Thanks to Anonymous, I get to consider my favourite politician Obama, sigh!
Below, I have kept the Israeli doctor's views that Obama is a mental case and commented on them. I think Obama is very sane. I think he should listen to me on policy regarding financial markets, but heh he is the President of the United States and not a gangster like V V Putin.
Well well!
If there is anything one learns in life, it is that criticism disguised as analysis is mostly a reflection of the criticizer's personal assessment of himself, flaws he is aware of.
There isn't much that I agree with in the Israeli doctor's assessment. I have inserted my view. I studied psychopathology and politics and the doctor's thesis is not worthy of a logical thinker.
President Obama is healthy mentally, possibly more so than 99 percent of Americans. The doctor's analysis is silly.
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On 11 Jun 2014, at 11:28 am, Anonymous wrote:
I BELIEVE THIS ANSWERS A LOT OF QUESTIONS!!!
Written by Dr. Michael A. Haberman, M.D.
This Israeli doctor says Obama has a mental disorder. Labels him a pathological narcissist and there is no greater insanity than electing one as President said Dr. Sam Vaknin who is an Israeli psychologist. Most interesting view on our president.
Dr. Vaknin States, "I must confess I was impressed by 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.
... Very true ...
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.
... I find these qualities appealing in a leader and not a negative ...
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.
... How does the doctor know these things? ...
In fact he is quite ignorant on most important subjects."
... How so? ...
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 friends suggest that the man is either a narcissist or he may have narcissistic personality disorder (NPD).
... And, we are to believe the doctor or Freud or some other authority! Why? The doctor has a theory and he does not like Obama so he labels him and catagorizes him ...
Narcissists project a grandiose but false image of themselves.
... So ...
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.
... Now the doctor is theorizing to the extreme and his labels are speculative to the extreme ...
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.
... And, so the doctor says Obama has influence, but the end comment of doom does not follow. Obama is a master of logic and his arguments are sound, not crazy like the doctors ...
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."
... The analysis presented above is stupid ...
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 codependents.
... Like followers and a great leader? Why is this such an issue with the doctor? Why is a leader necessarily a narcissist?
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 does not deserve their attention.
... One has a logic, but it does not necessarily mean it is wrong? ...
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.
... How does the doctor know this? ...
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 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.
... So? Why is this a problem. I don't see the doctor's logic. You write about what you believe you know best and what others might be interested in ...
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.
... The doctor has logic, but where is the correlation? ...
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 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.
... How dies the doctor know? There are many reasons that family members have different goals ...
This election was like no other in the history of America. The issues were 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.
... The doctors argument is based on fantasy ...
Many politicians are narcissists. They pose no threat to others. They are simply self-serving and selfish.
... Okay ...
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.
... The doctor has expressed an opinion about intertwining reality and fantasy. Amazing that the dictor sees these traits so clearly ...
This is a mental health issue, not just a character flaw. Pathological narcissists are dangerous because they look normal and even intelligent.
... Cool ...
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 voted for Obama. Only a fool does not know that their support for him is racially driven.
... Who is fantasizing? The doctor is silly. ...
This is racism, pure and simple.
... No! ...
The downside of this is that if Obama turns out to be the disaster I predict, he will cause widespread resentment among the whites.
... Why is this a race issue here? The doctor is balmy ...
The blacks are unlikely to give up their support of their man.
... Who seems to be racist? ...
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.
... The doctor is such a know it all, but he is silly ...
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.
... The doctors logic is silly and stupid? ...
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.
... What is this rubbish? ...
America is on the verge of destruction.
... No! ...
There is no insanity greater than electing a pathological narcissist as President.
... Perhaps so, but President Obama does not fit that description despite the doctor's credentials
Michael A. Haberman, M.D.
... Sad Michael feels the doctor's rubbish is more than rubbish ...
