Obama Reveals Himself

I’m glad it’s not just me.

After spending the afternoon on Thursday glued to the television news once I learned of the slaughter at Ft. Hood, Texas, I listened to Obama’s “address to the nation” regarding the murders.  I wasn’t expecting him to be “Bush-like” or to be comforting, at least not to me.  I have very low expectations of our president at this point; however, even I was stunned at what I saw and heard from our Commander-in-Chief.

He did not speak straight away to the tragedy.  Instead, he started out as if nothing had happened.  So much so, that I truly believed that I was watching file footage from earlier in the day, and that he hadn’t come on yet to speak.  Lo and behold, it was live, and it was chilling.

Addressing an audience of Native Americans gathered for some conference, the PINO (president-in-name-only) thanked a bunch of people, and seemed like he hadn’t a care in the world.  Giving a “shout-out” to “Dr. Joe Medicine Crow” Obama mistakenly called him a “Congressional Medal of Honor winner,” when in fact, Dr. Medicine Crow was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in August, 2009, by President Obama.

Finally, several minutes into his thank-yous and acknowledgments and shout-outs, he proceeded to speak to us about the terrible assault on American soldiers on American soil.

He was, in a word, impassive.  In more words, he was passionless, perfunctory, emotionless, apathetic, unfeeling.  He brought no comfort, he imparted no uplifting words of support.  It was one of his worst acting jobs yet.

He left me cold.

Like Chris Matthews, I got a chill.  Mine was down my spine, though, and it wasn’t pleasant.

The words of Robert A. George, of NBC Chicago, were perhaps the most apt of all.  “Frightening insensitivity following the shootings” expressed precisely what I and many others thought.

Without intending to, Obama reveals more and more of himself with each hastily put together and unprepared speech.

I’m not writing this to simply be critical of Obama.  I am critical of him, but this goes deeper than just my personal distaste for his agenda and lack of any shred of respect for his character.  I fear that we have one of the most narcissistic presidents we’ve ever had, to the point of being pathological.  I also strongly suspect that he’s also a sociopath.  None of which would matter much, if he weren’t our President and Commander-in-Chief of our armed forces.

Others share this suspicion and belief.  I did a google search on some search words and found the following interesting results:

google search “obama sociopath narcissist”=146,000 results

google search ‘obama sociopath’ =1,820,000 results

google search ‘obama narcissist’ =2,20,000 results

As a healthcare professional, I would never presume to diagnose and declare someone either a sociopath or a narcissist.  For one thing, it is beyond the scope of my nursing license to diagnose.  It’s also unprofessional to diagnose someone from a distance.  But I can freely form an unprofessional  opinion based on what I see and hear.

My opinion is that he very well could be either, or both.

But, again, just my opinion.

Shared..by..many..other..people.

How could such a person get elected leader of the greatest country in the world?  Who doesn’t see through the facade to the character, or lack of, within?

Dr. Sam Vaknin, an expert on narcissism, identifies four types of people who aid and facilitate narcissists:  the adulators, the blissfully ignorant, the self-deceiving, and those deceived by the narcissist.  Dr. Vaknin continues:

“The adulators are fully aware of the nefarious and damaging aspects of the narcissist’s behaviour but believe that they are more than balanced by the benefits – to themselves, to their collective, or to society at large. They engage in an explicit trade-off between some of their principles and values – and their personal profit, or the greater good.

They seek to help the narcissist, promote his agenda, shield him from harm, connect him with like-minded people, do his chores for him and, in general, create the conditions and the environment for his success. This kind of alliance is especially prevalent in political parties, the government, multinational, religious organizations and other hierarchical collectives.

The blissfully ignorant are simply unaware of the “bad sides” of the narcissist- and make sure they remain so. They look the other way, or pretend that the narcissist’s behavior is normative, or turn a blind eye to his egregious misbehaviour. They are classic deniers of reality. Some of them maintain a generally rosy outlook premised on the inbred benevolence of Mankind. Others simply cannot tolerate dissonance and discord. They prefer to live in a fantastic world where everything is harmonious and smooth and evil is banished. They react with rage to any information to the contrary and block it out instantly. This type of denial is well evidenced in dysfunctional families.

The self-deceivers are fully aware of the narcissist’s transgressions and malice, his indifference, exploitativeness, lack of empathy, and rampant grandiosity – but they prefer to displace the causes, or the effects of such misconduct. They attribute it to externalities (“a rough patch”), or judge it to be temporary. They even go as far as accusing the victim for the narcissist’s lapses, or for defending themselves (“She provoked him”).

In a feat of cognitive dissonance, they deny any connection between the acts of the narcissist and their consequences (“His wife abandoned him because she was promiscuous, not because of anything he did to her”). They are swayed by the narcissist’s undeniable charm, intelligence, or attractiveness. But the narcissist needs not invest resources in converting them to his cause – he does not deceive them. They are self-propelled into the abyss that is narcissism. The inverted narcissists, for instance, is a self-deceiver.

The deceived are people – or institutions, or collectives – deliberately taken for a premeditated ride by the narcissist. He feeds them false information, manipulates their judgement, proffers plausible scenarios to account for his indiscretions, soils the opposition, charms them, appeals to their reason, or to their emotions, and promises the Moon.

Again, the narcissist’s incontrovertible powers of persuasion and his impressive personality play a part in this predatory ritual. The deceived are especially hard to deprogram. They are often themselves encumbered with narcissistic traits and find it impossible to admit a mistake, or to atone.

They are likely to stay on with the narcissist to his – and their – bitter end.”

Sounds an awfully lot like someone we know.

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