The Making of a Fuehrer

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Halloween is over but it appears that we are entering a scary age for America.

Sam



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Understanding Obama: The Making of a Fuehrer
By Ali Sina 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 the Malignant Self
Love, also 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' souls, 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. 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 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 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 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. Obama evinces 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.
Let us call a spade a spade. This is racism, pure and simple. The truth is
that while everyone carries a misconceived collective guilt towards the 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.

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. Cultic 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 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 Castrists, 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.