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Re: BCN NEWS SAYS CALIFORNIA MAN FORECASTS OBAMA SYMPATHY VOTE
11/4/2008 11:23:26 AM
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Psychological Analysis of Barak Obama
From a USNA55 classmate, forwarded from several other senior alumni -
This from VADM R.R, former Director of Navy and Defense Intelligence. Dr. Sam Vaknin's analysis of Senator Obama
is an apt description and similar to mine. This is much more serious
than a usual presidential election. I've had hopes that our normal set
of checks and balances could control this guy, BT Understanding Obama: The Making of a Fuehrer
By Ali Sina
I must confess, I was not 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 a 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 "Malignant Self Love,"
also believes, "Barack Obama appears to be a narcissist."
Vaknin
is a world authority on narcissism. He understands it 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, nearest and
dearest 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. Charles Manson, Joseph Koni, Shoko Asahara, Joe Stalin, Saddam, Mao Zedong, Kim Jong IL, and Adolph Hitler
are a few examples of narcissists of our time. All these men had a
tremendous influence over their fanciers and followers. They created a
personality cult around themselves, and with their blazing speeches
elevated their admirer's souls, filled their hearts with enthusiasm
and instilled in their minds a new zest for life. Those men gave
their followers hope! They promised them the moon, but alas, they
invariably 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. His mother
re-married and Obama had to relocate to Indonesia, a foreign land with a radically foreign culture, to be raised by a stepfather. He was raised as an only child,
full of himself and no others. He never had to share the spotlight
with any siblings. 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 objectives. 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 does 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; he used
the "Present" all the time as a member of the Illinois legislature. No
one can criticize him if things go wrong. Why should he implicate
himself in issues that may become controversial when they don't help
him personally? 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 an advance to write a book about race relations. The University of Chicago Law School
provided him with a fellowship and an office to work on his book. The
book took him a lot longer than expected and at the end it devolved
into…, guess what? His own autobiography! Instead of writing a
scholarly paper focusing on race relations, for which he had been
paid, Obama could not resist writing about his most sublime self. He
entitled the book " Dreams from My Father."
Not
surprisingly, Adolph Hitler also wrote his own autobiography when he
was still nobody. So did Stalin. For a narcissist no subject is as
important as his own self. Why would he waste his precious time and
genius writing about insignificant things when he can write about such
an august being as himself? Narcissists are often callous and even
ruthless. As the norm, they lack conscience. This is evident from
Obama's lack of interest in his own brother who lives on only one
dollar per month. A man who lives in luxury, who takes a private jet to
vacation in Hawaii, and who has raised nearly a half billion dollars
for his campaign (something unprecedented in history) has no interest
in the plight of his own brother. Why? His brother cannot be used for
his ascent to power. A narcissist cares for no one but himself.
This
election is like no other election 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 a 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
must be isolated if one is not alarmed. Many politicians are
narcissists. They pose no threat to others. They are simply
self-serving and selfish. [Witness Al Gore's
Income Tax; it reveals that he gave away NO MONEY to charities, not
even to a church!] Obama evinces symptoms of pathological narcissism,
which is different from the run-of-the-mill narcissism of a Richard Nixon or 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. [Look up
the word 'treachery.']
Today the Democrats have placed all
their hopes in Obama. But this man could put an end to their party
[and to this great nation]. The great majority of blacks have also
decided to vote for Obama. Only a deluded person does not know that
their support for him is racially driven.
This is racism,
pure and simple. The truth is that, while everyone carries a
misconceived collective guilt towards blacks for wrongs done centuries
ago by a bygone people to a bygone people, the blacks carry a
collective rancor, enmity or vendetta towards non-blacks, and to this
day want to "stand up" to the white man. They seem to be stuck in 19th century [encouraged by race baiters like Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson and others].
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 not seen since the turbulent 1960s. Obama will set the clock
back decades. America is the bastion of freedom. The peace of the
world depends on the strength of America, and its weakness translates
into the triumph of terrorism and victory of rogue nations. It is no
wonder that Ahmadinejad, Hugo Chavez, the Maoist Castroists, the Hezbollah,
the Hamas, the lawyers of the Guantanamo terrorists, and virtually
all sworn enemies of America are so thrilled by the prospect of "their
man" in the White House. There is no insanity greater than electing a pathological narcissist as president.
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