Dr. Sam Vaknin is an Israeli psychologist. Interesting view on our new
president.
Dr. Vaknin has written extensively about narcissism.
Dr. Vaknin States "I must confess I was 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 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 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 and nearest
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. 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 do 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 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 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 is like no
other 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 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
have also decided to vote 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.
