Thread: Israeli Psychologist on Obama

I had never seen this until a friend emailed this to me. The Doctor must have written this after Obozo was elected, but IMO he describes him to a T! After his assessment I will enclose a link to the Shrink who wrote this.

Israeli
Psychologist on Obama

Dr. Sam
Vaknin is an Israeli psychologist. Interesting view on our
president.

Dr. Vaknin
has written extensively about narcissism.

Dr. Vaknin
States "I must confess I was impressed by 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."

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
friends suggest that the man is either a narcissist or he may have narcissistic
personality disorder (NPD).

Narcissists
project a grandiose but false image of themselves. Jim Jones, the charismatic
leader of People's Temple, the man who led over 900 of his followers to
cheerfully commit mass suicide and even murder their own children was also a
narcissist. David Koresh, Charles Manson, Joseph Koni, Shoko Asahara, Stalin,
Saddam, Mao, Kim Jong Ill and Adolph Hitler are a few examples of narcissists of
our time. All these men had a tremendous influence over their fanciers. They
created a personality cult around themselves and with their blazing speeches
elevated their admirers, filled their hearts with enthusiasm and instilled in
their minds a new zest for life. They gave them hope! They promised them the
moon, but alas, invariably they brought them to their doom.

When you are a
victim of a cult of personality, you don't know it until it is too late. One
determining factor in the development of NPD is childhood abuse "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 himself and reduces others in his own inverted image. He
creates a cult of personality. His admirers become his co-dependents.
Narcissists have no interest in things that do not help them to reach their
personal objective. They are focused on one thing alone and that is power. All
other issues are meaningless to them and they do not want to waste their
precious time on trivialities. Anything that does not help them is beneath them
and 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. 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 a
nobody. So did Stalin. For a narcissist no subject is as important as his own
self. Why would he waste his precious time and genius writing about
insignificant things when he can write about such an august being as himself?


Narcissists are
often callous and even ruthless. As the norm, they lack conscience. This is
evident from Obama's lack of interest in his own brother who lives on only one
dollar per month.. A man who lives in luxury, who takes a private jet to
vacation in Hawaii, and who raised nearly half a billion dollars for his
campaign (something unprecedented in history) has no interest in the plight of
his own brother. Why? Because, his brother cannot be used for his ascent to
power. A narcissist cares for no one but himself.

This election
was like no other in the history of America . The issues were 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 is a fool if one is not alarmed. Many politicians are
narcissists. They pose no threat to others. They are simply self serving and
selfish. Obama evidences symptoms of pathological narcissism, which is different
from the run-of-the-mill narcissism of a Richard Nixon or a Bill Clinton for
example. To him reality and fantasy are intertwined.

This is a
mental health issue, not just a character flaw.
Pathological
narcissists are dangerous because they look normal and even intelligent. It is
this disguise that makes them treacherous. Today the Democrats have placed all their hopes in Obama.
But this man could put an end to their party. The great majority of blacks voted
for Obama. Only a fool does not know that their support for him is racially
driven. This is racism, pure and simple.

The downside of
this is that if Obama turns out to be the disaster I predict, he will cause
widespread resentment among the whites. The blacks are unlikely to give up their
support of their man. Cultic mentality is pernicious and unrelenting. They will
dig their heads deeper in the sand and blame Obama's detractors of racism. This
will cause a backlash among the whites. The white supremacists will take
advantage of the discontent and they will receive widespread support. I predict
that in less than four years, racial tensions will increase to levels never seen
since the turbulent 1960's.

Obama will set
the clock back decades. America is the bastion of freedom. The peace of the
world depends on the strength of America , and its weakness translates into the
triumph of terrorism and victory of rogue nations.. It is no wonder that
Ahmadinejad, Hugo Chavez, the 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. There is no insanity greater than electing a
pathological narcissist as president.

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America is on the verge of destruction. There is no insanity greater than electing a pathological narcissist as president.

Can we have him committed?

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Originally Posted by stevetheroofer

Can we have him committed?

Now there's a thought!