QOTW

ah, yes, with Obama, it's always and only, about Him.

And that's why he didn't go to Berlin. It was about the people, who wanted democracy rather than communism. The people. Not Obama. The Great One cannot handle such a focus..on the peasantry..rather than on Him.

It's almost, well, it's almost obscene, it's a disgrace, it's...To focus on the people? Humph. In His New America, Obama has denigrated Congress, and thereby the People, to a rubber stamp, insisting that they pass His Bills without reading or debating them. Because they have to Trust Him.

He insults the people of the Tea Parties, calling them scatalogical names; he insults those who go to the Town Halls and question His Will. He attempts to silence FOX news because it criticizes him. What's next?

His policies, or rather, those of the radical socialists who now run the Democratic Party, are deeply unpopular. Obama is uninterested in this; indeed, I strongly suspect that he gets his emotional kicks out of the Power of Forcing People to do what He wants..rather than what They want. And I suspect that this adrenalin-inducing addiction of Power Over Others, will increase...as all serial psychoses increase.

Never in the field of human conflict was so little owed by so many to just one.

Aside from anything else, how can he be so tone-deaf? What are his advisors for, if not to say: "Mr. President, ixnay on the arcissism-nay"?

ET,

I quibble with one point in your analysis there.

Obama hasnt put any bills in front of congress, he has been letting congress write the bills....its his way of avoiding direct responsibility. If one could find a way to avoid responsibility as President its Obama.

Why do you think its taking so long to make up his mind on troop committments. He isnt used to making decisions like this. I am actually surprised he didnt take the military's advoice, it would have allowed him to say it McChrystals idea.

I've seen some people with huge Egos before, but man-o-man Obama beats them all.

I bet ya the White House mirror is even tired of seeing his face!

Stephen
Obama hasnt put any bills in front of congress, he has been letting congress write the bills.
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True... yet remember during his campain days. All he spoke of, was HIS bills.

If the health care bill does pass. I bet he'll take the props for it.

stephen- yes, I agree with you that Obama doesn't write the bills; he delegates. That's his history of behaviour, as editor of the Harvard Law Review where he left all the work to others, in the Senate, etc.

I don't think that it's because he rejects accountability. His narcissism is so pathological that he is unable to accept any responsibility for any problems. He'll always, always, blame others.

I think he doesn't write the bills because he's intellectually an utter blank. He has no 'mind', no capacity to think through, analyze, the problems and the results of an action. He is ignorant of economics, of history, of the world..and indifferent to gaining any knowledge.

He long ago, I think, moved into a mode where he operates totally by personal manipulation of You. Not by his knowledge, his analytic capacity. But by his capacity to manipulate You. He does this by misinformation, emotional manipulation (all his shout-outs, his winks, his grin..and his threats of apocalyptic results if you don't do what He says)...And, accusations of bias if you disagree with him. That's all he does. He does NOT THINK.

So, he doesn't write the bills because he can't. Plus, he's not interested in the economy. Or the wellbeing of Americans. Or the wellbeing of other peoples in other parts of the world.

He has only one interest. Himself. And his Control over you. And, I suspect that he gets an adrenalin kick out of forcing people to do what He wants..rather than what They want.

And, ET, no one, NO ONE would ever, EVER get away with that - unless, UNLESS they have the help of a compliant media. Am I wrong ?

ron - yes, you are right. A president whose focus is only on Himself, and whose Bills are actually enslaving Americans ...would never be able to do this without an enslaved media.

But the opposition now has a voice, and it isn't simply FOX. It's the Internet. Now, watch Obama go after not only FOX, which he is doing, but the Internet.

I do think that Obama gets an emotional kick out of making people his vassals.

Youtube video of Michael Coren on Obama and the Wall.

ET:

Jog my memory, please.

I can't recall Obama calling the Taxed Enough Already (TEA) Party protesters scatological names.

I can recall Nancy Peolosi comparing them to Nazis, but I must have missed Obama's missives.

Cheers

Thanks for posting that video of Coren on Obama and the Wall ceremony, MM. IMHO,speaking to the assembled crowds by video,after Hillary Clinton had already mentioned the Pres,somehow cheapened the historical solemnity of the event,made it seem more like one of today's U-2 concerts.

I'd love to see Obama on "Jeopardy", with questions only in the "History" category, I'd bet the royal buzzer would never make a sound.

set you free - did Obama personally call them "teabaggers"? Probably not, I suppose; but trust me, it means something dirty (if not strictly scatological).

set you free - I think that Obama's reference to them as 'teabaggers' qualifies for that category.

That was part of his pep talk to the Democrats to get them to vote for His health bill.

I TOTALLY agree with the tearing down of the Wall Street "wall", as it is corrupt and a true Oligarchy.

There is no free market system in the United States. The Federal Reserve & the Goldman/Sachs boys are running the market system, they have far too much power & control and manipulate the markets only to their own profit and good.

The only thing I hate more is that the American people who have voted in Obama and his Czars have abdicated their rights and responsibilities and handed them over to these commies who then have the ability to exert their wills to such a great degree. He is only the president, not the King, not God. Let the people run the system, it is by the people-for the people. Not for the good of Obama.

ron in kelowna asks:

And, ET, no one, NO ONE would ever, EVER get away with that - unless, UNLESS they have the help of a compliant media. Am I wrong ?

The compliant media helps a lot, but that same compliant media shilled for Dukakis, Gore, and Kerry, too. The embrace of Obama reflected a much deeper disorder in the electorate as a whole.

glacierman:

So, Timothy Geithter and Solomon (?), who were in regulatory positions and did not listen to the alarm bells being put out by the Futures Trading commissioner (Brandee Born?) about derivatives, should excuse themselves from the Obama cabinet?

ET, y'all on FIRE baby! Testify it sister!!!

SYF, they are all former Goldman/Sachs employees. They have their hands in the cookie jar and also are making up the cookie batter recipe.

They will not be called to account as they are part of the solution to the problem which they created which needs correcting which they have the solution. Incestuous at it's core!!!!

I think a complaint media is vital, but there's something else going on, and that is the..let's call it..the goodwill towards another person, of the American people.

We know that some of this goodwill is due to his 'race' (oh, what an incorrect word; there's only one race, homo sapiens, but I have to go with the mainstream..). And Obama relies on that; he's only too ready to remind you of it, and manipulate you as guilty.

I'm not quite sure what YOU are guilty of, since slavery in the US happened over century ago, and since slavery was part of the Islamic mode, and since slavery continues in various parts of the world even now and I haven't heard a peep out of Obama on that. Be that as it may, racism is a key strategy of Obama to Control You.

But my point is the goodwill of people, who cannot believe that this person parading around in front of them, 'in the flesh' so to speak, is actually a pathological empathetically dead serial liar and manipulator whose only interest is in Himself. And His Power to control you.

That's kind of hard to swallow. After all, he doesn't look evil, does he? He's smiling and waving, and telling us all about his longing for his absent father, and his hard times and....

So, this ability of Obama, to play the Victim, to lie..endlessly..and when confronted..to lie yet again; this ability to wheedle and manipulate and charm; this quick accusation that if you don't agree with His Will, you are...anti-American, biased, racist, stupid, rabble-rousing...

Well, people are trying very hard to give him the 'benefit of the doubt' and Obama plays on this 100%. Constantly. That's one reason why he's always blaming Bush, apart from his inability to take responsibility for anything himself. But, he's setting himself up as 'New', as Pure and First on the Scene. You only have to listen to his foreign speeches to realize this, for he clearly delineates a Pre-Obama era (all bad); and a Post-Obama era (Utopia).

So, it's not simply the media though their reluctance to critique him is vital. It's the fact, and it's a fact, that we, the people, always have great difficulty in recognizing evil even when in front of us.

After all, when we hear about various mass murderers - from Hasan, to Hussein to.. we usually hear people say: 'but he was such a nice friendly person; he even took my garbage out for me'.

Evil doesn't look, unfortunately, like something out of a Francis Bacon painting; it's rather mundane and ordinary and we hesitate to call it that.

Is Obama evil? I'm sure I'll be asked that, and my answer is: As a president - yes. If he were just a community activist or even a Senator, I couldn't care less; he'd be reasonably constrained.
But, given his pathology and it IS a pathology, then putting such a person into a role of immense power, renders him evil.

As I said, I think that his obsession with power will increase and he gets a kick, and increasing kick, out of making people do things they don't like. That includes..The American People.

I think Obama's advisors would do anything to avoid having to elevate Reagan and the conservative movement.

The single most distinguished person in the collapse of the wall was Ronald Reagan. Reagan was also the most conspicuously conservative president of any we've had. In fact, in addition to being president, he was the unapologetic leader of the conservative movement.

Naturally, to a communist like Obama, having to show up in Berlin would have necessarily meant calling attention to the most outstanding right-wing American in this century. That would be an anathema to Obama's handlers.

They knew that this could set back their far-leftist agenda. You can't have Hugo Chavez's good buddy praising an accomplishment by an unabashed conservative idealist.

So in my view they decided an affront to the legacy of Reagan would be a better tactic than being forced to admit the greatness of a man who opposed everything that they stand for.

His policies, or rather, those of the radical socialists who now run the Democratic Party, are deeply unpopular..

Hate to be a pain ET but, I've got to keep calling you on this; your narcissism meme "proves too much".

They. Are. HIS. Policies.

Again, for this whole life from early childhood, through adolescence, through his man/childhood, he has been saturated in Marxist ideology. Barack Hussein Obama is an America-hating Marxist IDEOLOGUE. Ask David Horowitz who has the street smarts on this, being the child of two communists [who called themsleves "progressives"] and having been a hard leftist himself.

Finally, how about this compromise to unite our two views:

He didn't go to the Fall of the Wall ceremonial because, as a communist himself, he wasn't at all happy about this event. And unlike those street level political communists who discovered the disaster that is socialism in practice, Obama still believes in it -- it's just that it hadn't been RUN BY OBAMA and therefore had no chance of succeeding.

Did Jimmy Carter go?

me no dhimmi - heh, sorry, but I continue to disagree with your views. Obama is not a marxist, not a ideologue; he has room in that cranial area only for Himself. Nothing else.

As I've said umpteen times, he is politically embedded within the socialist left because it's the only political ideology that is two-class, setting up an elite governing Set, ruling over the hapless powerless masses.
He can't be in the Republican/Conservative camp because they focus on the middle class, considered as the real economic and legislative power of a democracy.

Note how Obama denigrates this middle class, represented by Congress, insisting that they have NO power. They must pass His bills without reading or debate...because HE says so.

Obama is intellectually empty; he has no ability to think ..which is why he couldn't be a lawyer or teacher (no, don't start with the jokes about both types!)..He went into politics because it enables him to manipulate, and into socialist politics because it sets Him up as what he is: a controller.

Obama doesn't give a hoot about communism; he's not in favour of it or against it; he's in favour of Himself. He'll go with any idea, policy, program, that disempowers others and empowers himself.

He didn't go to the Wall ceremony because he'd be just 'one among many' and also, because he had nothing to do with the Fall. The people did it, and there was no way that he could emote to them and get them to be His; they were interested in the Fall of the Wall. Not Obama.

So, sorry - we'll just have to continue to disagree. Nothing you've said has convinced me to change my view. Sorry.

Jimmy Carter? No idea whether he went or not. But there's no comparison between the two; Carter was a sop, a naive and ignorant twit, but he wasn't a pathological narcissist who could only function if he was the centre of attention.

Never before has one person spoken so many words and said so little.

ET, well said!

If Obama were to allow the American public just one thing, his true birth certificate, that would be the lynch pin in this whole debate about what and who this man is. So far, he and his handlers have spent over $1.7 Million on keeping these facts out of the courts and verifying where he was born. One of the only four requirements to being the POTUS!

Smoke and mirrors is what this president will be known for in the history of the United States.

Good points Greg. And well nailed ET. You've had his number from day one.

When he was initially elected I knew I would disagree with most of his politics, but I also assumed he would be mostly content to 'play the president on TV' and bask in the media adulation and personal popularity while the pseudo-adults worked behind the scenes. Being the president is like, you know, TOTALLY hard work and stuff!

But his narcissism and oversized ego appear to have dominated. He seems to truly believe it's 'all about him' and that his presidency will be transformative, pulling everything leftward.

On the bright side, he seems incapable of being constrained by any sensible handlers he might have. Therefore, we regularly get a glimpse behind the curtain. The derogatory, thoughtless, condescending comments (eg. Americans clinging to their guns and God, the police acting "stupidly"), the administration's attacks on Fox news and 'teabaggers', the shockingly disconnected attitude after the Fort Hood shootings, the Berlin Wall speech, etc. etc. etc.

On the rare occasions he doesn't make it all about him, he comes across as supremely arrogant and patronizing. Ultimately he will be his own worst enemy, and I'm hoping that when he brings himself down, he also discredits left-wing lunacy for awhile.

I think that the race and goodwill aspects that ET discusses will carry him for a bit, but barring ACORN-like corruption in the next election, I don't see him being a two-termer.

One can hope anyway.

Seems by his self recognition in his speech that he wasn't nearly as interested in the past tearing down of the wall as being as important as the new era of him being the first president of African decent.

I hear this man saying that the new chapter in American history now starts with him, and that it is he who we now need to focus on. There is no mention of those who brought about this falling of the wall, only those who are in the here and now.

Heh, ET, as mentioned many many times, I'm in total agreement with your excellent summary and justifiably popular take on his narcissim at sda.

Again, as an academician yourself, you have a bit of a skewered view of what a Marxist is. You seem to think that being a communist requires passing some kind of intellectual test; holding forth at smart dinner parties on Marx's elaborate, mystical contraption; having a dosier of learned dispositions on the subject in your CV. But as discussed earlier, Obama wanted to be president. His ideological marxism would, therefore, need to be hidden, or disguised as standard left-of-centre liberalism.

Your comment about Obama's cranial capacity (which I also agree with!) is immaterial.

No, wait: actually, it's quite material. You have to be stupid to be a communist -- TODAY. Certainly, in the dirty 30s you could understand the attraction what with the generally held (indoctrinated) belief that capitalism was "inherently unstable".

So again, bit by bit, our views merge: we agree that Obama is stupid; it's just that I think this is a requirement whereas you think it an alibi!

me no dhimmi - hey, dissent is allowed in our world! Please, let me disagree with you!!

No, I don't think one has to give learned lectures on marxism or debate in seemingly smoke-filled seminar rooms...or even write a paper or two. I'm talking about something different.

What I'm trying to say is that this one person, Obama, has no room in his, we agree, stupid cranium, for ANY intellectual construct. None. Not for conservativism. Not for socialism. Not even for religion (I understand that since leaving His Magnificence, the Rev. Wright, Obama seems to have dropped out of church)..

All Obama is, is ..Obama the controller. He's not involved in any intellectual construct. His only agenda, which I maintain he moved into long, long ago as a child, is How Can He Control You. Period.

He'll sell you any bag of goods, any policy, any ideology, IF and Only If, it enables him. To control you.

The political realm is a job where the incumbent gets where he gets..by manipulation, misinformation and confrontation. He doesn't need to be an expert on anything! Wow.

These are The Obama Skills. No expertise, no knowledge of history or economics. That's why he went into politics; it's uniquely suited to him. Doesn't require knowledge, truth, accountability, honesty, care for others.

Now, if we get a politician who believes in such principles, and there are some, then, we are lucky. But, you can get far, very far, as an Obama-ite, i.e, as a misinforming manipulative, and, we do agree, a stupid charmer.

Where we differ, is that you think he thinks about..things. I think he thinks only about Obama.

Scratch a liberal and you'll find a self-important wanker. I believe the Berlin video address is proof of that.

I still contend that he is much more dangerous that what the American people realize. When he talks about a new beginning in America, it puts me in mind of some of the most evil persons ever to have ruled. Pol Pot started from year Zero and
wiped out all of the past, as well as several million people. Obama has an agenda that is not dissimilar to this, only in a nuances but insidious way.

Financial Industry- I bail you out and now you must follow my orders.
Auto Industry- The government now basically owns you. Don't cooperate with my directions and you will go bankrupt.
Energy Industry- Coal as a form of energy is dead. If you disobey me, I will bankrupt you.
Healthcare- My way or the highway, including jail time if you don't sign up for it.
It is truly scary.

But, ET, wouldn't that all apply equally to, say, Hugo Chavez?

One thing hit me a while back: if you are right-- that he is not an ideologue--you'd think, given his sinking poll numbers, he'd drop the socialized health care which has the potential of destroying the Dems; take a more pragmatic Clintonian "it's the economy stupid" approach.

As I see zero sign of any inclination on his part to change course, I have to conclude that he IS an ideologue.

A few months ago, on a motorcycle ride in WA state, I met a quite spirited, highly amusing Cuban refugee who told me his whole story. In his narrative he said something like, "Ya know, Fidel, he never really believed in this communism nonsense -- he was just an opportunist".

So, from that point of view, I guess, we might conclude that not even practicing communists need necessarily be REALLY communists, i.e., people with coherent belief systems devoted to brotherly love and harmony.

So I think the MND/ET merger is complete: perhaps neither Fidel, Hugo, nor Barry are communists.

me no dhimmi - you are suggesting that he might, if he were really a dedicated communist, refuse to drop the health care agenda...because he believes in it so much.

But, he could equally refuse to drop it because he believes in Himself so much, and his need to Make You do what He wants..is what drives him.

To Obama & other totalitarians today as yesterday is one of morning. Communism lost a big round. Intolerable to these Socialists who hate free enterprise or Men.
JMO

Let us not forget, Obama is but a front man for the NWO.

The Federal Reserve and all those behind the scenes are the true power brokers. BHO is merely their spokesman and has the world under his spell. He is a teleprompter king. He merely reads the words which are in front of his eyes. He does not use his brain, he uses his mouth. Take away the teleprompter and you will see how truly shallow he is, watch how he stumbles over his words when he is asked questions which throw him off guard.

Obama does not have open mike sessions! What we hear from him are speeches. When there are questions asked of him, they are scripted, the questions and the answers. You never see him on tape in impromptu situations. It is like watching a movie that looks just like real life...only it isn't.

ET, I like your idea about Obama's narcissism.

And it's true that an outside observer can't tell whether someone is a communist, or merely pays lip service to communist ideas, or is simply a communist sympathizer... or maybe simply an opportunistic anti-American.

Today he announced that he wants to be the first president to go to Nagasaki, no doubt to offer more apologies for America.

At the same time we have to think about the fact that many of Obama's decisions are made in cooperation with his team of political strategists. And this coterie of advisors have distinctly left-leaning propensities. (I'm sure you caught the pro-Mao-Tse Tung gal the other day.)

And I don't think we can see the Berlin wall incident outside of political orchestration on the part of the strategists and decision makers.

(Actually, I think you have a good idea, and Obama missed his calling. He should have been the master of ceremonies on a game show.)

Obama = a thrill up Chris Matthews' leg
Obama = a chill down my spine.

ET hits him far too accurately for my liking.

Coren's "Peace Be Unto Him" was interesting, I thought. Is he reading SDA?

On anniversary of US-China relations, Kissinger said O had the opportunity to create a new world order. Who does that appeal to?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KD3BqK-9ZiU

Thank goodness we can check in on Kate regularly for answers, and questions.

me no dhimmi - you are suggesting that he might, if he were really a dedicated communist, refuse to drop the health care agenda...because he believes in it so much.

Well, ET, that's a bit of a twisted version of what I was trying to say which was: if he is NOT an ideologue (your argument), but a mere pragmatist/opportunist/power seeker, I would expect that, with the plummeting approval numbers, he'd have tossed the very unpopular Marxist universal health care programme under the bus.

After all, as you persistently argue, he doesn't have any kind of belief system beyond his own grandness and messianic mission. So, why cling to this extremely unpopular programme and take these enormous political risks?

Greg in Dallas: I noticed, above, you referred to Obama as a communist in such a casual off-handed way that I inferred you thought it was obvious. Yeah! Maybe you can explain why he's a communist with a narcissistic personality disorder.

me no dhimmi - a narcissist like Obama considers that any who disagree with him are irrelevant. They don't exist.

Someone who wanted people to like him might do things that would increase this result. But Obama expects people to adore him - just because. If they don't like him/his policies, then he considers the problem is NOT his policies or himself. The problem is..them. And he has no interest in such people who don't have any reality to him.

I don't know if this clears it up.

me no dhimmi - a narcissist like Obama considers that any who disagree with him are irrelevant. They don't exist.

Someone who wanted people to like him might do things that would increase this result. But Obama expects people to adore him - just because. If they don't like him/his policies, then he considers the problem is NOT his policies or himself. The problem is..them. And he has no interest in such people who don't have any reality to him.

I don't know if this clears it up.

Palestinians break Israel's wall

Palestinian youths breach section of Israel's barrier

NILIN – Masked Palestinian youths breached a six-metre (20ft) section of Israel’s security wall in the occupied West Bank yesterday in a protest marking the fall of the Berlin Wall 20 years ago this month.

While Israeli border guards fired tear gas and a foul-smelling spray from behind the concrete barrier, protesters levered open a space under one the pre-cast panels and used a hydraulic car-jack to topple it out of position.

“No matter how tall, all walls fall,” read one banner pasted on to the structure by Palestinian youths, helped by Israeli activists, who say the wall on Palestinian land and through Palestinian communities is a land grab by Israel.

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2009/11/2009119151639325464.html

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7886550273454158719#

Let us see now,

The occupant of the White House said:

"Few would have foreseen ... that a united Germany would be led by a woman from Brandenburg or that their American ally would be led by a man of African descent. But human destiny is what human beings make of it."

Other than being “bombastic Bushkin” (of Johny Carson fame), the occupant is not really sayng anything, it has more to do with with pronouncing something, anything as long as the masses get their fill.
It is quite possible that your agent is out of touch with the warm and fuzzy, though how is it that if a woman is elected to be chancellor of Germany it is so much out of the ordinary.
As for the man being of african descent, as per reports, his mother was white and himself was brought up by his (under the bus) white grandmother. It can be easily and truthfully said that he is of american descent or of european descent if you want to really, really want to strech it. I do realize that was a bad thing to say, though it a fact.
Other than that, any of this really matters not, the occupant is engaging in racism and gets a pass. Somehow the guy is not confortable in his own skin and is looking for approval where ever he can get it. He also seem to have a problem that he is half white or what ever you may call it, take your pick.
Perhaps your agent is out of touch here too, though what is the problem with being a president and being of different shade? Nothing.
Of course when a president is dragging a free society toward dictatorship that would be a problem, a major problem, a huge problem, what ever his shade is.

Uh oh - another exchange between ET and mnd!

In any case, Obama is not evil, neither is he good.

He's just a coaster (as he has been all his life), and probably a chancer, just hoping to run out the clock after four years, and make scads of money on speaking tours afterwards. (You know, to spend more time with his family.)

He will not be a transformative leader - because sooner or later the media will finally wake up and realize they can sell more copy/ads by reporting their "deep concerns" about Obama, after previously selling more copy/ads by boosting him. At which point he will retreat further and further into the background as a lame duck president.

Obama is kind of like "climate change". There may be some there, but the earth isn't going to burn up, nor freeze like the extremists say. The pendulum swings.

The US will eventually look after itself through good governance. Uh, . . . I hope. . . . As long as the Chinese still let America write the IOUs. . . . .

"He's just a coaster (as he has been all his life),"

And from now on he shall be referred to by myself as "Eyore". Oh dear.....

Erik - come on, mnd and I enjoy our exchanges; we both respect each other.

As for Obama, you may write him off, but what about the BackRoom Gang that runs him; that actually writes the agenda that he, Used Car Salesman that he is, is supposed to sell?

ET and mnd, it's just good-natured ribbing, and I hope it's taken that way :-)

I think that the BRG that runs Obama will be dealt a pretty severe blow in 2010 - I think that the American people will finally say enough is enough.

Um, I hope.

"There could be no clearer rebuke of tyranny. There could be no stronger affirmation of freedom."

Seriously, Mr. President? You can say this while on the verge of imposing sweeping changes on the American health care system that will constrain MY freedom to select how to choose to care for MY family and my freedom to choose how I spend MY hard-earned money. This bill that you and your party are ramming through Congress will reduce everyone's net income and will impose fines and jail time for doing nothing. That is tyranny.