President Weirdo
I don’t know about the rest of you, but I found Anne Kornblut’s report in the Washington Post — “Obama’s 17-minute, 2,500-word response to woman’s claim of being ‘over-taxed’” — to be deeply disturbing. Although I disagree with most of Barack Obama’s policies, I took no pleasure in seeing a political opponent wound himself by talking on and on to the point of agitating his audience. The situation is much too grave for that. This is our country — all of us, Republican, Democrat and Independent. And I am now convinced of what I have long suspected — the United States has a president with a serious personality disorder.
Now I admit I am not a professional psychiatrist or psychologist, nor do I see myself even remotely as a paragon of mental health, but I have made a decent living for over thirty years as a fiction writer whose stock in trade is perforce studying people and this is one strange dude. He makes Richard Nixon seem almost normal.
I first began worrying about this during the Reverend Wright affair. Obama insisted, as we all recall, that he did not know the reverend’s views even though the then candidate had spent twenty years in his church, been married by him, had his children baptized by him and taken the inspiration for his book from Wright. Now most educated people would have a pretty good idea about Wright after five minutes, let alone twenty years. The reverend is not a subtle man. Yet Obama told us he didn’t know.
Was the candidate lying or was he just so dissociated from reality that he didn’t see what was in front of his eyes? Or perhaps a little of both? Whatever the conclusion, it is not a happy one. The same man is before us now — only we’re not in the midst of a campaign. We have no way out. He is leading our nation during a time of economic crisis with a world changing so rapidly that our heads spin.
Therapists often speak of “inappropriate affect” — laughing at sad news, etc. — as an indicator of psychological disturbance. That is not far from what Obama displayed at the question-and-answer session in Charlotte described by Kornblut when he endlessly replied to a woman’s query about taxation. His response was inappropriate, to say the least. It also was a demonstration that at heart he does not believe his own ideas. Otherwise, why take so long? Methinks he doth protest too much, as the Bard said. And protest he does, like a comedian who knows he is bombing but keeps telling jokes.
Unfortunately, the joke is on us. Presidential proposals have become a manifestation of ego and not of thought-through deliberated policy. No attempt at bi-partisanship is ever really made because our leader is too fragile to compromise and too wounded to admit when he is wrong. For someone who arrived as an “intellectual” president, ideas are the least of it. He only wants to be right.
I know some conservatives think Obama is a socialist or a closet Alinskyite or whatever, but I think the problem is yet more complicated. No matter his ideology, this man is not fit to rule psychologically. Or, more properly, govern — but you know what I mean. He doesn’t have the temperament. He was elected with people knowing almost nothing about him. Despite that the facts are still masked, his history still obscure, we may now know too much, have seen too much. These things just leak out around the edges. They do for all of us, like it or not. And yet, he will be with us until 2012 at least.
Good luck to us.
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Delia
Remember: “Kroft to Obama: Are you punch-drunk?”
There is a pathology to Barry that is definitely cracking through the surface in frightening ways. We’ve got someone who has serious mental issues running our country into the ground. Unfit indeed.
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David Thomson
“It also was a demonstration that at heart he does not believe his own ideas.”
Barack Obama is an arrogant narcissist who considers himself to be self-sacrificing and brilliant. Any obstacles in his way are only temporary and he will eventually work everything out. It has dawned on me that Obama probably doesn’t even spend five minutes a week worrying about the non-stop growth of the national debt. He can perform something akin to magic and solve all of our troubles.
Obama’s ego is mostly out of whack because he has never truly earned anything in his entire life. This is a man who gotten a lot in return for doing next to nothing. He is a master at exploiting white guilt. John F. Kennedy had to struggle much harder to become president even with his enormous economic advantages. I am unaware of any elected president in our nation’s history who did so little to earn the position. Obama should still be a mere state senator in Illinois. Our present occupant in the White House also benefited from the con job perpetuated by the Ivy League schools. Few Americans are aware that the academic standards of Columbia and Harvard have become something of a joke in the last some forty years. Only the hard science credentials are usually worthy of respect. Postmodernist idiots now dominate the softer disciplines.
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David Thomson
Barack Obama’s psychological difficulties are becoming more obvious to everyone who bothers to pay attention. Millions have read the Drudge Report headline story. It is next to impossible to hide something like this in an era of instant communications. The red state voters who voted for Obama in 2008 have already abandoned him. Purple state voters wariness is increasingly growing.
The real question is whether we can stop Obama before he does something really insane. It is most disturbing that he can get to the red phone.
April 4, 2010 - 8:49 am Link to this Comment | Reply
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David Stern
To me Obama has always been a “phony”, I couldn’t understand why people (MSM)ignored his dubious Chicago friends and acquaintances and not so impressive history. At best I thought he was a lucky con-artist at worst a tool of the far left mixed up with some Chicago criminals. That he is a empty shell is obvious and his handlers are no better. Anyway, I recommend a 40 year old book “The Kennedy Promise” by Henry Fairlie. It is a brilliant book about Kennedy politics and it is interesting to read as the Obama story unfolds!
April 4, 2010 - 7:25 am Link to this Comment | Reply
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wren
Obama has been through several bouts of depression over the years.
His sister worried that he would end up homeless at one point, apparently.
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stuart williamson
Roger, you have addressed here what i consider to be the most dangerous aspect of this disastrous Presidency: the holder of the highest office in the greatest ntion in the world is beyond weird – he is pathological, megalomaniacal liar of small intellect and of no accomplishment, who has been manipulated by a malign cadre of doctrinaire radical socialists in the greatest sting to ever come out of Chicago.
It is inevitable that he will self-destruct: his team is dedicated to ramming as much destructive legislation through as possible in two years, to cripple our system to the degree that reversal will be imposibnle;
What puzzles me is that, with your background in left-wing politics, you are unable to identify his Communist roots and commitment.
April 4, 2010 - 12:59 am Link to this Comment | Reply
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David Thomson
“What puzzles me is that, with your background in left-wing politics, you are unable to identify his Communist roots and commitment.”
Barack Obama is not a hard core Communist. He prefers to “nudge” people rather than kill them. This is not a man who enjoys violence. Obama is mostly a Progressive in the tradition of Woodrow Wilson and Franklin D. Roosevelt. Our current president adamantly believes that he is a benevolent and sophisticated individual who attended the best schools—and therefore should tell the common folk what to do for their own benefit.
April 4, 2010 - 1:20 am Link to this Comment | Reply
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CatoRenasci
I’m not so sure he’s not an avowed Marxist – communist – when push comes to shove. I think the reason he prefers to “nudge” people rather than kill them, as you put it, is that he knows that if he tried killing people at this point neither the militia (being the body of the people in arms) nor the professional military would stand with him. I think it was Lenin who talked about emphasizing the use of peaceful means when in a minority, and using force when in the majority. Obama is a well-enough-schooled radical (from mentor Frank Marshall Davis on through Rev. Wright and Bill Ayers) to realize that even though he won the election he’s not strong enough yet to institute a broad police state. It’s around the edges, though, with both New Black Panther and SEIU thuggery and now moving the FBI onto the Hutaree militia types (they may actually be subversive, I don’t know, but you can be he wouldn’t let the FBI crack down on an equivalent leftist militia).
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Patrick Of Atlantis
Obama really is the emperor that has no clothes. He had a modern education, which really isn’t much of an education. It is difficult to fit in Francis Bacon’s essay ‘Of Discourse’ into today’s curricula, what with all the diversions and distractions offered by a popular culture that is becoming less and less literate and ‘cultured’.
Obama has become like a song that has been #1 for months, and now, people have heard it play so much that they’re getting sick of hearing it; and the more they think about the lyrics the more they see them as inane and inappropriate for the children that are meant to hear them.
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