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Obama's Empathy Deficit
Dailybeast ^ | 9/26/10 | Kirsten Powers

Posted on 09/26/2010 2:09:38 PM PDT by paudio

Yet, as president, Obama has demonstrated an almost pathological incapacity to connect with American’s fear and despair over the future Whether it was the Gulf oil spill or a woman's heartbreaking pleading at a recent town hall meeting, Obama’s much ballyhooed coolness seems more icy than reassuring.

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Actually, it should be "0bama's _________ Deficit". You can insert any word and it's still going to be correct.
1 posted on 09/26/2010 2:09:42 PM PDT by paudio
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Narcissistic people have no ability to empathize.


2 posted on 09/26/2010 2:11:13 PM PDT by lonestar
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This from the Daily Beast? The emperor is stark nekkid!


3 posted on 09/26/2010 2:13:57 PM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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You can’t be empathetic when you set out to destroy a country.


4 posted on 09/26/2010 2:14:02 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Don't listen to what they say, watch what they do.)
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Exactly, the foreigner who suffers a American cultural deficit and a strong islamic affinity cannot show any compassion for those he is crushing...America.


5 posted on 09/26/2010 2:15:13 PM PDT by himno hero
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To: lonestar

Spot on!


6 posted on 09/26/2010 2:18:31 PM PDT by ReneeLynn (Socialism is SO yesterday. Fascism, it*s the new black. Mmm Mmm Mmm.)
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To: paudio
Obama’s much ballyhooed coolness seems more icy than reassuring.

That's because it was NEVER COOLNESS.....

.....It has always been ignorance, indifference, and expert handling with teleprompters guiding the way.

Those who supported him and called him "cool" were either willingly ignoring the obvious, or were blind groupies.

7 posted on 09/26/2010 2:20:07 PM PDT by SteamShovel (UTOPIA...Isn't)
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Poor Kirsten. Another fem-lib who keeps trying to help her (****sigh****) hero “figure out” how to be a real president.

Gee, honey, maybe you could go talk to Megyn Kelly about the “scary black man” again. Would that help? rofl


8 posted on 09/26/2010 2:23:37 PM PDT by workerbee (FAIL, BABY, FAIL!)
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What, me empathize? Let me be clear, er uh, I can, uh, only be empathetic when TOTUS tells me to.

9 posted on 09/26/2010 2:23:38 PM PDT by newheart (History is an outbreak of madness--Ellul)
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To: paudio

LOL. Heretofore, I thought Kirsten Powers might be somewhat of a serious writer. WRONG.


10 posted on 09/26/2010 2:27:44 PM PDT by onyx (If you support Sarah and want on her Ping List, let me know!)
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Narcissistic people have no ability to empathize.

He's both empathetic and sympathetic towards Islam though.
11 posted on 09/26/2010 2:40:23 PM PDT by Beckwith (A "natural born citizen" -- two American citizen parents and born in the USA.)
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Yet, as president, Obama has demonstrated an almost pathological incapacity to connect with American’s fear and despair over the future Whether it was the Gulf oil spill or a woman's heartbreaking pleading at a recent town hall meeting, Obama’s much ballyhooed coolness seems more icy than reassuring.

The guy is 100% Narcisstic Disorder, and the clinical definition of Narcissm is:

Narcissistic Personality Disorder is characterized by a long-standing pattern of grandiosity (either in fantasy or actual behavior), an overwhelming need for admiration, and usually a complete lack of empathy toward others.

12 posted on 09/26/2010 2:40:51 PM PDT by Lazamataz (The battle lines are drawn: On one side, are Dems and Repubs. On the other, the Tea Party (us).)
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In a perverse, way I think he almost takes glee in someone’s misfortunes, like the black woman looking for reassurance. It’s the small and petty that means more than we suspect. The grand gestures are too well rehearsed and scripted — the small things is where reality shows itself.


13 posted on 09/26/2010 2:56:17 PM PDT by Blind Eye Jones
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In a perverse way, I think he almost takes glee in someone’s misfortunes, like the black woman looking for reassurance. It’s the small and petty that means more than we suspect. The grand gestures are too well rehearsed and scripted — the small things is where reality shows itself.


14 posted on 09/26/2010 2:57:20 PM PDT by Blind Eye Jones
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Obama enjoys our misery. He inflicted this pain on us intentionally.


15 posted on 09/26/2010 2:58:35 PM PDT by Carley (For those who fought for it, freedom has a flavor the protected will never know.)
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Connecting with Americans?? Are you kidding me?? The guy is a muslim communist usurper, why would he want to connect?


16 posted on 09/26/2010 3:10:22 PM PDT by biggredd1
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People didn’t know there was something wrong with a guy who waited until almost 2 months after his grandmother died, for his Chistmas vacation, to throw her ashes onto rocks beside the sea - wearing an aloha shirt and getting out of the car to do it beside a public highway pull off area?

And then there were all the visits (ZERO) he made to comfort his dying mother - whose ashes he also witnessed tossed onto the blowhole rocks - beside a public highway.


17 posted on 09/26/2010 3:21:04 PM PDT by silverleaf (The lesser of two evils is still evil.)
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What about aunt Zeituni Onyango?


18 posted on 09/26/2010 3:35:15 PM PDT by Vehmgericht
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That’s really horrific!!! I didn’t know he did the same thing to mom too.... What a cold, heartless, [self-censored]. And as per usual, dressed inappropriately. Probably wearing his 3rd world refugee slippers too.


19 posted on 09/26/2010 3:42:02 PM PDT by Borax Queen
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He's both empathetic and sympathetic towards Islam though.

He identifies with it!

20 posted on 09/26/2010 3:47:48 PM PDT by lonestar
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