Posted on 01/25/2011 3:04:58 PM PST by jazusamo
So basically he is a functional idiot with ADD.
Yep, in control of a credit card with no limit, so far.
“We have a bored teenager and shopaholic as President.”
Well, he seems to like to play Santa Claus (or Robin Hood) as well: look at how much “redistribution” was included in what was advertised as “stimulus.”
Close. He’s a pathological narcissist. Seriously. The masses elected a 40-something who is emotionally 6 years old.
Wellll, any body who did not see this from the start, when he was making campaign speeches about "change," like the whole State of Oregon, didn't see it, are not exactly our most insightful, responsible voters are they.
Harvard University - Barack Obama, Elena Kagan, Teddy Kennedy, Senator Al Franken, Jennifer Granholm, Cass Sunstein, Zbigniew Brezinski, the Mad Bomber, etc. etc?
Johnny Suntrade
He has the attention span of a (former?) coke head with swiss cheese for brains.
People who think they are bored with outside things are generally really bored with their very dull inner life. They are too lazy to do the mental work of linking concepts to create new ideas and instead simply wait to be filled up by other people. He is not a thinker. Thinkers don’t get bored. People who are easily bored are generally boring people, even to themselves.
In just one short quote, two references to 'I' and two to 'me'. It's all about him.
Well said. He’s no thinker, he’s a user and feeds off others then throws them aside.
“He is not a thinker. Thinkers dont get bored.”
Absolutely true. He is simply a narcissist, and an immature one at that. Good post.
Yep, it always has and always will be about him.
Mister Lasky, you may want to explore farther why important economic strategy doesn't excite our easily bored (and alleged) president. Please consider the following regarding Destructive Narcissism (excerpted and adapted from Wiki, bolding and colored text supplied)...
Destructive Narcissism
- An unrealistic sense of superiority ("Grandiose")
- Pursues power at all costs, lacks normal inhibitions in its pursuit
- Concerns limited to expressing socially appropriate response when convenient; devalues and exploits others without remorse
- Lacks values; easily bored; often changes course
- Traumatic childhood undercutting true sense of self-esteem and/or learning that he/she doesn't need to be considerate of others
Bump!
People must be very desperate if they listen or follow the Obama.
The Times is really going to print this?
It seems they are, it’s a shocker! :-)
The difference between them [Bush and Obama], which is why Obama is the more dangerous man ultimately, is he has very little by way of a skill set to understand the complex problems he wants to address, but he has this unbounded confidence in himself. ...
... He was an adjunct, and we always hoped hed participate in the general intellectual discourse, but he was always so busy with collateral adventures that he essentially kept to himself. The problem when you keep to yourself is you dont get to hear strong ideas articulated by people who disagree with you. So he passed through Chicago without absorbing much of the internal culture. ...
... He was always a tremendously engaging and charming individual, but hes not the kind of guy who likes to be pushed. He has a way of listening to you to make it appear as though youre the only person in the world who matters. And then when its all done, now what does he believe? Hes amazingly good at playing intellectual poker. But thats a disadvantage, because if you dont put your ideas out there to be shot down, youre never going to figure out what kind of revision you want. His mind is set in concrete. If he thought a stimulus would work in 2009, he thinks it today.
To sum up, Obama was a charmer, which attracted others on the faculty, but he held himself aloof, preoccupied with his own interests, as though he lived in his own little world.
This allowed him to maintain his great self-confidence intact, but he didn't really test himself against real world obstacles, didn't grow, didn't adapt his thinking to difficult realities.
So yes, there is something Peter Pan-ish or narcissistic about the man, at least according to one of his former colleagues.
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