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A Shrink Asks: What's Wrong with Obama?
American Thinker ^ | 6-11-2010 | Robin of Berkeley

Posted on 06/11/2010 6:07:27 AM PDT by no-llmd

So what is the matter with Obama? Conservatives have been asking this question for some time. I've written a number of articles trying to solve the mystery.

SNIP

-- Drugs and alcohol: Damage to the brain from drugs and alcohol can also cause significant cognitive impairments. Obama once said that there were 57 states -- and didn't correct himself. Memory problems can be caused by both illicit and prescription drug use.

Obama admits to a history of drug use in his youth. Did his usage cause some damage? Does Obama still use?

--Mental Illness: Obama's family tree is replete with the unbalanced. His maternal great-grandmother committed suicide. His grandfather, Stanley Dunham, was particularly unhinged: He was expelled from high school for punching his principal; named his daughter Stanley because he wanted a boy;

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obama is not only the First Anti-American president, he is nuts too.
1 posted on 06/11/2010 6:07:27 AM PDT by no-llmd
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To: no-llmd

Islamic brainwashing will do it every time.


2 posted on 06/11/2010 6:10:12 AM PDT by Eye of Unk ("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act" G.Orwell)
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To: no-llmd

Obama’s doctors recommended “moderation of alcohol intake”.


3 posted on 06/11/2010 6:11:14 AM PDT by ILS21R (A 200 year supply of oil... in Alaska....right now)
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To: no-llmd

I would love to see the forensic psychiatry reports on obama held by the intelligence services of various nations such as Russia, China, Great Britain, and Israel

I bet they have him diagnosed

(ditto for Iran’s ahamdinejad)


4 posted on 06/11/2010 6:14:46 AM PDT by silverleaf (Every time history repeats itself the price goes up)
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To: no-llmd

[article snip]

“Since mental illness runs in the family, does Obama have any signs? Yes and no. No, he is not a schizophrenic babbling about Martians. But there are red flags for some other conditions.”


5 posted on 06/11/2010 6:16:45 AM PDT by ILS21R (A 200 year supply of oil... in Alaska....right now)
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To: no-llmd
As a teenager, Obama wrote a disturbing poem, "Pop," that evoked images of sexual abuse -- for instance, describing dual amber stains on both his and "Pop's" shorts.

No comment. Except ewww.

6 posted on 06/11/2010 6:17:02 AM PDT by LiberConservative
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To: no-llmd

Holy cow this was a good read. Thank you. Geez...the president is a f***ing nutcase.


7 posted on 06/11/2010 6:17:56 AM PDT by ILS21R (A 200 year supply of oil... in Alaska....right now)
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To: no-llmd
I think he got a serious hit on the head. Surgically serious (At a protest? A street fight? From a relative?). I don't think he's right upstairs because of it.
8 posted on 06/11/2010 6:19:24 AM PDT by concerned about politics ("Get thee behind me, Liberal")
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To: no-llmd

Robyn, you are a very interesting person. You have a fine mind and a brave heart. I predict hard-won success and happiness for you.


9 posted on 06/11/2010 6:20:28 AM PDT by olepap (God help us)
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To: no-llmd

This sort of ‘hit piece psychoanalysis’ was silly when it was aimed at Republicans, too.


10 posted on 06/11/2010 6:20:40 AM PDT by Grut
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To: no-llmd

The Greeks diagnosed him a very long time ago.

He suffers from Hubris.


11 posted on 06/11/2010 6:21:33 AM PDT by HearMe
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To: ILS21R

ILS21R,

The bad news is that all of his pals are f***in nuts too.


12 posted on 06/11/2010 6:22:25 AM PDT by no-llmd
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To: no-llmd

I can’t disagree with this diagnosis.


13 posted on 06/11/2010 6:23:50 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: ILS21R
Obama will not evolve; he will not rise to the occasion; he will not become the man he was meant to be. This is for one reason and one reason alone: He is not capable of it.

All those years in Indonesia make him forget he's supposed to be an American.

14 posted on 06/11/2010 6:23:52 AM PDT by Dr. Scarpetta
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To: Grut

I guess I agree in a way. To me he is just an evil bastard. How about you?


15 posted on 06/11/2010 6:28:19 AM PDT by John W
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To: no-llmd
Why? Because this is a damaged person. Obama's fate was sealed years ago growing up in his strange and poisonous family. Later on, his empty vessel was filled with the hateful bile of men like Rev. Wright and Bill Ayers. Obama will not evolve; he will not rise to the occasion; he will not become the man he was meant to be. This is for one reason and one reason alone: He is not capable of it.

Very interesting attempt to explain him. I think his family was the major element in forming his personality. I don't think he ever felt loved by either of his parents. He's a bit like Clinton, but I think even Clinton had the support of his mother. Something to keep in mind when I feel the urge to revile him. He's not all there.

16 posted on 06/11/2010 6:32:06 AM PDT by throwback ( The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid)
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To: Eye of Unk
"Islamic brainwashing will do it every time.

His EVERY action displays very strong sympathy with the Muslim - Arab axis. Anyone who seeks to deny this is delusional. It is about time that Americans woke up and admitted it, then formed their actions with this is mind. And by the way, he doesn't have to pray to Mecca for this sympathy to be there.

17 posted on 06/11/2010 6:34:14 AM PDT by I am Richard Brandon
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To: Grut
Grut, Do you think obama is just silly, also? I believe he is wrong headed and extremely dangerous and anti-American in a big way.
18 posted on 06/11/2010 6:37:14 AM PDT by no-llmd
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To: no-llmd

Interesting article!

Almost makes me pity rather than detest him.


19 posted on 06/11/2010 6:37:40 AM PDT by Pessimist
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To: I am Richard Brandon

If I ever have doubts about goals and or an objective to pursue in life in my golden years I am constantly reminded that there is indeed an evil force that can be fought by mere mortal men, and thats the Islamic War of the 21st Century.

The War that is never spoken aloud.


20 posted on 06/11/2010 6:37:40 AM PDT by Eye of Unk ("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act" G.Orwell)
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To: zot; SeraphimApprentice; Interesting Times; kristinn

An excellent article by American Thinker’s Robin of Berkley. Definitely worth reading in full

She also brings up what I think is the possible truth on his birth, i.e. His father is Frank Marshall Davis, not the Kenyan Obama.


21 posted on 06/11/2010 6:38:11 AM PDT by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: no-llmd

I fear so.


22 posted on 06/11/2010 6:38:11 AM PDT by fightinJAG (The Kenyan - short hand for "The Alien in the White House" by Rabinowitz)
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To: John W

obama’s hectic friday schedule!!...
:30 AM Obama receives the presidential daily briefing.

10:00 AM Obama receives a briefing on the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

10:40 AM Obama meets with small business owners.

11:00 AM Obama delivers a statement to the press.

11:15 AM Obama meets with senior advisers.

11:45 AM Obama meets with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

12:00 PM Nothing

1:00 PM Nothing

2:00 PM Nothing

3:00 PM Nothing

4:00 PM Nothing


24 posted on 06/11/2010 6:43:12 AM PDT by biggredd1
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To: Pessimist
Almost makes me pity rather than detest him.

Except for the fact that SOMEONE must pay for his torment. Evidently he thinks that is us.

25 posted on 06/11/2010 6:43:28 AM PDT by small voice in the wilderness (Defending the indefensible. Not a good way to go through life)
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To: John W

Start here:

Madame Blavatsky Spiritual Traveller
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_eG8Jiimq4

It is an amazing trip.

Quick route: Madame B. to Aleister Crowley to Timothy Leary to William Ayers to Obama. (Lots of other connections too - but will take more time; interesting that Paul McCartney was recently at the WH).


26 posted on 06/11/2010 6:45:07 AM PDT by nolongerademocrat ("Before you ask G-d for something, first thank G-d for what you already have." B'rachot 30b)
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To: hellomynameisjoe
The real question is, what isn’t wrong with him?

That would be a shorter list, wouldn't it?

27 posted on 06/11/2010 6:46:50 AM PDT by brewcrew
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To: no-llmd

28 posted on 06/11/2010 6:49:43 AM PDT by McGruff (So how is that Hopey Changey thingy working out for ya America?)
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To: no-llmd

In his youth and early adult life, Obama never expected that understanding and learning about America would come in handy some day. Thus, he concentrated his efforts on learning how to be a radical revolutionary and not on learning about America and understanding it.

His life was mostly directed towards dismantling America and not improving it.

Obama is neither mentally deranged nor inhibited by drugs. His “illness” is nothing but a lack of knowledge about America and the American people, and his actions are nothing but a reflection of his inexperience and his wishes to fundamentally transform the country into something completely different from what the constitution and its amendments intended.

There is no need to explain what is “wrong” with Obama. What is wrong with Obama is the same thing that is wrong with the people who hate America and don’t understand it and wish to destroy it.

What is wrong with Obama is that he is not one of us.


29 posted on 06/11/2010 6:51:34 AM PDT by adorno
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To: olepap

Robin has quickly become one of my fav reads - superb intellectual insight and the experience of being a “recovering” liberal/socialist from Berkeley. She knows the evil in the belly of the beast and it adds enormous credibility to her columns.


30 posted on 06/11/2010 6:56:58 AM PDT by newfreep (Palin/DeMint 2012 - Bolton: Secy of State)
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To: no-llmd

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2532341/posts


31 posted on 06/11/2010 6:58:31 AM PDT by Scanian
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To: no-llmd

This is a very good article

We are in for a world of hurt

Best thing to do is get enough adults in Congress to stop him


32 posted on 06/11/2010 7:01:46 AM PDT by woofie
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To: Pessimist
" Almost makes me pity rather than detest him. "

I'd be willing to consider his side of things like the stuff described in this piece if he weren't President. I can honestly see how this kind of stuff could mess a boy/young man up.

This all ceased to matter on the day that he filed as a candidate for the office.

33 posted on 06/11/2010 7:01:55 AM PDT by OKSooner ("I can see September from my house.")
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To: no-llmd

Way past time for an ammendment to require candidates undergo a Physch eval. It would eliminate Narcissistic totalitarian dictators like we have now.


34 posted on 06/11/2010 7:01:59 AM PDT by Typical_Whitey (Our nation has a choice, Vote or Die.)
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To: no-llmd

Not only that, but he blames white America, especially his mother, for his father abandoning him. His hatred of our country is his attempt to right a perceived wrong of his father. He can’t accept his father abandoned him because that’s what type of person he was. He needs to realize it is not white America’s fault his mother was a ‘ho and his father bailed on him. He needs to also realize that in no other country on this planet could he achieve what he has.


35 posted on 06/11/2010 7:02:27 AM PDT by MissEdie (America went to the polls on 11-4-08 and all we got was a socialist thug and a dottering old fool.)
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To: no-llmd

bump


36 posted on 06/11/2010 7:12:28 AM PDT by dangerdoc
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To: John W

I don’t think so. I think he’s a tool.


37 posted on 06/11/2010 7:14:59 AM PDT by SuzyQue (Remember to think.)
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To: no-llmd

bump


38 posted on 06/11/2010 7:23:11 AM PDT by SonOfDarkSkies (I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself...)
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To: no-llmd
Great article!

I just reread it again and, while I agree with Robin of Berkeley that Obama is mentally and possible physically damaged, all the behaviors she pointed to as being symptomatic of illness might also be merely the product of a deep and abiding hatred for America on the part of Obama.

He giggles when asked about our problems because he actually revels in them and finds them funny.

He doesn't respond to the oil spill not because he is dissociative, but because he just doesn't give a sh!t what happens to Louisiana and the Gulf.

He doesn't change or grow in the job because his agenda is the destruction of the country and the job.

His flat emotional affect isn't due to schizophrenia so much as just a complete lack of interest.

All this said, I still think, as does R of B, that Obama is deeply damaged, but the point above are still in the realm of possibility.

39 posted on 06/11/2010 7:42:25 AM PDT by SonOfDarkSkies (I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself...)
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To: no-llmd

What mental problems can be attributed to Obama can also be extended to ALL!!! of the nation’s liberals. There can be only one sane position to take on social problems, economics, and politics in this country: a mix of libertarianism and Republicanism. To take a liberal position on any of the problems afflicting America means to take the lunatic position.


40 posted on 06/11/2010 7:46:16 AM PDT by driftless2 (For long term happiness, learn how to play the accordion.)
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To: no-llmd
(It means that liberals need to wake up and spit out the Kool-Aid...and that conservatives should put aside differences, band together, and elect as many Republicans as possible)

Sharon Angle is just such a person - send her the $25.00 she is asking for from all conservatives regardless of where they live. We Americans have a chance to dump the officious, vile, mendacious, crooked Harry Reid once and for all from our government.

41 posted on 06/11/2010 8:36:29 AM PDT by yoe (The "N" word stands for NO...as in NO MORE VOTES FOR IRRESPONSIBLE CONGRESSMEN OR SENATORS.The new)
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To: John W
I am rather fond of the Manchurian Candidate angle....he had enough Marxist up-bringing to warrant something like that. He has a slightly campiness about him along with ability to bully and belittle...not leadership qualities in my book. Both Obama's spent their college years being victims and rallying for the "oppressed" which actually kept many down on the farm.....all Bit Hats and no cattle. Where are the mo-smoking police? - the teleprompter police? the too much golf police? the dry martini cocktail party police? the no-to-UNIONS police? etc. etc.etc.
42 posted on 06/11/2010 8:48:00 AM PDT by yoe (The "N" word stands for NO...as in NO MORE VOTES FOR IRRESPONSIBLE CONGRESSMEN OR SENATORS.The new)
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To: GreyFriar

Thanks for the ping. He isn’t stupid or crazy; he is a product of his programming.


43 posted on 06/11/2010 8:51:14 AM PDT by zot
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To: no-llmd

a very thought provoking....and frightening assessment


44 posted on 06/11/2010 9:09:24 AM PDT by screaming eagle2 (bama)
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To: no-llmd
Grut, Do you think obama is just silly, also? I believe he is wrong headed and extremely dangerous and anti-American in a big way.

It's the analysing that's silly, or maybe 'ridiculous' is the better word. No shrink with any professional standing is going to analyse someone at long range and then make a public statement of his findings. The Dems have done this a lot to Republican pols and it's no better when the roles are switched.

I have no idea what Obama is and I suspect he doesn't, either. My tentative analysis is supercapital immersion.

45 posted on 06/11/2010 10:25:01 AM PDT by Grut
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To: throwback

what he & Clinton have in commmon is not knowing their father(s) and who they even were. The man said to be Clinton’s father died in a car accident before he was born — Clinton’s mother was a known bar fly — and now that Clinton has lost weight, he bears a staggering resemblance — especially in the jaw — to Nelson Rockefeller — go look at pictures — whose brother, Winthrop, was gov of Ark and a huge womanizer.

Zero’s father is equally ficticious —


46 posted on 06/11/2010 11:59:05 AM PDT by kabumpo (Kabumpo)
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To: throwback
Something to keep in mind when I feel the urge to revile him. He's not all there.

That changes nothing. I revile a disease although it simply does what a disease does. I revile cancer although the cancer itself cannot help what it is. Obama must be removed from any position of power, discredited and silenced. Anything less endangers the survival of this nation. It isn't an emotional reaction. I do not want vengeance or posses some drive to get even. I just want to survive and to see America survive as a nation. Obama's access to power is incompatible with that. The fact that he is sick does not in any way alter that incompatibility.
47 posted on 06/11/2010 12:08:39 PM PDT by GonzoGOP (There are millions of paranoid people in the world and they are all out to get me.)
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To: no-llmd

ping


48 posted on 06/11/2010 1:15:22 PM PDT by no-llmd
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To: GonzoGOP

Maybe we’re not so far apart. I’d like to think that my disapproval of Obama was only intellectual too, but it’s really hard to just not hate his guts when you hear the condescension in his voice and the underhanded way he goes about things. I guess my point, and maybe it’s yours too, it’s like being p_ssed off a rain storm. The storm has no heart. It doesn’t care if I hate it, or what I’m yelling at it, and it doesn’t want my sympathy either.


49 posted on 06/11/2010 1:24:05 PM PDT by throwback ( The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid)
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To: throwback
It doesn’t care if I hate it, or what I’m yelling at it, and it doesn’t want my sympathy either.

A purely clinical view of the current situation may seem cold, but it is the best solution. Things are too desperate to waste time on either hate or pity, celebration or regrets. We just need to stay focused in doing what needs to be done. If we can remove the progressives and restore America there will be time for emotion then. You don't worry about things like The Neurnburg Trials or the Marshal Plan until after you win the war.
50 posted on 06/11/2010 1:36:10 PM PDT by GonzoGOP (There are millions of paranoid people in the world and they are all out to get me.)
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