Here is a great article analyzing Obama's personality, and how it has affected his presidency. "Barack Obama is unique in American presidential history. By virtue of his biracial identity and international upbringing, Americans believed they were breaking the mold when they elected the first African American president in 2008. Yet, for all the distinctiveness of his life experiences, there is still something else that sets Obama apart in the hall of presidents - his innate, natural temperament. According to personality psychologist David Keirsey, temperament is the part of our personality that we are born with. It is our default mode of perceiving and processing information, and it colors how we respond to, and grow through, the events of our lives. Keirsey theorizes that each of us falls into 1 of 4 basic temperament types: Artisan, Guardian, Rational, or Idealist. A person's type indicates that they have particular character traits, values, motivations, skills, and decision-making styles. In his book, "Presidential Temperament," Keirsey examined the temperament types of forty U.S. Presidents and made a surprising discovery: in 220 years of elections, there had never been a president with an Idealist temperament. Despite the fact that Idealists comprise at least 10 percent of the population, no Idealist had ever occupied the White House -- until Obama. The reason behind Obama's singularity in American history is a fascinating mystery, which can be solved by examining his life, his decisions, and his temperament." Rest of article is at: http://www.associatedcontent.com/ar...ng_obama_a_personality_perspective.html?cat=9 What do you all think? Accurate?
Actually if you read the medical definition of narcissist you can get a definition of President Obama's personality.
Didn't read it, did you? Google can be tricky for some folks so here's a definition from the Mayo Clinic. "Narcissistic personality disorder is a mental disorder in which people have an inflated sense of their own importance and a deep need for admiration. Those with narcissistic personality disorder believe that they're superior to others and have little regard for other people's feelings. But behind this mask of ultra-confidence lies a fragile self-esteem, vulnerable to the slightest criticism." http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/narcissistic-personality-disorder/DS00652 Ask yourself, Margot, what kind of person rights his autobiography before he's done anything? What kind of person announces when he's nominated to run that people will remember the night as the night the oceans quit rising and Americans got healthcare. Ask yourself who, on the same night, smiled as his wife said it was the first time in her life she'd been proud of America. Ask yourself how someone can be so totally incapable of saying, "I was wrong." The closest he's come is to, quite often, offer to try and explain it again as if what he did was obviously correct but people just don't understand. And, vulnerable to criticism. I've seen peaches with a tougher skin. I remember him jumping on someone who mentioned "ears" in private and I thought, "Wow, he's touchy." Sensitive to others? His sensitivity scale is zero. He's not even sensitive of the feelings of his family and close associates. And I wonder what it's called when people with a personality disorder convince others to buy into their disorder. Evan Thomas, who is bright enough to be a writer and editor for Newsweek, describes President Obama as "sort of God". I think it was Woody Allen who said President Obama was so great he should be dictator for a few years. Some have even said he's too smart for us. I can understand a man with a personality disorder thinking he is a god but for others to buy into that is really weird. So, Margot, it isn't nonsense. Now, quick, spring to his defense.
Very good, Psycholitics. Thanks for sharing! Barack Obama is clearly the greatest authoritarian and one of the phoniest and most insincere presidents we have ever had. He is arrogant and lacks humility. "When it comes to people like Maxine Waters and other ultra-Left Democrats who now oppose me, nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and consciencious stupidity.
You are very correct, PatrickT. Your remarks are very sincere, directly to the point and well crafted! Here are two liberal elitist. After three years, they have become quite identical in their policies and their differences have become very minor! They ignore Congress when it comes to their war policies and they both think they can spend their way back into national economic prosperity. Obama, like Bush, has increased the power of the NSA, he has broadened the scope of warrantless wiretapping of Americans and both have done nothing to scale back and limit the abuses of the Patriot Act. Obama is clearly the greatest authoritarian and one of the phoniest and most insincere presidents we have ever had.
Charles Krauthammer says it best...this is but one article he has written on Obama's personality, and it is one of my favorites. so, I prefer this one over yours. The Audacity of Vanity By Charles Krauthammer Friday, July 18, 2008 Barack Obama wants to speak at the Brandenburg Gate. He figures it would be a nice backdrop. The supporting cast -- a cheering audience and a few fainting frauleins -- would be a picturesque way to bolster his foreign policy credentials. What Obama does not seem to understand is that the Brandenburg Gate is something you earn. President Ronald Reagan earned the right to speak there because his relentless pressure had brought the Soviet empire to its knees and he was demanding its final "tear down this wall" liquidation. When President John F. Kennedy visited the Brandenburg Gate on the day of his "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech, he was representing a country that was prepared to go to the brink of nuclear war to defend West Berlin. Who is Obama representing? And what exactly has he done in his lifetime to merit appropriating the Brandenburg Gate as a campaign prop? What was his role in the fight against communism, the liberation of Eastern Europe, the creation of what George Bush the elder -- who presided over the fall of the Berlin Wall but modestly declined to go there for a victory lap -- called "a Europe whole and free"? Does Obama not see the incongruity? It's as if a German pol took a campaign trip to America and demanded the Statue of Liberty as a venue for a campaign speech. (The Germans have now gently nudged Obama into looking at other venues.) Americans are beginning to notice Obama's elevated opinion of himself. There's nothing new about narcissism in politics. Every senator looks in the mirror and sees a president. Nonetheless, has there ever been a presidential nominee with a wider gap between his estimation of himself and the sum total of his lifetime achievements? Obama is a three-year senator without a single important legislative achievement to his name, a former Illinois state senator who voted "present" nearly 130 times. As president of the Harvard Law Review, as law professor and as legislator, has he ever produced a single notable piece of scholarship? Written a single memorable article? His most memorable work is a biography of his favorite subject: himself. It is a subject upon which he can dilate effortlessly. In his victory speech upon winning the nomination, Obama declared it a great turning point in history -- "generations from now we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment" -- when, among other wonders, "the rise of the oceans began to slow." As Hudson Institute economist Irwin Stelzer noted in his London Daily Telegraph column, "Moses made the waters recede, but he had help." Obama apparently works alone. Obama may think he's King Canute, but the good king ordered the tides to halt precisely to refute sycophantic aides who suggested that he had such power. Obama has no such modesty. After all, in the words of his own slogan, "we are the ones we've been waiting for," which, translating the royal "we," means: " I am the one we've been waiting for." Amazingly, he had a quasi-presidential seal with its own Latin inscription affixed to his lectern, until general ridicule -- it was pointed out that he was not yet president -- induced him to take it down. He lectures us that instead of worrying about immigrants learning English, "you need to make sure your child can speak Spanish" -- a language Obama does not speak. He further admonishes us on how "embarrassing" it is that Europeans are multilingual but "we go over to Europe, and all we can say is 'merci beaucoup.' " Obama speaks no French. His fluent English does, however, feature many such admonitions, instructions and improvements. His wife assures us that President Obama will be a stern taskmaster: "Barack Obama will require you to work. He is going to demand that you shed your cynicism . . . that you come out of your isolation. . . . Barack will never allow you to go back to your lives as usual, uninvolved, uninformed." For the first few months of the campaign, the question about Obama was: Who is he? The question now is: Who does he think he is? We are getting to know. Redeemer of our uninvolved, uninformed lives. Lord of the seas. And more. As he said on victory night, his rise marks the moment when "our planet began to heal." As I recall -- I'm no expert on this -- Jesus practiced his healing just on the sick. Obama operates on a larger canvas.
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But, Margot, it's so popular with the liberals. You never read any of the dozens of "scientific" diagnosises of President Bush? I find that hard to believe. And, I'm not a psychologist. Just making an observation. When you read the definition of narcissism, you don't think of President Obama?
You're not a'kidding! There should be a pix of Obama along w/the definition of 'narcissism'......... IMO, his narcissism was so blatantly obvious during the campaign, yet the Obama sheep fell for his 'charismatic charm' and sucked up every word he shouted....... they really believed they found their "Messiah" and still do .... Watching that campaign and afterwards reminded me of Jim Jones.... 'drink the kool-aid and die' and they willingly did.......
Oh piffle.. you can get endless "psychology" from Oprah and Doctor Phil.. Its BS... and has little to do with Republicans or Democrats.
Excellent .... this post should give the libs some food for thought, but that's not going to happen.... they will always live in their world of fantasies of Obama along w/Woody Allen, Whoopie and the rest of them....
Wow .... so you don't think personality disorders should be considered when electing a POTUS or some other politician to office?
A psychologist interviewed on MSNBC had this to say about the Tea Party: http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs...l-tea-partiers-addicts-delusional_581987.html Delusion and psychosis?!?!
