Written by Michael A. Haberman, M.D.
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. 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."
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).
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 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. 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 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 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
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 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. 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 voted 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.
Michael A. Haberman,
M.D.
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