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.
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?