Posted on 07/24/2009 3:00:18 AM PDT by Scanian
Claiming that empathy is high on the list of qualities that are necessary in public officials, Barack Obama desires his administration and appointees to epitomize understanding, awareness, and sensitivity, and to be able to vicariously experience the feelings, thoughts, and experiences of other people. Yet, Obama is the one that lacks the empathy he demands from everyone else. The President, who supposedly transcends race, is revealing himself a proprietor of racial politics and race related discrimination.
It appears that, based on skin color, Obama leaves empathy at the door and makes snap judgments that are discriminatory, insensitive, emotionally charged, and lacking full knowledge. Obama is an unsympathetic racist whose bias is revealed in ignorant, off the cuff opinions expressed unabashedly, while admitting to be uninformed on the subject he's opining on. Obama takes it for granted that if a dispute between a Black person and a White person takes place, based on history, the Caucasian is at fault. Nowhere in the equation does empathy for the situation the latter finds himself in come into play.
Emphatic human beings can intellectually identify with or place themselves in a situation of another person, experiencing their thoughts or attitudes. The definition does not specify that empathy is only possible when identifying with someone of the same race, which is what Obama did when making his uninformed comment on the arrest of Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr., usually characterized as one of the foremost scholars on race in the nation, arrived home to Cambridge, Massachusetts after a trip abroad to find the door of his home stuck shut. Both Gates and his driver, donned with backpacks, attempted to jimmy the door open. A neighborhood watch type, looking to protect the community, in the way any self respecting community organizer
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This is what you get when you elect a communist street agitator to be POTUS.
Obummas TYPICAL
We tried to warn them...and were called racists for doing it.
Glad you liked the post. It didn’t pull any punches.
Yes we did. Everyone I warned just got some stupid look on there face like a trance or something. I do not think they were able to process the information. Kind of like they were hypnotized.
Empathy is not in Obamas dictionary. I doubt if he knows what it means. He certainly has never shown the slightest hint.
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Perhaps Ms. DeAngelis has done some research into narcissism. Lack of empathy is its key component.
From Hare’s checklist:
* Glibness/superficial charm
* Grandiose sense of self-worth
* Pathological lying
* Conning/manipulative
* Lack of remorse or guilt
* Shallow affect
* Callous/lack of empathy
* Failure to accept responsibility for own actions
The other key *tell* is rage. At being outed. I await the day an unscripted hissy fit exposes him for the shallow poseur he is.
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