Posted on 06/07/2014 10:32:36 AM PDT by PieterCasparzen
Thank you both. I got my experience the hard way: by living up close & personal with an addictive-dysfunctional personality. I see it writ large in Obama. This is a guy who never stayed long with any one job in the past. I believe three or four years was his limit? Now he’s stuck in the same job for five yrs & counting. He’s going nuts. He travels, he vacations, he parties, he drinks, he likely smokes & many suspect he does drugs. There are too many accounts of marathon ESPN sessions to write it off as mere rumor. Then there is likely some kind of personal hanky panky, & it has never, ever looked as if Michelle is the object of those affections. (Part of her anger is certainly race based, but I bet part of it is being married to a guy who doesn’t like having sex with her. He actually acts like a man who doesn’t enjoy her proximity. Hmm.)
I don’t mean to downplay the rude, classless, gauche, childish & reprehensible behavior Obama exhibited on Normandy Beach. I just see him as an addictive-dysfunctional wreck, unable to maintain a shred of personal dignity even for the short time he attended that ceremony. How long will his handlers be able to mask his issues? Not through the entire next two & a half yrs, that’s for sure.
Sorry your Mother is brain-dead. 100% of my family LOATHS this creature. Even my little nephews (<10y/o) ridicule him!
‘WH advisors definitely thought this would ingratiate the WH with pro-defense people. When it blows up they sit looking stupit.
WH advisors are not too bright. Sneaky, so they do some clever tricks, but they also blunder in a big way. Too many lies on top of lies, I would guess, and Harvard types can’t figure that out. They think they’re smart enough to keep all the stories straight.’
Good analysis. None of them are very bright—& please put Obama at the top of that list. You just know he never anticipated the Benghazi backlash. As the situation was developing, you just know he had no idea it was anything special. It’s been said that he tossed off the comment, ‘Do what you can to help them’, or some such casual I-don’t-really-care-I’ve-got-better-things-to-do buck-passing remark. We don’t know what he did next. Perhaps he went to bed. Maybe he watched ESPN. Maybe he was enjoying a bit of ‘strange’, as they used to call adultery in the old days. All we know is that he was detached & likely didn’t see any problem with that.
Now, after enduring years of criticism, the shallow man feels he ‘understands the military’. I.e.: he grabbed hold of one phrase: ‘we leave no man behind’. So he figures he will win big by ‘rescuing’ Bergdahl. He’ll erase his horrible Benghazi PR by being a hero to a ‘captured’ soldier.
Like they say, a little knowledge is a dangerous thing. The warrior mindset is so alien to him, he couldn’t grasp it if he spent a decade embedded with the troops. His Bergdahl antic blew up like a live g r e n a d e, rolling across the floor to its unintended target. & Obama has learned nothing. He’s just angry [I should say, ‘even angrier’] at the troops for not realizing he ‘left no man behind’. He really is that thick.
Ø’s mad because someone spoke back and challenged his authoritay.
Exactly. Except that in place of ‘mad’ I would put ‘furious’. You don’t challenge a Malignant Narcissist. Not one who rides around on AF1, certainly. The ‘folks’ are supposed to admire him, not ‘second guess’ him. So you are right; he is hissy-fit mad.
But what will he do? Normally when the ‘folks’ provoke him, he punishes us. I.e.: he executive orders something we hate. Thus he gets even & has the last laugh.
Except that now the Dems are turning on him because they can see him making it impossible for them to even survive, much less gain seats, in Nov. & they are also looking ahead to ‘16. Obama is poisoning the electoral well, & finally some of the true believers are figuring it out.
So if Obama lashes out at us, he further alienates Dem pols, who (unlike Obama) have to face the ‘folks’ in Nov. If Obama doesn’t lash out, his fury will eat him alive.
He’s in a classic Catch-22. This can only further unhinge him, & force even more disastrous decisions/moves. It is not a fun time to be a Dem up for reelection, that’s for sure.
Just be glad the ever glamorous Michelle Moochelle was not there. Her comment would have been, “All this for some battle.”
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I can stomach neither the sound, the look, nor the stench of gum chewing.
This is one reason why I avoid, at all costs, any kind of public transportation, up to and including flying.
I also have despised, for a long time, the extra-loud and extra-disgusting ways blacks chew gum.
This is just one more reason to despise them all...
Well, I’m neither here nor there on gum-chewing.
If you’re a ballplayer, ya might chew gum or tabacky.
Smoke’m if ya gottem, makes no difference to me.
I’m just sayin’ military ceremonies have rules and Bamster consistently shows disrespect.
And the propaganda team consistently covers it up.
If you imagine Christians live under the Law you have huge, big, massive problems. From Galatians 5:
5 It was for freedom that Christ set us free; therefore keep standing firm and do not be subject again to a yoke of slavery.
2 Behold I, Paul, say to you that if you receive circumcision, Christ will be of no benefit to you. 3 And I testify again to every man who receives circumcision, that he is under obligation to keep the whole Law. 4 You have been severed from Christ, you who are seeking to be justified by law; you have fallen from grace. 5 For we through the Spirit, by faith, are waiting for the hope of righteousness. 6 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision means anything, but faith working through love.
“This is one reason why I avoid, at all costs, any kind of public transportation, up to and including flying.”
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Do you like people at all?
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Interesting. I know some addicts/alcoholics up close and personal too, but haven’t seen those symptoms in Obma because I NEVER watch him.
Not sure about the short-term jobs as a symptom of addiction, though. Can you say more about that? I rather think others saw the potential in him and kept him moving upward, probably faster than he could actually digest. Which would contribute to his insecurity/arrogance dichotomy.
He’d be an interesting character in fiction. (Which is why I call him Obma.) Speaking of which, I’m reading Leon Uris’s THE HAJ, which explains a lot about Arabs, Muslims, and the situation we’re in today. They’re NEVER going to go away. Or even improve. Perhaps Obma’s muslim beliefs are bringing about a great deal of his discomfort, contributing to dysfunctional/addictive patterns of behavior. A lot of pressures on him, perhaps he will break before the end of his term.
But I hate the habit of gum chewing. Also tooth sucking, smoking, alcoholism, and druggie crap
So, there are a lot of people whom I find it worth while to avoid.
And no, I wouldn't want to fly across the country next to a gum chewer under any circumstances. p> Just. won't. do. it.
Here is what I am going to do; I bookmarked your post and when events happen as you foretell, I am going to repost this and give you credit. I agree with you, sad to say.
Thanks for your interesting reply. My understanding of Obama is primarily as a Malignant Narcissist. But since Malignant Narcissists are also addictive-dysfunctional, there’s a lot of overlap. The inability to stay with any one job for long, though, is entirely a function of Malignant Narcissism. The two main drivers of MN are the need to deny fundamental reality & the obsessive need for praise & admiration. There is also a near-obsessive restlessness that prevents any kind of settled-in normalcy. They are tremendously driven by a need for a ‘change of scenery’ & also for fresh people to con & impress. The MN’s act gets stale over time, so moving on to a different setting is of fundamental importance.
Obama’s childhood said he wasn’t worth much. His dad abandoned him completely, & his mother was a psychological mess. She turned him over to a tranny nanny in Indonesia, & according to him, Turdi, she ignored Obama’s screams & wails—assuming, again according to Turdi, that if he had physically struck Obama, Obama must have deserved it.
Yet even with the tranny nanny, Mom couldn’t wait to be shed of her son. She shuffled him off onto the grandparents at the first opportunity. All of which said to Obama, ‘Nobody wants me; I must be worthless’.
MN takes this childish misery/conclusion & runs in the opposite direction. I.e.: it constructs a make-believe world where the MN is the smartest, the most amazing, the most singular, the most unique & stellar human ever to draw breath. From there it relies on unhealthy coping mechanisms [denial, projection, & sly, dishonest intellectual games], heavy-duty manipulation & addiction-dysfunction to maintain the self-delusion.
What it boils down to is that Obama is engaged in a full-time psychological & social marathon to maintain his wildly inflated/inaccurate self-image. It wears him out, so that he needs vast amounts of golf, travel, vacations, parties, booze, easily manipulated sycophants & other props just to get him by. Even with all that, however, it’s a highly unstable situation. It’s built on a lie by an emotionally damaged human being. Sooner or later it hits critical mass, & the chips fall where they may.
Personally, I believe Obama is an atheist with strong Islamic sympathies. He certainly invests more of his identity in Islam than in Christianity [that’s an understatement] but he is not strictly speaking a Muslim. If he were, ‘Allah’ could make demands on his personal behavior, & Obama wouldn’t stand for that. It goes way beyond taquia. It’s more a function of Obama being his own ‘god’, & taking orders from no one. At least that’s how it seems to me. Ymmv.
Sounds like an interesting book you’re reading. Does the author believe Obma is a true Muslim?
The Old Testament is the book of faith & practice for Jews. It prepared the way for the Christ. The New Testament is the manual of faith & practice for Christians. No one is arguing that Christians are to be immoral. Just the opposite. The moral demands on Christians far outweigh those on Jews, as Jesus made clear in the Sermon on the Mount.
The issue is whether Christians are free to pray for our enemies’ destruction. We are not. The old moral code that allowed for such hatred has been superseded. We now pray blessings on our enemies. This is a New Covenant command, no wiggle room. As I said originally, we are encouraged to pray for deliverance from evil. We are not at liberty to pray for other people’s destruction. That era ended with the New Commandment. We now must love as Jesus loved—and He NEVER prayed for the destruction of his enemies. Even on the cross He prayed for their forgiveness, and He is our role model.
1 John 4:8
The one who does not love does not know God, for God is love.
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