Obama elected 44th prez

Rusty · #**131** 11-14-2008, 04:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Raptor

What a GREAT PRIZE! The bars are open at 6am!

And so are the Marcus Hookers

*very friendly folk around those parts*

Rusty · #**132** 11-15-2008, 08:05 PM

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I must confess, I was not 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 a 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 "Malignant Self Love," also believes, "Barack Obama appears to be a narcissist."

Vaknin is a world authority on narcissism. He understands it 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, nearest and dearest 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. Charles Manson, Joseph Koni, Shoko Asahara, Joe Stalin, Saddam, Mao Zedong, Kim Jong IL, and Adolph Hitler are a few examples of narcissists of our time. All these men had a tremendous influence over their fanciers and followers. They created a personality cult around themselves, and with their blazing speeches elevated their admirer's souls, filled their hearts with enthusiasm and instilled in their minds a new zest for life. Those men gave their followers hope! They promised them the moon, but alas, they invariably 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. His mother re-married and Obama had to relocate to Indonesia, a foreign land with a radically foreign culture, to be raised by a stepfather. He was raised as an only child, full of himself and no others. He never had to share the spotlight with any siblings. 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 him 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 objectives. 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; he used the "Present" all the time as a member of the Illinois legislature. No one can criticize him if things go wrong. Why should he implicate himself in issues that may become controversial when they don't help him personally? 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 an advance to write a book about race relations. The University of Chicago Law School provided him with a fellowship and an office to work on his book. The book took him a lot longer than expected and at the end it devolved 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 a half billion dollars for his campaign (something unprecedented in history) has no interest in the plight of his own brother. Why? His brother cannot be used for his ascent to power. A narcissist cares for no one but himself.

This election is like no other election 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 a 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 must be a fool if one is not alarmed. Many politicians are narcissists. They pose no threat to others. They are simply self-serving and selfish. [Witness Al Gore's Income Tax; it reveals that he gave away NO MONEY to charities, not even to a church!] Obama evinces symptoms of pathological narcissism, which is different from the run-of-the-mill narcissism of a Richard Nixon or 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. [Look up the word 'treachery.']

Today the Democrats have placed all their hopes in Obama. But this man could put an end to their party [and to this great nation]. 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 truth is that, while everyone carries a misconceived collective guilt towards blacks for wrongs done centuries ago by a bygone people to a bygone people, the blacks carry a collective rancor, enmity or vendetta towards non-blacks, and to this day want to "stand up" to the white man. They seem to be stuck in 19th century [encouraged by race baiters like Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson and others].

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. Cultist 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 not seen since the turbulent 1960s. 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 Maoist 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.

You can Google Dr. Sam Vaknin and get the same information.

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We can only hope for a better outcome than this man presents here. The difference between all of the narcissistic leaders that he mentions and Obama is that Obama is in the USA. Here we set the standards for innovation, flexibility, and thinking outside the box for the rest of the world to follow.

Tracy · #**133** 11-15-2008, 08:18 PM

Whether you believe me or not...if McCain had won the election, I would have grumbled underneath my breath for a day or two and then wished him well and hoped that the best would be done for the country.....I must say that the above post is extremely malicious. While one is googling, I don't think it would take much googling to find some of Obama's accomplishment's while in the Senate. Here are just a few:

Here’s a chart of many of his accomplishments during his 8 years in the Illinois state house -

hockey · #**134** 11-15-2008, 10:09 PM

I didn't write this and most of you have probably already seen this but I think it's pretty funny so what the hell.....

Dear Red States,
You've pushed us far enough.
We, The Blue States, now intend to form our own country. In case you aren't aware, that includes California, Hawaii, Illinois, Minnesota, Oregon, Washington, Wisconsin, and all of the Northeast.
We believe this split will be beneficial to the nation.
To sum up briefly:
You get Texas, Oklahoma and all the slave states.
We get stem cell research and the best beaches.
We get Nancy Pelosi. You get Sarah Palin.
We get the Statue of Liberty. You get Wal-Mart
We get Intel and Microsoft. You get WorldCom.
We get Harvard. You get Ole' Miss.
We get 85 percent of America's venture capital and entrepreneurs. You get Alabama.
We get two-thirds of the tax revenue. You get the Red States to pay their fair share.
Since our aggregate divorce rate is 22 percent lower than the Christian Coalition's, we get a bunch of happy families. You get a bunch of single mom's.
Please be aware that our new country will be pro-choice and anti-war, and we're going to want all our citizens back from Iraq at once. If you need people to fight, ask your evangelicals. They have kids they're apparently willing to send to their deaths for no purpose-- just so long as the media doesn't show the pictures of their children's caskets coming home.
We do wish you success in Iraq, and hope that the WMDs turn up, but we're not willing to spend our resources in Bush's Quagmire.
With the Blue States in hand, we will have firm control of 80 percent of the country's fresh water, 92 percent of the nation's fresh fruit, 95 percent of America's quality wines ( you can serve French wines at state dinners), 90 percent of all cheese, 90 percent of the high tech industry, most of the U.S low-sulfur coal, all living redwoods, sequoias and condors, all the Ivy and Seven Sister schools, plus Stanford, Cal Tech and MIT.
With the Red States, on the other hand, you will have to cope with 88 percent of all the obese Americans (and all their projected health care costs),92 percent of all U.S mosquitoes, nearly 100 percent of the tornadoes, 90 percent of the hurricanes, 99 percent of all the Southern Baptists, virtually 100 percent of all televangelists, Rush Limbaugh, Bob Jones University, Clemson and the University of Georgia.
We get Hollywood and Yosemite, thank you. And, needless to say, we'll take Broadway.
You may if you like, continue to call your region " The Real America". Knock yourselves out.
Additionally, 38 percent of those in the Red States believe Jonah was actually swallowed by a whale, 62 percent believe life is sacred unless we're discussing the death penalty or gun laws, 44 percent say that evolution is only a theory, 53 percent believe that Saddam was involved in 9/11, and 61 percent percent of you crazy bastards believe you are people with higher morals than we have.
By the way, we're taking the good pot, too. You can have that dirt weed they grow in Mexico.
Sincerely,
Blue States

2Mix4U · #**135** 11-17-2008, 10:49 AM

i get jokes

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DEMOA · #**136** 11-17-2008, 10:53 AM

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We get Nancy Pelosi. You get Sarah Palin.

uh......you can keep Nancy!!!

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Raptor · #**137** 11-17-2008, 03:36 PM

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uh......you can keep Nancy!!!

Can't we just put 'em both in a new edition of Celebrity Death Match and hope they mortally wound one another?

In the immortal words of Stephen Colbert, "I'm an American, that means I can believe whatever I want to believe". The election is over and the winners won, and the losers lost (I should become a stand-up Philosopher!).

I just ran into a losing candidate at Safeway, he's in good spirits and we both are waiting for the new round of tax increases and service cuts...Coons has already hinted at a 40% increase in New Castle County taxes...there's not a Council member that would actually vote for something like that, but if that's really what we need to get up to speed, then the County Executive REALLY has to look at management of County resources...because that's FUCKED UP. In the last 8 years, my County Taxes have increased 32%....now they're looking at 40% in just one year? What does that say about your County (New Castle, that is) Government?

Forget about the pissing match at the Federal Level, the local level isn't going to bother kissing you - and that's something that you could actually do something about!

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Roogle · #**138** 11-17-2008, 08:11 PM

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Forget about the pissing match at the Federal Level, the local level isn't going to bother kissing you - and that's something that you could actually do something about!

One of the truest stories ever told.

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hockey · #**139** 11-18-2008, 12:48 AM

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Originally Posted by Raptor

Can't we just put 'em both in a new edition of Celebrity Death Match and hope they mortally wound one another?

In the immortal words of Stephen Colbert, "I'm an American, that means I can believe whatever I want to believe". The election is over and the winners won, and the losers lost (I should become a stand-up Philosopher!).

I just ran into a losing candidate at Safeway, he's in good spirits and we both are waiting for the new round of tax increases and service cuts...Coons has already hinted at a 40% increase in New Castle County taxes...there's not a Council member that would actually vote for something like that, but if that's really what we need to get up to speed, then the County Executive REALLY has to look at management of County resources...because that's FUCKED UP. In the last 8 years, my County Taxes have increased 32%....now they're looking at 40% in just one year? What does that say about your County (New Castle, that is) Government?

Forget about the pissing match at the Federal Level, the local level isn't going to bother kissing you - and that's something that you could actually do something about!

I'm used to PA taxes. NCC is still a great bargin when comparing it to PA...especially Chester County. But damn.... 40% in one year... oy!

Obama elected 44th prez

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