Posted on 09/30/2008 5:11:13 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
The 2008 presidential election in America is the most crucial election in this country's history, not because the issues are that critical but because of Sen. Barack Obama. The Democratic presidential candidate's language, posture and demeanor suggest that he may suffer from narcissistic personality disorder, or NPD. NPD is a pervasive pattern of grandiosity, need for admiration and a lack of empathy. The following are some of the symptoms of NPD that can be seen in Sen. Obama:
He subtly misrepresents facts, opportunistically shifts positions, ignores data that conflict with his fantasy world, is overly confident and acts presidential despite commensurate merits and his modest life achievements, considers himself above the law, talks about himself in the third person, has a messianic vision of himself and his "mission," displays false modesty while often evincing haughtiness, sublimates aggression, holds grudges and behaves as an eternal adolescent. These are narcissistic traits as seen in Sen. Obama by Dr. Sam Vaknin. The author of "The Malignant Self Love," Vaknin states, "Barack Obama appears to be a narcissist."
NPD is the prime disorder experienced by all the madmen of history from Hitler to Stalin, Mao, Kim, Pol Pot, Osama, Khomeini, Saddam and Idi Amin. These men wreaked havoc and killed millions. They looked normal. Few suspected their insanity until it was too late.
Obama shares something else with these infamous narcissists: a chaotic childhood. One determining factor in the development of NPD is childhood abuse, such as the neglecting of his or her emotional needs.
Pathological narcissism is not run-of-the-mill narcissism someone with a hedonistic or self-centered sense of self but rather someone with a very weak sense of self. A child who feels inferior, due to real or perceived social rejection, will try to compensate his feeling of inferiority...
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I have a psych professor who likes to diagnose everyone (he’s a clinical psychologist). He thinks that Obama has Narcissistic Personality Disorder.
Take it with a grain of salt, though—he also thinks Bush has Anti-Social PDO.
Sorry, but most of the people you listed are anti-Social. Narcissists have empathy.
I guess then by your defintion, Obama isn’t a narcissist since he doesn’t give a rat’s ass about anyone but himself.
I sent this private response to you because I thought I might get you to say or post what is really on your mind with regards to what the messiahs disorder really is. Now, I am going to post my query and your reply to me so as to bump this thread, so please don't start a flame war on me. My point is that Obomba says what he is told to say by his handlers, the genius ideas he has are that he is a committed subversive! One very successful Soros dupe, who in all actuality says some very incredibly insightful things about his predicament with his handlers, when he is not, so to say, plugged in. Don't worry, you have not offended me personally, I am just unhinged as Rush would say, that's all. I referenced crack for two reasons: one, is that this has been alleged here on FR, and two, I notice, by the way he bounces around when he walks, shows a distinct characteristic of alleged crack users I have personally observed!Uuuuuuuuuum....Also, in America, you can still speak freely, but maybe not in the future, if this front man (otherwise known as the M T SOOT) is not derailed in his quest to screw all people in this country.
I replied to you:
Its the crack stupid! Are you saying he is on crack or under some form of KGB mind control? You give him way too much credit and are at least a little vague about your suspicions. If you ever read anything about Communist true believers you would have to diagnose Obama as such. QED
You replied to me:
Obama doesnt have any personality disorders. You on the other hand...
Now, would you please say that you don't think the Antichrist has any personality disorder? Do squirrels have personality disorders? Or, is it just all the nuts they eat for lunch that make them so flighty and twitchy? C'mon! "Preternatural" Now that my friend is over the top. IMHO
We don’t really know if he feels empathy for others. He may feel empathy but just ignore it. He also doesn’t have the conduct problems usually found with anti-social personalities.
I don’t like diagnosing people without having met them, but pretty much everyone agrees that Hitler was anti-social. Stalin was more of a paranoid personality than narcissistic IMO.
OK . .but you do realize my post that you originally replied to was a quote from the article, not my words?
I just thought the comparison was worth mentioning as it put Obama’s diagnosis in some pretty infamous company.
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