Danger in the White House. Doctor Michael A. Haberman writes about Dr. Sam Vaknin, who is an Israeli psychologist, who believes President Obama has an unpredictable mental disorder. He labels Obama as a Pathological Narcissist. An interesting view on our president, Dr. Vaknin states, I must confess I was impressed by Obama the first time I saw him. I was excited to see a black candidate who looked youthful, spoke well, appeared to be confident, a wholesome presidential package, but I was put off soon, not just because of his shallowness but 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. Obamas speeches are unlike any political speech we have heard in American history. Never had a politician in this land had such quasi religious impact on so many people. The fact that Obama is a total incognito with Zero accomplishments, 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. Dr. Sam Vaknin, is the author of Malignant Self Love, believes Barack Obama is a narcissist. Vaknin, a world authority on narcissism, describes the inner mind of a narcissist makes him like no other person. When Vaknin talks about narcissism everyone listens. Vaknin says Obamas language, posture and demeanor, even the testimonies of his closest, dearest friends suggest that the man is either a narcissist or has narcissist personality disorder (NPD). Narcissists project a grandiose, however false image of themselves. Jim Jones, the charismatic leader of The Peoples Temple led 900 of his followers to cheerfully commit mass suicide and 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. Yet these men had a tremendous influence over their fanciers. They created a personality cult around themselves and with blazing speeches elevated their admirers my filling their hearts with enthusiasm while instilling them with a new zest for life that provided them with hope! They promised the moon, but alas, invariably they brought doom to their followers. When you are a victim of a cult of personality, you dont know it until it is too late. One determining factor in the development of NPD is childhood abuse. Obamas early life was decidedly chaotic, replete with traumatic mentally bruising dislocations. 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 reach their personal objective. They are focused on one thing alone and that is power. All other issues are meaningless to them. They will not waste their precious time on trivialities. Anything that does not help them is beneath them and does not deserve their attention. If an issue raised in the Senate does not help Obama he has no interest in it. No one can criticize him if things go wrong. Certain issues are unworthy to him by their very nature because they are not about him. Obamas 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 longer time than expected. In the end, the book evolved into, guess what? His own autobiography! Instead of writing a scholarly paper 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 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 Obamas 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 raises 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 is not useful in his own ascent to power. A narcissist cares for no one but himself. This election was like none other in the history of America. The issues were insignificant compared to what was at stake. What can be more dangerous than having a man bereft of conscience, a serial liar, 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. Yet, they may not pose a 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 intelligent. This, then, becomes their disguise. This disguise makes them even more treacherous. Today the Democrats place all their hopes on Obama, but this man could put an end to their party. Cultic, or Cult-like mentality is pernicious and unrelenting. Obamas supporters will dig their heads deeper in the sand and blame his detractors. America is still 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 Castros, the Hezbollah, the Hamas, the lawyers of the Guantanamo terrorists, the terrorists from Chechnya, and virtually all sworn enemies of America are thrilled by the prospect of their man in the White House. America is possibly on the verge of destruction. There is no danger, no insanity greater than electing a pathological narcissist as president. Michael A Haberman, M.D.
Posted on: Mon, 20 Jan 2014 23:04:49 +0000
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