He passed my personal threshold a while back. I’m just curious if there’s a commonly accepted standard among the professionals.

I don’t at all subscribe to the theory that he’s breaking down. It takes a lot of reality to break a narcissistic defense down, and Obama’s nowhere near there, IMHO.

He has NEVER listened to people or news other than what he’s wanted to hear. That’s what has protected him right along. His entire presidency, and the people who “advise” him, has been set up this way from the start. It’s not new, and it’s not a symptom of some new development within him. It’s his m.o..

He often seems doddering and somewhat incoherent when off-script and speaking extemporaneously under criticism. It doesn’t matter. His belief system, and his belief in his own brilliance, is fully intact and is in fact the deepest strongest part of him.

What if Obama is on the knife edge of his Captain Queeg moment? It always seemed to me his ego was easily bruised and his mental state was fragile. He certainly never struck me as mentally tough, although he likes to imagine he is, and I never thought he could too take much pressure.

It looks to me that one of the reasons why Paris doesn’t count is that he needs to block large parts of reality out. I recall saying in the past that Obama himself may have been telling CENTCOM to alter the intel. But it strikes me that it was someone on his staff, most likely his national security adviser, ordering the changes.,

I watched Jake Tapper interview LT GEN Flynn, former commander of DIA, and Flynn had some interesting things to say touching on some of the above. Flynn said that he believes Obama is surrounded by people telling the President what he wants to hear instead of what he needs to hear. It occurs to me they’re protecting Obama from reality because that’s something he can only take in small doses.

He’s not a nice guy, but has always been in way over his head. I think he’s overwhelmed and instead of exploding his breakdown is manifesting itself by just shutting down mentally.

If that’s the case then for the good of the country the GOP needs to keep the pressure on until it’s obvious to everyone that Obama can’t handle the job. These times are too dangerous to have this juvenile amateur as president.

What if he simply can’t handle reality and he’s breaking down under the strain?

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/dec/1/charles-hurt-obama-loses-gift-of-speech-in-paris-t/print/

“Is it now time to invoke Section 4 of the 25th Amendment?

Has our president officially lost his ability to discharge the powers and duties of his office?

Anyone who listened to President Obama speak to reporters in Paris on Tuesday would reasonably conclude it is high time to start drawing up the papers to transmit to Congress for his removal.

…Without the use of the teleprompter, his speech can be described only as “halting.” It was impossible to count the number of times he seized up, able to deaden the silence with only a drawn-out “uh,” “um” or “ahhh.”

The White House dutifully scrubbed all the halts and stutters from the official transcript, and it was impossible to count them in real time. But a sample of his incoherent word salad found him stuttering about every 15 words, which comes to more than 330 “uh-um-ahhs” in a single appearance.

…It took the doddering president 47 minutes and over 5,000 words to answer just six questions. And by “answer,” I simply mean he unspooled a torrent of disjointed words and broken sentences…”

Yawn….

(Why even bother to analyze why?)

Another day, another Hillary Clinton.

More yawns….

(Why even bother to analyze why?)

Another day, another (actually, loads more) MSM lie….

Meanwhile, the middle class is fighting to keep its head above water.

And people are scratching their heads trying to figure out why Americans are bummed out by the political situation in the country….

Indeed they do not in some stats they’ll use to backup the claim. re: Shootings not involving terrorism.

Now for others; like when they want to claim a mass shooting happens in the US everyday… they use lose loser standards that include everything (anytime 4 people or more people are shot… period).

of course; like you said… even focusing just on shootings is a bias too…

Problem is Americans have “notoriously short memories” when it comes to plitics.
Unless close friends or family are murderd somewhere near them, it’s not an important issue. The Left is so fond of throwing around huge nos. of lives lost in Iraq or elsewhere in Middle East as reasons NOT to go near there and “start” a war (despite the continual decla