Thank you, Serenity, for this enlightening article. Hoping for the best,
but expecting the worst... -- S * *
Subject: Interesting Read- Let's hope Dr. Sam Vaknin isn't
right in his prediction.
Dr. Sam Vaknin is an Israeli psychologist. Interesting view
on our new president.
Dr. Vaknin has written extensively about narcissism.
Dr. Vaknin States "I must confess I was impressed by
Sen.Barack Obama from the first time I saw him. At first I
was excited to
see a black candidate. He looked youthful, spoke well,
appeared to be
confident - a wholesome presidential package. I was put off
soon, not just
because of his shallowness but also because there was an air
of haughtiness
in his demeanor that was unsettling. His posture and his body
language were
louder than his empty words. Obama's speeches are unlike any
political
speech we have heard in American history. Never a politician
in this land
had such quasi "religious" impact on so many people. The fact
that Obama is
a total incognito with zero accomplishment, makes this
inexplicable
infatuation alarming. Obama is not an ordinary man. He is not
a genius. In
fact he is quite ignorant on most important subjects."
Barack Obama is a narcissist.
Dr. Sam Vaknin, the author of the Malignant Self Love
believes
"Barack Obama appears to be a narcissist." Vaknin is a world
authority on
narcissism. He understands narcissism and describes the inner
mind of a
narcissist like no other person. When he talks about
narcissism everyone
listens. Vaknin says that Obama's language, posture and
demeanor, and the
testimonies of his closest, dearest and nearest suggest that
the Senator is
either a narcissist or he may have narcissistic personality
disorder (NPD).
Narcissists project a grandiose but false image of
themselves. Jim Jones,
the charismatic leader of People's Temple, the man who
led over 900 of his
followers to cheerfully commit mass suicide and even murder
their own
children was also a narcissist. David Koresh, Charles Manson,
Joseph Koni,
Shoko Asahara, Stalin, Saddam, Mao,Kim Jong Ill and
Adolph Hitler are a few
examples of narcissists of our time. All these men had a
tremendous
influence over their fanciers. They created a personality
cult around
themselves and with their blazing speeches elevated their
admirers, filled
their hearts with enthusiasm and instilled in their minds a
new zest for
life. They gave them hope! They promised them the moon, but
alas,
invariably they brought them to their doom. When you are a
victim of a cult
of personality, you don't know it until it is too late.
One determining
factor in the development of NPD is childhood abuse.
"Obama's early life was decidedly chaotic and replete with
traumatic and mentally bruising dislocations," says Vaknin.
"Mixed-race
marriages were even less common then. His parents went
through a divorce
when he was an infant (two years old). Obama saw his father
only once
again, before he died in a car accident. Then his mother
re-married and
Obama had to relocate to Indonesia, a foreign land with a
radically foreign
culture, to be raised by a step-father. At the age of ten, he
was whisked
off to live with his maternal (white)grandparents. He saw his
mother only
intermittently in the following few years and then she
vanished from his
life in 1979. She died of cancer in 1995".
One must never underestimate the manipulative genius of
pathological narcissists. They project such an
imposing personality that
it overwhelms those around them. Charmed by the charisma of
the narcissist,
people become like clay in his hands. They cheerfully do his
bidding and
delight to be at his service. The narcissist shapes the world
around
himself and reduces others in his own inverted image.
He creates a cult of
personality. His admirers become his co-dependents.
Narcissists have no
interest in things that do not help them to reach their
personal objective.
They are focused on one thing alone and that is power. All
other issues
are meaningless to them and they do not want to waste their
precious time on
trivialities. Anything that does not help them is beneath
them and do not
deserve their attention.
If an issue raised in the Senate does not help Obama in one
way or another, he has no interest in it. The "present" vote
is a safe
vote. No one can criticize him if things go wrong. Those
issues are
unworthy by their very nature because they are not about him.
Obama's
election as the first black president of the Harvard Law
Review led to a
contract and advance to write a book about race relations.
The University of Chicago Law School provided him a lot
longer
than expected forum and it evolved into, guess what? His own
autobiography! Instead of writing a scholarly paper focusing
on race
relations, for which he had been paid, Obama could not resist
writing about
his most sublime self. He entitled the book Dreams from My
Father.
Not surprisingly, Adolph Hitler also wrote his own
autobiography when he was still nobody. So did Stalin. For a
narcissist
no subject is as important as his own self. Why would he
waste his
precious time and genius writing about insignificant things
when he can
write about such an august being as himself? Narcissists are
often callous
and even ruthless. As the norm, they lack conscience. This
is evident
from Obama's lack of interest in his own brother who lives on
only one
dollar per month.
A man who lives in luxury, who takes a private jet to
vacation
in Hawaii, and who has raised nearly half a billion dollars
for his campaign
(something unprecedented in history) has no interest in the
plight of his
own brother. Why? Because, his brother cannot be used for his
ascent to
power.
A narcissist cares for no one but himself. This election is
like no other in the history of America. The issues are
insignificant
compared to what is at stake. What can be more dangerous than
having a man
bereft of conscience, a serial liar, and one who cannot
distinguish his
fantasies from reality as the leader of the free world?
I hate to sound
alarmist, but one is a fool if one is not alarmed. Many
politicians are
narcissists. They pose no threat to others...They are simply
self serving
and selfish.
Obama evidences symptoms of pathological narcissism, which is
different from the run-of-the-mill narcissism of a Richard
Nixon or a Bill
Clinton for example. To him reality and fantasy are
intertwined. This is a
mental health issue, not just a character flaw. Pathological
narcissists
are dangerous because they look normal and even intelligent.
It is this
disguise that makes them treacherous.
Today the Democrats have placed all their hopes in Obama.
But this man could put an end to their party. The great
majority of blacks
have also decided to vote for Obama. Only a fool does not
know that their
support for him is racially driven. This is racism, pure and
simple. The
downside of this is that if Obama turns out to be the
disaster I predict, he
will cause widespread resentment among the whites.
The blacks are unlikely to give up their support of their
man. Cultic mentality is pernicious and unrelenting. They
will dig their
heads deeper in the sand and blame Obama's detractors
of racism. This will
cause a backlash among the whites.
The white supremacists will take advantage of
the discontent and they will receive widespread support. I
predict that in less than four years, racial tensions
will increase to
levels never seen since the turbulent 1960's.
Obama will set the clock back decades... America is the
bastion of freedom. The peace of the world depends on the
strength of
America, and its weakness translates into the triumph of
terrorism and
victory of rogue nations.
It is no wonder that Ahmadinejad, Hugo Chavez, the Castrists,
the Hezbollah, the Hamas, the lawyers of the Guantanamo
terrorists and
virtually all sworn enemies of America are so thrilled by the
prospect of
their man in the White House. America is on the verge
of destruction. There
is no insanity greater than electing a pathological
narcissist as president.
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