I was sent this tonight and I just have to share it with my RS family:
Israel Psychologists' view on Obama
Be sure to read all the way to the end.
I googled this man and did some reading about him.
He is for real.
Dr. Sam Vaknin is an Israeli psychologist
Interesting view on our new president. Bill Whitt
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Dr Vaknin has written extensively about narcissism.
('narcissism' a noun. exaggerated self-admiration; exaggerated self-love)
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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. 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 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.
1|1|Reading this was very, very scary.....|Sharon|s_forshee@hotmail.com|22:48:14|07/29/2009|
I have no doubt in my mind that we will have riots in the near future the way things are going and that's what scares me. There will be chaos and destruction in the cities. I've lived through the 68-69 riots in my state of NJ in cities of Asbury Park, Newark that I remember mostly. I only lived 7-8 miles from Asbury Park. I remember the shootings between police and rioters. I was 12-13 years old and it's still vivid in my mind today. It was a very scary time for all of us. Thank you for this important article Robin - Sharon:) 2|1|yes this is veryy veryyy scary |lydzkydz|lydzmcss@yahoo.com|11:30:12|07/30/2009|
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THANKS!! 3|1|this|joseph|parkerjoe3@yahoo.com|22:09:06|07/30/2009|
guy should make an appearance on "the View" t.v. show. they will eat him alive. bones and all. 4|2|I'm sure they would. They are major liberals|Barbie|BHumphries@charter.net|13:38:40|07/31/2009|
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http://www.refundsweepers.com/dcforum/feedback/1278.html 5|1|Good grief...! Yet another slam against...|inthesticks|inthesticks@alltel.net|20:09:40|07/31/2009|
President Obama! This article from Dr Vaknin is dubious at best. He is NOT a psychologist or even a mental health professional. He has a doctorate in philosophy, of all things...and from a college that is unaccredited. So, any fly-by-night guy can claim to be whatever he wants to be, and this looks as if that is exactly what he's doing. Besides, according to snopes.com...the article was NOT written by this Dr. Vaknin, but by a Mr. Ali Sina. The article only references some of Dr. Vaknin's writings.
Oh and btw...the conservatives and the GOP had their chance for change. In fact, they had 8 years to change, but instead squandered those years away in a variety of missteps and blunders. It will take years for the liberals and progressives to correct the damage that Dubya has caused during his terms in office. 6|2|obama|morninglory42|morninglory42@hotmail.com|20:36:03|07/31/2009|
I personally would like to know where all his millions came from?Someone who was elected a few years ago and lived in a million dollar home~Someone who attended a church for 20 years and all of a sudden decides it is preaching hatred for whites geez,I can see after a month or two and then leaving.But going 20 years!Ha, must think we are all dumb!Well then again,most of the states went toward McCain and not Obama,just the ones that had big electoral counts are what pulled him in.not most of America,the middle class . 10|2|thank you sticks.|noway|stormybizzles@yahoo.com|03:49:11|08/01/2009|
i appreciate you for debunking this insane trash! 7|1|You know, I don't really care WHO wrote this stuff... it is very thought provoking...|whitmarg|robin@whitmannet.com|20:40:55|07/31/2009|
So, the credentials aren't all that important as the items that the article is saying.
I don't think there is anyone who can say they know these things about Obama -- where did his money come from? What did he do? Is there anyone who is not frightened? 8|2|Frightened of what?|inthesticks|inthesticks@alltel.net|00:19:20|08/01/2009|
Chicken Little..."the sky is falling! The sky is falling!" I don't care one single iota where President Obama got his money. Many Presidents and other politicians are wealthy or come from wealthy families. McCain is a prime example of that! President Obama got his campaign money from the common folk...the average Joes all across America. A good chunk of that money coming from ordinary people contributing small amounts of money online and such. It truly was a grassroots campaign, at least in that respect. Hillary Clinton got money the same way for her campaign. 9|3|Not just the common folks....|Sharon|s_forshee@hotmail.com|01:24:06|08/01/2009|
His top donations included Wall Street, Lawyer Firms, Billionaire George Soros, Rockefeller Family, Chicago Finance Elite and many more. He also may have received $3 million from people in foreign countries. This is okay if the people sending him money are Americans living abroad, however it is illegal if these are foreign citizens sending in donations. There were also no records for over $200 million that have been donated to Obama. His campaign does not identify those donors. Where did this money come from? His paper trail was very sloppy. Obama received the largest amount of campaign donations ever in history. For your info, I voted for the 3rd party.
http://www.opensecrets.org/pres08/contrib.php?cycle=2008&cid=N00009638
http://www.campaignforliberty.com/blog.php?view=1797
11|3|this sounds like 1920's america trying to start a lynching party|glennie58|glenn_scott@alumni.ksg.harvard.edu|04:22:45|08/01/2009|
it's really, really evil... 12|4|lynching party...it's really, really evil....|glennie58|glenn_scott@alumni.ksg.harvard.edu|04:23:34|08/01/2009|
flame me if you feel like it but it's got to be said... 13|2|Sorry...Who wote an article and his credentials or lack thereof are VERY important in anything you read. I have ignored most of this political crap littering the board,,,but I cannot ignore that statement |suezz|clearys@comcast.net|09:09:49|08/01/2009|
>Posted on Jul-31-09 at 08:40 PM (Eastern)
>by 173.48.120.119So, the credentials aren't all
>that important as the items that
>the article is saying.
>I don't think there is anyone who
>can say they know these things
>about Obama -- where did his
>money come from? What did
>he do? Is there anyone
>who is not frightened?
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