Just curious...did you run a search for this article?
OB creeps me out.
Sort of a straight Johnny Mathis.
Dr. Ali Sina already diagnosed Barry as such many moons ago: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVnRzn4rjbY&feature=related
Pathological liar
Those of us who have personal experience with Narcissists spotted him as one at the Democratic National Convention.
I spotted his shallow narcissistic personality from the get-go - but, I have an unfair advantage as I’m a psychologist. Unfortunately the sheople were blinded by stupidity and voted the clown into office.
Sam Vaknin is not a psychologist but is himself a pathological narcissist who has devoted many years of his life to the study of his illness. He operates a website that has a wealth of excellent and uniquely insightful information. He, like any expert, has his own biases and had written a prior article stating that George Bush was also a narcissist and part of his diagnosis was based on his assumption that Bush ‘enjoyed’ getting soldiers killed etc. Obviously I don’t agree with his Bush diagnoses because it relies on mind reading - he makes assumptions about what Bush’s motives ‘must’ be whereas OBama’s narcissism requires mere observation - Obama’s constant need to refer to himself in speeches, his lack of interest in governing in spite of his need to be constantly acknowledged as Caesar. His thoughtlessness and preening posturing and his belief that his mere presence will solve the world’s problems.
I appreciate those who try to get the word out about Obama but many of us tried in thread after thread as soon as Obama showed up as a presidential candidate. I dunno - maybe more people will believe it now that they have seen him but psychologists and the average joe like us were warning about this prior to the election and for some reason - it just didn’t seem to matter to people.
For those who agree that Obama is a narcissist, there is another avenue (also discussed at length during the primary) you may want to explore if you are interested. It is the belief shared by many that Obama uses a sales/persuasive technique used as NLP which uses cognitive ‘tricks’ to manipulate audiences (think Hitler). It’s a form of hypnosis used by unscrupulous lawyers, politicians, and yes - carnival hypnotists, and thus far it is the only document I have seen that wraps the oddness of Obama into one package (for example - those symbols and emblems he uses, his body language, his TELEPROMPTER!,the way his signs read attached to the podium, his odd phrasing and most of all - the bizarre way some of his audiences fainted and fawned over nothing - and by that I mean his speeches). I’ll put the link below - the document is in an academic format and when I initially read it - I had to skim the repetitive parts in the first 20 percent of the document and then it got better (detailed and specific) as I got further into the document and I recall that the footnotes also made for interesting reading.
http://www.internet-grocer.net/hypnosis.pdf
As per post #24, Vaknin is not a psychologist. He’s not really anything.
The Patriot's Flag - NarcissismNo, wait...there were MULTIPLE articles, some going into the clinical reasons for holding this view, posted right on FR, many months BEFORE the election.
You like to think you "there isn't time" to give answer to Freepers?
How about telling us why you post on FR everything & anything Swank publishes on the web? Hmmm? How about that one?
Do you work for him? That's a yes or no question.
Choose the 2-letter word, or the 3-letter word, and hit 'post'.
You "have the time", buddy, quit pretending you don't.