This is an interesting article, and intriguingly what I've been writing about Obama all along, I just didn't have the letters behind my name to be taken seriously.
From Jack Serious on Facebook, who also happens to be one of my America C2C friends:
Below is an article making its way around the web regarding the evaluation of Obama's mental health and the mental health of his followers. It's a great synopsis of information actually combined from two different articles yet widely accredited to Dr. Sam Vaknin.
Unfortunately, there is also a concerted effort underway by Obots to discredit Vaknin, and for that reason, I wanted to point out two things for discussions we may have in the future regarding this issue:
1) Destroying Vaknin doesn't make his inherent question invalid, "Is Barack Obama a pathological narcissist suffering from NPD (narcissistic personality disorder). My conclusion, as strictly an observer, is undoubtedly YES! And
2) For fact purposes (and because Obots love to twist the truth so they can argue a different point than the one posed), the article below is actually a hybrid of two different articles not solely written by Vaknin. Here are two links to the Vaknin piece on Obama and Ali Sina's piece, Understanding Obama: The Making of a Fuehrer, they are both long but well worth the time reading (although what is posted below is a great synopsis of the information.)
Lastly, as we deal with Obots intent on destruction and serving their narcissistic leader, remember that anyone who argues with them (or Obama) is arguing with a mental illness, not the person--it never works, but it will drive you insane.
Jack
Dr. Samuel Vaknin, Ph.D.
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 [for] him a lot longer than expected and at the end 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 [Mein Kampf] when he was still a 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.
From Jack Serious on Facebook, who also happens to be one of my America C2C friends:
Below is an article making its way around the web regarding the evaluation of Obama's mental health and the mental health of his followers. It's a great synopsis of information actually combined from two different articles yet widely accredited to Dr. Sam Vaknin.
Unfortunately, there is also a concerted effort underway by Obots to discredit Vaknin, and for that reason, I wanted to point out two things for discussions we may have in the future regarding this issue:
1) Destroying Vaknin doesn't make his inherent question invalid, "Is Barack Obama a pathological narcissist suffering from NPD (narcissistic personality disorder). My conclusion, as strictly an observer, is undoubtedly YES! And
2) For fact purposes (and because Obots love to twist the truth so they can argue a different point than the one posed), the article below is actually a hybrid of two different articles not solely written by Vaknin. Here are two links to the Vaknin piece on Obama and Ali Sina's piece, Understanding Obama: The Making of a Fuehrer, they are both long but well worth the time reading (although what is posted below is a great synopsis of the information.)
Lastly, as we deal with Obots intent on destruction and serving their narcissistic leader, remember that anyone who argues with them (or Obama) is arguing with a mental illness, not the person--it never works, but it will drive you insane.
Jack
Dr. Samuel Vaknin, Ph.D.
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 [for] him a lot longer than expected and at the end 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 [Mein Kampf] when he was still a 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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Rush Limbaugh is being lambasted, his words twisted, in an effort to discredit him for saying he hoped "the president would fail." He actually said that if the president supported tax cuts he'd support him. But our president supports socialism, well actually communism, and as such Rush Limbaugh won 't support him. And yes, he hopes he fails as converting America to pure socialism. Nothing wrong with that.
Let me unequivocally state, I do not support Barack Obama. I have never supported Barack Obama. I will never support Barack Obama. And it has nothing to do with the fact that he's black. It has everything to do with the fact that he's keeping his promises from over the years: He's dismantling America as quickly as he can, submitting and spending as quickly as he can and astonishing $4.26 trillion. (Yeah, there's fiscal responsibility, bringing change to Washington and changing the fatcat old boy style of politics. You're now the king of fatcat old boy style politics, Obama. Oh yeah, and the king of spending.) He's communist, plain and simple. In what alternate reality would anyone ever consider I would support communism (socialism is the practice of communism)? It doesn't matter if he's the president of the United States, I won't support anyone who is dismantling the Constitution of the United States and launching us into pure socialism. Never going to change, my friends.
So the question remains: Does Obama have narcissistic personality disorder? Yes.
Shucks, I guess I won't get invited to the White House for Christmas.
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Another great post, Candace. I believe that liberalism itself is a mental disease that affects the weak-minded. I had some fun with this in one of my posts:
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Keep up the great work! Rick C.
Hey Candace,
ReplyDeleteFor what it's worth, Snopes has somewhat debunked this. (http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/vaknin.asp)
The gist of it is that, while Vaknin has once said that he thought Obama is a narcissist, he didn't write the article. (Vaknin also disavows the article on his website, and says that he is not a mental health professional, and that he isn't qualified to make that kind of diagnosis.) Also, his PhD is not in pyschology, nor is it from an accredited university.
Of course, while that might call the authority of the article into question, Obama may very well still be a narcissist. :)
Oops! That's what I get for reading the article before reading your intro. Never mind. You can delete my other comment. :)
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I don't think he does, but I very well may. NPD is based around deep feelings of inadequacy, however Obama's charisma seems pretty genuine. Furthermore, narcissists often struggle to maintain a healthy marriage, whereas Obama doesn't seem to have a problem with that.
ReplyDeleteDr. Samuel Vaknin, Ph.D. article's greatly help me leave a Narcissistic Personality disorder. For 50 years of life, business, and family he turned all family members into total distribution.
ReplyDeleteBiden is a very enabling person feeding that ego even more instead of doing what's right.
This will end very ugly especially fore the people close to him.
The worlds most powerful man is mentally ill.