Dr. Vaknin is an expert in, and 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 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 Cult 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
very 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.
