[CS-FSLUG] OT: VERY, VERY good!

[Fred A. Miller]

This is not only a very timely and important article, but
very welcome as well. I've known that Obama is a Marxist
for some time and suspected that he's also a narcissist, based
on my limited understanding of that term. Dr. Vaknin has not
only assured me that I was not only correct, but I've learned
even more about those who are narcissistic. Dr. Vaknin is
the world's #1 authority on narcissism.

Fred
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Dr. Sam Vaknin

http://noiri.blogspot.com/2009/02/president-day-look-at-obama.html
Monday, February 16, 2009

PRESIDENT DAY LOOK AT OBAMA
Dr. Sam Vaknin has written extensively about narcissism.

Dr. Vaknin States "I must confess I was impressed by Sen. Barack Obama
from the first time I saw him. At first I was excited to see a black
candidate. He looked youthful, spoke well, appeared to be confident -
a wholesome presidential package.

I was put off soon, not just because of his shallowness but also
because there was an air of haughtiness in his demeanor that was
unsettling.

His posture and his body language were louder than his empty words.

Obama's speeches are unlike any political speech we have heard in
American history. Never a politician in this land had such quasi
"religious" impact on so many people.

The fact that Obama is a total incognito with zero accomplishment
makes this inexplicable infatuation alarming.

Obama is not an ordinary man. He is not a genius. In fact he is quite
ignorant on most important subjects.

"Barack Obama is a narcissist, Dr. Sam Vaknin, the author of the
Malignant Self Love believes, Barack Obama appears to be a narcissist."

Vaknin is a world authority on narcissism. He understands narcissism
and describes the inner mind of a narcissist like no other person.
When he talks about narcissism everyone listens.

Vaknin says that Obama's language, posture and demeanor, and the
testimonies of his closest, dearest and nearest suggest that the
Senator is either a narcissist or he may have narcissistic personality
disorder (NPD).

Narcissists project a grandiose but false image of themselves.

Jim Jones, the charismatic leader of People's Temple, the man who led
over 900 of his followers to cheerfully commit mass suicide and even
murder their own children was also a narcissist.

David Koresh,

Charles Manson,

Joseph Koni,

Shoko Asahara,

Stalin,

Saddam,

Mao,

Kim Jong Ill

Adolph Hitler (Alan note: not to be confused with his look-alike David
Axelrod)

(and also generally ignorant, outside his version of religion,
Ayatollah Khomeini)

are a few examples of narcissists of our time.

All these men had a tremendous influence over their fanciers (followers).

They created a personality cult around themselves and with their
blazing speeches elevated their admirers, filled their hearts with
enthusiasm and instilled in their minds a new zest for life.

They gave them hope! They promised them the moon, but alas, invariably
they brought them to their doom.

When you are a victim of a cult of personality, you don't know it
until it is too late.

One determining factor in the development of NPD is childhood abuse.

"Obama's early life was decidedly chaotic and replete with traumatic
and mentally bruising dislocations," says Vaknin.

"Mixed-race marriages were even less common then. His parents went
through a divorce when he was an infant (two years old).

Obama saw his father only once again, before he died in a car accident.

Then his mother re-married and Obama had to relocate to Indonesia, a
foreign land with a radically foreign culture, to be raised by a
step-father.

At the age of ten, he was whisked off to live with his maternal
(white) grandparents. He saw his mother only intermittently in the
following few years and then she vanished from his life in 1979.

She died of cancer in 1995".

One must never underestimate the manipulative genius of pathological
narcissists. They project such an imposing personality that it
overwhelms those around them.

Charmed by the charisma of the narcissist, people become like clay in
his hands. They cheerfully do his bidding and delight to be at his
service. The narcissist shapes the world around him and reduces others
in his own inverted image.

He creates a cult of personality. His admirers become his
co-dependents. Narcissists have no interest in things that do not help
them to reach their personal objective.

They are focused on one thing alone and that is power.

All other issues are meaningless to them and they do not want to waste
their precious time on trivialities. Anything that does not help them
is beneath them and do not deserve their attention.

If an issue raised in the Senate does not help Obama in one way or
another, he has no interest in it. The "present" vote is a safe vote.
No one can criticize him if things go wrong. Those issues are unworthy
by their very nature because they are not about him.

Obama's election as the first black president of the Harvard Law
Review led to a contract and advance to write a book about race relations.

The University of Chicago Law School provided him a lot longer than
expected and at the end it evolved into, guess what? His own
autobiography!

Instead of writing a scholarly paper focusing on race relations, for
which he had been paid, Obama could not resist writing about his most
sublime self. He entitled the book Dreams from My Father.

Not surprisingly, Adolph Hitler also wrote his own autobiography when
he was still nobody. So did Stalin. For a narcissist no subject is as
important as his own self.

Why would he waste his precious time and (terrorist Ayres') genius
writing about insignificant things when he can write about such an
august being as himself?

Narcissists are often callous and even ruthless. As the norm, they
lack conscience. This is evident from Obama's lack of interest in his
own brother who lives on only one dollar per month.

A man who lives in luxury, who takes a private jet to vacation in
Hawaii, and who has raised nearly half a billion dollars for his
campaign (something unprecedented in history) has no interest in the
plight of his own brother.

Why? Because, his brother cannot be used for his ascent to power.

A narcissist cares for no one but himself.

This election is like no other in the history of America. The issues
are insignificant compared to what is at stake.

What can be more dangerous than having a man bereft of conscience, a
serial liar, and one who cannot distinguish his fantasies from reality
as the leader of the free world?

I hate to sound alarmist, but one has been fooled if one is not alarmed.

Many politicians are narcissists. They pose no threat to others...They
are simply self serving and selfish.

Obama evidences symptoms of pathological narcissism, which is
different from the run-of-the-mill narcissism of a Richard Nixon or a
Bill Clinton for example.

To him reality and fantasy are intertwined. This is a MENTAL HEALTH
issue, not just a character flaw.

Pathological narcissists are dangerous because they look normal and
even intelligent. It is this disguise that makes them treacherous.

Today the Democrats have placed all their hopes in Obama. But this man
could put an end to their party. The great majority of blacks have
also decided to vote for Obama. Only an idiot does not know that their
support for him is racially driven. This is racism, pure and simple.

The downside of this is that if Obama turns out to be the disaster I
predict, he will cause widespread resentment among the whites. The
blacks are unlikely to give up their support of their man.

Cultic mentality is pernicious and unrelenting. They will dig their
heads deeper in the sand and blame Obama's detractors of racism. This
will cause a backlash among the whites.

The white supremacists will take advantage of the discontent and they
will receive widespread support. I predict that in less than four
years, racial tensions will increase to levels never seen since the
turbulent 1960's.

Obama will set the clock back decades... The peace of the world
depends on the strength of America, and its (Obama encouraged)weakness
translates into the triumph of terrorism and victory of rogue nations.

It is no wonder that Ahmadinejad, Hugo Chavez, the Castrists, the
Hezbollah, the Hamas, the lawyers of the Guantanamo terrorists and
virtually all sworn enemies of America are so thrilled by the prospect
of their man in the White House.

America is on the verge of destruction.

(Kicked there with gusto by our own (arrogant, I won) American
Obama-Khomeini. Where a weak America is easier for him to control and
order around)

There is no insanity greater than electing a pathological narcissist
as president.
Posted by Alan Peters

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