situation only got worse when Obama reached his teen years. This is was the time he also realized that guilt tripped whites could be easily manipulated. Obama merely had to evolve into an “authentic” male of color and the rewards would be mind boggling. He would barely have to do any work whatsoever to get so much in return. The hurt and subconsciously fearful young man would now have the opportunity to stick it good and hard to those who somehow oppressed him. Needless to add, the politically correct culture Obama inhabited told him the white man was ultimately responsible for his predicament.

We are moving towards Fascism—but it will not be one dominated by the so-called multi-cultural elite. It will instead be lead by white extremists. They will not hesitate to torture and murder anyone deemed the enemy. Ironically, we will be among their primary victims. Center-right individuals will be blamed for being too understanding and compromising.

… can develop from an impairment in the quality of the person’s relationship with their primary caregivers, usually their parents, in that the parents were unable to form a healthy, empathic attachment to them. This results in the child conceiving of themselves as unimportant and unconnected to others. The child typically comes to believe they have some personality defect that makes them unvalued and unwanted.

This is quoted from Wikipedia’s discussion of narcissistic personality disorder. Another part says:

NPD is considered to result from a person’s belief that they are flawed in a way that makes them fundamentally unacceptable to others.[8] This belief is held below the person’s conscious awareness; such a person would typically deny thinking such a thing, if questioned. In order to protect themselves against the intolerably painful rejection and isolation that (they imagine) would follow if others recognized their supposedly defective nature, such people make strong attempts to control others’ view of them and behavior towards them.

More than anything else, I suspect Obama is deeply (subconsciously) fearful.
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Does he really command enough influence to scold America into fully embracing a huge state, high tax, zero growth society when people all over the rest of the world have finally seen his rubbish for what it is, a dangerous pipe dream?

As you suggest,doting mothers of only sons do often create men with huge egos. Winston Churchill springs immediately to mind.

But contemplation on the source of Churchill’s optimism leads immediately to contemplation on Hitler’s blind faith. Hitler’s mad ego was fueled by adoring crowds and cocaine.

Confidence-wise I suspect Obama is closer to Hitler than to Churchill. Though the two are vastly different, they are both of them, unlike Churchill, socialists and statists. The core appeal of both is racial. And though contemporary Chicago isn’t Berlin in the Thirties, there is a certain symmetry in their political methods. Obama uses ACORN like a heterosexual and unarmed SA. Last but not least, both share a special hatred for the that towering and incomparable hero of Western civilization, Winston Churchill.

Shallow pop-psychology from a remote vantage? Absolutely. But we are only at the very beginning of the tragic national drama known as Barack Obama. Before it’s over we will to see the mask of aplomb slip and glimpse the other side of this freakishly sunny personality. The secret cigarette smoking is merely a tiny hint of the raging tension beneath the calm surface.

But the source of such blind confidence is anybody’s guess. My own reference to obama’s what-me-worry? megalomania is Bernie Madoff.

Our tragic national drama has barely begun. At some point