Can You Hear Us Now, Obama?

I think NSH is correct in pointing out that it isn't a hearing, or communication problem from which Obama suffers. It's a genuine lack of appreciation for what others think within his own so self-satisfied self.

What appears to be a lack of attention paid to political reality is actually a single-minded determination to ignore what Americans want and to use the tools of community organizing, intimidation, coercion and, most importantly, deception to achieve his goals.

This is a recurring theme with him. But the message masters were able to avoid it by going light on policy during the campaign beyond simply promising everything to everyone, creating a myth. Now that he has to produce, the disconnect is becoming far more clear.

Obama is not a man born to, nor interested in serving. He is someone convinced he exists to lead you to where he believes things, or America should be. Unfortunately, his unusual upbringing, life experience and classroom experience left him thinking unlike the majority of Americans. He is an elitist, through and through, not the man of the people he pretends to be.

Carter had similar traits, though of a different sort. He was self-righteous, while Obama is simply pretentious. In some ways that makes Carter the better man. What a frightening thought. At least Carter's ideas and goals had a noble quality, even if they were naive. That isn't the case with Obama.

Ultimately, his goals are selfish, or self-centered. Other than his own thinking, or the thinking of other liberal elites, he has no truly great tradition of thought to back him up. This is the self-centered and ultimately disastrous mindset of the post-sixties generation, bought into the mindset that went before and turned into an intellectualism it doesn't deserve to be.

Had he not studied law, he'd probably have opted for a Sociology degree, a modern and mostly worthless degree. But sociologists have a certain compassion and want to help, or understand first, not primarily lead. Obama's over-sized ego possibly built as protection against a sense of inferiority over his inter-racial genes, may have led to this.

In any event, I believe there are a few things you need to know about Obama. He is not post-racial, he is as racial as they come. Just remember his church and pastor of 20 years. Try and explain that in terms of anyone who is the least bit post-racial. You can't.

And so far, his narcissism makes him appear on the verge of being a sociopath. That is to say, he cares very little about others in terms of taking the time to understand how they might think and feel differently than he about things. There is no being different for Obama. Not really. You either think and feel as he does, or you are wrong. That's a typical symptom of the pathology we've come to call liberalism as defined by today's Left.

If we used Obama's ultimate health care spending guidelines as a judge, it would be marked DNR in a political context. How's that for bringing all this Sunday morning drivel of mine back home?? lol Forgive me, I thought it was Monday when I first woke up and there might actually be some real news to blog.

See NSH's post here.

 

Comments

[Zaugg]

Bingo- "his goals are selfish, or self-centered. Other than his own thinking, or the thinking of other liberal elites, he has no truly great tradition of thought to back him up"
2 books mostly about himself before he was 45? He thinks he is FDR, Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson all rolled up. Reserve the rest of Mt. Rushmore for his enormous ego.

[Philip McDaniel]

Well said, Dan. This message needs to be hammered home everywhere. We can stop this. September 12th. Washington DC

[Bob C]

Well said indeed. Thomas Sowell pegged this guy before anybody knew, or cared, who he was, in his seminal work "The Vision of the Anointed".

[Ran]

Thank you Dan!

Bob C: Thanks, Thomas Sowell's book is here:
http://www.amazon.com/Vision-Anointed-Self-Congratulation-Social-Policy/dp/046508995X

Dan, InstaPundit is alongside:
http://pajamasmedia.com/instapundit/83516/

"Of course, Obama’s plan — and Big Government in general — is all about ensuring that we don’t have the right to decide how to spend our dollars but should instead let somebody else take them at gunpoint and decide how they’re spent. If the health care “reform” passes, you won’t have the option of directing your dollars where you think they should go. And to the pro-Obamcare folks, that’s not a bug, it’s the whole point."

[KingShamus]

Obambi's psychology is almost too scary to contemplate.

Daddy issues, mommy issues, racial confusion...what a shambles.

[Ran]

King... Tip of the, er, iceberg. Not to belittle icebergs, mind.

[Nishner]

"If the health care “reform” passes, you won’t have the option of directing your dollars where you think they should go."

Actually, that's 100% wrong. Private insurers will still exist and you'll probably be insured by one of them. If you want, and only if you want, you'll have the option to get coverage from the Public Plan.

"The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office estimates that only 11 million to 12 million people would sign up for the public plan -- making it a much smaller player in the market. The government coverage would be available alongside private plans through a new kind of insurance purchasing pool called an exchange. CBO estimated about 6 million of those enrolled in the public plan would be workers and family members of employers that joined the exchange."

[WAHOO WILLIE]

"Actually, that's 100% wrong. Private insurers will still exist and you'll probably be insured by one of them. If you want, and only if you want, you'll have the option to get coverage from the Public Plan."

Amazing how you immediately distrust anything the repugnicans say but if the demonrats questioned your parentage, you'd scream for a dna test.

[Philip McDaniel]

"White House appears ready to drop 'public option'"
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_health_care_overhaul

Two steps forward, one step back. This is a dance. The musical score and dancing instructions were written quite a while ago...by Lenin.

[rrpjr]

Really good, Dan. But if you ever choose to work up a fuller psycho-pathological profile consider more on the father abandonment issue. I think it's indispensable to understanding his type of narcisissm.

[Ran]

Actually, it's 100% right.

Private insurers will still cease to exist and we will eventually all be insured by one payer - Government. If you want, and only if you want, you'll have the option to get coverage from the Public Plan - during the first couple of years. It's the mandates that follow that force the system to morph.

As specific language in the House bill forces self-insured, small-insured and singlers onto the Government Plan, the rest of the health insurance industry will go the way of General Motors, Chrysler and Bank of America - illegally but forcibly seized by the government as they get squeezed by the new rules. The "Government Option" is just the TRANSITION MECHANISM to single payer.

More - specific language in the House bill gives the Government the right to direct access to one's bank accounts to seize one's assets as a fine should one choose not to opt to "purchase", and at that point, a panel will make a "random" choice of plan coverage. This is in your own best interest folks, so don't complain.

Then there's the issue of an entire class of people - doctors and health-care practitioners - becoming de facto indentured servants of the State. Wucking! Funderful!

Don't the leftards who scream "liar" here on this site know that we can read the fvcking House bill for ourselves? Just because leftards suffer from public education doesn't mean that the rest of us are illiterate.

[Bob C]

The public "option" is only one pustule in the larger infection. This bill...with or without the public option...must be stopped in its entirety. The so-called "market reforms" are no less a threat to the liberty of the taxpayers than that government insurance would have been. A quick news flash for both Dems and Reps: government doesn't reform markets. Markets do. Pedal to the metal on opposition.

[Bill Dollar]

When Obama made the appeal yesterday in Grand Junction, Colorado, about socialized health care for all and brought in his grandmother's health status, it vividly shows that he is a demagogue. "The dictionary defines a "demagogue" as “a leader who obtains power by means of impassioned appeals to the emotions and prejudices of the populace."

Barack Obama, demagogue.

[Jake]

Scary psychology? From Belmont Club, Aug. 3.

157. blert:
Based on the photographic evidence I’m convinced that Frank Marshall Davis is the true father of the bastard.

In which case the sole reason for gaming the birth certificate is politics.

Being the child of two Americans is where any investigation is going to end up. DNA mapping will do the trick.

Davis’ blood relationship must have been made known to Barry when he was a teenager. Hence his politics and his connections to Chicago.

On the way outside possibility that he was born in Kenya: it makes no difference. Frank Marshall Davis was the true father — Stanley was a slut if you were black and Red enough.

Obama’s AB blood type could finger Davis directly as it is not so common.

Any notion that Obama is going to be ejected from office over his bastardy is fantastical.

As much as I am against H’s politics I have to extend my sympathy.

I met both him and his grandmother ( aka tutu ) and she was a tyrant of the first water.

In the early eighties, when Obama visited her during the holidays, I had multiple opportunities to ride the elevator with them. Without exception she was ripping him a fresh one.

Such a sight is never to be forgotten — it was too odd. She was short, old, white and vicious. He was tall, young, mulatto and respectfully quiet. He never said a word.

As to what she was ranting about in a public setting — she was incoherent. Nothing made any sense.

Even back then I thought that he’d go into acting or politics: he was that good looking. Little did I know that AA would take this prince anywhere he wanted to go.

And we are stuck with him until January 2013. Imagine the pardons this radical is going to issue before stepping down! He might just about empty the prison system! Think of Gitmo on steroids.

Aug 3, 2009 - 1:14 pm

[Ran]

"A quick news flash for both Dems and Reps: government doesn't reform markets. Markets do. Pedal to the metal on opposition."

Heh!

What our statist friends don't want to admit is that markets are the very essence of reform and modification. Free-up a market, and solutions will be found. Yeah, it's "unfair", but it's not evil by decree. The reason is simple: The vast distributed intelligence of a market vastly excedes any cluster of high-IQ egg-head elites. Any day, any market. It's one of the reasons socialists constantly run out of other people's money.

Once more with feeling: GOVERNMENT DOESN'T REFORM MARKETS. MARKETS DO.

Bob C, good on ya, mate! Good on ya!

[David R. Graham]

Actually, this is real, genuine news, and important.

"... it would be marked DNR in a political context."

Yes, because the health-care lists it would make would bear titles such as:

"Make Disabled"
"Make Deceased"
"Do No Treat"

And the screens for compiling and acceding to those lists? Racial, religious and political, of course.

This is real, genuine news of exceeding importance: arrays of sociopaths with hands on the mechanisms of national, state and local government aiming to destroy not only the nation but the civilization their hands envelope to strangle.

IMO, the "religious" aspect of the situation merits illumination because it is a major component of the sociopathology being observed and remarked.

An implication of this real, genuine news, IMO, is a phenomenological taxonomy of political parties that transcends the Republican-Democratic-Independent-Libertarian one.

The observed sociopathology is the starting point of the taxonomy, its morphological distinguisher and its methodological norm, let us say.

For example, a draft taxonomy of the active political parties in the USA today could appear as follows:

The Fascist or Zealot Party - Comprising principally Congress's current leadership and their academic, juridical, ecclesial, commercial, trust-funder, street thug, and industrial (including union) supports.

The Islamofascist or Mohammedan Brotherhood Party - Comprising principally the White House's current occupants and their academic, legislative, juridical, ecclesial, commercial, trust-funder, union, street thug and jihadi supports.

The Self-Disabled or Anarchist Party - Comprising principally NGOs, MoCs and their collectivist (including "liberal"), academic, ecclesial, communist, ecologist, genderist, racialist, reparationist, animalist, religionist, Gothist, alternativist, street thug, jihadi, trust-funder, insane, idler and cheater supports.

The American or Rational Party - Comprising principally subscribers to and practitioners of human values (not "human rights"), the aims of the US Constitution and a realistic appreciation and acceptance of their finitude -- i.e. the so-called "center-right/center-left" of the US electorate, to include conservatives, libertarians, "ordinary citizens" (union members, police, fire, self-employed, small-business owners, military, some commercial, some industrial, some academic, some juridical, some elected and appointed officials, etc.) and liberals who are in fact liberal and not using the name to mask fascism.

Currently, the first three parties are ganging up on the fourth to annihilate it. During the past month those three parties have gone to the mattresses, meaning battle-stations, meaning war upon the American or Rational Party. That is the meaning of their characterizations, which are classic psychological projections, of the American or Rational Party as "fascist," "disruptive," "un-American" and deserving to be silenced permanently. Their abjuration of further discussion is their declaration of war, and as we know, they are deadly serious.

Ultimately, the first three parties listed have conflicting agendas, as has already been seen between the Facist or Zealot Party based in Congress and the Islamofascist or Muslim Brotherhood party based in the White House. The Self-Disabled or Anarchist party will oppose any government at all and is already giving the furry eyeball to both the Fascist and the Islamofascist Parties, as evidenced by recent ACLU stirrings towards the latter.

Well, something like that, anyway. It is an effort, only, to gain a useful taxonomy by way of phenomenology, an effort implied, IMO, in this real, genuine news of today, and with evident urgency.

[rrpjr]

Bob C. - Bravo. My thoughts exactly.

[jeff g.]

What's so hard about having faith in a President who is already elected and in office? There's nothing any of you can do besides bitch so why not just shut the fuck up for the next four years?

[mark l.]

so if it was a case of "you're ruining my presidency", at what threshold will he declare his presidency "officially ruined"?

[Zaugg]

jeff g., so through the Bush years you were polite and loyal? Or did you drop a Chimpy Bushitlermchaliburton in there sometime?
Howz about you STFU and go back to Kos.

[rrpjr]

"...so why not just shut the fuck up for the next four years?"

The most clinically fascinating thing about the left is their void of irony.

The most hopeful thing about them is how staggeringly, consistently wrong they are. In this instance: yes, there is a lot we can do, and we're doing it.

[jeff g.]

All I'm saying is that I'm a patriot for this country, and when ignorant, egotistical know-it-alls (like yourselves) think that they can run the country better than the President we already have, I see a problem. How about when Obama's term is up, one of you runs for office?

[JustOneMan]

All he is saying is that he is just another Obama worshipper, who really believes in this ignorant, egotistical, know-it-all, disaster of a president can really run the country. When Obama's term is up, we will all be saying anyone but Obama!

[Ad rem]

jeff g,

You sound like a puppet of the Kremlin. You want to put a muzzle on speech that you don't like, and expect all others to blindly toe the party line. In the U.S. we have the right to disagree with our politicians whether we're the majority or the minority. Right now, the majority of people aren't too happy with Dear Leader and his policies. Right now, Jeff.....you're just going to have to suck that up!

[jeff g.]

JustOneMan:

I do not worship the President, nor do I necessarily believe that he is steering our country in the right direction. I just don't see the point of all you no-name, internet nerds complaining about our President over a website. Take some real action instead of posing a debate over cyberspace.

[Ad rem]

Jeff,

Sometime I'll have to introduce your pot to my kettle.....

[VinceP1974]

Jeff is a patriot!!!

Isn't it hysterical when these Leftists actually try to talk like Americans?

It's like a 4 year old boy trying on his college-aged brother's jockstrap and thinking he is filling it out.

I'm always amused by it

[VinceP1974]

I'm still laughing.

"Waaaaaa *cry* I'm a Patroit! Waaaaa! *foot stomping*" - Jeff

[JustOneMan]

Jeff,

Just because you worship the President, and believe that his fist is going up your ass in the right direction. you just don't see the point of average americans having a dialogue about our idiot fialure of a President and his policies on this website. Take some real action look in the mirror and see how pathetic you really are!

[WBestPresidentEver]

12 Thousand Attend Atlanta, Americas Health Care Town Hall on August 15, 2009.
By Proud American

Click on link below then, Scroll downt to read article.
http://ow.ly/15Lgmu

[Cynthia Yockey, A Conservative Lesbian]

Dan,

Several days ago you were kind enough to link my post asserting that Obama IS a sociopath (there's no verge about it)-- http://www.aconservativelesbian.com/2009/02/12/the-chilling-explanation-of-why-obama-is-cool/ . Obama is a sociopath because he lacks a conscience. There are very few emotions he is able to feel. He does not love anyone truly. His biggest thrill is to make people bend to his will. He tells people whatever he thinks they want to hear in order to gain their cooperation, power and money. Then, when they want what they have been promised, he will go into his repertoire of misdirects: tantrum, namecalling (RAAAAACIST!), denying, belittling, befogging, gaslighting, filibustering, addling (changing his story so many times so fast it's impossible to tell his real position) and overwhelm. The two most important things to know about Obama are that he will tell you what you want to hear and that you should never believe he will keep his promises.

Cynthia

[Sharon]

This exhaustive piece sums up the pathology for me.
http://www.faithfreedom.org/obama.html

There is also a podcasted interview with Sam Vaknin, an expert in the field of NPD. Narcissitic Personality Disorder.

[David R. Graham]

Sociopaths are narcissists and in the affairs of daily life, public and private, political and personal, they are fascists. For analytical purposes, describing them as sociopaths/narcissists is appropriate and fruitful. For operational purposes, describing them as fascists is appropriate and fruitful.

[templar knight]

"Take some real action..."

Don't worry, that's exactly what we've been doing, and we're getting results, in case you haven't noticed. And we've only just begun, jeff, we've only just begun!

[Hyman Roth]

Apparently unaware of the amusing hypocrisy in demanding that the American people blindly obey a socialist dictator who refuses to disclose his background, a leftist troll drools:

"What's so hard about having faith in a President who is already elected and in office? There's nothing any of you can do besides bitch so why not just shut the fuck up for the next four years?"

Normal, middle-of-the-road people said that in 2000. The liberals didn't listen. But, I guess it's hard to listen when you're screeching propaganda to power.

Now, all of a sudden, dissent is forbidden? I don't think so, and neither does Hillary Clinton:

"I am sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and you disagree with this administration somehow you’re not patriotic. We should stand up and say we are Americans and we have a right to debate and disagree with any administration."

This is the political climate that the left created over the last 30 years. I hope they enjoy their Frankenstein's monster.

[dicentra]

Here's more about Obama's Narcissism:

http://proteinwisdom.com/pub/?p=2926

[davis,br]

"Carter had similar traits, though of a different sort. He was self-righteous, while Obama is simply pretentious. In some ways that makes Carter the better man. What a frightening thought"

BWA-HA-HA.

Well-played indeed, Dan. Brilliant.

"...in some ways that makes Carter the better man." ROTFLMAO.

...still chuckling.

[Bob C]

Yes, the psychological study of our president is interesting: but what is far more important is that, as Dan has further posted, here, this ain't over, not by a long shot. Trial balloon...yep. They tried the 'we may have to raise taxes on the middle class', and it sank like a Bruce Sutter splitter. Now it's 'we may not need the public option', which is far, far more dangerous. Too many Republicans will take that as a victory, and dig in to come up with a 'compromise' bill, which will pass and become law. NO. NOT NOW, NOT EVER. The only bill this cranky-kneed conservative will accept is one which reforms the GOVERNMENT role in health care....tort reform, removal of all limits on HSAs, elimination of the prohibition of individual underwriting in group policies, elimination of all government-mandated coverage, allowance for the tax deductibility of individual policies, allowing the purchase of policies across state lines. Nothing that in any way, shape, or form adds to the federal role in health care will get my support. The battle has just begun. My wife and I are headed to our congressman's advisory council meeting tonite; we are fortunate that he is foursquare behind us in this fight. Keep your powder dry, and keep them on the run.