Comments on: To Peggy Noonan: this is what a character disorder looks like

By: Will

Will — Tue, 11 Nov 2014 02:09:06 +0000

Anyone who has worked in social services, law enforcement, or the public school system and can and will speak honestly is familiar with his “malady”. Therein lie astonishing levels of denial, self deception and narcissism. But, as others have pointed out, this was no accident. His benefactors knew this would be the outcome, and for that, well, blindfolds and cigarettes ya’ll

By: House of Eratosthenes

House of Eratosthenes — Mon, 10 Nov 2014 18:27:49 +0000

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By: blert

blert — Mon, 10 Nov 2014 08:16:48 +0000

EW…

He’s looking forward to a Wagnerian ending.

Trumpets…

Drums…

All the rest.

Kind of like the last scene in Hamlet. (1948)

By: Edward Wagner

Edward Wagner — Mon, 10 Nov 2014 00:40:39 +0000

The question that interests me at this point is to what extent does Obama’s narcissism work hand in glove with his ideology. Doesn’t one enable the other and vice versa? I think that Obama’s success as a narcissist politician is because his supporters WANT to see him the way he conceives himself even in the teeth of the evidence. They IDENTIFY with his self regard and it serves as a commentary of approval on their own poltics.
Imagine, for example, a similar personality in the Republican party: A politician that narcissistic would at least have to be better at concealing it otherwise he would soon annoy conservative Republicans and they’d start counting up the number of “Is” in his speeches quicker than the press would.
But Obamanaughts desperately wanted that “lightworker” myth to be literally true. It put their own ideology beyond criticism.

By: G Joubert

G Joubert — Sun, 09 Nov 2014 21:56:32 +0000

And whoever all he’s got with him behind the curtain have most certainly war-gamed this scenario, i.e, Obama’s last 2 years with Congress held by the GOP. They know what they’re going to do. May you live in interesting times.

By: MollyNH

MollyNH — Sun, 09 Nov 2014 21:52:18 +0000

2 years to ride out, 2 years people !

By: G Joubert

G Joubert — Sun, 09 Nov 2014 21:40:05 +0000

It’s not just Obama and his narcissistic personality. Yes he is that, but we also know a couple of other things about him too:
(1) He’s not that smart. No way did the Marvelous Obama Career just happen because he was so smart that he thought it up and pulled it off all on it’s own. There’s a good reason why his SAT and LSAT scores were never released, and that all of his school records are unavailable. Remember: he’s profoundly narcissistic, and we’d have heard about them loudly and often if they were even halfway good or supported the notion that he was brilliant. I’m not saying he’s stupid. I’m just saying he’s not as smart as he’s cracked up to be; and
(2) he’s fundamentally lazy. He doesn’t really work at anything. He’s achieved everything he’s achieved by having the decks cleared for him ahead of time, and then him arriving as the Anointed One. He then proceeds to utter flatulent pronouncements and do exactly what he wants. No stinking negotiating involved.

There’s a lot more to Obama and the whole Obama phenomena than meets the eye. He was packaged and handled by somebody for this role and while in this role. We don’t know the half of it.

By: Sam L.

Sam L. — Sun, 09 Nov 2014 19:11:47 +0000

I gave up on Peggy Noonan some years back. I’ve seen nothing to indicate I should change my mind on her.

By: kcom

kcom — Sun, 09 Nov 2014 18:48:29 +0000

He’s been a dick since Day One and remains so. It’s very late in the game to hope he’ll change.

By: SteveH

SteveH — Sun, 09 Nov 2014 17:37:45 +0000

If Obama were in a 100 person marching band, he would deduce 99 others were out of step. Not him.