For a narcissist no subject is as important as his own self. Not surprisingly, Adolph Hitler also wrote his own autobiography when he was still nobody. He entitled the book Dreams from My Father. The University of Chicago Law School provided him a lot longer than expected and at the end it evolved 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. 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. Those issues are unworthy by their very nature because they are not about him. No one can criticize him if things go wrong. If an issue raised in the Senate does not help Obama in one way or another, he has no interest in it. Anything that does not help them is beneath them and do not deserve their attention. All other issues are meaningless to them and they do not want to waste their precious time on trivialities. They are focused on one thing alone and that is power. Narcissists have no interest in things that do not help them to reach their personal objective. The narcissist shapes the world around himself and reduces others in his own inverted image. They cheerfully do his bidding and delight to be at his service. Charmed by the charisma of the narcissist, people become like clay in his hands. They project such an imposing personality that it overwhelms those around them. One must never underestimate the manipulative genius of pathological narcissists. He saw his mother only intermittently in the following few years and then she vanished from his life in 1979. At the age of ten, he was whisked off to live with his maternal (white) grandparents. 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. Obama saw his father only once again, before he died in a car accident. His parents went through a divorce when he was an infant (two years old). "Mixed-race marriages were even less common then. "Obama's early life was decidedly chaotic and replete with traumatic and mentally bruising dislocations," says Vaknin. ![]() One determining factor in the development of NPD is childhood abuse. When you are a victim of a cult of personality, you don't know it until it is too late. They gave them hope! They promised them the moon, but alas, invariably they brought them to their doom. They created a personality cult around themselves and with their blazing speeches elevated their admirers, filled their hearts with enthusiasm and instilled in their minds a new zest for life. All these men had a tremendous influence over their fanciers. 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. ![]() 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. Narcissists project a grandiose but false image of themselves. 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). When he talks about narcissism everyone listens. He understands narcissism and describes the inner mind of a narcissist like no other person. Vaknin is a world authority on narcissism. Sam Vaknin, the author of the Malignant Self Love believes "Barack Obama appears to be a narcissist." In fact he is quite ignorant on most important subjects. The fact that Obama is a total incognito with zero accomplishment, makes this inexplicable infatuation alarming. Never a politician in this land had such quasi "religious" impact on so many people. Obama's speeches are unlike any political speech we have heard in American history. His posture and his body language were louder than his empty words. 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. He looked youthful, spoke well, appeared to be confident - a wholesome presidential package. At first I was excited to see a black candidate. Barack Obama from the first time I saw him. Vaknin states "I must confess I was impressed by Sen. ![]() Vaknin has written extensively about narcissism.ĭr.
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