There are accruing a number of papers, books and opinion which argue for Obama being a pathological narcissist. The American Thinker's Obama, Oprah, and the Guru: Malignant Narcissism went into it at some depth last September.
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Obama's entire campaign is nothing more than a demand to be recognized
as superior without commensurate accomplishments. For individual
instances of the undistinguished senator's grandiosity, please see Barack Obama Audacity Watch.
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| More recently Dr. Charles Krauthammer famously asked “Does the narcissism of this man know no bounds?”
None of this will surprise most of us, so the big question I've been
grappling with is, "How in Hell did this psycho gather together a
coalition of air heads in sufficient numbers to get elected? I never
once considered that we, as a nation, are in the throes of a ‘Narcissism Epidemic’
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rise in narcissism is accelerating, with scores rising faster in the
2000s than in previous decades. By 2006, 1 out of 4 college students
agreed with the majority of the items on a standard measure of
narcissistic traits. Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD), the more
severe, clinically diagnosed version of the trait, is also far more
common than once thought. Nearly 1 out of 10 of Americans in their
twenties, and 1 out of 16 of those of all ages, has experienced the
symptoms of NPD. Even these shocking numbers are just the tip of the
iceberg; lurking underneath is the narcissistic culture that has drawn
in many more. The narcissism epidemic has spread to the culture as a
whole, affecting both narcissistic and less self-centered people. (ibidem)
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How did this happen? This snippet really struck a chord, because
it ties together so many individual concerns many of us have been
expressing for years.
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We have phony rich people (with interest-only mortgages and piles of
debt), phony beauty (with plastic surgery and cosmetic procedures),
phony athletes (with performance-enhancing drugs), phony celebrities
(via reality TV and YouTube), phony genius students (with grade
inflation), a phony national economy (with $11 trillion of government
debt), phony feelings of being special among children (with parenting
and education focused on self-esteem), and phony friends (with the
social networking explosion). All this fantasy might feel good, but,
unfortunately, reality always wins. The mortgage meltdown and the
resulting financial crisis are just one demonstration of how inflated
desires eventually crash to earth.
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