Well folks, this piece sets a new standard of vile mudslinging!
A Shrink Asks: What's Wrong with Obama? By Robin of Berkeley! (And who the hell is "Robin of Berkely?" -Ed.)WOW, I think they managed to bring up every illness and malady a person can have in one article kids!
So what is the matter with Obama?
Conservatives have been asking this question for some time.
I've written a number of articles trying to solve the mystery.
Even some liberals are starting to wonder.
James Carville railed about Obama's blasé attitude after the catastrophic oil spill.
The New York Times' Maureen Dowd revamped Obama's "Yes We Can" motto into "Will We Ever?"
The liberal women of the TV show "The View" have expressed sympathy for Michelle Obama's living with a man so out of touch. (That's right, drag his wife into it as well! Ed.)
Peggy Noonan, hardly a vehement Obama foe, recently pronounced him disconnected.
Obama's odd mannerisms intrigue a psychotherapist like me.
He also presents a serious diagnostic challenge.
We know so little about the facts of his life.
But it's more than just a lack of information.
Obama himself is a strange bird.
He doesn't fit easily into any diagnostic category.
Many people attribute Obama's oddness to his narcissism.
True, Obama has a gargantuan ego, and he is notoriously thin-skinned. Yet a personality disorder like narcissism does not explain Obama's strangeness: his giggling while being asked about the economy; his continuing a shout-out rather than announcing the Ft. Hood shootings; or his vacations, golfing, partying and fundraising during the calamitous oil spill.
Obama is flat when passion is needed; he's aggressive when savvy is required.
What's most worrisome is that Obama doesn't even realize that his behavior is inappropriate.
So if it's not just simple narcissism, what is wrong with Obama?
Since I've never evaluated him, I can't say for sure.
But I can hazard some educated guesses.
If I saw a client as disconnected as him, the first thing I would wonder: Is something wrong with his brain?
And I'd consider the following theoretical diagnostic possibilities.
--Physical problems: There are a multitude of physiological conditions that can cause people to act strangely. For instance: head injuries, endocrine disturbances, epilepsy, and toxic chemical exposure.
It makes me wonder: Did Obama ever have a head injury?
His stepfather in Indonesia was purportedly an alcoholic abuser. Was Obama subject to any physical abuse?
-- Drugs and alcohol: Damage to the brain from drugs and alcohol can also cause significant cognitive impairments.
Obama once said that there were 57 states -- and didn't correct himself.
Memory problems can be caused by both illicit and prescription drug use.
Obama admits to a history of drug use in his youth. Did his usage cause some damage?
Does Obama still use?
--Asperger's Syndrome: Also known as high-functioning autism, Asperger's causes deficits in social skills. A person with Asperger's can't read social cues. Consequently, he can be insensitive and hurtful without even knowing it.
Could Obama have Asperger's? He might have some mild traits, but certainly not the full-blown disorder.
In contrast to Obama, those with Asperger's get fixated on some behavior, like programming computers. Obama lacks this kind of passion and zeal.
--Mental Illness: Obama's family tree is replete with the unbalanced.
His maternal great-grandmother committed suicide.
His grandfather, Stanley Dunham, was particularly unhinged: He was expelled from high school for punching his principal; named his daughter Stanley because he wanted a boy; and exposed young Barry to not just drunken trash talk, but unrestricted visits with alleged pedophile Frank Marshall Davis (who might or might not be Obama's biological father).
Barack Sr. was an abusive, alcoholic bigamist.
Since mental illness runs in the family, does Obama have any signs? Yes and no.
No, he is not a schizophrenic babbling about Martians. But there are red flags for some other conditions.
While Obama doesn't appear to hallucinate, he seems to have delusions.
His believing he has a Messiah-like special gift smacks of grandiose delusions.
His externalizing all blame to conservatives, George W. Bush, or the "racist" bogeyman hints at persecutory delusions.
Along with a delusional disorder, Obama may fit for a mild psychotic disorder called schizotypal disorder.
It may explain some of Obama's oddness.
People with schizotypal disorder hold bizarre beliefs, are suspicious and paranoid, and have inappropriate and constricted affect.
They have few close friends and are socially awkward.
A schizotypal is someone like your strange cousin Becky who is addicted to astrology, believes she is psychic, and is the oddball at social gatherings.
Schizotypal Disorder does ring some bells vis-à-vis Obama. One way the diagnosis doesn't fit, however, is that schizotypals are generally harmless, odd ducks.
Not so with Obama.
--Trauma: My gut tells me that Obama was seriously traumatized in childhood.
His mother disregarded his basic needs, dragged him all over the place, and ultimately abandoned him.
But I think there may be something even more insidious in his family background.
While I can't prove it, the degree of Obama's disconnect reminds me of my sexually abused clients.
With serious sexual abuse, the brain chemistry may change. The child dissociates -- that is, disconnects from his being -- in order to cope.
Many adult survivors still dissociate, from occasional trances to the most extreme cases of multiple personality disorder.
Apparently, young Barry was left in the care of Communist Frank Marshall Davis, who admitted to molesting a 13-year-old girl.
As a teenager, Obama wrote a disturbing poem, "Pop," that evoked images of sexual abuse -- for instance, describing dual amber stains on both his and "Pop's" shorts.
Would trauma explain Obama's disconnect? In many ways, yes.
A damaged and unattached child may develop a "false self."
To compensate for the enormous deficits in identity and attachment, the child invents his own personality.
For Obama, it may have been as a special, gifted person.
Let's return now to my original question: What is wrong with Obama? My guess is a great deal. The answer is complex and likely includes some combination of the above.
Along with the brain issues are personality disorders: narcissism, paranoia, passive-aggressiveness.
There's even the possibility of the most destructive character defect of all, an antisocial personality.
Untreated abuse can foster antisocial traits, especially among boys.
If my assessment is accurate, what does this mean?
It means that liberals need to wake up and spit out the Kool-Aid...and that conservatives should put aside differences, band together, and elect as many Republicans as possible.
Because Obama will not change.
He will not learn from his mistakes.
He will not grow and mature from on-the-job experience.
In fact, over time, Obama will likely become a more ferocious version of who he is today.
Why? Because this is a damaged person.
Obama's fate was sealed years ago growing up in his strange and poisonous family.
Later on, his empty vessel was filled with the hateful bile of men like Rev. Wright and Bill Ayers.
Obama will not evolve; he will not rise to the occasion; he will not become the man he was meant to be. This is for one reason and one reason alone:
He is not capable of it.
If they left something out, please let me know!
They also say that Robin is a psychotherapist in Berkeley and a recovering liberal.
Apparently you can e-mail Robin at robinofberkeley@hotmail.com, but she regrets that she will not be able to acknowledge your e-mail.
And why do they only give her first name? Instead of being a renowned female psychotherapist, could she actually be a male Republican who stalks the INTERNET like a fat, drunken slob of a pervert who frequents porn sites when he thinks no one is watching?
Could he be a fiction writer who managed to call him diseased, with disorders like being disaffected, disagreeable, disapproving, discontented, disenchanting, discordant, disaster of a discredited man who is in constant disarray, and dishonest, disenfranchised, disillusioned, disliked, disjointed, disorderly, disgruntled, dishevelled,, disgusting, discombobulated, disintegrating, disfavored, dishonored, dishrag of a man who is treated with disdain and disappointment over some perceived vile discharge and who the Republicans would love to disgrace and discriminate against as they disregard, disparage and then disproportionately dislodge, dispatch, disrobe, dissect, dispense, dissipate, dissociate, dissolve, dissuade, disperse and dismantle him to the distinct dismay and distress of the Democrats!
What do ya think bunky?
Or am I doing them a disservice?
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Kerrell g. said;
He may be narcistic but he's doing a hell of a better job than W! Sometimes you have to have that quality to be effective.
Cena W. said;
This stuff is produced in conservative think tanks, in particular the ones who discredited Jimmy Carter, spent 8 years and a few hundred million destroying Clinton.
They have to step it up.
At the top,
Charles & David Koch of CATO
Coors Family
New to that crowd of monsters, the Waltons of WAlMart
And so on;
Heartland Institute
Heritage Institute
Founders and funders and promoters of the Tea bag partiers.
The produce this garbage and send it outward in the email stream, complete with obvious errors.
There is one goal of the billionaire conservatives.
Make certain they and their multinational corporations have total control of the
government of the U.S.A.
They are dangerous, un-anti-American. They have no national loyality.
Money power.
They intend to, and have for all practicle purposes reduced the ordinary U.S.A. citizen to the status of any third world peasant. Mexico for example. Mexico seems to be the model. All the money at the top. A lot of violence to keep control.
Pick away at individual liberities. . . Started with Nixon.
Carla G. said;
Cena is right about this. It is because of think tanks. Big money is behind it. The Koch brothers in Kansas are part of it.
I couldn't even stand to read the whole thing. It was sickening.
Larry M. said;
He seems to function pretty well for someone with all those problems. Perhaps it is the person making the diagnoses that has the problems. :-)
Dorothy H. said;
Exactly. That, and they're also just a$$holes.
Karl Leuba said;
CHALK IT ALL UP TO MID LIFE CRISIS, The man is in his 40's after all.
Karl Leuba said;
It's because he has children. Two daughters, I know mine drove me crazy.
Karl Leuba said;
He did Correct his error with the 57 states -- It's true that during a May 9, 2008 campaign stop in Oregon, Barack Obama said he had visited 57 states. The exact quote, as transcribed in the LA Times "Top of the Ticket" blog (and viewable on YouTube), went as follows:
"It is wonderful to be back in Oregon," Obama said. "Over the last 15 months, we’ve traveled to every corner of the United States. I’ve now been in 57 states? I think one left to go. Alaska and Hawaii, I was not allowed to go to even though I really wanted to visit, but my staff would not justify it."
It's clear from context that the a very tired Obama intended to say he had been in 47 (or perhaps 48) states, excluding Alaska and Hawaii. Obama acknowledged the mistake later in the day by poking fun at his own "numeracy problem." I want to know what is wrong with a man who makes up words like "Numeracy." Hint, Obama knew the word, he did not coin it, in fact there is a National Numeracy Council. It is dedicated to insuring that everyone can read numbers, even the ones big enough to enumerate the National Deficit.
Karl Leuba said;
Of course no one else remembered to mention that he did make a mistake in the size and scope of the country he is Presiding over. Maybe I AM NUTZ>
Visionaerie B. Jun 12, 2010, 10:33pm EDT
There's a local writer named Jim Kouri who wrote an article about how the mentality of serial killers is very similar to that of politicians. And it makes sense. Being President, you can basically kill people from an extreme distance (now with drones) without any apparent remorse. And the satanic ship of state just keeps chugging forth into the oily abyss, taking us down with it. Just wish that someone like Ron Paul would catch fire again but the powers that be probably won't allow it. Maybe we need a third party coalition and a contest to find a real contender? Or maybe we're better off just getting back to our own families / communities and start forming more organic networks, like this one. It would be great if we could make ourselves invisible to politicians, wouldn't it?
Thanks for posting this!
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