The president's stunning denial of reality.Is Barack Obama delusional?
Thats how Bill OReilly led his Fox News show last night, addressing Obamas press conference in Turkey in which the president defended his disastrously ineffective policies for dealing with the rapidly metastasizing terror army ISIS which, after last weeks hellish Paris attacks, vows Washington, D.C., is next.
After the commercial break, OReilly started in again: Is President Barack Obama delusional about ISIS? Joining us now from Washington, Charles Krauthammer. Is he?
Responded Krauthammer, a Pulitzer-winning columnist and former psychiatrist:
Judging from the press conference, there are several explanations for that appalling performance; the kindest is that hes delusional.
Krauthammer explained: He said on Friday that ISIS was not gaining in strength, [though] even his own Dianne Feinstein said essentially its a delusion. Of course its gaining in strength.
But the reason that delusion is the kindest [explanation], is I think the more likely explanation is, he knows that opposition is weakening, he knows that ISIS is strong and that its a threat, but in the end, he doesnt think it matters. Hes never thought the war on terror was important or existential.
OReilly: But how can you say that he doesnt understand that millions of people millions of people are either dying, being dislocated, being tortured, being wounded
and you still, Charles Krauthammer, say he doesnt care? It doesnt mean anything to him?
Krauthammer: Theres a difference between millions of people suffering and an existential threat to the West, which is what it is, and which is what he denies.
A little later in Foxs primetime lineup, former CIA operative Mike Baker, a guest on Hannity, described Obamas actions and attitude with regard to radical Islam as surreal.
Then Hannity, in an exchange with psychology expert Dr. Gina Loudon about the Paris terror attacks, observed: Some good people have a hard time grasping that these people could go into a crowded theater and start shooting innocent men, women and children. Thats just evil, in our time. This presidents not recognizing, wont recognize its pathological that he wont recognize radical Islam.
Its absolutely pathological, responded Loudon. And its not just pathological; its stupid and its dangerous.
Delusional. Surreal. Doesnt care. Pathological. Stupid. Dangerous. Thats Americas 44th president theyre talking about.
For the past seven years, sane Americans have been trying to explain Obama, evoking various hypotheses including the possibility that hes a genuine sociopath, that is, without conscience.
Fox pundit, long-time ABC News personality and Pulitzer-winning columnist George Will described Barack Obamas intellectual sociopathy his often breezy and sometimes loutish indifference to truth.
Heres a typical description of sociopathy, so lets see how it fits: Sociopaths are often well-liked because of their charm and high charisma, but they do not usually care about other people. They think mainly of themselves and often blame others for the things that they do. They have a complete disregard for rules and lie constantly. They seldom feel guilt or learn from punishments. Seems like a pretty good fit, but lets continue.
One veteran forensic psychiatrist I know an expert witness in thousands of court cases, whose expertise is sizing up criminal/antisocial people and determining what makes them tick has described Obama to me in terms of malignant narcissistic personality disorder. The modifier malignant signifies the version of narcissistic personality disorder that may cross over into criminality, he explained.
He reviewed with me a list of some of the major symptoms of NPD, comparing them with Obamas behavior as president. Among the key markers: 1) a grandiose view of ones achievements (everything with Obama is historic), 2) an utter inability to handle criticism (almost everyone criticizing Obama or his policies is attacked as selfish, partisan or racist), and 3) lack of genuine empathy (Obamas designation of the apocalyptic Paris terror attacks as a setback in his foreign policy was reminiscent of his televised speech on the day of the Fort Hood terror attack. With the entire nation reeling in shock and yearning for strong, reassuring words from their commander in chief, Obama instead engaged in small talk and an inane shout-out for two full minutes before even mentioning that the worst terrorist attack on American soil since 9/11 had just occurred hours earlier.)
Heres how psychiatrist M. Scott Peck, M.D., explains people like Obama in his classic best-seller, People of the Lie:
Malignant narcissism is characterized by an unsubmitted will. All adults who are mentally healthy submit themselves one way or another to something higher than themselves, be it God or truth or love or some other ideal. They do what God wants them to do rather than what they would desire. Thy will, not mine, be done, the God-submitted person says. They believe in what is true rather than what they would like to be true.
In summary, to a greater or lesser degree, all mentally healthy individuals submit themselves to the demands of their own conscience. Not so the evil, however. In the conflict between their guilt [i.e., conscience]
and their will, it is the guilt that must go and the will that must win.
The reader will be struck by the extraordinary willfulness of evil people. They are men and women of obviously strong will, determined to have their own way. There is a remarkable power in the manner in which they attempt to control others.With the catastrophic Obama-era decline of America now threatening to spin entirely out of control, many are again straining to understand what on earth is really going on inside Obamas mind:
- Some, as previously mentioned, cite the disturbing degree to which Obama manifests full-blown symptoms of narcissism and/or sociopathy.
- Some cite his barely disguised Marxist worldview (Fox pundit Monica Crowley recently said on the radio, Obamas not a Democrat. Hes a Marxist revolutionary), with its obsession with radical redistribution of wealth and power. Marxism, by definition, justifies as moral not merely lying, but ruthless suppression of dissent, violence and tyranny as long as these measures advance the glorious (though delusional) utopian cause. Exhibit A for this point would be the entire 20th century.
- Some cite Obamas childhood and upbringing. His Marxist-atheist-alcoholic-bigamist Kenyan father abandoned him, his Islamic stepfather raised him as a Muslim in Indonesia, his mother essentially abandoned him, and his most influential mentor as a young teenager was Frank Marshall Davis, a card-carrying member of the Communist Party USA, a pornographer and admitted sexual abuser of minors.
- Some cite Obamas religious background his 20-year affiliation with his spiritual mentor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, who preached raw hatred of America, capitalism and white people, and whose black liberation theology gospel amounts to Afro-centric Marxism dressed up with cherry-picked Bible verses.
- Some cite his background in Chicago politics a euphemism for wall-to-wall corruption and criminality. Indeed, the state of Illinois, where a staggering total of four recent governors Otto Kerner, Dan Walker, George Ryan and Rod Blagojevich have gone to prison for corruption, remains a political cesspool to this day, as confirmed by a study from the University of Illinois at Chicagos political science department. Obama is a product of this legendarily corrupt Chicago machine and played the game ruthlessly while rising in the ranks there.
- Some cite Obamas education, the most important part of which, by his own admission, came via Saul Alinsky. During the 2008 campaign, Obama said of his years steeped in the Chicago Marxists revolutionary community organizing methods: It was that education that was seared into my brain. It was the best education I ever had, better than anything I got at Harvard Law School.
So, lets take stock: abandonment by his father, early Muslim training, toxic teen influences, hardcore Marxist indoctrination and Alinsky training, drug abuse (Choom Gang), association with criminals (Tony Rezko) and terrorists (William Ayers), racist religious affiliation (Jeremiah Wright), extreme political ambition, and probable mental illness/disorder. Quite a cocktail that forms the current U.S. presidents worldview and sensibilities.
The question is not whether Obama is delusional or not that is undeniable. The question is, in what frame of reference is he delusional the narrow one Krauthammer cites, regarding Obamas denial that radical Islam poses an existential threat to America and the world? Or the wider context of the rest of life? For when we widen our scope, we are forced to acknowledge that Obama gravitates toward evil and delusion not just with regard to the jihad threat, but in virtually every area: He wants to force 15-year-old girls to shower naked with boys who delusionally believe theyre girls. He intentionally allows our nation to be overrun with illegal aliens and legal refugees from cultures that hate America (todays headline says of the Syrian refugees already in the U.S., 2,098 are Muslims and 53 are Christians). He annually releases tens of thousands of convicted criminal illegal aliens were talking murderers, rapists and drug-dealers back onto American streets. Hes a radical proponent of what can only be called infanticide, the aborting of fully formed, full-term healthy human babies.
In every area, Obama demonstrates an unfortunate affinity for that which normal people would describe as destructive, corrupt, evil.
Whether this is because Obama is evil at his core, or whether theres a decent person locked up inside but who has been traumatized and brainwashed a Manchurian president, programmed not by exotic far-off communist brainwashers, but by a nonstop sequence of corrupting influences throughout his life is not ours to know.
Ultimately, the question is largely academic. Whatever the ultimate explanation of Obamas delusional presidency, he demonstrates at every turn a remarkable attraction for that which is destructive and corrupting to human life, that is, evil. And he is dragging America and increasingly the world through hell in search of it, which he somehow, however inexplicably, sees as good.
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