President Weirdo
I don’t know about the rest of you, but I found Anne Kornblut’s report in the Washington Post — “Obama’s 17-minute, 2,500-word response to woman’s claim of being ‘over-taxed’” — to be deeply disturbing. Although I disagree with most of Barack Obama’s policies, I took no pleasure in seeing a political opponent wound himself by talking on and on to the point of agitating his audience. The situation is much too grave for that. This is our country — all of us, Republican, Democrat and Independent. And I am now convinced of what I have long suspected — the United States has a president with a serious personality disorder.
Now I admit I am not a professional psychiatrist or psychologist, nor do I see myself even remotely as a paragon of mental health, but I have made a decent living for over thirty years as a fiction writer whose stock in trade is perforce studying people and this is one strange dude. He makes Richard Nixon seem almost normal.
I first began worrying about this during the Reverend Wright affair. Obama insisted, as we all recall, that he did not know the reverend’s views even though the then candidate had spent twenty years in his church, been married by him, had his children baptized by him and taken the inspiration for his book from Wright. Now most educated people would have a pretty good idea about Wright after five minutes, let alone twenty years. The reverend is not a subtle man. Yet Obama told us he didn’t know.
Was the candidate lying or was he just so dissociated from reality that he didn’t see what was in front of his eyes? Or perhaps a little of both? Whatever the conclusion, it is not a happy one. The same man is before us now — only we’re not in the midst of a campaign. We have no way out. He is leading our nation during a time of economic crisis with a world changing so rapidly that our heads spin.
Remember: “Kroft to Obama: Are you punch-drunk?”
There is a pathology to Barry that is definitely cracking through the surface in frightening ways. We’ve got someone who has serious mental issues running our country into the ground. Unfit indeed.
unfit indeed.
http://www.faithfreedom.org/obama.html
http://www.westernjournalism.com/?page_id=2697
Yep! I’m glad that link is still available because it’s right on the moula (now more than every for newbies).
O’bumbler is also O’stumbler too:
Obama Trips the Light Fantastic
OBAMA FALLS ON CAMERA!
The MSM would be all over that if it were Big, Bad BUUUUUUUUUUUUUUSH!
I blogged about Roger Simon’s column here: http://clarespark.com/2010/04/05/is-potus-crazy/. I tried to unite the competing narratives offered by Roger, Victor Davis Hanson, and Glenn Beck and others, arguing that Obama’s personality disorder (that may be malignant narcissism) fit the requirements of the Democratic base, also its post-60s aspirations for a grand, apocalyptic transformation. But if the diagnosis is correct, Obama could be ever more paranoid and dangerous to our country.
Nothing TOTUS would not cure. It’s like weaning a baby too early, he is weaned from TOTUS too early. I hereby plea and beg the American people to let him have his TOTUS back.
Beat me to it. Yes, bring back TOTUS.
TOTUS prevaricates constantly, but at least sounds good doing it.
Roger,
You’ve hit the nail on the head. This is truly frightening. God help us.
As frightening as he is, even more frightening is how gullibly and readily our fellow citizens elected and venerated this man about whom they knew nothing. Or worse, about whom they did not want to know anything beyond the constructed image presented to them by the campaign and its media publicists. The public elected someone without performing the most rudimentary due diligence on him. To me, that is the truly scary part.
The scary part indeed, Victor.
Excellent point.
I guess you haven’t had any experience with con artists – Obama is the typical con man, running a rather large-scale scam.
I think that Roger is correct in sensing that there is something deeply wrong with Obama’s psyche. He could have a very serious narcissistic personality disorder, or something worse. I am not a psychiatrist either, but am an historian who has been inside the heads of some very weird powerful figures in literary and political history. A narcissist is often a confidence-man: it is part of the grandiosity to believe that you can put one over on anyone with your charisma. I wouldn’t be surprised if whatever he has (and these diagnoses, even when made by professionals, are historically conditioned) removes him so far from reality that he is as dangerous as Roger Simon and other readers fear.
“It also was a demonstration that at heart he does not believe his own ideas.”
Barack Obama is an arrogant narcissist who considers himself to be self-sacrificing and brilliant. Any obstacles in his way are only temporary and he will eventually work everything out. It has dawned on me that Obama probably doesn’t even spend five minutes a week worrying about the non-stop growth of the national debt. He can perform something akin to magic and solve all of our troubles.
Obama’s ego is mostly out of whack because he has never truly earned anything in his entire life. This is a man who gotten a lot in return for doing next to nothing. He is a master at exploiting white guilt. John F. Kennedy had to struggle much harder to become president even with his enormous economic advantages. I am unaware of any elected president in our nation’s history who did so little to earn the position. Obama should still be a mere state senator in Illinois. Our present occupant in the White House also benefited from the con job perpetuated by the Ivy League schools. Few Americans are aware that the academic standards of Columbia and Harvard have become something of a joke in the last some forty years. Only the hard science credentials are usually worthy of respect. Postmodernist idiots now dominate the softer disciplines.
David, Roger publicly agrees with you after a year of your warnings.
I agreed with you all along, but I still can’t see a breakdown that can’t get covered up.
If you still believe Obama will crack, what will signify that it already happened?
Barack Obama’s psychological difficulties are becoming more obvious to everyone who bothers to pay attention. Millions have read the Drudge Report headline story. It is next to impossible to hide something like this in an era of instant communications. The red state voters who voted for Obama in 2008 have already abandoned him. Purple state voters wariness is increasingly growing.
The real question is whether we can stop Obama before he does something really insane. It is most disturbing that he can get to the red phone.
What we can do is isolate his agenda through Senate action. There is no need to allow him anything other than recess appointments to the judiciary. There is no more important election in my lifetime than the one coming in November 2010. Without a cooperative Congress, I believe Obama will self destruct before our very eyes.
To me Obama has always been a “phony”, I couldn’t understand why people (MSM)ignored his dubious Chicago friends and acquaintances and not so impressive history. At best I thought he was a lucky con-artist at worst a tool of the far left mixed up with some Chicago criminals. That he is a empty shell is obvious and his handlers are no better. Anyway, I recommend a 40 year old book “The Kennedy Promise” by Henry Fairlie. It is a brilliant book about Kennedy politics and it is interesting to read as the Obama story unfolds!
Obama has been through several bouts of depression over the years.
His sister worried that he would end up homeless at one point, apparently.
As regards “temperament’ — didn’t armchair general Colin Powell deem Barry’s “temperament” as one of the reasons he was endorsing him?
Roger, you have addressed here what i consider to be the most dangerous aspect of this disastrous Presidency: the holder of the highest office in the greatest ntion in the world is beyond weird – he is pathological, megalomaniacal liar. of small intellect and of no accomplishment, who has been manipulated by a malign cadre of doctrinaire radical socialist in the greatest sting to ever come out of Chicago.
It is inevitable that he will self-destruct: his team is dedicated to ramming as much destructive legislation through as possible in two years, to cripple our system to the degree that reversal will be imposibnle;
What puzzles me is that, with your background in left-wing politics, you are unable to identify his Communist roots and commitment.
Perhaps it is not communist ideology that the country needs to be made aware of but a Statist idealism that accepts no bounds.
“What puzzles me is that, with your background in left-wing politics, you are unable to identify his Communist roots and commitment.”
Barack Obama is not a hard core Communist. He prefers to “nudge” people rather than kill them. This is not a man who enjoys violence. Obama is mostly a Progressive in the tradition of Woodrow Wilson and Franklin D. Roosevelt. Our current president adamantly believes that he is a benevolent and sophisticated individual who attended the best schools—and therefore should tell the common folk what to do for their own benefit.
I’m not so sure he’s not an avowed Marxist – communist – when push comes to shove. I think the reason he prefers to “nudge” people rather than kill them, as you put it, is that he knows that if he tried killing people at this point neither the militia (being the body of the people in arms) nor the professional military would stand with him. I think it was Lenin who talked about emphasizing the use of peaceful means when in a minority, and using force when in the majority. Obama is a well-enough-schooled radical (from mentor Frank Marshall Davis on through Rev. Wright and Bill Ayers) to realize that even though he won the election he’s not strong enough yet to institute a broad police state. It’s around the edges, though, with both New Black Panther and SEIU thuggery and now moving the FBI onto the Hutaree militia types (they may actually be subversive, I don’t know, but you can be he wouldn’t let the FBI crack down on an equivalent leftist militia).
I see no evidence whatsoever indicating that Obama loves violence. Nonetheless, our country is slowing evolving towards full-blown Communism. We are no more than ten years away if the Democrats stay in power. Republicans are often hypocritical, stupid, lustful, and inclined to spend taxpayer’s money to bribe a few voters. And yet, they are not inclined to be totalitarian. It is just not in their nature.
You probably regard his statements telling his supporters to get in their faces (confront opponents) and if they bring a knife, we bring a gun as merely rhetorical, I regard them as indicative of his frame of reference. He has no personal history of violence, or, indeed, of having seen or dealt with it. However, his close friends, Ayers and Dohrn, were actively engaged in revolutionary violence, and this seems to have troubled him not a jot. Remember his personal associations with Marxists which go back to his youth (Frank Marshall Davis) and include intentionally seeking out radicals and Marxists at Occidental, apparent radical involvement at Columbia, 20+ years with Rev. Wright, who preaches acceptance of violence towards the US, and his friendship with the radical Palestinian professor. From that sort of circle, I think the very least that one can say is that Obama has not provided any evidence that he is at all uncomfortable with others using radical or revolutionary violence. After all, Lenin did not personally murder Kulaks, but he was happy enough about having incited other to do so to that his guffaw at the thought of those massacred made my [Bertrand Russell's] blood run cold.
Do you, David, love violence?
It is not “communist” to love violence. Communists use any means to achieve their ends; they are not against violence, and when it is the best means available they embrace it wholeheartedly, but that doesn’t mean they “love violence”. They love power, and will take it by any means. Read the works of Frank Marshall Davis and Saul Alinsky if you want to know where Obama is coming from.
Obama and his buddies would kill (these same types of people do it everyday in parts of the world where they can get away with it even if only for a while, people are still dead) if they could but at the moment they can’t get away with it. Being the cowards that they are they will hide in plain sight as long as they can while doing the worst they possibly do which should already be apparent to even the daft among us. They seek a crisis for an excuse and we must be eternally vigilant in not giving them one while exposing and resisting Obama and his cronies at every turn.
Is Obama sick? Certainly. If he were anyone else, say a republican the cries for replacement would be deafening. Do I have any sympahthy whatsoever for him? None whatsoever. There are consequences for all actions and Obama is not immune from Gods laws of consequence. Neither is anyone else. Patience is a very necessary virtue right now for those want to see sanity restored and Leviathan turned back.
Jeffrey sez: “…If he were anyone else, say a republican the cries for replacement would be deafening….” ***** Indeed, I would go one further and say “If he were anyone else, say a WHITE man, the cries for replacement would be deafening. It’s not publicly uttered, but one of the major reasons BO was chosen by his handlers – e.g. Soros, Saudis, et al – was because he’s Black. They waited all these years for the perfect black man who could ruin America with no resistance – a smooth-talker and not too dark, else he wouldn’t get elected (evidenced by Sharpton and Jackson). They tasked BO with taking down America and installing communism/socialism/Marxism — and they knew the only person who could succeed would be a Black man. Why? Because, no one would dare to push back on a Black man when he did his dirty deeds – because they knew they would be called a racist. No white man could possibly get away with what BO has. We would immediately demand that he knock off the Marxist crap! But, with a Black man, we are intimidated, as we stand by, wringing our hands and watching him destroy our country – all for the simple fear of being accused of racism. Look what happens if anyone ever complains about BO or attempts to push back…they jump on the race card and throw it at us. Obama’s America-hating handlers were extremely smart and perceptive when they picked a black man to “fundamentally transform America”. BTW, BO knows this, and takes full advantage of the race card. There were many, many suckers – half the voters – who cooperated, and who continue to cooperate, with their plan.
I think you are mistaken. I think he’d give the orders in an instant if he thought he could get away with it.
I think there is no Obama without the ideology. He was born of the ideology. He was born as a token of his mother’s radicalism. He was her badge of honor for rejecting American cultures and values. He was then shoved off on other mentors and family members who only viewed him as a vehicle for their own radicalism and anti-Americanism. Without the ideology, there is no there there. whether he truly believes it or not, who knows. But if he were ever to abandon it, he’d break apart. It’s all he’s ever had.
Interesting take on The One. I believe he IS a hard-core Marxist. He is early in his national career. As a senator (state or federal) he would not dare incite violence, as it would hinder his advancement to the WH, to say the least. But, at the risk of sounding paranoid, I do believe he has statist tendencies to the extent that he would not be above ordering military assaults on US citizens within our own borders. I have nothing to back this up, other than a gut feeling. I believe we are in for some difficult times with this man-child.
And besides all that other stuff Barry has a really nice speaking voice which he himself enjoys hearing. A lot. Used to have a co-worker like that.
Obama really is the emperor that has no clothes. He had a modern education, which really isn’t much of an education. It is difficult to fit in Francis Bacon’s essay ‘Of Discourse’ into today’s curricula, what with all the diversions and distractions offered by a popular culture that is becoming less and less literate and ‘cultured’.
Obama has become like a song that has been #1 for months, and now, people have heard it play so much that they’re getting sick of hearing it; and the more they think about the lyrics the more they see them as inane and inappropriate for the children that are meant to hear them.
Roger, I don’t know if those of us in Israel will still be around in 2012, no thanks to POTUS himself. Unlike American Jews, our very real enemies are not stupid, and they know which way the wind blows with Obama…
They are licking their lips and smell blood.
You want to talk psychopathology Roger? Denial? Evasion? Wilful ignorance, cognitive dissonance, coping mechanisms and all kinds of rationalisations? How about North American JINOs? Obama’s got nothing on them, or let me put it this way, what’s their excuse?
Larry in Tel Aviv.
Quite a few of our fellow Israelis are not much different than our American brethren. No shortage of denial, evasion, rationalization, we have our fair share of airheads & mush-for-brains liberals. Our universities are chock full of wacko leftists, our media makes me cringe. And our politicians? Just calling them spineless is an understatement, and I include Netanyahu in this collection of appeasers.
yeah I know Terry. we have discussed this before in fact. You don’t need to tell me about the mush-for-brain liberals in Israel, the moronic self-loathing and they have less excuse for being so super-stupid. Some of them are members of my extended family. I wouldn’t group Netanyahu with them, however he is capitulating I agree. It’s easy to criticise though, hardly any Jews (even the sensible ones) understand the pressure he is under, he has the whole world against him, and the US administration.
What could you and I do in his place? We need to be able to tell Obama to get stuffed, and in order to do that we need to be independent from America. Hardly any Jews in Israel or in the Diaspora sense this desperate need to be free of America and the US’s endless know-nothing meddling, her desperation to appease the Arab and Muslim world and offer us as the sacrificial lamb. The Obama is to Israel what Chamberlain was to European Jews. So the problem doesn’t just lie with Netanyahu (who is better than most), but a deeper apathy and denial in Ha’Aretz. We need to understand there are no free lunches, but we have grown lazy and don’t want to see what stares us in the face.
Larry in Tel Aviv.
We have to distinguish between the looney-left mentally disturbed Leftists & just plain liberals, the ”reasonable” & very respectable ”useful idiots” – it’s not the same phenomenon, let’s say the difference between Haaretz & The Jerusalem Post.
I think it’s very much the same as in the US – most Jews who voted for Obama are not far left ideologues, just liberals fooled by a con man.
Don’t ask me what I’d do in Netanyahu’s place – I’m a recent immigrant to Israel from an Arab/Muslim country & I not only have a different understanding of our nasty neighbors but I have few scruples about how to treat them. If Netanyahu follows Obama’s lead & tries to placate this creep, we are lost.
“most Jews who voted for Obama are not far left ideologues, just liberals fooled by a con man.”
this may still be true of most Democrat voters, who are too lazy, hidebound and ill-informed to have noticed that their party is no longer liberal but raidcal Marxist. Unfortunately, the resulting political consequences are the same as if they had noticed.
As an American Jew, I wish I could argue with you. I did not vote for Obama. Obama scared the living crap out of me. I argued with many Jews here, including my wife. To no avail.
However, they are coming around. I’ve had many “I told you so” conversations with my wife, for example, and she is acknowledging how wrong she was. She’s terrified for both the U.S., and for Israel. I recently presented a scenario of Romney vs. Obama to her, and she really struggled with it. She’s still very socially liberal, and that drives much of her decision making process. She’s willing to admit that Romney’s not a huge SoCon, and would seriously consider voting for him. That’s an enormous admission for her to make.
My rabbi has also made private rumblings to me that he’s seriously dissatisfied with Obama. As have others in my community. But it is going to take many open eyes to make a difference.
I hope it is not too late. I hope that we, as a nation, still have an opportunity to reverse the horrifying policies Obama is bringing forth.
….and there you have it. your ” Rabbi has private rumblings”.
they should be public rumblings ..that is the problem. tell him to grow a pair !
Sorry, but I would try a new model [wife].
Did you pick your own handle or has that been your nickname since kindergarten?
Israel shall never be destroyed. The Lord shall see to that. Many Jews shall perish as He purges all wickedness from them, but out of that fiery Tribulation, Holy Israel shall be saved.
Spot on, but why are the American Jews so enthralled with Obama?
This is a long essay, published a few months before the election, but worth the read. It reveals quite a bit ad is chilling in its analyses of the Precedent.
http://www.faithfreedom.org/obama.html
J.J. thanks for posting that. I read the whole thing through, carefully.
I think the most important thing to recognize from the essay is how best to respond to such developments. By “such developments” I am referring to the cults described in the essay that were raised by various bad guys at one time or another ranging from Jim Jones to Mao, Stalin, and Hitler.
It certain isn’t an easy question to address while at the same time it may be of the utmost importance
We must recognize that it is futile to fight emotion with facts or logic and as the essay so aptly points out cult leaders build their cults using emotions and co-dependency.
in case anyone here would like to read the article we are discussing here is the link: http://www.faithfreedom.org/obama.html
You might want to have a look at Richard Fernandez’s piece on the front page.
Ali Sina’s analysis is fascinating. I have one small disagreement though (and it may just be a difference of “degrees”). I have felt for a long time that the “Narcissist” label is close, but slightly off for the POTUS, and that is why people are still confused by him. I think the more accurate depiction for him is what some psychiatrists have termed “social Psychopath” (non-violent Psychopaths). Narcissists and social Psychopaths share many of the same characteristics, but there are slight differences.
I have never felt that the POTUS has been strong at faking empathy (except to his true believers) the way a Narcissist can; I don’t think he could do “I feel your pain” ala Clinton and be convincing to many. The POTUS’ style is much more distant and colder- what his supporters called “cool, calm and collected”-especially in personal interactions in non-speech settings, and his pulse rate is very low. There are many other slight differences…
Those interested may want to check out Robert D. Hare, Ph.D and Paul Babiak’s harrowing description of these individuals in the great book, “Snakes in Suits: When Psychopaths Go to Work” and see if you agree with me:
http://www.amazon.com/Snakes-Suits-When-Psychopaths-Work/dp/0060837721
Excellent point. The sociopath, when telling a lie, at the moment of the telling believes the lie to be the truth. Because the narcissist IS the world, then whatever he says or does IS the only truth there is. The universal quality of truth doesn’t appear to him, because there is no universe (at least not one that is real) outside himself. Clinton really did feel their pain at the moment he said that.
Obama is a cold manipulator. His truth may be only himself, but I still think it is possible he thinks the truth is the amalgam of radical ideas that form his catechism. Any deception in service of that “truth” is merely a tactical ploy to enact that “truth” into reality. It’s like the Muslim radical who says it’s OK to lie to the infidel.
This is increasingly visible in his eyes, his facial expressions, his cold and cynical contempt for everyone. The mask has mostly come off now. Only the profoundly, willfully blind can fail to see it now. Which, terrifyingly, is still 44% of the country.
I completely agree, Victor. I hope more people will understand this subtle difference because it is crucial one. As you note, there is a calculated “manipulative” quality to the Psychopath/social Psychopath that likely may not exist in the Narcissist. One almost gets a sense that the Psychopath enjoys being deceptive and conning people, while the Narcissist may be clueless to his contradictory statements because he is simply seeking that most important thing to him-the best avenue to getting more attention and using whatever tools he needs at that given moment to obtain it.
Even more chilling: Those who I trust say that in a confrontation between a Psychopath and a Narcissist, the Psychopath will easily outwit (and possibly even destroy in the right circumstances) the Narcissist- this is why a two-term President like Clinton advising his wife’s run was completely outgunned by a man with basically no real political experience. This is why the Psychopaths are so terrifying- their actions are so cold and ruthless, and so much of what they do is completely hidden from almost everybody, unlike the attention-seeking Narcissist (this is why everything that really goes in this administration happens behind closed doors).
I hope people will stop trying to “hold him to his promises” because it is completely futile with social Psychopaths- you have to assume up front that whatever he says (especially if it is something that is not in his own interests) is a deliberate lie to manipulate you in some fashion, and then anticipate what he is really planning to do, and act on that. As for the 44% that still supports him- there will always be clueless people, but I can’t help but think that he is probably doing something illegal that will eventually come to light if the right people know where to search, or that he will have some unwarranted public rage attack at some point that will stun people that still think he’s this nice, charming fellow and the mask will drop.
If the Dems lose control of either house of Congress in November, we will see the rage attacks. We will see a legislation dump in November before the new Congress comes in, when all the Dems voted out will have nothing to lose. And then we will see two years of vindictive ideology- and contempt-induced acting out. We are seeing that even now, after their “victory” on the health care bill. Obama sounds like Bill Maher now in his speeches. Any0one who disagrees him is beneath contempt, worthy only of ridicule and dismissal. The spectacle we are abot to witness, as Obama comes to realize he no longer has anything to gain by hiding his true face, and is free to act out his psychopathology, will be unlike anything the nation has witnessed before.
Not sure about Obama yet. It took him several months to get off the ground. He inherited the nightmare(s) of a totally collapsed economy, mass corruption, massive unemployment two wars and failed health care system. However, he has yet to fix all those problems. And he only has five or six years to finish doing it. Will he succeed? The verdict is still out on that one. As I am sure you would agree.
And YOU know that THOUSANDS are DYING in the time it takes you to write your posts too dont you PC after all you told it was so in a previous post. So that being the case why should we take any notice of anything someone as obviously deranged as you are writes.
The verdict on you came in a long time ago PC and its not good reading for you. Deluded moonbat was the KINDEST part.
No, ace, that isn’t going to work.
The economy had NOT “totally collapsed”, it had entered a steep recession, but it was pretty far from collapsing.
If it collapses, you’ll know it.
There was a sharp spike in unemployment, which is still with us, despite the Alleged Hawaiian’s efforts.
Obama really inherited only one war, since GWB had effectively already won the war in Iraq, (in spite of Obama and his allies’ best efforts to sabotage us there).
And neither did we have anything even remotely near a failed health care system. Quite to the contrary, the vast majority of us had health care, and polled as fairly satisfied with it. These are the people who are swelling the ranks of the TEA Party.
Mass Corruption? And Obama has addressed this exactly HOW?
Oh, yes…by throwing so much money at them that they are buried under it.
No, hotshot, you’re trying mightily to paint the ante-Obama period as some kind Dark Age, but it simply isn’t going to wash because people remember that on average, most of GWB’s tenure was alright.
Now you personally may have a disciplined Outer Party mind, complete with a moonbat memory-hole, so you can easily convince yourself that we were living in caves and picking lice from each others’ heads and dying of amoebic dysentery in our twenties before the ObaMessiah hove to, but that’s only your own political defective mentality.
The rest of us don’t buy it.
poorcitizen: It’s not too soon for me to predict that you’ll never be “sure” about Obama. Take your lofty intellect and inflict it somewhere else–please. Ignorant voters like you are the reason we’re in this terrible mess; you should have been tested for basic reading comprehension before being allowed to vote.
Well said, but PC is far from ignorant. I’ve read it’s posts on other threads. Definitely a concern-troll if not an outright Moby.
Wow. Nicely put.
“The verdict is still out on that one. As I am sure you would agree.” Eleven comments previous to yours with opinions ranging from Obama is mentally disturbed to he’s the American version of Lenin and you write that we’ll agree that the verdict hasn’t come in yet. Are you really this dense do you imagine that obtuseness is a virtue? To the author and the commenters here the only disagreement about the verdict seems to be whether Obama is suffering from some one or several mental defects or that he is a radical leftist ideologue or perhaps he is both. To my mind it’s obvious that Mr. Obama is both deranged and a Bolshevik. You sir are a moron.
Poor Citizen = Broken Record
I’m sure that I’m not the only one that notices that good ‘ol PC continually fails to mention just what the unemployment rate was, or what the DJIA was standing at in Jan. of ’07 when “Botox Nancy” and her band of merry liberals blew into town like the “Black Plague”. Look it up, PC, I’m sure that you’ll become enlightened. Selective outrage, maybe?
No one is going to destroy this country.
Yep. We’ll see you as the S.S. Obama finally sinks into the dark, cold waters of the North Atlantic while you’re on deck, still insisting, “But that’s impossible! The iceberg hit it! The ship didn’t slam into it – it was well built, it’s unsinkable! Obama should float like a miracle – just give it a few more minutes and watch as it… blurp… blurp…”
I’m trying, really trying, to feel sorry for you. However, as the hue and cry of “I can’t believe I voted for that guy!” increases throughout the land, I find it increasingly difficult to impossible to give you the benefit of the doubt!
In the meantime, Roger and the rest of us will take comfort in our lifeboats…
Obama is a coward, and intelectually lazy.
Cowards only go where they are worshipped, such is the case by Obama to ‘sell’ something already passed. What a joke.
Intellectually lazy, it takes 2,500 words, and 17 min to attempt answering a question? And still not answered?
Tell me gain, how intelligent this guy is, and I have a brooklyn bridge to sell!
In other words, he is Willie Clinton without the zipper malfunctions. I would disagree with David Thomson that Barry is not a hard core communist and does not like violence. He has no problem with violence so long as he can be viewed as personally above the fray. In other words, he wants it done, but has no intention of getting his own hands too dirty.
Remember what he said during the campaign, “Get in their faces. Punch back twice as hard”. Andy Stern was still welcome at the White house after the beating of Kenneth Gladney; there was just a degree of separation from it for him.
Most dictators start out only wanting their way without violence. But then, you know, things don’t go their way and their underlings are told to just deal with it. Remember the monster that was part of the Bill Ayers movement that was infiltrated by the FBI? Remember what he said about the “Camps”? And those that would not bend under the camps reeducation would have to be eliminated (25,000,000)! Obama will reach this decision someday.
Did you ever notice that for ideologues; the opposition is not only wrong, but are also evil, dishonest and in this case, “weird”? If Simon and his allies had been half as concerned about Bush and the Republicans while they were ruining the country, Obama might still be an Illinois senator dozing in Rev. Wright’s church.
Your comments are silly. Why not address the author’s premise on its face? Why try to introduce unrelated matters? Does the author highlight a real, observable issue? Indeed.
Griswald?
Yes, Bush was a crap president, but hiding behind that as a way to justify Obama’s presidency is fallacious. An analogy then: Obama as a “cure” for the problems inflicted on us by Bush would be akin to amputating the patient’s thumbs for a strep throat…
It is well-documented that extreme stress can trigger neurotic behavior in borderline people who can otherwise function normally in society.
I have read (and can imagine to be true) that being President of the Untied States is one of the most stressful jobs in the world.
Obama’s socialist/volk-marxist beliefs are soothing and reassuring to him. When people disagree with him, he thinks they must not have understood, because *he* feels reassured…
Let’s just hope that Obama doesn’t swing to the other pole (a very neurotic trait) and tell everyone to cut the chatter and get in line.
You mean like he did a couple of days ago. Hit the Drudge archive–I think “get in line” might have even been in the title of the piece.
As someone who was on the national Nixon staff in both the 1968 and 1972 elections, I see your analysis of what is happening now in the WH as essentially correct — there is serious instability in the POTUS personality.
Based on what I saw in the Nixon era, a HUGE factor is close staff that inflame the flaws. We do not have to keep Alexrod (a Haldeman clone) and Rahm (who may be nearly as close to The One as Axe) until 2012. Especially Axelrod is utterly dependent for his own power on manipulating Obama. If that could end, it might really help save the country from worse problems than these guys have already caused.
To understand Mr. Obama, please read Cleckley’s “The Mask of Sanity” or the work of Robert Hare on psychopathy.
1) Chief among the characteristics of psychopaths is ability to say anything and expect to be believed. Previous contradictions do not seem to bother them. This is so strange that everyone falls all over themselves to offer “reasonable” explanations for the seeming contradictions.
2) No psychopath ever assumes responsibility for errors or crimes. It is always someone else’s fault. People do this in general, but psychopaths do it with passion. “How could you believe this of me?!”
3) Psychopaths take chances with other people’s lives, even with their own lives, that imply that fear is as arousing to them as sex or riding a roller coaster. Note Mr. Obama’s frequent appearances before cameras and audiences without breaking a sweat. He relishes the adrenaline rush. It makes him calmer to be in such circumstances that would arouse others to become Jello.
Psychopaths flock to fields of endeavor like crime and politics and the practice of law. Each area allows for the manipulation of others. As one might imagine, few psychopaths (but not zero) go into farming, social work, or science and math.
Psychopathy has a tendency to run in families, much like schizophrenia and affective disorders. It is for that reason that Americans were stupid, stupid, stupid for electing someone without knowing or at least having a feeling for that person’s family history. That it was kept secret or clouded goes further to consideration of psychopathy as the underlying pathology process in Mr. Obama.
Roger, I agree on your assessment of his mental competency but disagree with your statement about us knowing almost nothing about him. His speeches and actions during the primaries told us all we needed to know but we, the voting public chose not to listen. Remember the huge crowds of adoring worshipers listening to his speeches? That to me was a real red flag, no pun intended, and should have been to any thinking person.
A perfect storm of Republican incompetence, Bill Clinton’s stupid statements during the primaries, the media actively working for the far left and voter apathy delivered the nation to this guy and his cronies. We better wake up and we better wake up fast.
It is well past time that we stop hurling pejoratives at Barack Obama. The man is not stupid, nor a coward, nor is he lazy. But neither should we judge him against a Washingtonian benchmark. To do so ignores his motives and objectives, as well as his closely held core principles. When investigating his upbringing and his early adulthood we see that he is immersed (well steeped would be a better term) in Marxism and a particularly virulent anti-Americanism. In so many ways he is the absolute antithesis of a Ronald Reagan or even a Harry Truman.
And Roger, when you say that we are stuck with him until 2012 at least I think you are still viewing Obama as just the 44th man to hold the office of president. I think that he sees himself as the transformative figure above and beyond the confines of our Constitution. His own words betray him as he offers himself up as a Constitutional scholar that understands the document in its photographic negative. I fear that we will be using all of the Amendments to the Constitution to quell this coming crisis before it is all over.
Roger:
This is not rocket science. Yes, he’s a marxist and yes, he does have a personality disorder. Perhaps it was all that blow. The truth would have taken less time for him to express. All that’s left to figure out is who stole the strawberries.
I’m sorry, but I see precious little difference between the two.
Marxism IS a personality disorder…people in a more honest time termed it “Covetousness”, methinks.
Marxism attracts narcissists like a magnet. And this should surprise nobody. Marxist ideology is premised on finding the great secular messiah to lead the common folk to the utopian Promised Land. This is music to the ears of a Stalin, Mao, or Castro. Traditional religions warn against egotism. Marxism celebrates it.
Yes, Obama is a narcissist. So were lots of leaders — most of them disastrous — throughout history. Does he have other less obvious personality disorders?
Where I disagree is the assertion that Obama’s proposals are not a “thought-through deliberated policy.” He is almost certainly the inverse of Ronald Reagan who sought to “starve the beast,” and his policies are deliberately designed to create a new government-controlled, VAT-financed social order in which no one individual can get too far ahead of the rest of us. He believes such a society is an improvement over the one we’ve got. He’s entitled to his opinion; my problem with him is that he knows Americans don’t want to go there, yet he’ll tell whatever lie will work to move the ball his direction. In other words, like every leftist, he’s an ends justifies the means guy.
Underestimate him at your peril.
You know, Roger…there is a hint in your essay that is almost a bit wistful.
I think it represents quite a few people, even those who might not say so now. Sure, there are many who wanted Obama to fail out of the gate. And there are those who had nefarious reasons for wishing so.
But, there are others who, while wary, would have loved to believe the promise and the promises.
They would have loved to have been lead by the man Obama pretended to be.
Secretly, for them, it would have been nice to finally end the race baiting and guilt-tripping antics of a generation that thrived on the cottage industry of making America look far more sinister regarding race than it truly is.
In the deep recesses of their hearts, it would have been nice to be respected by the whole world and still dependable friends to our allies.
They could take pride in the eloquence with which we explained our positions and with the persuasiveness that built the case and adhered to the commitment of our core values.
We could watch, like a seat at the edge of an open kitchen, the transparency of government in the sunshine.
A centrist, a pragmatist, a statesman, a healer, an orator with impromptu skills, a politician who had a bigger heart than ego.
That was what filled many with the promise of something different, something better. That promise has been shattered.
The promises of transparency, of even-handedness, of “putting away childish things”, of racial healing, of no blue or red states…has become a broad farce.
Did he know who Jeremiah Wright was and is? Did he now who William Ayers was and is? Did he know who Frank Marshall Davis was? Edward Said? Rashid Khalidi? Ali Abuminah? Mike Klonsky? Carl Davidson?
They were radical extremists. Attempting to transform America, to overthrow our free market enterprise and replace it with leftist extremist ideology. He has, the whole of his life, an open ear for anti-America invective. And anti-Israel invective. America and its allies were in need of an apologist’s cleansing.
The hope is gone.
But the change is still coming.
President Fillibuster outdid himself in his 2500 word answer, he’ll be a one term president but it will just seem like two. When he is finally vetted, what will we learn? And will we still care? Likely not.
Great speaking voice? All hype. He is not only weird like Nixon, he sounds like him.
Now here is something to really consider. Let us for a moment consider that Roger is not only correct in his diagnosis and Mr. Obama has a pathalogical personality disorder. It can only get worse with the stress of being President. At some point, no matter how much his handlers will try and cover it up, it will become apparant that Mr. Obama will not be able to discharge his duties as President. That would trigger the 25th Amendment and Joe Biden would be President. Joe Biden a man who has a track record of being so wrong that in order to chart a correct course all one needs to do is ask Joe anything and then do the opposite. It was OK when Joe was a Senator and could only do limited harm because 99 other votes could be counted on to moderate his particular version of intelligence. This is also something to consider when I hear all the calls for Impeachment.
This places the country in a very peculiar dilemma. Mr. Obama is the elected President but the alternative is Joe until 2012. We reap what we sow and the election of this administration and the willing confederates in Congress have put this nation on a dangerous course.
Biden isn’t nearly the threat to this country that Obama is. If there is one thing that Dems and Repubs have long agreed on it’s that Biden isn’t presidential material. That the Social Democrats share this view is proven by their repeated refusal to nominate him. Biden’s previous quests for the presidency were more an attempt to continue on his chosen career path than lust for power. I suspect he’d continue his policy of just being glad to “be here”. In any case any circumstances leading to an Obama resignation whether do to mental defect or some extra constitutional power grab would so damage his party’s standing with the American people as to make him an instant lame duck even before Nov 2010. Imagine attempting to continue pushing the policies of a party whose leader and head of the Government had just been deemed insane. When Bill Clinton got in trouble his party insisted that he was merely a cad and therefore he and his policies should continue. Harder argument to make when said leader has been proven certifiable.
“At some point, no matter how much his handlers will try and cover it up, it will become apparant that Mr. Obama will not be able to discharge his duties as President. That would trigger the 25th Amendment and Joe Biden would be President.”
Don’t remind me…
It’s only half a joke to say that naming Biden as VP was Impeachment insurance on Obama’s part.
And this observation is over a year old.
Dear Dr. Bones,
First off, notice how Neocomrade R. Simon, Freiherr von Padschaama, has taken to usin’ the _kaiserlich-königlich_ pronoun: Their Lordship announces that “This is OUR country.”
Now Their Lordship’s political clock may seem to the Muses and you and me be runnin’ a little fast, for the holy Homeland™ can not altogether be Their country — a blessèd Neoterica fit for _Freidamen und Freiherren_ — before President Summers and Mr. O’Bama are somehow disposed of. Bbut you are to remember, sir, that the F&F neogentry think the disposal process is well under weigh already.
Indeed, Their Lordship no doubt intended Their present oracle to contribute to that very process. Th. L. not havin’ been raised to be a political operative, one must doubt that this neoperformance will do amy damage, but clearly Th. L. hopes that it may.[1]
Neocomrade R. Simon’s claims to _Freiherrschaft_ seem indisputable to me, sir, so let us start with those of Neocomradess A. E. Kornblut over at Fox-on-15th-Street. [2]
_Heute gehört ihnen Kansas …_, or so says Mr. Thomas Frank, at least, “… _und morgen die ganze Welt!_”
Should that particular tomorrow ever actually dawn, Dr. Bones, _Ihre Excellenz_ here will be in like Flynn, no doubt about it. Probably higher in the neopeerage than a mere ‘baron,’ as the F-word is customarily rendered in the Greater Texan language. Whether Neocomradess A. E. Kornblut will be a really credentialled _Freidame_, or perhaps a _Freidame honoris causâ_ , I have no idea, never having distinctly noticed the little lady before. Still, nobody can deny that the former _Washington Post_ is doin’ its damndest to prequalify as a _Freizeitung_ for when _der Tag_ finally comes. So perhaps all the hired hands over on Fifteenth Street will be accepted as freeladies and freegents durin’ workin’ hours, despite possessin’ no such exalted rank as mere individual organisms.
One of the salient characteristics of the impendin’_Freizeitungsschreiberei_ is nicely realised here by Von Padschaama: Their Lordship makes sure that customers are not exposed to the raw poison spewed by Barry the Unbearable. Why waste time listenin’ to the defendant rant and rave, when the Frau Parteianwaltin just happens to have come equipped with a concise summary that preserves all the important points, if any, and preserves decorum too? Especially in a case like “Neufreiheimatland v. B. H. O’Bama,” where every freekangaroo in the freecourt is bound to know Barry’s tedious same-old same old almost by heart? [3]
“Never give a sucker an even break” is bound to be one of the great guidin’ maxims of the _heilige Neufreiheimatland_, Dr. Bones. Second in neoïmportance shall it be, perhaps, only to that _Caveat emptor_ so plainly slated to replace _E pluribus unum_ once Foxcuckooland becomes Foxcuckooworld and
“Rupert in Whom are all things / Shall be all things to kids.” [4]
For the moment, though, “the joke is on [Their Lordship],” Who seems not to be almost as “not amused” as Victoria Regina et Imperatrix notoriously proclaimed Herself. _Freidamen und Freiherren_, both past and neoproleptic, have a distinct flair for nonamusement, it seems to the present keyboard.
(( But hush, it’s not nice to make fun of mental cripples. [5] ))
And I wish you, sir,
Healthy days.
___
[0] Even in darkest Großpreussen, Dr. Bones, _Freidame_ has never had the honour to be idiomatic.
_Staatsanwaltin_, though, is for real. And once the freeladies and freegents have smashed the Wicked State, what sort of a kangarooess will do their neoprosecutin’ for ’em ever after if not _eine Parteianwaltin_? Q. E. D.
[1] Whenever a political rhetor wanders off into dense thickets of insincerity like Their Lordship’s “I found (X) to be deeply disturbin’,” we know where we are, do we not, sir? Neukamerad von Padschaama is exactly like our own beloved Aunt Nitsy [http://tinyurl.com/ygpkfxq] when it comes to makin’ Pharasaïcal claims of perturbation. All it means is that the hack journalism in question secretly wants to be be all 318 Estates of the Realm combined, and not continually come in fourth.
(( Their Lordship would make fun of such deep disturbance in a flash if They read it in the _New York Times_ instead of doin’ it for Theirself. At this point the analogy may be a little less strict: in some cases, if not all, I think Nitsy would admit the subjective sincerity of deep self-disturbances at Hooverville and Rio Limbaugh: _i.e._, that the kiddies and neokiddies really *are* feelin’ a little miffed, though they have no better than juvenile and/or self-neoteric reasons to show for it. But Father Zeus knows best. ))
[2] http://tinyurl.com/ygaxkf9 [400 words] ; http://tinyurl.com/ybq73j4 [600 words]
(( Body counts are provided to make clear how doubtful it seems that even the Freiherr Theirself ever got autodisturbed about all 2,200 alleged words. ))
[3] Mark the unconscious cunnin’ of language, Dr. Bones: will it not make an even more scrumptious neotomottow for the Kiddie Selfservative Movement when the district attorney introduces a very FREE summary of each defendant’s intolerable prolixity? (Have you ever wished you were a kangaroo yourself, sir? It may be that they really DO have more fun.)
[4] Season’s greetings, Dr. Bones: _O quanta qualia sunt illa neosabbata_ that the kiddies will be neocelebratin’ when their _Parteimorgen_ finally comes! [http://tinyurl.com/yzmcurp]
[5] Not very nice even inside (( double parens )) or a [footnote] !
Still, should I be hauled up before the _Neufreivolksgericht_ to account for this present _scandalum magnatum_ after the Radiant Neodawn has come to pass, I shall plead that nobody sane could refer to Neocomrade R. Simon, Freiherr von Padschaama, as a “mental cripple,” not after him havin’ displayed even more foresight than the Fox-on-15rh neogentry in pervertin’ from political civilisation to neobarbarism.
See http://tinyurl.com/yh2bfj6 : “Simon experienced a political transformation in which he felt alienated from what he saw as the excesses of the Left after the realities of the September 11, 2001 attacks affected him.”
(( Rather a nifty tale, innit? A pity we learn no more! Do you suppose the future Herr Freiherr was walkin’ around the Pentagon for some obscure Leftist reason when the faith-crazies struck and got knocked into a gutter by the blast, resulting in some most unfortunate drain bamage?
(( If we accept that hypothesis, Dr. Bones, we at least won’t have to blame this renegade on Y*L*, which has more than enough to answer for even without Their Lordship. ))
Du bist ehrlich ein Narr. Verrucht.
Jawols und er ist sicher eine verrückte Person bestenfalls.
JHM dba: His Stygian Opacity
or:
Political Jabberwocky
(Love your stuff, man!)
˙,uıʎɐs ʇsnɾ ¡ɐqp ɯɥɾ ‘ooʇ pɹɐʇǝɹ ʎɹoʇɐqɹnʇsɐɯ lɐʇuǝɯ ‘ɔıʇdʎɹɔ ɐ ǝq uɐɔ ı
Zackly
Weekly Standard cited a description of some of Obama’s behavior during
the campaign…it seems that whenever an idea of his had worked out,
he would remind his staffers about it…”Now, whose idea was that?”
Real executives don’t think that way. Real executives view their task
as being to liberate the creativity of their subordinates, not to
always be “the smartest guy in the room.”
Real academics, too, are more concerned about developing others than
in showing off their own brilliance. Despite the academic aura that
he likes to project, Obama is no more a serious academic than he is
a serious executive.
What he is: a perpetual sophmore, always looking for air time, focused
on making an impression rather than on learning and/or accomplishment.
I remember that once Obama confirmed that “he has a healthy ego” -
and we knew for long that the man loves the limelight -
Yet the problem is not his propensity for jumping in the right frame for photos – the problem is with the disproportions (cause/ reaction) in his interests and attitudes, and as Roger said, the “inappropiate affect” that keeps popping up in his act “deliberate” act –
All politicians belive that “have a gift”. I remember someone explaining why is dengerous to ask Bill Clinton for an explanation for one thing or another because he would gleefully respond, talking for minutes about that -
Yet Obama is much bigger than Bill Clinton -
Roger, I hope you have a safe room in your house and also fulltime bodyguards. That we say so, as David Thomson has been heralding for over a year now, is one thing. That a leading member of the new press and buddy of deranged high school dropouts in Hollywood, you are now in the danger zone.
Thanks in advance for taking the hits for us.
And BTW, malilgnant narcissists DO, like all utopianists, eventually put guns to our heads to make us make their dreams come true.
Everyone displays neurotic behavior when under stress–some even when there is very little stress. However, a severe personality disorder is subject to transient episodes of psychosis. That is the potential problem with having a severe personality disorder in the WH. The line is blurry between a delusion–I am constantly reminded of Michelle saying, “Barack believes he can convince anyone of anything.”–to acting out on the basis of the delusion. I’m beginning to wonder if this entire campaign to “sell” Obamacare isn’t just that. As someone has already said, God help this country.
you are on to something …this was never about health care or the environment. just about him …the one. the narcissist.
he will destroy the USA …not maybe. the will is still not there to stop him.
This endless verbal wandering is nothing new. It’s just (recently) well hidden and unreported.
My wife and I went to hear Obama speak at a local high school during the South Carolina primary. Senator Obama gave very good speech–the crowd loved it. Then came Q&A. Each answer to simple and friendly questions was rambling, lengthy and either largely off point or close to pointless. I was stunned. The friendly audience got restless and many began to leave.
His inarticulate and artless response to friendly questions was my main takeaway from hearing him speak. I have never found the teleprompters surprising.
I remember seeing some video posted from a friendly Obama townhall meeting just prior to Christmas last year that had the same feeling. He was getting absolute softballs (though a bit loopy in a couple of cases) and he was muffing them into the dirt.
I’ve tried to square these episodes with the times that he actually did seem to be on the ball, specifically the GOP retreat.
The conclusion that I have come up with is that he views politics as a giant law review. He’s far more comfortable when he can critique an argument then when he has to make a response grounded in policy specifics. Even most of his attacks on the GOP aren’t made against GOP policies, they are made against the reasons (he claims) that conservatives support those policies.
Look up the definition of “Malignant Narcissism”. The diagnosis fits. It was
apparent during the campaign and is more manifest now. The “One” is all
about me, me, me and I, I, I. Classic symptom!
Obama is Stuck on Stupid.
Dear Mr. Simon,
You come to the conclusion only now that something is psychologically askew with our president? Regular participants on these threads have been saying this for more than a year. We’ve also predicted that Mr. Obama won’t last his term.
Sir, you need to appreciate more what you have here on your comment threads. It’s an ongoing dialectic. No one of us has all the answers, but collective insight, intuition, experience, education, and dialogue will often reveal the truth. We had the president pegged for a malignant narcissist long before anyone, even the alternative press, recognized the condition. I think it was David Thomson who was first to say so, but it took a dozen or so regulars to fully express the reasons and add the various proofs.
I’ll leave you with a prediction. Mr. Obama will be reduced to lame duck status following the November mid-terms. He will be psychologically unable to cope with the rejection. His behaviour and public statements will become increasingly erratic, perhaps even unhinged. The president will attempt to compensate for the loss of power by governing through executive fiat. Eventually his methods will provoke a constitutional crisis. His last gambit will be to play the race card should anyone attempt to remove him from office. Expect civil disorder on a scale not seen since 1968.
Time will tell if I’m right, but my prediction is both logical and plausible. I’m interested to know what the regulars think.
I agree with most of what you say and think your predicted outcome is likely. Even if the other party wins control of both houses I’m not sure Obama will view this as rejection of his ideas, he’ll think he needs to explain himself better. Hooray! More 2500 word answers on the way.
My take is he does not have the requisite skills or desire to be post-partisan. It’s likely to get weirder and more unstable for us all as he adjusts (or not) to the new reality.
While I don’t take for granted that the Nov elections will be allowed once the magnitude of the Social Democrats impending defeat becomes clear, that Obama will be a lame duck after, is almost a forgone conclusion. At a minimum the Social Democrats will lose the house. Your prediction will surely be tested.
I also agree that he won’t finish his term, I submit he’ll pardon Biden for what he’s about to do, after resigning be pardoned. Given the moral relativism of liberals in general, the sense of historical mission, the belief in the Progressivist mandate the obvious fact that NO perfidy is beneath the radical left creates certainty in the assertion that Mr. Obama will need protection from prosecution assuming he’s not impeached first. Or perhaps he’ll attempt to justify suspending the constitution and establish a dictatorship. I make it 60/40 in favor of him resigning.
We make take comfort in the British experience attempting to quell the first American revolution I believe it was Gen. Gage who said something to the effect that it is extremely difficult to control an unruly people “who are numerous and armed”.
I agree completely. The United States is in danger until Obama leaves office. Joe Biden is also not wrapped very tight—be he is the lesser of evils.
Barry has surrounded himself with people who more than support his/their agenda. The complicity of the MSM is losing ground in the war-on-reality though.
The more complacent Americans become with the idea of ‘inevitability’ regarding socialism, the easier the sword will thrust into the very heart of us.
Your scenario rings quite true and prophetic. He can’t, as a malignant narcissist, do resignation. Thanks for spelling it out.
I’ll add one scary thought: the cold race war has gone on since 2008 — now he’ll heat it up. Expect summer of 2010 to be the ramp up of several “long hot summers”.
Knowing he is going to lose this November and being a master of the Race Card, my prediction is that Obamao’s next course of action is to give amnesty to the 20-30 million illegal aliens just to get their votes in time for November. This is one scary sociopath- and I do deal with them professionally.
There is a record for Obama’s performance and he will fall back to it. After 2012 he will vote “present” . . . for there will be no further major legislation that he will have any say in. Further, if he does anything at all it will be in attempt to “rise to a higher” level. What could possibly be seen in a rejected narcissist’s mind as a rise to a higher level? The ONE who already has the most powerful political position in the world . . .in a weird warped kind of perspective . . . Sec. Gen of the UN?
I agree fully with your prediction, or guess. I have been struggling with ‘what will happen’ as I am personally weary with the analysis. It is clear enough to me that Obama is mentally ill with a nice smile. He is as some have written earlier a malignant narcissist, a manipulator, not very bright or at least unable to think coherently under stress, and a Jew-hater.
What has plagued me is the sense of recurrent intellectual indigestion experienced by reading intelligent posts of so many people – and getting nowhere. This blog has some of the best I’ve seen anywhere, btw.
I think your prognosis for likely events is quite real. I would add these points:
1) Obama’s behavior and increasing verbal recklessness and obvious frustration reflect an underlying awareness that the elections will stink for him;
2) he can’t stand losing, and as Simon wrote, hates compromising. Whether or not he ‘gets’ that he will have been beaten up at the polls partly for his personality is anyone’s guess, but it’s possible;
3) he does hate America as most Americans conceive it, but there are limits as to how he can punish Americans. Even if he does not, some of his advisers will recommend that he go slow with Hate Lists and the rest. No, he’ll try to chew on Israel (I’m an Israelis citizen, get that out now).
As for his behavior becoming increasingly erratic leading to a melt-down, I think that is more than 50% probable.
Why did he pick Biden? Partly because Biden’s a goof, so he doesn’t threaten Barack’s ego. Partly because he figured that Biden is impeachment insurance, and possibly because Biden and his son ‘helped’ Obama with the Larry Sinclair limo business. If what I read is accurate, then Beau Biden claimed to have issued an arrest warrant for Sinclair that got him thrown in jail in Washington during the campaign.
More and more people are waking up to the fact that there is something not quite right about the way this administration has conducted itself. We are in a world of trouble, and I just hope that we can get these people out of the White House in 2012. If we are unable to do that disaster looms. The question of the day is why, why, did so many otherwise smart people fall for Obama’s patter?
Our only hope is to hamstring Obama’s ambitions in the November elections, so that he can be left to wander the halls of the White House with a drink in his hand, talking to the portraits of former presidents (he ought to have an especially long conversation with Richard Nixon). The next step is to vote him out in 2012, to his vast relief and ours.
I can imagine Obama’s conversations with the portraits of the presidents:
“Washington, you racist…Jefferson…racist…racist…racist…Lincoln, you think you’re better than me?…Reagan, you fascist…”
So LOL’d!
The sad truth is (as others have touched on), is white people are so tired of being pre-judged for being ‘white’ and hence the ‘white guilt’ vote for 0bama meant as a final ‘healing’ turned out to be anything but for those folks.
Sadness.
I am not so sure that The Supreme Pantload would view his “de-election” in 2012 as such a bad thing. He could proceed straightaway to the process of building his legend as “the first”, or “unprecedented”, or whatever delusions of grandeur he wishes to describe the years he played at being chief executive.
It will be much less arduous than actually doing the job and certainly be more gratifying for him as it will be..well..all about him.
No doubt he will have scarred this country deeply but watching this pathetic little man attempt to inculcate his post-presidency with some fragments of former glory will be the most delicious of schadenfreude.
One counts the days.
ROTFLMAO! I gotta tell ya, I have been in a dark place over this mess, and then I read your post—The Supreme Pantload! That’s priceless. I’m using it from now on.
As a child, Barry learned early and well that he’s on his own; his father wanted nothing to do with him, and his mother not much more. So he survived by playing the Short Con — and it worked pretty well for a long time. He played the marks in Hawaii, at Occidental, Columbia, and Harvard Law. He even hit something of the big time — and like the successful grifter that he is, each time he’s been able to grab the swag and get outta town before the marks knew the score. But now it’s different. He’s tried to pull off the Big Con, and the play is starting to come apart. He’s in over his head, and he knows it. The marks are figuring it out, and there’s no where to run…this will not end well for any of us.
Out of his depth. And a liar. And a racist Alinskyite. Pretty simple, actually.
richb313–Having an inept vice president (whom Obama handpicked) is arguably a strategic choice made by a cunning, calculating, narcissistic president. It not only enhances his feelings of self-worth when comparisons are made, but it diminishes the chances of impeachment, etc., when a dissatisfied or enraged public weighs the alternatives.
And this is yet another and perhaps the real reason HRC was not selected as VP. I realize not everyone shares my respect for Hillary but does anyone believe she’d be worse? At least she’s not a socialist.
Hillary is a Social Democrat just like the rest of the national level elected and appointed officials as well as most of the rank and file of what the myopic still refer to as the “Democratic” party.
She’s not a socialist? Then what was she up to with her six months of secret meetings and undisclosed agendas during her glory days of attempting to seize control of the US health industry as an unelected “first spouse”? If I recall correctly, government control was the whole intent.
When Rahm Emanuel is thrown overboard for disagreeing with the Great and Mighty Obama, we’ll begin to hear stories about strange behavior in the White House. I caught a glimpse of Obama walking with an earnest aide alongside explaining something. It appeared he wasn’t listening, just floating somewhere above it all with a look of smug self-satisfaction. Such monstrous conceit does not auger well for us. Our period of punishment is upon us for daring to think ourselves an exceptional country. Thanks GOP for giving us Bob Dole redux in John McCain.
I guess that Dole and Mccain were sexy in their younger days, but when they ran for President they had no sex appeal and could not win the women’s vote against anyone who had sex appeal. Whenever the GOP nominates such candidates, it should be clear that the GOP is taking a dive.
I don’t know about you, Patrick, but I don’t vote for a president because I want to sleep with him. I did susspect that something like suppressed sexual attraction was behind the strange appeal Obama held for some conservatives, male and female.
A presidential candidate is considerably helped if they are tall and good looking. It is my strong conviction that neither Calvin Coolidge nor even Abraham Lincoln could ever be more than U.S. senators in our modern era. We have been more than subtly conditioned into believing that good looking people are inherently good.
The truly sad part of “You’ve Got the Look” . . . is that during the debates McCain appeared weak, confused, dazed, ready for the wheel chair . . . sad . . . age discrimination killed McCain. Regardless of how sharp his mind . . . his body lost him the election. A President’s greatness is measured by the success of the advice he takes . . .
Obama is a pathological narcissist. That’s not simple ego; that’s a severe personality disorder. I suspect he moved into this state as a young boy; it is his only method of interaction with the world.
A pathological narcissist must feel that he controls how you interact with him. Obama has three tactics of control over your reactions.
Misinformation or pathological lying. Obama has lost any ability to differentiate between fact and fiction. He’ll tell you anything to entice you into his control. The next hour – he’ll tell someone else the opposite.
The agenda is not to ‘tell the facts’ but to put you in his control. Confront him with the facts and he’ll deny them. We’ve all seen Obama tell someone with the facts – ‘you are wrong’. He’ll deny the facts that there are not 40 million without health care; many pay for care directly, which is cheaper than annual insurance costs. Insurance is only for risk not for regular care.
He’ll deny that he knows a thing about the Rev Wright’s sermons despite having spent 20 years with the man.
Emotional manipulation. This is a tactic of Force. He’ll force you to accept him by binding you to his Will by emotional manipulation. He’ll charm you, he’ll smile, he’ll…so that your only reaction is adulation. Or, he’ll threaten you that if you don’t accept His Word, a crisis will be the result, and this crisis will be your fault.
Pass the stimulus bill without reading it or the US economy will collapse. That’s Obama style.
And, if you still reject His Will, Obama will play his key card. Racism. He’s used this all his life.
Criticize Obama, challenge him to live within reality not his fictional realm, and he feels threatened. He feels he’ll lose control over you. So, any criticism is met by an enraged Obama. He’ll reject the Tea Parties, smearing them by name; reject Town Halls. He’ll attack FOX news because it criticizes him. Obama’s agenda is to control you – by love or fear.
If you move outside of his reach – you literally cease to exist for him. He had no interest in the Iranian demonstrators for democracy. Why not? Because their focus was on democracy not Obama.
Obama is ignorant of history, of economics, of theory. He is intellectually shallow and lacks analytic capabilities. He has survived since a young boy on those three tactics of control over you. Not control over a situation, of theory, of facts. But of you.
If Obama feels he can’t interact with and control you, then he has no interest in you. Along with this need to enforce your adulation, Obama’s pathology also makes him cruel. He needs to remind you of His Power by various means. So, he’ll insult our Western Allies – as he did to the PM of Britain etc.
He is embedded within the socialist agenda because it sets up a political structure of statism made up of an elite governing Set of people…ruling over the passive population. That fits in with Obama’s pathological need to control. But, intellectually, his only focus is on Himself. Not any political theory. That’s why he can’t answer any questions with any logic or coherence. He has no analytic capacity.
As President, and he keeps reminding us of this, this ability to control others is expanding, and his pyschological need to control…is also expanding. Americans have never had to deal with someone as psychologically damaged as Obama and are reluctant to face up to its reality.
..all that and he is gay too !
Samson I think you will find that symptoms like that exist in MOST Gays. Look how illogical cruel and vindictive Code Pink and all the other LBGT organisations are.
Superb critique of Obamas personality.
There is only one other person that I can think of that matches
Obamas extreme narcissism, pathological need for control, and
ability to deny reality.
O.J. Simpson.
he is the craziest guy and unlike the aforementioned nixon who stewed in his office writing up enemies’ lists, this one actually has enemies…the american people.
we know he is a con man, empty of character and flabby of conscience. most con men, however, are not deranged. this one, is.
This National situation in which we find ourselves has long reminded me of the movie ” The Caine Mutiny “. We, as citizens, are not Psychologists, but recognize mental illness instinctively. We get that vague feeling: there is something wrong with this person. We see it when women pull their children close to their waist when in the presence of such a person. It’s an instinct. We, as a Nation, are recognizing there is something wrong with this man, Obama. We may not be able to prove indisputably he is sick by direct, courtroom evidence, but it’s there. And Obama sits in the Oval Office, like Captain Queeg, juggling his ball bearings, and suddenly it’s all to obvious in the most embarrassing and horrifying way possible.
he is no Capt. Queeg ..and they aren’t ball bearings . Rahm E. is playing with some ones balls.
what would Sinclair say ? see link below.
http://www.amazon.com/Barack-Obama-Larry-Sinclair-Cocaine/dp/0578013878/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1270445780&sr=8-1
President Obama cannot think on his feet & off the cuff; hence, his perpetual need for the teleprompters for virtually all events great & small. He cannot answer questions because they are not given beforehand for his “script.” Obama always needs a script. I believe Obama actually has more in common with reporters who use a teleprompter for their shows than a POTUS. He is not a leader but a narcissist. I do find his rambling filibusters grating on my nerves; it’s why I do not watch him unless it is with a good reporter who will cut him off. This does not happen much save for the time he was on Fox News.
More disturbing his his sycophants exploiting the Messiah imagery with manipulated photos during the campaign & in his presidency; the Greek temples & the always rigged adoring audiences is another mark against Obama. Obama’s ego is warped beyond conception to malignant narcissism.
I feel as if Dr. Stangelove is in charge of our Country!
Abraham Maslow explained it in 1966 when he said: “It is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.”
Obama has relied on talk to get him through life. He is the embodiment of the concept: “if you can’t dazzle them with your facts, baffle them with bullshit.” He regards the little people (you and me) to be pea-brains who will accept anything he says if he says it long enough.
Patric,
Obama as bubblegum music.
I like that.
~Paules, I think you are right about Obama after the November elections but If and Only If the Democrats do lose their strong majority.
And the Democrats and Obama will be using every trick to ensure this does not occur. These will include emotional manipulation – there’ll be a manufactured crisis in the near-election phase to frighten people into relying on Obama. And corruption via ACORN and SEIU workers. And bribes and kickbacks. And dirty campaigns to smear opponents.
It’s already started with the campaign against The People – people who dissent, who criticize. Anyone like this are smeared as ‘Tea Partiers’..and the Democrats are conducting an intense smear campaign against the Tea Party Movement.
These tactics will be used, but despite the power of the MSM, the power of the Internet to shine truth on such tactics can’t be underestimated.
However, if the infrastructure of a Democrat majority in which Obama sits enthroned is weakened, then, what will Obama do? When a pathologically damaged individual is removed from his support system, he can react either by collapse or first, by rage. I predict the rage.
Obama will move more into the ‘I am President’ mode, of Executive authority, of attempts to even change the constitution, of overriding Congress (remember, he’s already tried to reduce Congress/The People by insisting that they pass his stimulus without reading the bill…and he passed his Health Care by bribes, backroom deals and unethical tactics).
Well, I AM a mental health professional and I can tell you what you are seeing:
A Narcissistic Personality Disorder; in the beginning stages of disintegration due to intense pressure.
And yes, it is disturbing.
Next question?
Not narcissist, sociopath. In the 1830′s this disorder was called “moral insanity.” By 1900 it was changed to “psychopathic personality.” More recently it has been termed “antisocial personality disorder” in the DSM-III and DSM-IV.
Check out this: http://www.mcafee.cc/Bin/sb.html
Glibness and Superficial Charm
Manipulative and Conning: They never recognize the rights of others and see their self-serving behaviors as permissible. They appear to be charming, yet are covertly hostile and domineering, seeing their victim as merely an instrument to be used. They may dominate and humiliate their victims.
Grandiose Sense of Self : Feels entitled to certain things as “their right.”
Pathological Lying : Has no problem lying coolly and easily and it is almost impossible for them to be truthful on a consistent basis. Can create, and get caught up in, a complex belief about their own powers and abilities. Extremely convincing and even able to pass lie detector tests.
Lack of Remorse, Shame or Guilt : A deep seated rage, which is split off and repressed, is at their core. Does not see others around them as people, but only as targets and opportunities. Instead of friends, they have victims and accomplices who end up as victims. The end always justifies the means and they let nothing stand in their way.
Shallow Emotions : When they show what seems to be warmth, joy, love and compassion it is more feigned than experienced and serves an ulterior motive. Outraged by insignificant matters, yet remaining unmoved and cold by what would upset a normal person. Since they are not genuine, neither are their promises.
Incapacity for Love
Need for Stimulation : Living on the edge. Verbal outbursts and physical punishments are normal. Promiscuity and gambling are common.
Callousness/Lack of Empathy : Unable to empathize with the pain of their victims, having only contempt for others’ feelings of distress and readily taking advantage of them.
Poor Behavioral Controls/Impulsive Nature : Rage and abuse, alternating with small expressions of love and approval produce an addictive cycle for abuser and abused, as well as creating hopelessness in the victim. Believe they are all-powerful, all-knowing, entitled to every wish, no sense of personal boundaries, no concern for their impact on others.
Early Behavior Problems/Juvenile Delinquency : Usually has a history of behavioral and academic difficulties, yet “gets by” by conning others. Problems in making and keeping friends; aberrant behaviors such as cruelty to people or animals, stealing, etc.
Irresponsibility/Unreliability : Not concerned about wrecking others’ lives and dreams. Oblivious or indifferent to the devastation they cause. Does not accept blame themselves, but blames others, even for acts they obviously committed.
Promiscuous Sexual Behavior/Infidelity : Promiscuity, child sexual abuse, rape and sexual acting out of all sorts. (Vera Baker, Frank Davis and Stanley Obama, etc.)
Lack of Realistic Life Plan/Parasitic Lifestyle : Tends to move around a lot or makes all encompassing promises for the future, poor work ethic but exploits others effectively.
Criminal or Entrepreneurial Versatility : Changes their image as needed to avoid prosecution. Changes life story readily.
Other Related Qualities:
Contemptuous of those who seek to understand them
Does not perceive that anything is wrong with them
Authoritarian
Secretive
Paranoid
Only rarely in difficulty with the law, but seeks out situations where their tyrannical behavior will be tolerated, condoned, or admired
Conventional appearance
Goal of enslavement of their victim(s)
Exercises despotic control over every aspect of the victim’s life
Has an emotional need to justify their crimes and therefore needs their victim’s affirmation (respect, gratitude and love)
Ultimate goal is the creation of a willing victim
Incapable of real human attachment to another
Unable to feel remorse or guilt
Extreme narcissism and grandiose
May state readily that their goal is to rule the world
(The above traits are based on the psychopathy checklists of H. Cleckley and R. Hare.)
Pathological narcissist. Nothing new to those of us who actually looked into this man during his campaign.
Does anyone know how to cancel a bid on ebay?
I put in a very low bid for a “Mickey Mouse Outfit” and now it seems
I’m only six minutes away from owning Obama and his entire Cabinet.
Anne–are you really George Soros?
Hey, I bid on the “Insane Clown Posse”, and ended up with the entire Democratic Congressional Leadership.
Wanna trade?
Abrham Maslow explained it: “It is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.”
Obama lives by the creed: “If you can’t dazzle them with the facts, dazzle them with the bulls@#t.”
The fact that Obama could claim with a straight face that he did not know Rev. Wright’s views does not necessarily mean that he is mentally ill. Applying Occam’s razor, there are simpler explanations. One is that as a life-long affirmative action beneficiary, he assumes that his honesty and integrity will be judged by people who are anxious to give him the benefit of the doubt in any situation where he may appear to be lacking in qualifications, either intellectual or moral. The other is that he a Democrat, and thus cna expect that there will be no follow-up from outraged media personalities demanding that he explain himself. The slightest excuse is always completely sufficient in these circumstances, and it need only be mouthed to be accepted.
Obama mentally ill? Is a child who is completely spoiled to the point that she expects her every whim to be instantly gratified mentally ill? Most of us would say “no”, even if she were in the habit of throwing spectacular tantrums when occasionally denied her wish.
Obama is no more “weird” than such a spoiled child. He is an affirmative-action Democrat, and thus supremely sane in assuming that there will be no consequence of anything he says, no matter how outrageous.
I just ordered 1,550,000 yards of orange and green canvas. Gonna put a big-top over this %$#*&^!! circus!
Allow me to revisit the strangest issue associated with the Obama presidency:
I am a former military recruiter. I have been intimately involved with qualifying people for military service and with initiating security clearances. So far – the president of the United States has not produced a “birth verification document” of the sort that would have been accepted for military enlistment or for the initiation of a security clearance. There are several “unofficial” documents floating around there – none of which would have been considered adequate if produced by the Marines who open the door for him at the time of their enlistment – or if produced by his staff at the time of their application for security clearance.
Mr. Obama’s father was a foreign national and Mr. Obama lived outside the US during much of his youth – so questions about his citizenship status are not completely unreasonable. One would assume he would want to close the door on this issue and put it to bed.
Mr. Obama’s stated place of birth is Hawaii. Taking him at his word – a definitive birth verification document could be produced by the Hawaii department of vital statistics overnight for $15. Mr. Obama could end this issue forever and make his critics look like idiots $15. He has not done so. In fact – he has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees to avoid doing so. He could close the door on this issue for $15 – instead he pays six figures to keep it open.
There has to be some reason for this. I make no blanket assumptions as to what that reason might be – but none of the alternatives are attractive. There seem to be only two possibilities: The basic data on his legal birth verification document would be embarrassing to him or worse OR keeping this issue open has some political value to him worth the six figures he spent resisting the release of the single definitive document that would put this issue to bed.
To summarize – Obama could shut the birthers down tomorrow. He chooses not to. This is surrealistic in the extreme.
RE: GDT @ April 4, 2010 – 8:00 am
Take your “birther” nonsense, put on your bedsheet and go crash a tea-party.
It boggles the mind that the Clintons would not have exposed this during the primaries if the birther crap had been true. Since the Clintons did not expose this during the primaries it follows that the Obama birther controversy is a whole lot of nothing.
Please PJ Media, purge all pro-’birther’ comments from your site, replacing with “[truther, birther, illuminati, etc nonsense deleted]“
One thing remains my friend. Obama could end this entire debate in totality and forever tomorrow. He could show his critics to be the idiots you believe them to be. He chooses not to. He spends hundreds of thousands of dollars to prevent the release of the definitive document that would end all speculation. I draw no conclusion as to why – but there has to be a why. Aren’t you curious in the slightest?
While He’s not hiding his arrogance it could be that simple or perhaps simple amusement maybe it’s just because F**kem I don’t want too.
…put on your bedsheet…? I had not thought of wearing a toga to a TEA party event and now that the weather is nicer, sounds like a good idea.
What is he hiding? My guess is the location is not the closely guarded secret. Who does he look like?
Your mind is apparently easily boggled. Did the Clinton’s expose and exploit the radicalism of Reverend Wright – the man he called his mentor? Did the Clinton’s expose and exploit his relationship to the unrepentant terrorist William Ayers?
GDT is correct.As a former active duty serviceman I was required to produce a Certified Copy of my original birth certificate. I did so by paying 15 bucks and that was the end of the matter.
I also had to produce the same certified copy to become a police officer. The various documents floating on the internet are NOT birth certificates. Additionally, posting a jpeg image online does not constitute as proof of anything.
Just for grins I downloaded Obama’s so-called bc and opened it with a binary translator. Guess what? The document has been edited with Photoshop.
The only problem with your analysis, is that Obama has produced his birth certificate.
It’s just that the birthers can’t let anything as trivial as reality get in the way of thier parculiar fantasy.
No Mark – he has not. Please read my post (above). Nothing Obama has submitted as a birth certificate would be accepted as legal verification of birth by the military, for security clearances or (without some sort of special dispensation) for a passport. The only thing Obama has released is an unofficial hospital document that could not (by law) be accepted by any of the above agencies as evidence of anything.
But this isn’t even the strange element of this situation.
There is one “birth verification document” universally accepted by all the above agencies. A “certified copy certificate of birth” generated by a state’s department of vital statistics is the universally accepted document that proves place of birth, date of birth and parentage. The typical cost to generate this document is about $15, and in most cases it can be generated on the day of request.
Here is the interesting part. Not only has Obama failed to produce the one document that would remove all doubt – he has gone to court to prevent its production. He could end this debate today for $15 – he chooses to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to keep it open. I do not automatically assume that he was born somewhere other than where he says he was born – but there is something in this simple one page document that is worth TO HIM hundreds of thousands of dollars to conceal.
He has produced a COLB which can be used for all of the listed functions.
His stepsister was born in Indonesia when he lived there. And his stepsister ALSO has a certificate of live birth from Hawaii.
No he has NOT produced a birth Certificate he produced a COLB in 2008 (and thats a FAKE too) which only the ignorant or the WILLFULLY ignorant presume to be the same. As may people have said all the controversy would go away if he spent just $15 on producing his REAL Vault Birth Certificate. Instead he spends MILLIONS fighting NOT to . Now if you dont think thats odd and are not curious as to WHY than I suggest there is something wrong with YOU.
The COLB was ONLY asked for in 2008 so where is his REAL Birth Certificate after all he had to have one when he got his Passport and he talks about it in his book. So where is it and WHY Oh! WHY is it so important to HIDE it what can be on there that is so important to HIDE we can LEGITIMATELY wonder.
The COLB is what Hawaii produces when someone asks for a birth certificate. It is for all legal purposes, a birth certificate.
Sir, you are simply factually wrong in this case. My sole interest/curiosity in this situation is that as a former military recruiter I was often presented with a COLB or some such semi-formal document as birth verification. It was not legally valid as proof of age or citizenship. However – it was no big deal. I just would ask the applicant to sign a brief, single purpose release, go personally to vital statistics and get a certified copy birth certificate. If the birth was not local I would just fax the release to a fellow recruiter in the state of birth.
When I first heard of the Obama citizenship questions – I laughed at them. I knew what the definitive citizenship document was and how to obtain it. I joked that any military recruiter in Hawaii could resolve this tomorrow. (And I could not believe that the standard of proof of citizenship was higher for an Army private than it was for the Commander in Chief. – I believed that Obama would have had to submit this document at some point in the process.) I was wrong. Not only had there been no citizenship documents submitted to anyone at all (even the COLB was produced well after the fact) but Obama’s legal team filed suit to prevent the State of Hawaii from releasing the one standard document that would end this debate.
Herein lies the issue. From my perspective there was no issue and this was all just silly until I learned that Obama’s legal team was actively fighting FOA requests for the certified document from the Hawaii department of vital statistics. If there are any questions about the documents that are out there – there is a single definitive document that would end all doubt – and Obama is actively and aggressively opposing its release. Why?
He has spent millions on his legal defense fund, which includes many, many issues, one of which deals with answering charges that he hasn’t produced his birth certificate.
He has not spent one red cent trying to prevent his birth certificate from being produced.
Speaking of narcissists- why else would you call yourself “TheGreat”? Are you sure it’s not Rando the Great ?
These things are incontrovertible:
Few American children have grown up more completely immersed in Communist doctrine than Barack Obama. He is the poster boy for Bill Ayers educational agenda.
Few individuals over their lifetime have shown deeper commitment to radical marxism, constant association with far left organizations and individuals. through college and into public life than BO.
Few people have been more openly proud, dedicated Community Organizers in the Alinsky stripe, than Barrack Obama. IIn this area he is completely transparent: Michelle cites it as his greatest achievement prior to the Presidency.
Few people have bad a relationship with the acknowledged Communist die-hard, Bill Ayers, to the degree that they would turn to him for guidance in publishing their biography, than Barrack Obama.
Few persons in high office would have major appointees who openly held up Mao as a role model than BO.
Exactly what does it take to convince Roger Simons and david Thomson that this President is not simply a psychopathic “progressive” but a dedicated Mao-style Communist?
Electing a black president was cool, really cool.
A Marxist president is a mortal threat to our children.
I believe that the spotlight that shines on a US president makes it impossible to hide that person’s true character. Even the most partisan person has a clear idea of GWB’s core beliefs after 8 years under the media glare. This man’s rice paper veneer lasted less than a year.
It’s called narccisist personality disorder and it is right down to a “T” that it fits him. Anyone with 2 brain cells to rub together could have seen that a year ago. Are you really just catching on???
Before this latest incident I was wondering even more then in the past about The O’s mental health. His speeches bordered on the hysterical & were written and delivered in order to generate class warfare.
With this freak in office we are definitely in danger.
Some thanks to the WaPo, now where’s the rest of the media?
And we must not forget to thank the liberals{?} who voted for, gave us, and continue to defend this disgrace of a human.
You can’t fool a liberal !
And we must not forget the always upraised chin, so very reminiscent of Mussolini. It must be a Fascist thing.
At least Mussolini could make the trains run on time…
i had been thinking that very thing about mussolini, and recalled how he would puff up his chest and raise his chin just the same way as obama.
very scary time. mentally sick ones, especially malignant narcissists, are very destructive because consequences are of no interest to them, and they are impulsive as well. they do bring down everything around them.
Really, I was thinking more like Julius Caesar, proclaiming himself to be a god.
nar·cis·sism
/ˈnɑrsəˌsɪzɛm/ Show Spelled[nahr-suh-siz-em]
–noun
1. inordinate fascination with oneself; excessive self-love; vanity.
2. Psychoanalysis. erotic gratification derived from admiration of one’s own physical or mental attributes, being a normal condition at the infantile level of personality development.
Perhaps his “pathology”, exhibited as well by his repeated seeking out new jobs upon starting one, will lead him to not run for a second term. One can only hope.
Wait a minute; isn’t this the guy who tried to enter the White House through a window, during his first few days there?
Isn’t this the guy who said that there’re 57 States in the Union?
Isn’t this the guy who said something about the Austrian language?
Isn’t this the guy who said something about companies being able to save 3,000% on health related expenses?
Now, from all of the above (and a few more, I have left out) one can safely conclude, without any deep psycho-analysis, that BHO is not grounded in reality, maybe he’s just on a permanent “high.”
As the deep voice in the commercial says: “We’re in good hands.” Question is, how much more of that can this country take?
bojangles represents the ultimate success of affirmative action.
I knew that Obama was not ready to lead after two events and it wasn’t when he admitted to Joe the Plumber that he intended to redistribute wealth. I’m going to part ways with a lot of conservatives here and state something that most here probably won’t agree with: being a Socialist is not wrong and being a Socialist President is just fine. I just wish for once that the Socialists in our society stop lying and let everyone know their beliefs so that we can properly choose to tell these people that we don’t want socialism.
That being said, the two events that led me to believe that Obama should not be President was on his flight from Afghanistan and at a rally talking about tire pressure. These may have been inconsequential moments during the campaign, but they spoke volumes.
The first one was very ominous. You’ll recall that when Obama was flying home from Afghanistan he made a snide comment to Major Garrett about how all of the TVs at the base was turned to Fox News. It wasn’t so much the comment that was ominous, but how Obama stood over Major Garrett and looked down at him with such contempt that was. This was a prelude to how President Obama derided the Supreme Court in the House Chamber during the State of the Union address: as candidate Obama, he used his newfound prestige to ridicule Major Garrett who acted as a representative of Fox News in front of the entire media. This, by the way, was also the opening salvo of Obama’s attempt to marginalize Fox News.
The other event is one that we are all familiar. You’ll remember when Obama stuck his foot in his mouth talking about how if we all just properly inflated our tires we could save millions of gallons of gas and how everyone ridiculed him for saying such a stupid thing because no one agreed with him. How he responded to this is what still sticks in my craw: instead of admitting error and that he didn’t have all the facts to make such a statement, Obama doubled down on the stupid comment, berated everyone who disagreed with him, and said that he had “experts” that agreed with him on the comment. Now, he never really produced any “expert” that could validate his position. This was an eye-opening moment because it showed that Obama was headstrong, could not deal with being wrong, and sought to punish anyone who disagreed with him.
So where have we seen this same type of narcissistic behavior? Well, you’ve seen throughout his entire presidency, but especially with the healthcare bill and how he deals with our allies vis-a-vis our enemies. On the healthcare bill, Obama and the Dems lost the debate on the merits so what did he do? Did he “pivot” to something else that the American people cared about? No, he insisted that he was not wrong, that all of his opponents and critics were a bunch of know-nothings and didn’t have the goodness of the people on their side, and rammed it through on a partisan vote, basically ensuring that the bill is illegitimate. Here, as in how he deals with allies such as Israel, Britain, Honduras, the Czech Republic and Poland, he forced his will upon those with which he disagrees and punished them for being on his bad side.
The warning signs about why this man shouldn’t have been made President was there. Obama may have been able to mask enough of himself, but frauds cannot hide everything about themselves and a good chunk of himself was exposed for all the world to see. Now we see what an authoritarian from America’s shores looks like. Yes, I have used the word “authoritarian” when describing the man we made President, for that is the only way we can describe someone who has such contempt for his fellow countrymen and for America’s allies. That being said, I believe now is a time for optimism and not pessimism. I have said my piece, but I will part on this particular topic with the words of historian, Paul Rahe:
“Like Mark Steyn, I view Barack Obama as “one of the most consequential presidents in history,” but not for the same reasons. In my view, he and today’s Democratic Party represent the last gasp of the Progressive impulse. The tyrannical ambition hidden at the heart of Progressivism’s quest for what Franklin Delano Roosevelt termed “rational administration” Barack Obama has made manifest; and to all with eyes to see, the danger that we have temporized with for nearly a century is now perfectly visible. As Obama himself has insisted in speech after speech, the moment in which we now live is a “defining moment.” What is required in what he calls “this defining moment” is what Abraham Lincoln once called “a new birth of freedom.” The period we just entered could be our finest hour.”
From your mouth to God’s ears. I hope you are right. But I am far to much a pessismist to see this as anything but the American people voting fascism in. I can live with Obama, it is the tens of millions who thought a social safety net more important than liberty I fear.
A fair analysis for a game that’s still in play.
Problem is: the game is over long ago and we lost.
Time to stop what-iffing and start what-nowing
A previous comment mentioned this crazy POTUS’ proximity to the “red telephone.” In previous administrations, the red phone may have been used against America’s enemies. In this administration, it will be used against America. Will the military carry out his insane orders?
Although the new format is nice…it would be much easier to go back to someone
if the comments were still numbered.
thanks!!!
Have to agree with the new format. It was easier to do followup readings when you knew which number you ended with.
You mean that the indented reply to your post or actually anyones post is not helpful. I also like the new Avatars that you get from http://en.gravatar.com/
I kind of like not having to scroll all about the page especially if there are hundreds of posts. This way many can reply directly to one particular post with no reference or quotes or names needed!
I do like the indents…
I just appreciate the numbers even more…
With the numbers I”m not searching all over where I read something…I can go back to the number.
Me three!
Hey everyone, please re-read what stuart williamson wrote above.
Contemplating Pres. Osama’s psychology is a distraction.
The question is: “what is he up to?”
We know that bill ayers & jermiah wright hate America.
So, don’t we know that bho hates America, too?
What would a POTUS who hates America do?
It’s going to be fun but painful to watch him implode after November, but leave him in place. Fix him there, and tie every possible vulnerable Democratic figure to him before disposing of the lot of them. We will accomplish nothing if we get rid of Obama without fatally decimating the Reids, Rangels, Pelosis and Waxmans who rely upon him and without permanently discrediting those vote for such creatures. But at the same time it will be important to not elect the likes of McCain or Stupak as they have proven that they cannot stand for any real values. It’s time to clean house and get out the bleach and the hard brushes….
The one mitigating circumstance about Obama’s narcissism and his desire to denigrate his critics is he’s afraid to do it without having pretty much the entire Democratic Party backing him up. Which means he has no problems bad-mouthing conservatives and/or snubbing longtime foreign allies who he saw as not being sufficiently hostile towards George W. Bush while he was in office, but the closer we get to the election and the more the Democrats’ overall poll numbers remain the dumpster, the closer Obama’s going to have to come to the moment when he’s going to have to choose between angering one side of his coalition or the other.
The left is already angry because they truly thought Obama was going to Hugo Chavez his (and their) opposition when he first came into office, and start trying to do things like having the FCC shut down Fox News or having Bush and Cheney arrested and tried for war crimes. But that’s anger based on non-action by Obama, not some actual measure that goes against them (the offshore drilling announcement looked like a first step towards doing that, but turned out to be far less than meets the eye once the details came out). However, Obama’s about to have the more moderate side of his party going after him, because the closer we get to November 2 the more they’re going to realize he and the others on the left are killing their political careers. Once it’s no longer just conservatives/Republicans openly blasting his policies but members of his own party, he’s going to face the choice of telling them to pound sand or at least going through a Potemkin Village version of Clinton’s triangulation strategy, at the risk of really angering the immediate gratification left in the Democratic Party.
For a narcissist who wants everyone on his side to love him, but wants everyone else to do the heavy lifting or play the bad cop role until he can swoop in to take all the credit, it’s not going to be a pretty sight when Obama has to say ‘no’ to part of his base. And if he does decide to cast his lot with the left side of his party, the calls from Barack’s core supporters to try and get his other pet projects passed via legislative fiat or bureaucratic rulings in a crypto-authoritarian way are going to get louder and more tempting after the mid-term elections.
That moment when he said the radical Jeremiah Wright was a person he had not heard when he was in church is the moment I decided he was a liar. I heard two sound bites from Wright (“goddam America”), admittedly selected because they were the most damning ones, but still, if I heard that, there is no way that in 20 years Obama had no clue what this man was about. He could only be lying about that.
And he has the morality of an 8th grade punk.
1. while debating, slyly giving the finger to
H. Clinton.
2. “lipstick on a pig is stil a pig” in reference to
S. Palin.
Is Obama a ‘socialist’? Perhappes he wants to be a socialist, a beleiver in ‘redistributive justice’, since these are the beliefs of those he has chosen to surround himself with all his life. Those people, he beleives, are the just and wise ones, the ‘cool’ and ‘hip’ ones. The problem is that he knows other people disagree and he finds part of himself questioning as well. But to question this collectivist vision is to question those he has taken as his guides and heroes. So, the motives of those how reject this vision of equal justice through equal outcome, regardless of individual actions, must be found to be ignoble; thus, the opposition are ignorent, missguided and racist.
I think Obama has reached his ‘jump-the-shark’ moment; the passage of the ‘Health Care Deform’ will be the high point of this administration. He has shown that his true aim is the redistribution of wealth and power. Wealth goes from those who produce to those who ‘need’, to equalize the circumstances of both. Power goes to those who make this happen (with some extra privilages since ‘…some are more equal than others’). The one who was to show us a new, less partisan, way has revealed himself as the embodiment of partisan hubris: naive ‘hope and change’ is giving way to dismay at the realith revealed.
We’re seeing a narcissist starting to crack. Prediction: heart attack before the end of his term driven by stress, smoking, and humiliating mid-term defeats.
“most educated people would have a pretty good idea about Wright after five minutes, let alone twenty years. The reverend is not a subtle man.”
Thank you for that grin producing understatement of the year.
And if he could no more disown him than a member of his family, what does throwing him under the bus say about his family values?
I think there’s something amiss mentally when Obama can feel comfortable invoking sarcasm against those who disagree with the narrowly passed “reform”. We saw it first when he referred to “folks waving tea bags around”. Now he’s joking how Armageddon didn’t happen then a few days later saying imagine if farmers worried a day after planting seeds. It’s both “See? That didn’t hurt a bit.” and “Be patient. Nothing’s happened yet”. The unpresidential, stand-up comic/divisive tone is worrisome. Maybe Biden could fashion himself into an Ed McMahon sidekick. Does he think this will turn opposition towards him? Is he under such a bubble that he doesn’t realize the level of opposition?
One of the reasons I’ve frequently seen the President referred to as “sophomoric” is this tendency to act like a 20-year-old smarta**. He reminds me of one of my sons when he seems bent on proving that his frontal lobe is not yet fully developed. My reaction is the same, to get royally ticked off; I can usually bring my displeasure to bear on my son. Mr. Obama seems to not have had anyone available in his life to rein him in and teach him how to live his life and behave correctly towards others.
I can’t imagine that the President thinks this behavior will do anything other than enrage his opposition; my conclusion is that he does not care. He probably sees us as powerless and unimportant.
While my son will, I hope, outgrow his immaturity and some of his more annoying tendencies, I’m afraid the President’s mind and personality are permanently fixed, and not where we would want them to be.
His mother died of stomach cancer at 52. He looks like he has cancer also.
For those of you who think Biden would be worse: Biden is an American for sure and Biden does not hate America which are two important facts in his favor.
Biden is still a complete moron, with borderline criminal tendencies and was elected by legions of the same. How does one take comfort in this?
A moron, yes but, some of his best ‘flubs’ were ‘honesty’ (of all things).
I’ll take an honest moron over a lying piece of SHICACA!
Agreed, I’ll take stupid over malicious any day.
Biden’s a big supporter of Iran. Stupid and malicious.
Biden can’t even find America on a map.
Obama is constitutionally defective, but we all knew that. And all the problems created by Obama’s personality disorder are reversible, except one: He will allow Iran to develop nuclear and missile technology to the limit, enabling Iran to blackmail and/or murder millions. Which could be the beginning of the end of the world.
Other than that things will be alright.
Not to mention the purposeful (how could it not be?) weakening of the USA?
It’s as if O’Bowma is taping a giant “KICK ME” sign on our country’s unknowing [read 'sheeple'] backside!
Oh dear Roger, you can’t accuse The President of being a nutter. He is “clinically sane” until certified otherwise by a medical professional.
But among his other very obvious personality disorders Obie has one in common with Tony Blair. Both are solipsists. They create their own truth according to whim. It can be quite an amusing characteristic in a superannuated hippy stoner but I think most of us would rather our leaders had a grip on reality.
One does not need advanced credentials behind their name to determine whether Obama’s sanity leaves much to be desired. The opinions of psychiatrists, psychologists, or other mental health professionals should normally be taken more seriously. A layman must present an extraordinarily strong case if they wish to have their position treated respectfully.
As someone who grew up with insanity as the ‘norm’ I can attest to being keenly aware of the difference between ‘nuts’ and having a ‘really bad day/week’.
Tinfoil hat firmly in place, I see Obama as the spokesmodel chosen by leftists to implement their agenda, sort of their answer to Milli Vanilli. I can see Soros, Stern & Co. deciding they needed a charismatic candidate, preferably black (but not too black, and without a trace of “Negro dialect”) having academic credentials (although in fact rather poorly educated) to appeal to independents, but playing basketball to appeal to blacks, so they combed the leftist farm system (which I think had selected and groomed Obama the Red diaper baby starting with Frank Marshall Davis in Little League, moving up through single A ball at Columbia and then triple A ball in Chicago) for a weak and malleable type who would do what he was told. A born news anchor, intrinsically vapid, but with a good reading voice – perfect.
Surround him with handlers, market him like the Segway, load your views onto TOTUS, and try insofar as possible to keep him from speaking extemporaneously (for reasons becoming increasingly apparent), and you’ve got…Barack Obama.
That’s my take. Or am I out of line?
Out of line? Don’t know. What makes the Frank Marshall Davis -Obama link more interesting is that Vernon Jarrett, Valerie Jarrett’s future father-in-law, worked with Frank Marshall Davis in Chicago back in the 1940s. Strange coincidence. We know Valerie Jarrett as one in Obama’s inner circle.
Or Michelle Obama working at the same law firm as Bernadine Dohrn, Bill Ayer’s wife.
Really strange coincidences.
Thoroughly accurate analysis of handlers’ motives, in my view. Well done.
i knew he was crazy when i found out he still smoked. then he appointed a really fat woman as surgeon general. i mean, c’mon.
To Occam’s Beard: You are so correct! It’s not publicly uttered, but one of the major reasons BO was chosen by his handlers – e.g. Soros, Saudis, et al – was because he’s Black. They waited all these years for the perfect black man who could ruin America with NO resistance – a smooth-talker and not too dark, else he wouldn’t get elected (evidenced by Sharpton and Jackson). They tasked BO with taking down America and installing communism/socialism/Marxism — and they knew the only person who could succeed would be a Black man. Why? Because, no one would dare to push back on a Black man when he did his dirty deeds – no one would dare, because they knew they would be called a racist. No white man could possibly get away with what BO has. We would immediately demand that he knock off the Marxist crap! But, with a Black man, we are intimidated, as we stand by, wringing our hands and watching him destroy our country – all for the simple fear of being accused of racism. Look what happens if anyone ever complains about BO or attempts to push back…they jump on the race card and throw it at us. Obama’s America-hating handlers were extremely smart and perceptive when they picked a black man to “fundamentally transform America”. BTW, BO knows this, and takes full advantage of the race card. There were many, many suckers – half the voters – who cooperated, and who continue to cooperate, with their plan.
Sherlock @ 7:52, and GDT @ 8:00 am
Two terrific comments in a row! My thoughts exactly! A spoiled brat, lying, faking his ID, cupping his balls at the flag and national anthem, giving the finger on the sly, a regular little snot nose, with a big mouth and a mean streak.
And he gets away with it, too. How come? Easy.
Nobody’ll confront him on it, partly because otherwise intelligent and well-respected pundits like his fellow red-diaper baby David Horowitz, for one, who has accused outspoken, harsh, but truthful Obama detractors of Obama ODS (Obama Derangement Syndrome), and for another, call people concerned about Obama’s birth certificate and other records “infantile” and “unhinged,” as Victor Davis Hanson has done. The list is long.
“Ahh, but the strawberries that’s… that’s where I had them. They laughed at me and made jokes but I proved beyond the shadow of a doubt and with… geometric logic…”
The focus here is on BHO, and so was my previous comment, too.
But BHO isn’t running this country he is obviously incapable of doing so, he’s just the front guy. The deep pockets behind him call the shots (the Gates, Buffetts and the leftist billionaires, including that “operator” Soros), and the 30 something czars are the managers.
These handlers thought that he was doing a good job on TV and the cameras; now he isn’t any longer. They must be drafting alternative plans.
Roger,
While I think that you might be correct about Obama’s personality “disorder,” I also think that, without at least much of the same narcissistic tendencies, not very many people would ever subject themselves to the rigors and depredations of running for and holding high office in the U.S. That does not make our current dilemma any less dire, but perhaps may inform us of the difficulties we may yet face; many of the “elites” who would so gladly rule us and shape us to their preferred mold see Obama’s self-regard as not so unlike their own. This won’t be easy.
Also, to the many in this thread who see Obama as a plain-and-simple Marxist, I say that, although he was obviously influenced by Marxist cant, his views seem slightly different than that. I agree with some here who characterize him more as an early 20th century Progressive, even proto Fascist – the reincarnation of Woodrow Wilson and John Dewey, along with the reverse bigotry of their racist tendencies, morphed into a generally anti-American and academic deconstructionist mindset. I think he sees himself as sitting astride the “American horse” guiding her to the destination aimed at by Wilson and Roosevelt, holding aloft the shield of apology to the greater world, while working furiously to change us at almost any cost into a Socialist state with his favored elites and minorities at the posts he creates just below him. He barrows from Lenin only when it suits him to do so. His ideology, at least, is clearly American.
A “counter-revolution” is not the answer. I believe that the best answer to saving our individual liberty, our Republic and our Constitution is to hold our noses at the less than perfect and work very hard to dethrone the Democratic majorities in both houses this November. Talking is not enough, but, also, unrealistic and overheated talk of ending Obama’s time in office before his term ends is, while emotionally satisfying, not likely and probably counter-productive. Instead, all you who feel, like I do, that he must not be allowed to “transform” this country in the way he desires, must work hard at grass roots politics, perhaps for the first time in our lives. Get involved. Volunteer. Contribute money. Or, even, run for office. That is the best way we can contain and reverse what Mr. Obama has been trying to put into effect.
Good luck to us all.
These are just assumptions based on observation, but here goes.
1.)Abandoned by his Father. Father was an african leftist economist–at a time when that was not hip, to say the least.
2.)Shuttled around by his extremely flaky white mother, supported by his grandparents cash.
3.)After the shuttling around part of his life was over, he was raised basically as a white kid in hawaii, but when he looked in the mirror he saw black skin.
4.)When he got to college he found that white liberals worshipped the ground the walked on:he was a proto-messiah to them. He was black, but not so black that they had to clutch their man purses when he got into the elevator. It was at this point that he learned to become the “passive vessel” for other people’s expectations.
You know, I’m beginning to feel bad for the guy, all of that can’t be easy. But…he chose to govern in the way that he has and to pursue the agenda that he has. When you assume the office of the president, or any other responsibility as an adult, you have to put aside your baggage. He hasn’t done that.
That’s the problem. O’baby never had a real-time job where he was truly tested under pressure. There are people who can’t even handle ‘stardom’ and collapse.
No baby ‘o’ is in the ultimate pressure-cooker and the fragile mask is melting…
Not good. Not good.
After a couple years of nonstop exposure to this guy, I can truly say that I despise everything about him. I hate his face; I hate his voice; I hate his phony hog-jowl intonations and cadences; I hate his incessant stuttering and verbal blundering; I hate his little candyass trot up the stairs to Airforce One; I hate his mannerisms; I hate it all. But most of all I hate his lies and his insults. How could we have allowed the media elite to force this creature on us?
Those are all extremely annoying, to be sure. But I think they pale in comparison to the thing you should (and no doubt do) really hate: his ideas.
Me, too. Times a million.
Erkel meets Stalin.
Another priceless post–Erkel meets Stalin. Now THAT’s imagery!
We are trying to understand the strange character, but we do not have any point of reference or comparison, so we keep going in circles, unable to decide between “weird”, “bizarre” and any other adjective that might convey our puzzlement, without saying “alien”, because we are too polite for that. But here is a possible hint: As a young boy, this man was raised in Indonesia, in an Islamic society, where the prevailing rules of conduct are fundamentally different from our familiar paradigm. How much of our patterns of thought and social behavior come from childhood? Methinks a lot.
For instance, in Islamic societies, boys are given authority over girls, who do not have any comparable freedom of initiative. This, predictably, often turns boys, and later men, into what we would call “spoiled brats” in our culture. They get away with all kinds of evasion of responsibility, including lying as a tool of “logic”. What do we (westerners) mean by “being right”? What is meant in Islamic societies by “being right”? Can the availability of literal translations fool us into failing to appreciate the profound differences? When you pray to a God who condones hate, revealed by a prophet who beheaded several hundred Jews on his return to Mecca, what could the meaning of “being right” be to you? We should remember that our culture is based on ancient Greek notions of logic and Judeo-Christian code of morality. Easter and Passover are good times to remember who we are, culturally.
Our president is legally an American, but is he culturally an American? The question becomes important as we get sloppy in political discourse and mindlessly use the words “immigration” and “assimilation” as if they were automatic synonyms. What if the alien president is trying to assimilate us as a response to his failure to assimilate himself in America? Upon his return from Indonesia, he started associating with all kinds of counter-cultural aliens. Could that be related to a man raising the nation he is supposed to lead into an accelerating state of alarm, and giving a condescending 17 minutes answer to a simple question?
Hence his ‘idea’ of ‘fundamentally transforming America to HIS Peter-Pan/Robinhood Idealism as to what is ‘right & good’ ala Rev. Wright and “Chickens coming home to roost!”.
ObieWanDoobieBro is the ultimate midnight ‘infomercial’ on loop trying to sell his magic beans to his idea of Utopia as the world crumbles beneath his clay feet and when Americans say, “No! Enough already!”, Obie comes back with, “…But, that’s not all! If you act now…for only $___.00, you can have ‘free’ SOCIALISM and a MULE!”
Many great comments, only a few which I disagree, but most are not mentioning a most chilling aspect.
Of the 60MM+ who voted for Obama, perhaps 20% of them have admitted error or buyer’s remorse and moved on. I would estimate that at least 50MM citizens who voted Barack 2008 have so much of themselves invested in Obama, they will never admit fault or error, even if America really is sinking into the abyss. They are not capable as they are completely blind to the truth.
When possible, Obama only surrounds himself with those who fawn in his presence. Obama seldom ventures far from his protection of doting media, staff and fans. He still feels loved and admired. If there one thing Obama excels, it is the perpetual campaign where he is free to mock of opposition in front of clapping and adoring groupies. To Obama, this is still Jan. 2009 and he believes by the power of his presence he will win 2012; a 2010 Republican Congress in not really his concern, in fact may strengthen his resolve into believing he alone is capable of real transformation.
50MM sycophants swooning at your every word is real power. I do not think Obama is Hitler, or Lenin, or Marx, or even Richard Nixon. This is David Koresh.
The White House may not burn, but the episode of Obama will end very ugly; moreover, race relations will be irreparably damaged as many blacks will feel only white racism can explain away the defeat.
As someone who always thought racism was disgusting and ignorant, after the ‘OJ trial of the century’ where black people squealed with delight over OJ getting off for murdering his white ex-wife, it changed me in ways I never thought possible.
Now, with another ‘O’ black man, I see this same black racism all over again.
Troubling to say the least. :\
…at best he is only half black. His father was mixed arab-black from what I have heard.
he uses race just like he uses lies. to his advantage in the most dishonest of ways.
the “black” half abandoned him to make woopie with whoever whenever. this obviously set into motion a mental psychosis. since the young muslim man now had only women to take care of him …worst of all white women. infidel white women.
so it is a perverse payback of sorts. attacking those that helped him every step of the way.
still this is standard fare …welfare people do the same. (obamas life has been a welfare sort of upbringing. .. entitlements) …they hate those that made them beggars ..they never take the responsibly themselves for their lot in life.
I don’t see a good ending for anyone in all of this. the pain is about to start.
That evidence of black racism goes a long way to puncturing illusions about future racial harmony in the U.S. It doesn’t exist now and it’s not going to happen in the future. Litmus test: outrage over James Cone’s putrid black liberation theology. Ever hear of any in the legacy press? No? I didn’t think so.
QED. We shouldn’t expect a happy result from this long experiment in racial conciliation. 95% of blacks are in the bag for socialism, redistribution, dependency, revenge, and race privilege.
But remember, if the Big O, islam’s favorite President, has the mental collapse that increasingly he seems capable of, gads, President Biden !! Throw in the possibility of a Vice-President Pelosi, and it’s time for residence in a cave somewhere.
This presumes an intervention, medical & Congressional, when his madness reaches the screaming, drooling, inviting the jihadists to the WH Situation room, stage.
really scary that such a collection of clowns have been elected to congress / senate and the executive branch. you couldn’t write a script for this.
these people are F@%k!ng STUPID. ….
If Biden becomes President, then he will get to pick his VP. Pelosi only becomes president if Barry and Biden both become ineligible at the same time.
One thing I find especially disturbing about Obama that no one seems to mention is the LOGO. What gives with that? Can one person name for me ONE US President who is instantly identified with a logo? This sounds harsh, but to normal Americans, a swastika is instantly recognized and associated with Hitler. I can’t think of a another logo besides Hitler’s and Obama’s that are instantly recognized by Americans as identifying a major world (good or bad) leader.
Also, with his Yale educated wife who worked as an administrator in a HOSPITAL, why did we hear almost NOTHING from Michelle re:the infamous health care bill? One could easily think that a lawyer with an ivy league degree and actual hands-on career experience in the health care field should have had a lot to say about the subject and the process. Hillary Clinton in 91 and 92 sure had a lot to say, and she didn’t have the career Michelle had.
Last, Obama absolutely, besides his narcissim, projects the behavior of an abusive person. I swear that’s why so many people irrationally love the guy- he’s actually quite emotionally abusive. I have met enough abusers who know how to work the system and how to get a person to conform by emotional isolation, rejection, artificial favoritism, and then abuse if the person doesn’t behave to elevate the ego maniac. It’s stunning that so many in the media don’t see it- it’s disturbing. Thank goodness for normal healthy Americans who feel empowered from birth and freedom to take control of their lives, thoughts, and attitudes who don’t get sucked into Obamaphilia.
Pepsi Zero?
Your last statement seems to be in line with what he tried to do with Major and FOX, and his adm tries to do with Beck in particular>
Obama is a bully. A spoiled boy child that has a tantrum if things to do not his way. He retaliates by trying to belittle, and talk down to people…
Why hasn’t Michelle said almost nothing about Health Care Reform, in spite of her being an attorney who has worked for a health care organization?
When it became that Michelle had a propensity for saying things that teed people off, such as her remark about finally being able to be proud about America, she got muzzled. How many votes might she have lost if her voice had been allowed free rein?
Perhaps those in opposition should start a campaign to let Michelle speak more freely. The more she speaks, the more she hurts her husband. Unmuzzle Michelle!
Yes, obviously, but if there’s anything Obama has proven, it’s the fact that almost nothing an ignorant, incompetent person could say that isn’t “corrected” by a good teleprompter! Be that as it may, that still doesn’t explain the fact that Brian Williams, Katie Couric, the View whatever their names, etc. never ask Michelle for specific information re:health care. Weird- the self-respecting woman in me in her shoes would have been ticked off to have my professional expertise so shockingly ignored and dismissed.
good point …she would end his presidency in no time at all. obviously there is some one who is clever enough and diplomatic enough to keep the commie %#%^#& quiet.
Simon !!!
I must say I am intrigued by this novel slant. No one I can thing of has ever suggested that a political persuasion opposite one’s own represents a mental health disorder.
This is a brilliant revelation which doubtless will bring new rhetorical elements to the discourse on free speech and political science.
I applaud you Sir.
The name you’re missing is Michael Savage. (“Liberalism is a Mental Disorder”)
Don: I’m surprised your powerful brain is unfamiliar with the work of George Lakoff. He’s a Progressive, like you. He likes publishing “studies” indicating political opinions are the result of genetics and other villainies; he may even have invented the art form. A Google search will reveal other faux scholarly papers from Progressives suggesting the same thing.
Reading improves the mind.
don’t be so stupid Don, it isn’t becoming.
The once proud and still beautiful but now pitiful country of Venezuela has at least one remaining vital function: she is a caged canary in a coal mine, and the canary is suffocating under el Presidente Chávez. If we don’t see the parallels between President Obama and Chávez, then we are not looking very hard.
True, Obama is not yet a Chávez clone — Obama does not publicly and in so many words embrace Socialism or Communism, and feigns offense when it is suggested that he does. However, Chávez is Obama on steroids and has had much more time in office than Obama. Both are narcissistic and probably mentally ill. Chávez’s former domestic allies, including even a principal ideological mentor, are deserting him “for health reasons.” Chávez controls the media, and it seems likely that Obama (to the extent that he does not already do so) wants to.
The United States under Obama continues to twist her foreign policy to favor her enemies and to punish her friends. The mess in Honduras — where the U.S. continues to exert unwanted and unwarranted influence to dignify ex president Zelaya, Chávez’s somewhat mentally deficient acolyte — is a disgrace. Ditto the treatment of Israel and England.
Meanwhile, Venezuela is going down the toilet economically and in just about every other respect. Obama seems to be trying to work similar magic on the U.S. The U.S. needs to get back to her basic foundations before it is too late.
The big question is, Will she?
You’ve see this?
http://www.amazon.com/Barack-Obama-Promise-Child-Hope/dp/1416971440
This is straight up 70′s style 3rd world communist propaganda.
“The U.S. needs to get back to her basic foundations before it is too late.
The big question is, Will she?”
The odds are in our favor. Rasmussen and other legitimate pollsters report that the majority of American likely voters are on our side. Those merely described as registered voters of little consequence. There are two immediate goals that must be achieved:
1.) We must all vote for Republican candidates unless there is a very good reason for not doing so. The Democrats no longer represent a national party. They can normally attract only voters in the bluest of areas. Purple state voters are abandoning the Democratic Party in droves. This must continue for the foreseeable future.
2.) More Americans must realize that only the hard science credentials awarded by the Ivy League universities are usually worthy of respect. The softer ones are more often than not a joke. Things were bad enough when Bill Buckley publicly criticized Yale University in the early 1950s. It got much worse after the inflated grades became the norm for minorities in the 1960s. The white majority students got their piece of the action no later than 1975. Harvey Mansfield even had to apologize for having to give out phony grades. Countless voters cast their ballots for the shabbily educated Barack Obama because they were impressed with his Columbia and Harvard degrees. They had no idea concerning the extent of the fraud. The silly Van Jones even brags that he chose Yale University because it apparently doesn’t even bother to grade a large number of its students.
When Bill Clinton was running in the Democrat Primaries the rumors started to surface about him, after he won the primaries and questions were being asked about him we started to hear, “Character doesn’t matter what is important is his ideology, which is good for the country.” So the old process of running your own operation research program against your candidate to figure out his weaknesses, before supporting him started to fall by the way side. As long as he gave a good speech and had the “right” politically correct ideology or just belonged to the right group in the Democrat party, he was good to go. more and more since the late 60′s people who wouldn’t have been let anywhere near the nominating process or the White House have been taking control. Birds of a feather flocking together. Soon they’ll find the character issue biting them hard. I think some are already finding out that if a person lies about his person he’ll lie about everything and the people who brought him to the prom will be under the bus with everybody else.
@ justasimplepatriot: Maslow’s Silver Hammer
If all you have is a hammer and sickle…
When someone opposes your program,
You beat them down or cut them off.
@ johnt et. seq.: Chin up
FDR also had this mannerism
@ Occam’s Beard: Whose Front Man ?
Does it really matter who is sending
the messages to Obama’s Blackberry ?
If this goes on, the People need to order
their (newly installed) CongressCritters
to review the Constitutional provisions
for Impeachment of the POTUS, and maybe
for one or more members of the SCOTUS.
The key point is that if the VP resigns,
the POTUS gets to choose his replacement,
before resigning himself, to avoid being
impeached, a la Nixon; This could result
in a competent centralist caretaker in
the White House for the remainder of O’s
first, and last term in office.
OMG, Nixon was NOT IMPEACHED!!! You must have gone to one of our public schools of stupid!!!!!!
Yeah, the pussy resigned from office.
That ‘impeached’ shittola needs to be put to rest.
I am a ’46 model Boomer.
I watched the whole sad
show live and in color.
Were either of you two
born back then ?
Nixon resigned to avoid
impeachment because, as
he said ‘I have lost my
support in Congress’.
_Hopefully_ Obama would
do the same thing in the
same circumstances.
We’ve elected dysfunctional presidents before and survived, but the current situation is particularly dangerous, because President Obama can act without any restraint from Congress and vice versa, and neither seems to understand the danger we and our economy are in.
What’s more worrisome to me is that he still has close to a 50% approval rating. We’ve been financing all this spending with bonds, but those are increasingly expensive and we don’t seem to understand what the other alternatives are, raising taxes or simply renouncing our debt.
50% of the people pay almost 100% of the income taxes.
The other 50% vote Democratic.
Psychology aside, this man is not fit to govern because he is not qualified. His gruel thin resume should have been thrown in the trash can before the first primary. His complete and utter lack of any meaningful experience is a joke. He truly is an affirmative action President. I pray we vote him out in 2012. This country will not easily survive seven more years of his incompetence. Next time we vote a black man president, let’s judge him on the content of his experience and not the color of his skin.
I would say there are many good black men and women that will now be over looked for many years to come, because of Obama and his crap. What a disappointment he is to our country. Although I think he is exactly who he intends to be…a man out to change America for the worse to come in line with his socialists belief system ..of the redistribution of other people’s hard earned money to people that do not want to put out the effort others do to achieve .
My husband and I now turn the channel when ever Obama is on..
MLK had it right…the content of a man’s character… America in general didn’t care about Obama’s character, they just wanted “change” without looking at the pile of poop they were stepping in by not looking past “words just words”….
Testing 1, 2, 3
“I recently presented a scenario of Romney vs. Obama to her, and she really struggled with it. She’s still very socially liberal, and that drives much of her decision making process. She’s willing to admit that Romney’s not a huge SoCon, and would seriously consider voting for him. That’s an enormous admission for her to make.”
I hate to say this, but your wife and, likely, rabbi, sound far gone. Any Jewish person who cannot discern they have been abandoned by the Democratic party is far gone in my book. I like the description of the “mentally deranged Left” versus the “useful idiots” category.
Either way, way too many of our co-religionists and leaders fall into these categories. Obama is the latest, most recent example, but really, if we uncover our eyes, we see, Carter, McKinney, even Pelosi and Hillary Clinton, who are either biased against Israel or appease constituents who are, (see Pelosi and California).
People who tend to be religious and believers in a strong military are Israel’s core supporters whether they are Christians, Jews, African American or Latino. They come in all stripes, believe, I met them at the recent AIPAC conference, though, perhaps, not as large in numbers as we need.
My fellow Jews, on the other hand, are a great disappointment and have little to say with many family and friends.
a great disappointment.
Pray for those who have fallen away.
PRAY.
Pray for our enemies.
PRAY.
The power of PRAYER should NEVER be UNDEREStimated.
Believe in miracles. Keep positive thoughts. DO NOT let this current administration stomp out your faith and hope in hours of darkness.
These Jews are similar to their liberal Catholic and Protestant allies: they are existentially committed to secularism. Abortion is deemed to be something of a secular sacrament. Everything else is apparently of secondary importance. Do they even have enough children to replace them? Will there even be such a thing as a “reform” Jew in fifty years? Secularists are ultimately suicidal.
one word…Shanda!
Introducing, president Barack the Bamboozler, the Regent of Rope-a-Dope. Your jaw will hang open! Your head will spin! When will the malarkey end?!
Please Mr. President, we understand just fine: what you really mean, is, “I don’t really know, but if I talk long enough, everybody will forget the question.”
Works every time. (Sort of.)
In my strenuous experience with the Left, the take-away was this: none of them actually care one whit about “the poor, the disenfranchised, the exploited, the oppressed.” It is all self-indulgence. Given that, I am utterly unsurprised that Obama is behaving so strangely.
I had misgivings about him from the start. I wasn’t thinking mental though, I was thinking more about political ideology. Yeah, I’ve been thinking deranged for quite a while now. His inabiltiy to give speeches that are unprepared and his ackwardness during Q&A makes me think of a puppet. Once the teleprompters are off his strings are no longer controlled which leads to the aimless babbling.
Nothing to add that hasn’t been said already. Pajamas Media readers, per usual, provide the most thoughtful and reasoned comments on the web. Trolls mostly on vacation too, woo-hoo!!!
Happy Easter everybody. Jesus Christ is risen today. Hallelujah.
Roger, the question is not what is wrong with Obama. Based on what we knew about him before his election, nothing Obama has done nor the way he has acted should surprise us. (Greek Temple anyone?) The real question is what has happened to the Democratic Party?
Perhaps we can start to understand what has happened by taking the advice of a late associate director of the FBI –”Follow the Money”.
P.S., The left got rid of Freud a quarter of a century ago. The vogue is now to take pills.
March 30 2010
THERE ARE TWO SIDES TO EACH COIN.
President Obama is against building settlements in occupied land I agree whole- heartedly because……..
A bunch of people known as the UN (who are biased) divided a region known as Palestine, which left many homeless, they gave part of this stretch to many who fled Europe, where they had lived for decades. Consequently , we should not tarry but return the complete track of land to whoever was before them.
Obama fairness and sense of evenhandedness reference the Israel/Palestinian question is laudable, but precisely because of this evenhandedness he should also work for the return of the America to the Indians. The Falkland Island to Argentina, Gibraltar to Spain, New Zealand to the Maoris, Australia to the aboriginals, the Kurli Island to Japan. It’s a big job, but I am sure that with the help of Emanuel R. and David who have excelled themselves by pointing Israel in the right direction, and have the savoir fair he would succeed.
Kudo to the President though overburdened and stretched out in Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan, where weekly bombing and anarchy rules, he finds the time to focus on prohibiting the building of dwellings in Jerusalem.
It consequently makes sense as The US Dept spokesperson Mr Philip J.Crowley pointed out that though Israel has a right to defend itself , military action would not solve the Middle East conflict ,therefore Israel and the Palestinians Authority need to engage in direct negotiations.
Mr. Crowley is absolutely right, consequently I respectfully suggest, a
Complete withdrawal of all troops from Afghanistan, Pakistan, and proceed
To talk to Bin Laden.
Reference the Palestinians. There is not a spot on earth devoid of former inhabitants. Be advised, there never was a Palestinian culture, language, government, or a coinage. The present day Palestinians are Arab people with an Arab culture, who have their own Arab states from where they came into Palestine. It is from the term Philistine that the name Palestine has been taken, also known as Aelia Capitolina the original people of this region were the Canaanites who intermarried with those who came out of Egypt.
Further more: Arab refugees in Israel began identifying themselves as part of a Palestinian people in 1967, two decades after the establishment of the modern State of Israel. 3. Since the Jewish conquest in 1272 B.C.E. the Jews have had dominion over the land for one thousand years with a continuous presence in the land for the past 3,300 years. 4. Arabs have only had control of Israel twice – from 634 until the Crusader invasion in June 1099, and from 1292 until the year 1517 when they were dispelled by the Turks in their conquest. 5. For over 3,300 years, Jerusalem has been the Jewish capital.
Now to the beef:
The Israeli/Palestinian dilemma is a side issue and irrelevant, in the Global power play. It is of substance only to a handful of people. The main player is Islam, and its propagation of Islam world wide, ending with the establishment of the Caliphate. This is nolens volens supported by the West’s addiction to oil. I dare say, the Muslims are on the right track, they have proven it in Europe, Ms. Ayaan Hitsi Ali can attest to it. The archbishop Tom Butler of Southwark, and The arch bishop of Canterbury have somewhat come to conclusion that the Sharia law might be acceptable ………It’s a giant step for Islam. They have achieved a lot in spreading out into the western world. If Israel would disappear tomorrow, Islam’s Drang nach Westen would have problems. Where would they find pronto a minority of people who fight among themselves and plead to be accepted? To keep the Arab street busy, their leaders would have to channel their hate/rage to someone else….Not easy. It takes patience and nurturing to instill new hatred.
…..In the mean time Islam spreads. It will take time, but they think in centuries, and are willing to pay any price, even with blood. The leader’s kids visit the exclusive Universities in the States while the poor suckers are fed with hatred in their madrassas (schools) and learn to shout “Lttbach al Yhood” (kill the Jews). Matter of fact the earliest biographers of Muhammad, Ibn Ishaq and Ibn Sa’d both zealous Muslims record his telling, his followers at a certain point : “Kill any Jew that falls in your power.” That was centuries before Israel. How come they abhorred us then? Did we “occupy” any territories?
The rich Arab countries love it. If the masses would recognize that they are being used, they might revolt. The rulers don’t want it, the West wants to keep the beast on the leash, so they play ball, and balance, “divide and conquer”. Otherwise it might slow down, the flow of oil…and oil is thicker than blood….so the pendulum what is right, fair and just is subjective and fluctuates. The modus operandi of the UN towards Israel is indicative of their actions.
“Between 1967 and 1988, there were 88 Security Council resolutions
passed against Israel and not one criticizing a single Arab nation or
The PLO. In that same time span, the U.N. General Assembly passed 429 anti-Israel resolutions.”
The U.N. Human Rights Commission (it really takes a lot of self-control not to put facetious quotation marks around all U.N. titles) included Zimbabwe, China, Ukraine, Algeria, Bahrain, Congo, Libya, Sudan, Russia, Syria, Uganda and Vietnam — all strongholds of civil liberty. Some time ago, the commission passed a pro-terrorist resolution condoning “all available means, including armed struggle” to establish a Palestinian state. Six European Union members joined the 57 nations of the Islamic Conference in legitimizing suicide bombers.
Some Arab countries supply Suicide Bombers and arms, instead of constructive aid. Did any European or American Agency “Do Gooders” ever take them to task about it? The oil depending west and vast alluring open markets of the Arab world dictates a benevolent policy of the West towards Islam. To divert any fire of discontent from the depth of their citizens, the Arab leaders chain their masses to a hatred of Israel, who without the diplomatic, financial, subsides, by the superpower, which is turned off and on, Israel would have a tough time to survive,
Obviously there are no free lunches. There is a charge.
President Obama made it quite clear who calls the shots during his last meeting with Netanyahu, , building in East Jerusalem is streng verboten.
YET
Jerusalem is the capital of Israel, (and not one inch can be negotiated)
just as Teheran is the capital of Iran, and Damascus the Capital of Syria. No Superpower had and dared to push Iran and Syria around whether they can build housing.
Yet Biden found it an affront, when on his visit, construction went on in East Jerusalem, so did Hillary giving BiBi a phone dressing down. David Axelrod followed suit, all emphasizing their great concern they have for Israel.
Politicians are, opportunists, and Hillary is one par excellence. She will say anything to embrace power, once elected, directions change. Case in point; in 1999, and 2007 when she was running for Senator and President, she enunciated “I personally consider Jerusalem the eternal AND INDIVISIBLE CAPITAL OF ISRAEL. From a Real Politik’s point, Hillary wins, Might is Right, Kissinger was a master of it, he told his Iraqi counterpart about Israel,
“We can reduce its size to historic proportion”
This reminds me of my school-days when the bully in class pushed his weight around.
The so called “Palestinians” want pre-conditions, and cessation of building on Israeli territories before negotiations.
Obama acquiesced to their demand. Emanuel R. and David A. Obama’s Jewish advisors echoed their master’s voice with double vigor.
In spite of Obama’s speech in Cairo to the Moslem world, “if countries like Iran are willing to unclench their fists, they will find, from us an extended hand” he hasn’t gotten anything in return, matter of fact;
Drastic sanctions against Iran have been put on the back burner. It is China and Russia who make these decisions.
Obama’s posture and dealing with Israel proves that might reigns supreme. Dealing with the Moslem world it is, “ diplomacy” for lack of another word, ( rightfully so, there are over a billion believers)
Interestingly, about 78% of the Jewish vote went to Obama, and Jews were in the forefront fighting for the right of African Americans.
Speaking from an Israeli point of view: Over the millenniums Israel has survived bigger hurdles, and will survive, with or without Obama.
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If the “Palestinians” want to negotiate Allahn muhsallem
(They are welcome) let them come and sit across the table, no repetition of their refusal sitting with Jews at the table St. James Palace Feb 7th 1939.
The current question is , who does Israel negotiates with today?
League Chief Amr Abbass has No power to implement any agreement, Hamas is in charge, and Hamas charter reads.
“…..The Islamic Resistance movement believes that the land of Palestine has been an Islamic Waqf throughout the generations, no one can renounce it or part of it…and no Arab king or president nor all of them in the aggregate of all organizations, be they Palestine or Arab, because Palestine is an Islamic Waqf throughout all generations. The so-called peaceful solutions, and the international conferences to resolve the Palestinian problem, ARE ALL CONTRARY TO THE BELIEF OF THE ISLAMIC RESISTANCE MOVEMENT. ETC
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Besides any treaty signed by Moslems may be broken if Allah wills it, see their treaty with the Bani Quraytha Jews.
Unfortunately Israel does not have Menachem Begin who summoned the U.S ambassador to Israel and read to him the following statement.
“…….Now you once again declare that you are punishing Israel, what kind of an expression is this-Are we a vassal of state of yours? Are we a banana republic? Are we youths of fourteen who if they don’t behave properly are slapped across the fingers. The people of Israel have 3700 years without a memorandum of understanding with America- and will continue to live for another 3700 etc
Obviously BiBi is no Begin.
In summation: First and foremost: The west (especially Europe with their large Moslem citizens) is in fear of Islam. Either way you slice it, the unbridgeable point is, the Arabs do not want Israel in the Middle East. 1) Peace is a home grown process; No Obama pushing Israel will bring it about. 2) If the current Arab rulers change their curriculum of Israel hatred in their schools 3), and if the new generation embraces tolerance LEBEN UND LEBEN LASSEN. It would work, short of this, all talk/, Madrid/ Oslo/Camp David/ Obama,
Is blowing in the wind
Cordially Jack Glasner5906 Crystal Shores Dr 107 Boynton Beach Fl 33437 E mail: Bavno@Aol.com
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I’ve been wondering the same thing. I can’t quite put it into words but there’s something wrong with this guy. Maybe you’re right or maybe it’s something else…but there’s something wrong with this guy. My prayer is for the nation to survive this guy.
Only those who have never been around hard core drug users would call Obama’s pathology a “personality disorder”. To me he is no different than the brain destroyed potheads or crank brain shrank people. Sad but there are many druggies like him and they work in Congress, in journalism and vote. We are seeing the result of “experimentation”.
A narcissist scarcely concealed,
Did roger a dame that did yield.
But only so far,
In the next Civil War
Was the mask successfully peeled
Could be narcissistic personality disorder or borderline personality disorder, or even high-functioning schizophrenia.
It seems though that a large percentage of american nig-nogs are filled with hatred for America, just look at what their fake “churches” are.
I think it’s time to bear down on the nig-nogs, rather than giving them african affirmative american action, make them conform to the rules the rest of us play by, or else let them stew in their own broth without subsidized jobs.
What have they really contributed? Answer: not a whole hell of a lot.
I understand that Obama is a sociopath, but how do you explain his followers?
simple …they are stupid.
no need for complicated reasons.
What’s a “nig-nog”??????
“Nig-nog” a racial epithet for a black person.
How intriguing that the original racist comment has been on this site, unchallenged, since Easter evening.
Masterpiece! Your best blog yet. Socialist? Yes. Narcissist? Absolutely.
This is all so ironic because….so many from the right thought this wierdo’s TEMPERAMENT was what we needed NOW!!! It is really very simple: the man is a colossal liar. He is like all authoritarian personalities who have to operate in a sphere which resists his politics. He has to temporize, obfuscate, deny, backtrack, and in every sense of the word lie his way into existence. If you had to pretend, to hide, to bob and weave every day, to hide your tracks to advance you innermost desires, wouldn’t you not only feel just a tech schizo but appear that way as well? Put this perversion in charge of Cuba and you would witness a great falling away of all the tics and “disorders” that many find troublesome and downright dangerous. He would be in his element and thus free to be himself. A fascist.
Socialist? Narcissist? In the Carnegie classes we
identified sales people that were not confident
in their product knowledge or in the quality of
the product by their aimless ramblings. In his
17 minutes of fame he was trying to paint a
pretty picture on his socialist agenda and he
displayed that he has no confidence in the agenda.
Yes, and most good salesman are narcissists.
Right now..at this precise moment in history, I don’t care how Obama feels about anything but America. I do not believe he has our best interest at heart…therefore has no concern for our friends overseas. I do believe he is out to destroy America as we know her..
I am reminded of OJ. A person who strikes me as someone in total belief of the lies he’s told so often, and the validation received through the criminal court system. Now I’m not anything like a mental health professional, but when I see the take over of private industry, financial industry, the health industry, all the while being told to not believe your lying eyes, well……
As I similarly posted on the WaPo site –
He could have answered her straight up and said: “Yes, it makes sense, because (1) I am all about the expansion of governmental powers into every facet of your life, and (2) It takes a tremendous amount of money to accomplish that – money which I know far better how to spend than any of you.”
Done – in a little over 10 seconds, and everybody goes home with a clear understanding.
Tragic that nearly half the country still mistakes this guy’s bullsh*t with brilliance.
Read The Obama Timeline at http://www.colony14.net and learn how we got into this predicament. The Timeline has more than 10,000 references and reveals virtually every know fact about Obama.
You are the weirdo….and naive to expect any politician to stop talking. Stick to the facts and you wont be wrong. Opinions are just that….not worth much but helps your ego. I have seen so much garbage about Obama with little truth to substantiate opinions. It is no good to rant on as you do. Be different from the other talking heads and provide the facts. Where were you when George Bush trashed the economy ? Where were you when he declared a war against that was based on a lie…..yes a lie ! I and others opposed the war because it made no sense, Al-Qaeda is our enemy and there was never any connection with Saddam. Saddam was a mad man who would never share power. How could anyone with an once of reason come to the conclusion that Bush and others had…..I will also say the samething about the democrats who agreed with him.
Broadcasting opinions based on a stretech of your imagination doesn’t help our country….it just feeds your ego.
I understand that one of the US Supreme Court judges made the comment that the question of the President’s birth place was not an idle question and was of interest to the Supreme Court. However, they rejected addressing it several times. If the Court were to hear the case and were to discover that Obama was born in Kenya (per his wife’s statement) vs USA, and were to determine that his being born to a USA citzen mother was not adequate for him to be President, would his actions performed under the title of President be valid or void? Would it be appropriate for your to forward this question to appropriate legal domain for the country?
I agree with everything you say in most of your posts, but as a Nixon admirer I wish you would refrain from the old hash that RN was weird or some such locution! Nixon had the mixed blessing of governing in a time when your country was under attack from 1. domestic destruction and 2. foreign spats of ridicule and sabotage opting for continued war in Asia/Vietnam conflict!
The ‘episode’ at the Pentagon late 1967 proved how volatile your country was at the time. Fifty millimeter cannons were readied to fire at mobs who would stop at nothing to destroy the military ‘establishment’, and no other Republican President but Nixon would have shown equal calm and perseverance during this turmoil!!
Nixon deserves RESPECT for what he achieved DESPITE your press ‘freedom’…abused in interior squabbles!
The Watergate affair would be smoothed over had it been connected to the present ‘administration’…
The Bible was written and compiled by saintly men, prophets, who were not slave owners nor slave traders, nor thieves, nor murderers, nor sexual gluttons. The Koran was written by a man who was all those things. So which one does Obama refer to as “holy”? Yeah, that’s right. For Obama it’s the “Holy Koran”. People who hold the Bible as holy, Obama mocks as “angry clingers”. So Obama’s claim to be Christian should be viewed with the same skepticism, nay, disbelief, as his oath to uphold and protect the Constitution.
So chillingly TRUE, Patrick!
The Koran also claims itself to be “the ACTUAL and UNALTERABLE word of God” so no room for reformation there. Also allah says HE Predestines EVERYTHING even down to your belief or not in HIM. But he also says HE will “punish in eternal Hellfire” all those who do NOT believe in HIM.
So allah is far from the merciful Christian and Jewish God so far in fact that this evil sadist creates beings with the SOLE purpose of punishing them in hellfire as I have just demonstrated.
Dear Mr. Simon,
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Would it be possible for you to add a link to my site from your Blogroll section? I have already exchanged links with a few sites you have listed. If so, I greatly appreciate it. I look forward to reading your daily contributions and I will link directly to you.
Sincerely,
Thomas Bryan
Thanks Roger for being the first media person to speak the truth about Obama’s mind. On top of his leftist policies he is, as you suggest, a weirdo and a real mental case.
1. He is a malignant narcissist. Everything is about him.
2. He is a pathological liar. He doesn’t just lie like most politicians lie. He lies effortlessly and is incapable of telling the truth.
3. He’s a phony. He pretends he’s a he-man, when he’s a girly man. He pretends to be intellectual, when he’s an illiterate. He pretends to be caring, when he is cruel. He pretends to be patriotic, when he hates everything that made America great.
4. He’s schizophrenic.
5. He’s juvenile. The guy behaves like a big baby. Look how he treated the Supreme Court judges, the republicans of congress, our allies, especially Bibi Netanyahu.
But even more frightening than Obama’s mental disorders is the way the media acts as his enablers. If the media did its job for even one week, all of America would see what an absolute fruitcake the guy is.
I disagree with Simon. I don’t like Obama’s policies, but I don’t think he’s unhinged. Simon’s “evidence” is that Obama talked for a long time. Uh, like, come on. The guy was a professor. That’s what professors do, they talk on, and on, and on. They love it. Put that together with a politician and the result can be worse, especially if the politician is an ideologue leftist who doesn’t always sufficiently see the limitations of his own views, and therefore thinks it very valuable if people hear him speak. Is Obama unhinged, and a megalomaniac? No more than other politicians. To succeed as a politician requires some pretty phenomenal self-confidence, shading into megalomania. No, his problem is that he’s post-American — and like many other politicians has bad ideas about governing.
I always thought there was something creepy about Obama.
Glad to see I’m not alone. Defeat him and the zombies that follow him.
Obama is definitely psychotic and will be the last president this country ever elects.
A couple of days after signing the health-care bill, BO taunted the critics: “The sun came up, there were no asteroids, no Armageddon ….” He sounded like a playground bully, making an absurd argument. Nobody said the effects would all be obvious in two or three days!
A few days later he said, in the same punk-child tone: “It was signed a week ago, and this and that hasn’t happened… It’s like the farmer who plants seeds and comes back a week later and says, ‘No crops! Oh no, we’re going to starve!’”
So after telling us that a couple of days was plenty of time to see the results, he then told a parable saying it was ridiculous to expect results within a week!
Evidently he doesn’t realize, or care, when he is completely, utterly contradicting himself. And it has happened before.
The worst American president evaha can’t think and talk. He has never successfully completed anything by himself, didn’t have a teleprompter so he couldn’t answer a direct question. He is so practiced at dodging a question, he can’t answer one–he just can’t do it. To dumb to be president–non functional!
Just the way Roger Simon decided to title his piece says it for me, and I quess it resonates with a whole lotta other folks,judging by the response,as well.
An inundation of every misfit, every kooky notion, and every failed idea that has passed for “progressive intellectual thought” from the past decades(and centuries)has been unleashed on the public simultaneously.
None of it being anything you would want to touch on with a ten-foot pole.Yeah, it is weird and with wierdness ya get creepiness too.
I don’t disagree with those who claim Obama may be a narcissist, but that is hardly surprising among successful politicians, now is it? I could name 15 or 20 of them off the top of my head — although Obama is an extreme case.
I’m glad people are beginning to see Obama as who he is. Many people think we can weather the man’s time in office. If in November we are able to weaken or overthrow the democrats in Congress, our system of government will work as it was designed to blunt his agenda. If our votes count that is. George Soros has a project working real hard to elect state and local officials in key states in order to guarantee democratic victories. Here is my post on that-
http://truthandcommonsense.com/2010/03/29/stealing-the-election-democrats-in-ohio-tune-up-for-november/
There is no guarantee our votes will count everywhere they are cast, so be vigilant. Further, as in my novel “REVOLT” (www.revoltthebook.com) the President is a man of damaged psyche, narcissistic, from a broken home, a poor capability to handle rejection or criticism, a belief he was destined to rule, and an ability to do what is necessary, even if it is harmful to the public, to guarantee HIS survival. Is Obama a monster like the book’s President Fontaine? No, I don’t think so, he is just a damaged man at the controls of YOUR nation and a leader of the free world during a time of great threat. Which means nothing good will come of his time in office. Then again, I could be in error…
What can go wrong? How many of you remember Waco? Last night a cable channel ran the 1997 documentary Waco Rules of Engagement and I took the time to watch it again. As I said in my post before you think “nutjob conspiracy theorist” I was a detective during that time period and hardly alone in the outraged and horrified reaction to the outcome of the final assault on the compound. Now the “hut hut team” members in my department were more supportive of the way the FBI handled it, but even they didn’t have an answer to the question I asked, “What crime did those babies commit to justify gassing and burning them to death?” The answer is none. For those of you who have visited my site you know as a professional law enforcement officer my motto was a simple one, “First do no harm.” If you found yourself harming innocent people in the name of the law, there had better be NO other way out. None.
What I found so revealing about the documentary was not the incident as much as how the leftists in the Clinton administration viewed their actions. Which brings me back to Obama’s capability to do harm. Does he have that mental governor that prevents men from doing things that harm innocents. GWB, for all the criticism he took, was a man of supreme humility and worried daily about the actions of his government. I knew people who knew him and the consensus was he believed he was a steward of the nation, not a ruler, unlike many of the current leadership.
Would Pelosi or Reid or Obama blink even once if the raid in MI went south and people were killed? No. Would they blink if another “cult” was burned to death or shot up? How about if a number of “tea party” protesters were gassed or beat or arrested?
Here is my post- http://truthandcommonsense.com/2010/04/11/speaking-to-the-madness-that-consumes-good-mens-hearts/
We must be vigilant. We must be willing to step up and protect other citizens when they are under assault from an aggressive element of the government. My novel is about that moment. The characters involved are not superheroes, just men and women who have decided this is where they are going to make a stand for freedom.
I wrote it as a political/action thriller, not intending to have it turn into a history text. If we stand in November and overwhelm the left’s attempt to steal elections we may keep story where it belongs. If not, well history is filled with nations in crisis and people who take stands that make a difference.
We must take that stand or explain to our children how we let their freedom slip away.
Congratulations, America. You’ve finally bitten the bullet and saddled yourselves with a Gordon Brown. Good luck with that. The UK has seen at first hand what it is like to have a thin-skinned, paranoid, pseudo-intellectual narcissist at the helm. It ain’t pretty. If Obama or Brown were as smart as they thought they were, the damage might not be so catastrophic (because all really smart people are humble.) But Obama and Brown are firmly in helmsman-of-his-people mode, despite the both of them being very seriously cognitively deficient. Mediocre intellects coupled with untrammelled self-belief are very dangerous. To add to the eerie parallels, the conservative opposition in Britain is, like the GOP as it is currently constituted, as much use as a chocolate teapot, erroneously thinking that it has to tack left to outflank New Labour, when a bit of red-meat small-statism would see it romp home with a landslide. Luckily for all of us we have the Tea Party contingent, which might – might – apply the necessary corrective force to steer the good guys in the right direction. Any such movement in the UK is too inchoate to make a difference. Ah well, it was nice knowing you, Anglo-American Alliance. I got out a long time ago, but I feel like a Weimar Jew watching my homeland slide into destruction.
I just simply say Bravo!
That’s really peculiar.. I’ve not really experienced anything like that..