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>   Some food for thought. 
> Subject:   FW: Narcissism and Obama 
> I try to check these things out before forwarding them. 
> This one is
> true.  You can Google Dr. Sam Vaknin and get the same
> information.  This
> is the most frightning one yet.  Maybe because it is more
> clinical than
> political… 
>   
> Understanding Obama: The Making of a Fuehrer 
> By Ali Sina 
>   
> I must confess, I was not 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 a 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
> ' Malignant
> Self Love ,' also believes, 'Barack Obama appears
> to be a narcissist.' 
>   
> Vaknin is a world authority on narcissism. He understands
> it 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,
> nearest and dearest 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. Charles Manson,
> Joseph Koni,
> Shoko Asahara, Joe Stalin, Saddam, Mao Zedong, Kim Jong IL,
> and Adolph
> Hitler are a few examples of narcissists of our time. All
> these men had
> a tremendous influence over their fanciers and followers.
> They created a
> personality cult around themselves, and with their blazing
> speeches
> elevated their admirer's souls, filled their hearts
> with enthusiasm and
> instilled in their minds a new zest for life. Those men
> gave their
> followers hope! They promised them the moon, but alas, they
> invariably
> 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. His mother re-married and Obama had
> to relocate
> to  Indonesia , a foreign land with a radically foreign
> culture, to be
> raised by a stepfather. He was raised as an only child,
> full of himself
> and no others. He never had to share the spotlight with any
> siblings. 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 him
> 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 objectives. 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. 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; he used the
> 'Present' all the time as a member of the Illinois 
> legislature. No one
> can criticize him if things go wrong. Why should he
> implicate himself in
> issues that may become controversial when they don't
> help him
> personally? 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 an advance to write a book about race
> relations.
> The  University  of  Chicago Law School  provided him with
> a fellowship
> and an office to work on his book. The book took him a lot
> longer than
> expected and at the end it devolved 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 a half
> billion dollars for
> his campaign (something unprecedented in history) has no
> interest in the
> plight of his own brother. Why? His brother cannot be used
> for his
> ascent to power. A narcissist cares for no one but himself.
>  
>   
> This election is like no other election 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 a 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 must be a fool if one is
> not alarmed.
> Many politicians are narcissists. They pose no threat to
> others. They
> are simply self-serving and selfish. [Witness Al Gore's
> Income Tax; it
> reveals that he gave away NO MONEY to charities, not even
> to a church!]
> Obama evinces symptoms of pathological narcissism, which is
> different
> from the run-of-the-mill narcissism of a Richard Nixon or
> 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. [Look up the word
> 'treachery.'] 
>   
> Today the Democrats have placed all their hopes in Obama.
> But this man
> could put an end to their party [and to this great nation].
> 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.  
>   
> Let us call a spade a spade [No pun intended]. This is
> racism, pure and
> simple. The truth is that, while everyone carries a
> misconceived
> collective guilt towards blacks for wrongs done centuries
> ago by a
> bygone people to a bygone people, the blacks carry a
> collective rancor,
> enmity or vendetta towards non-blacks, and to this day want
> to 'stand
> up' to the white man. They seem to be stuck in 19th
> century [encouraged
> by race baiters like Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson and
> others]. 
>   
> 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 not seen since the turbulent 1960s. 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 Maoist Castroists, 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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