The “Absent” Barack Obama


Or, is the President Cognitively Impaired?

Recently there have been discussions regarding Pres. Obama’s governing choices; Vassar and Flagstaff both had excellent diaries about Mr. Obama and what he has done, or failed to do, and the possible whys.  I want to examine Barack Obama from a different perspective, one we have not seen discussed in depth, yet.  Almost every day words are being used to describe Mr. Obama from a point of view that people may not be aware of–I am referring to psychological appraisals of the man.

My professional background is nursing, (20yrs).  In the health fields, one has to have medical knowledge and the ability to do skilled assessments.  We spend almost every moment around patients assessing them for changes. More importantly, if you catch the early signs, you can prevent the bigger problems.  Before, and certainly since Obama was elected, many words have been used to describe his persona, his personality, his reactions (or lack thereof), his speeches, interactions, his general behavior and of course, his executive decisions. This is not unusual with public figures, and as President, Mr. Obama would certainly expect that he is under a fine microscope.

I too have watched and observed Barack Obama–not always easy to do, because his attitude and words have grated on me.  But still, I became aware early on that something is not quite right about this man who is our President.  First it was the physical observations I’ve made about him.  Terms like flat affect came to me (reminds me of a claymation puppet), or problems with thought retrieval, or delays in his responses, or his rambling answers to questions in news conferences, allowing him to barely answer 6-7 questions in over an hour.  Initially, one could think that those difficulties were related to him trying to find the answer that wouldn’t give him away, as in the truth vs political expediency.  After awhile though, I dismissed that as the cause.  The realization of Obama’s extensive and almost pathological dependency on teleprompters began to support a different premise for the speech and behaviors we’ve seen.  Everyone has a definition of normal or average, and one would expect the president to be average or better, but with Mr. Obama this is not the case.  For example, there are literally some people (many in fact) who get “stage fright” and cannot speak in front of a crowd.  But, if you are going to be a politician I would assume you need to get over it.  But what drives a normal person to need teleprompters when addressing 6th graders in a classroom, or even a high school graduation?  Is Mr. Obama that incapable of spontaneous/extemporaneous speech?  There is no need to spend any time discussing the media’s selling of Obama to us as an intellectual giant, or extraordinary speaker.  They’ve made liars of themselves.  Nothing Obama has shown us indicates that he is or ever was any of these wonderful, extraordinary, people.

Now why is that?

Obama’s life is really divided into two parts–the one that he himself told us about in his book, “Dreams From My Father” and the part we know during this past decade.  If there is much in between, it has been so sanitized as to consider that the past of this person has been eradicated.  But it is important to bring up Mr. Obama’s adolescent (high school and college) years, because he told us something about himself in that book.  “I had learned not to care….I blew a few smoke rings remembering those years.  Pot helped, and booze; maybe a little blow when you could afford it.  Not smack, though.”

We know that major neurological growth and development occurs throughout childhood, but it is important to understand that it continues well into the mid-twenties.  Neurologically, brain cells go through critical changes in these years; they are also highly sensitive to toxic substances, hence the severe effects of alcohol and substance abuse–including marijuana and other illicit drugs.  Yes, we all probably fried a few of our own brain cells in those years, too, but hopefully not too many.  It is not known how many years Mr. Obama used these substances, but we do know that he did.  The other part to knowing about substance abuse are the short and long-term effects. Almost all organs are affected by toxic substance abuse, but none more so than the sensitive, still-developing brain.

Fast forward to today.  When candidate Obama presented his one-page certificate of being in “good health” by his physician, we all had to accept it.  He is entitled to his privacy; the law gives all of us that regarding our health records.  But, I doubt that any of us believed that he had no medical history.  He does – we all do.  He certainly has a nicotine addiction, perhaps he has been treated for it. Here is something else to consider though.  Look at some of the words that have been printed describing Barack Obama:  unemotional, detached, disconnected, cold, dispassionate, indifferent, unresponsive.  Yes, we are all seeing the same thing; your eyes are not deceiving you.  But it is not “normal’ to be this way, unless, and I emphasize, unless–he is cognitively impaired or on medication that causes these same symptoms as side effects.  For example, the SSRI’s, considered a major breakthrough for anti-depression therapy and obsessive compulsive disorders, affect short-term recall, memory, affect people’s libido, affect people’s ability to feel, unless an extreme emotion finally erupts.  They may not be feeling pain and psychic distress, but they are not able to feel empathy, sympathy, etc.  People report that they find it difficult to cry when on these meds.  I am not saying anything against these drugs.  Medications are life-saving for those who need them and one may have to learn to live with the side effects in order to get the relief from a major disorder.

When we observe and speak about Pres. Obama’s lack of feeling, lack of response, lack of emotion, rambling speech, or behaviors that almost seem inappropriate, these are the things I think of:  It is not normal to be this way, and there is something causing it.  No one yet knows all the cognitive long-term harm from his early years of substance abuse; nor do we know how many years he used substances that could have caused residual cognitive impairment.  But, as I have observed Pres. Obama and realized that similar words were being used to describe him that we use in psychiatry in assessing patients or their responses to psychotropic medications, it should not be ignored.

Many have examined in detail the reason for Obama’s lack of governing; he has been said to be incompetent, incapable, inexperienced, and didn’t he always vote present in his Illinois Senate days?  What kind of person functions this way, and why?  What is “normal” about a leader who parties and plays, while the people he supposedly cares about face disasters.  Barack Obama was given a blank slate for his past, the MSM covered for him.  Very few individuals get that kind of “cease to exist” treatment, unless you are in a witness protection program.

We may agree that Barack Obama is doing a poor job of governing and the thesis I present does not help that, but perhaps we will no longer wonder at the why and not spend energy expecting him to be any different than he is.  Truly, what we see is what we get.


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Oh, Lady Penguin. 5.

Loren Heal (Diary) Tuesday, June 22nd at 8:12AM EST (link)

Toxic substance abuse will do a

And the thing of it is that for

But, really, the point about your blog with which I am most impressed is

So, highly recom

Hmm. Looking over this comment it seems not to flow very well somehow. Perhaps I need coffee.


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Thanks Socrates. I think the media has too readily discounted....

penguin2 (Diary) Tuesday, June 22nd at 9:05AM EST (link)

Barack’s substance abuse past. I did not write the post to be judgmental, but to note some of the reasons behind what we see visibly with him.

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GC reccos despite Dr Krauthammer's warning of distant diagnoses!

Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary) Tuesday, June 22nd at 11:12AM EST (link)

Was glad to see you reference Obama’s first biography.

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Nurses don't diagnose.

Loren Heal (Diary) Tuesday, June 22nd at 11:25AM EST (link)

They assess.

:-P .


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Precisely- Nurses assess

Scope (Diary) Tuesday, June 22nd at 11:43AM EST (link)

and from the year I spent in nursing school, a hundred years ago, the psychological part of the assessment is very important. It is a part of the nursing notes that are entered by the nurse assigned to particular patients, at the end of each hospital shift.

Don’t ever doubt our Penguin, especially in an area where she is a trained expert. OTOH- Krauthammer has stated some opinions that are very doubtable. At times I wonder whose side he is on. Then again, sitting next to Juan Wiiliams, he looks like a genius.

Thanks, Scope and Socrates. Yes, nurses do not...

penguin2 (Diary) Tuesday, June 22nd at 12:33PM EST (link)

diagnose, we assess. That is why I didn’t get out the DSM IV (the Diagnostic and Statistical manual of Mental Disorders). Probably everyone has traits and characteristics that can be found in the book, but and I imagine Obama fits a few interesting diagnoses. The one fact that I did not mention in the post, is that when I was a Navy Nurse, I worked a year and a half in in-patient psych.

Also, it isn’t just the active symptoms of psych pathology I am thinking about, but there are enough signs of blunted emotions and affect, that lends support to the idea that he may take some kind of psychotropic medication that causes such side effects. Even anti-smoking meds, depending on what is prescribed, can be part of this.

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Absolutely, GC. I know what you mean about that...

penguin2 (Diary) Tuesday, June 22nd at 11:39AM EST (link)

and one is careful. OTOH, from a professional perspective in the medical field, we are in tune to a person’s speech, thought patterns, thought retrieval, memory, affect, even body language are all observable. It was a matter of when layman descriptions are crossing paths with the professional ones that I took notice.

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I "assessed" Obama as an unacceptable far left radical liberal in a 2007 column! - nt

Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary) Tuesday, June 22nd at 12:25PM EST (link)

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Its pretty amazing how far 18 years got us from "I never inhaled"

nessa (Diary) Tuesday, June 22nd at 11:53AM EST (link)

I heard his admitted drug abuse mentioned during the campaign, what? Twice? If I remember correctly it was promptly countered with cries of “RAAAAACIST!”, which of course instantly negated it.

Thanks Lady P, nicely done. Watch your topknot, ok?

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I will , Nessa, the thought did cross my mind....

penguin2 (Diary) Tuesday, June 22nd at 12:40PM EST (link)

This post was difficult to write, not something I like thinking about, let alone saying. Still, I feel it is important to pay attention to this aspect of the man.

Thank you.

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There is no doubt that...

JadedByPolitics (Diary) Tuesday, June 22nd at 8:27AM EST (link)

Obama is damaged goods whether that be mentally or spiritually. The fact that he sat in a Church that demonized fellow human beings based on their Religion (Jews) or their color (Whites) shows he has no MORAL CENTER.

The inability to have immediate recall without the help of TOTUS is shamefully pathetic. Roosevelt may have had the Corrupt Media cover for disability but in this 24 hr society they have been unable to the do the same for Obama’s mental disability!

kowalski...EXCELLENT insight....

JadedByPolitics (Diary) Tuesday, June 22nd at 8:28AM EST (link)

into the true disorder of Barack Obama!

Jaded, I think that is what the MSM is finding out....

penguin2 (Diary) Tuesday, June 22nd at 9:39AM EST (link)

Since he took office not everything can be scripted. Obama had handlers and the MSM cover for him. Once it came down to job performance and real interactions; the flaws and flubs can’t be hidden.

And you’re right on Rev. Wright…being able to sit in a church pew listening to such hatred spewed forth and THEN say with a straight face to the American public, he had no idea and never heard the anti-Americanism, that is the mark of someone who really doesn’t feel a thing. Though I do see he blinks his eyes a lot…..

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high 55555s re Rev Wright evidence - nt

Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary) Tuesday, June 22nd at 11:14AM EST (link)

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This is an "Absent" OB1 didn't get to vote for himself, Lady P

Vassar Bushmills (Diary) Tuesday, June 22nd at 8:34AM EST (link)

Helps complete the profile, Andy’s right.

Yes, Vassar, we have quite a profile on the guy....

penguin2 (Diary) Tuesday, June 22nd at 1:56PM EST (link)

Now what do we do with it. I think the shock waves are just beginning in the populace in understanding this man who would be “king.”

We weren’t supposed to have rulers over us, leaders yes, not rulers.

Come November, we will Remember. (And beyond.)

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Substance use damage offers an explanation for "why."

Flagstaff (Diary) Tuesday, June 22nd at 11:38AM EST (link)

I used the term “sociopath” a while back, and I saw “Narcissist Personality Disorder” or something like that recently, but both of those terms describe “what.”

His behavior could also be described as “evil,” which is beyond cold and calloused. I know it pains our MSM colleagues to even consider it, but if we accept that, for whatever reason, Obama has a different set of goals and values than we do, one that is antithetical to American prosperity and success, then his actions since becoming President become more understandable. None of his policies are beneficial to the US.

His advisers are all specialists who might be expected to agree with him on individual programs, but taken as a whole his administration is a disaster. A normal person would have recognized this by now and sought better advice. Since that hasn’t happened, there can be only two explanations. He is destroying our economy intentionally, or he’s unable to understand what’s going on.

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Flagstaff- If you look at who

Scope (Diary) Tuesday, June 22nd at 12:17PM EST (link)

his puppetmaster is, I completely believe it is Soros, and you see just how evil Soros is, I believe the O to be on an evil path, rather than a dumb or incompetent one. Even the O and Soros know the difference between good and evil.

 

I hear you, Flag. I have no doubt if I opened....

penguin2 (Diary) Tuesday, June 22nd at 1:13PM EST (link)

the DSM IV I would have got carried away with some possible diagnoses for the man. I had hoped to put out some information for people to put 2+2 together and draw some significant conclusions, though the Malignant media and the Left doesn’t think we can.

It is about time we began to prove them wrong. I think everything he is doing is intentional, in cahoots with his handlers (Soros, et al), but there is still the “why” this man appears as he does. He knows and and is incapable of caring.

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We can't talk about the why

Steph C (Diary) Wednesday, June 23rd at 10:23AM EST (link)

because that would be delving into the long distance diagnosis area, although I do recall a few psychiatrists and psychologists who had no problem doing the same to Bush with nothing to go on except he didn’t do what the left wanted him to do.

The why comes from some of the things in Penguin’s diary, the parts of his childhood, etc. Traumatized children can develop a number of psychological disorders, including both of those you mentioned.

If I were qualified to do a diagnosis, long distance or otherwise, I’d lean toward Narcissistic Personality disorder with a side of Antisocial Personality disorder (also without delving into the DSM-IV). There’s no requirement that a person can’t have more than one.

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Right, Steph. I imagine there are a number of diagnoses...

penguin2 (Diary) Wednesday, June 23rd at 11:15AM EST (link)

that could be applied, which I won’t do from a professional standpoint. But observation and assessment of physical symptoms and behaviors, lends itself to further exploration.

There is no doubt that psychological experts are appraising the President’s personality. For me, I’m trying to stick to strictly physiological observable data. In this case, past substance abuse and/or current medication, IMO, are partly responsible for we see.

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I doubt we'll ever know for sure.

Steph C (Diary) Wednesday, June 23rd at 12:03PM EST (link)

He is kept under wraps so well, that the truth of what’s going on with this president will likely never be known, even after he’s voted out. Obama is only a part of the problem. There are hundreds, even thousands of him, political ideally speaking, running around in all levels of government and our own laws will prevent a deeper delving.

None of us are qualified to give any kind of diagnosis, but assessments can lead us to suspicions of whatever it is that is wrong with him.

It’s one thing to know there is something wrong with him and another, quite different thing, to say exactly what.

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Great subject Penguin

Scope (Diary) Tuesday, June 22nd at 12:10PM EST (link)

I’ve read many articles on both the short and long term effects of smoking pot, and the effects on memory. Most recently I’ve read that it can cause early onset Alsheimers (sp).

As you say, the O has even had to use teleprompters for speeches to 6th graders. Obviously he can’t remember any speeches. When he is off prompter, he is full of ahhhhs and ummms, and has trouble getting to his point, and just rambles on. Even though someone else is writing his speeches, he can’t read through it first, get the main points down, and then deliver the message. Most presidents have the speech, or at least notes in front of them when giving speeches, but I haven’t witnessed any of them reading entire speeches in the past. Palin was smashed because she had some notes written on her hand.

You have talked about his references to his past use of pot, and smack. He has been a smoker of cigarettes, until recently he claims. Have you ever seen any pictures of him, since he is in the WH, smoking a cigarette? Where does he go to smoke? I would not be surprised if he doesn’t still smoke pot. His seeming detachment, flatness and delusions can most definately be brought on by his pot habit. He’s like an old hippie from the 60′s who would smoke pot and then raise their peace signs, and think that a utopia can really be had.

Scope, that is exactly why I drew the....

penguin2 (Diary) Tuesday, June 22nd at 12:47PM EST (link)

conclusions that I did. Also the reason why I tried to present the background medical information, so folks could put what we are observing into perspective. Nothing definitive, because one won’t get anyone to agree, even the experts will differ. But the scientific data is there, the behavior of the man is observable and can be documented and we know many things about substance abuse and psychotropic drugs and their side effects.

Thanks for your input.

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I'll guarantee you that the affect isn't flat when he's not in public.

Achance (Diary) Tuesday, June 22nd at 12:15PM EST (link)

He’s the standard angry, foul-mouthed radical union or community organizer. The reason he is so flat in public is that he is playing a character that really isn’t him. He’s pretty much a Red Diaper Baby raised by a hippy-trippy mother and various communist males with whom he may have had very interesting relationships; there’s no there there. He isn’t really very smart and he isn’t grounded at all except intellectually based on the programming he got from his mother and the men she brought into his life. He was raised as a communist and to see himself as a victim because of his race and his politics. Nonetheless, the race got him privileges that a white person similarly situated and of similar intelligence and education would never have gotten; he’s a monument to affirmative action. He has never really had to do anything to get into Columbia and Harvard. He made the Law Review because he was the cool black dude, not because he was the sharpest stick in the stack. He got to make that convention speech because he was the clean and articulate cool black dude, not because he’d ever done anything to be on that stage. The reason he rambles and stumbles is because there is nothing there.

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I love the way you describe, Obama, Achance.

penguin2 (Diary) Tuesday, June 22nd at 12:56PM EST (link)

I always look to see what you say about him, because you are so right. I believe that he is one angry man, an empty man, one who has such fury….Deep inside, he must know that he really has achieved nothing on his own, and in the end no one respects him. That must be very painful to him, though as you say, maybe he can’t even feel that. To know that what the people feel for you is only superficial, would be difficult for all but the most callous to swallow.

The concern is how this individual’s own personality traits and deficits can be used and manipulated by others, and cause potential harm to this nation.

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I doubt he feels much except anger sometimes.

Achance (Diary) Tuesday, June 22nd at 1:13PM EST (link)

I’ve known a lot like him and have some of it in me; I can be pretty machine-like when I’m “in character” in my work. As long as I can keep it an intellectual excercise and keep people as case files rather than living, breathing human beings, I can be one ruthless SOB. I always hated walking into a dismissal arbitration because usually that was the first time I had ever seen the person whose life we were rearranging. The ones who fancied themselves as players were usually known to me and often I had been involved with them and the game of getting them fired, but the run of the mill screwup who wasn’t really a bad guy but had just done something dumb was a lot harder to deal with.

The very last thing I did before I quit the Executive Branch under the Democrats in ’96 was the dismissal of an Able Bodied Seaman for cheating on claiming residency pay. The poor SOB hadn’t done a thing that both his union and his management hadn’t tolerated or even encouraged. Under Gov. Hickel, we had gone on a campaign to rein in all the cheating because reisidency pay added about 25% to the already high wages for maritime employees. The licensed unions had all pretty much come to heel and most of the people we’d caught just agreed to pay it back. The unlicensed guys had decided to fight us and this guy was collateral damage. He sat there shaking and crying and trying to spin it so he could keep his job. Now, understand, an AB is basically a laborer, we aren’t talking genius or player here, and this guy is in his fifties and still living in his mother’s house near Seattle when he isn’t aboard ship. He has a camper on blocks on an undeveloped lot in Alaska and is using it to claim residency. OK, that’s actually a better claim than lots had. Anyway, I got NO joy from watching this poor SOB shake and lie and cry. I went home that night and had a talk with myself and concluded that if I kept working for that administration, that would be all I did; torture poor, dumb SOBs whose union got sideways with the Administration. I walked in and gave my notice the next morning.

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Ah, Art. Yes, that is the big difference, you can Feel.

penguin2 (Diary) Tuesday, June 22nd at 1:21PM EST (link)

You can feel for the little guy, the common man. You can be hard about the upper echelons, or the greedy, or even the stupid. But you are not indifferent. To me, that sums it up beautifully. You can and do care.

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Great assessment, penguin...

azaeroprof (Diary) Tuesday, June 22nd at 2:56PM EST (link)

and summary, Art. Between the two of you, I think that’s the most accurate description of Obama that I’ve seen anywhere.

I’m still somewhat baffled, though, at why there are still so many Americans that cannot see or admit how arrogant, narcissistic, and vacuous this man is. It is so plainly obvious.

Thanks, azaeroprof. That is the rewarding part of writing....

penguin2 (Diary) Tuesday, June 22nd at 3:34PM EST (link)

a diary, I love the ideas and discussion–the post develops further.

Now as to your second point, I don’t know why more people don’t see what is so obvious to us, either. Perhaps it has something to do with expectations, so much of the culture and society has changed and deteriorated, they don’t know what’s missing. Paying attention is also critical; they will only do that when national issues affect them personally. We can only hope that each day a few more people are paying attention.

Good to see you, and I hope all is well.

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Denial.

Flagstaff (Diary) Tuesday, June 22nd at 9:18PM EST (link)

“I don’t know why more people don’t see what is so obvious to us….”

As with everything Obama, the tonnage of denial is staggering. An example from today’s Arizona Republic

Great presidents become great by realistically facing great challenges. Even now, nothing precludes Barack Obama, barely a year and a half into office, from attaining such a legacy, presuming he comes to terms with the heaviest weight around his neck, the outrageous expectations of his supporters.

(My emphasis added.)

Apparently, the Republic believes his worst problem is unrealistic expectations among his followers. They don’t tell us why the other 55% of the people don’t approve. They do offer this bit of news, so somebody besides Glenn Beck has noticed it–

Since the beginning of the BP oil crisis, the president has reacted to his supporters like a marionette. He has followed almost word for word the proposals of the liberal Center for American Progress, including muscling BP executives into creating an extralegal billion-dollar fund for paying for damages.

To give the Republic credit, they don’t just advise him to “lower expectations” out there.

With the terrible mess in the Gulf, a U.S. president has reached the limits of his ability to control events. It is time to forget about trying to satisfy the insatiable. Until the leak is stopped, the crisis continues.

Read more: http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/opinions/articles/2010/06/22/20100622tue1-22.html#ixzz0rd2Ud8x1

But think about that. They believe that he did have some “ability to control events.” Just no more. Denial. Denial regarding the reality of the situation. He did have, and still does have, the ability to mitigate the disaster, to contain the oil that’s already in the water and keep it away from land. If it can’t all be contained, that wouldn’t be failure. However, not being on top of the situation from the beginning, that was a failure of leadership. Unless it was what he intended, in which case we aren’t dealing with a previously observed type of President.

To clear my head–

I agree with Art; I don’t have any reason to believe that Obama is the genius the MSM has tried to sell us. To use his words, Obama “isn’t really very smart and he isn’t grounded at all except intellectually based on the [communist] programming he got from his mother and the men she brought into his life.” We’ve tried to get some converts to this viewpoint before, even here, without much success. Denial exists even at Redstate.

But I don’t believe he’s dumb, either, just uninformed about almost everything necessary to be a good President. In fact, I believe that he is smart enough to be, as the Republic wrote, “a marionette. He has followed almost word for word the proposals of the liberal Center for American Progress….” And for want of a better Puppet Master, George Soros is the likely brains behind the not-so-brainy, especially given the close relationship of Soros to the CfAP.

The MSM is in denial that such a scenario could even be possible, therefore they can’t see it. But they also can’t believe that Obama is not a genius, or not brilliant, or even just not competent, so they don’t acknowledge that his mistakes are “bad.” That is, there is always an exculpatory circumstance, in their view. Again, denial. But it’s never that he’s simply trying to do the wrong things.

The MSM is in denial about Obama’s sincerity, gravitas, breadth and depth, demeanor, intelligence, abilities, credentials, college records, family history, personal associations, motivation, policies, actions, source of support, source of advice, and honesty, among other things. They are also in denial about their own lack of interest in the above issues and the reasons behind their slobbering love affair with the President and his Party. And because they are in denial, the useful idiots who support the Dems are in there swimming with them, and denying every minute of it.

NOBODY wants to believe that our President doesn’t have the best interest of the country at heart, and so far there is only anecdotal and circumstantial evidence to that effect. With the Kyl revelation, the evidence is getting more solid. There is enough evidence to convince us, but most people haven’t paid as much attention as we have. So some don’t even see it, and many more do see it but can’t believe it. Denial.

“The press is so powerful in its image-making role that it can make a criminal look like he’s the victim and make the victim look like he’s the criminal. If you aren’t careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”– Malcolm X, Audubon Ballroom, December 13, 1964

Yes Flag, it is denial on the part of many.

penguin2 (Diary) Tuesday, June 22nd at 9:52PM EST (link)

But the people who surround him, helped create him, and who sanitized and eradicated his past–they all know the true deficiencies of this man.

I’ve never thought he had anything but average intelligence, and I believe he is impaired, so his governing behavior is not really a surprise. What is a surprise, is that we could have been so unlucky as a nation, to have this man in the Oval Office.

We have to keep peeling back the onion layers.

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"peeling back the onion layers"

Flagstaff (Diary) Wednesday, June 23rd at 1:53AM EST (link)

Very good. That is what will have to happen, because until whatever scandal is there is exposed, one layer at a time is all we’ll see. Things may explode someday, but we aren’t very close yet. The fact that two close advisers are leaving (one of them has confirmed it) may signal something. What will The Won do without Rahm? (Heck, maybe he’ll get better advice.)

“But the people who surround him, helped create him, and who sanitized and eradicated his past–they all know the true deficiencies of this man.”

Let’s start with Rahm Emanuel. According to legend, he’s the prototypical Chicago machine pol. From 1998 to 2001, he managed to make $18 million first “working for” investment banking firm, Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein, then as a director (Clinton appointee) of Freddie Mac. Nothing Obama has done would bother him. (Israel may be the exception. Rahm seems to be the only Obamanite on Israel’s side.) Other than that, Rahm doesn’t seem to be concerned with the ethics of any situation.

Peter Orszag. Two phrases stand out in his biography. “London School of Economics” and “Greek shipping heiress.” And I add pencil-necked dweeb. There is no way to know if he is connected to George Soros through the LSE connection or some other way.

If we make an assumption that George Soros is pulling the strings, there is likely nobody close to Obama who hasn’t either been bought off or under control some other way. His non-traditional associates, Hillary Clinton, Robert Gates, Joe Biden, Larry Summers, are compartmentalized in his regime. They may all be sincerely behind his policies in their own areas, or they may be given a lot of authority because he has no interest in guiding them, but they don’t have any input in other arenas. People at this level are able to abandon ship, but they aren’t likely to “leave and tell,” because they all may have future political aspirations.

For many of them, what we call “deficiencies,” they call on-the-job training.

Even if we don’t make the Soros assumption, a comparison to a mob operation holds. The Lieutenants don’t rat out the Godfather if they don’t like his methods. It takes a bigger mob to get rid of him.

“The press is so powerful in its image-making role that it can make a criminal look like he’s the victim and make the victim look like he’s the criminal. If you aren’t careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”– Malcolm X, Audubon Ballroom, December 13, 1964

 

The Left doesn't define "smart" the same way

Achance (Diary) Wednesday, June 23rd at 11:35AM EST (link)

that sane people do. It isn’t a matter of how quickly your synapses fire and how logical your thinking, it is a matter of what views you espouse. You are “smart” if you see things the way a lefty sees them and you are stupid if you don’t.

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stupid, and racist. NT

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Not just the synapses,

Steph C (Diary) Wednesday, June 23rd at 12:16PM EST (link)

but education wise. Harvard, Yale, Princeton, etc. that are bastions of exactly the views you’re speaking of… regardless of how you got there and regardless of actual IQ. I’ve known high school dropouts who could run circles around Obama as far as being knowledgeable.

Degrees don’t mean what they used to mean. A B.A. or B.S. these days is the equivalent, or less, of a high school diploma from our days. About the only school subject that can’t be fiddled with so much is mathematics and they’re trying there, too. After a point though, their fiddling fails.

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Denial and why so many refuse to see what they see?

janis (Diary) Thursday, June 24th at 9:56PM EST (link)

For many, they just don’t want to admit that they voted for someone so below par for POTUS. I know some of those people and they literally cannot bear a single word of criticism of the man. They’d rather yell “racist!” or just accuse me of not being willing to give the man a chance because he’s a Democrat and I’m not. {{{{Shudder}}}}

As to your assessment skills, penguin, they are excellent. Add to your take on the man who would be king Art’s mention of Obama’s consistent amount of rage and you have the makings of a man who will, I predict at some point, just blow. He is daily making decisions that are huge mistakes to so many of us and dumbfounding blows to our republic. At some juncture, economic misery + more terrorist attacks here + severely reduced individual freedoms + increasingly reduced expectations of things ever getting better = either outright rebellion by the citizens or a president who gets hounded out of office by his own when they have suffered enough defeat.

Either of those outcomes supposes that enough on our side rise up to stop this and turn it back while it’s still possible, before we become so weakened that we are vulnerable on all fronts to our enemies, both foreign and domestic.

As always, penguin, your diary is not only informative, but provokes such good commenting as well !

(By the way, I read Rod Blagojevich’s comment to his wife about Michelle Obama: “Obama is more henpecked than I am. ” Who among us would argue with THAT?! May be an additional part of his rage.)

Thanks, Janis. I enjoyed the chuckle with your reporting....

penguin2 (Diary) Friday, June 25th at 10:00AM EST (link)

of Blago’s comment. I wonder if anyone told the President what Blago said. There may yet be a story unfolding out of Chicago that will continue to reveal more about the corruption of the Democrat Party and perhaps, will finally reveal to the people, that Mr. Obama was no more than an ordinary man and politician.

Thank you for your comments as well. Yes, there are a number of components going into the pot, and we have to be concerned that the Democrats are not being fazed by what actions the President is taking. Many are strong Leftists and I think are part of the plan; though they may find out if they destroy the country first, all that they hated about America–but really needed and wanted–won’t be there for them to abuse any longer.

I keep in mind that we have to pay close attention to every move this administration makes, and we have to get the information out there.

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Absent

Black River Wolf (Diary) Tuesday, June 22nd at 12:42PM EST (link)

This is the first President that I have known that has no emotions. It is if he is a empty suit or a machine.

Nothing seems to phase him.

And why in the world do you need Teleprompter One to talk to grade school kids???

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BRW, he needs the teleprompter because he can't....

penguin2 (Diary) Tuesday, June 22nd at 1:24PM EST (link)

keep a thought in his head, or a couple of sentences. When one is in a classroom of 10 and 11 yr. olds and cannot speak spontaneously, something is wrong with the big picture. Empty suit, emotionless human being, detached. His inability to even pretend that he cares, shows pathology.

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Very thought-provoking, Penguin!

E Pluribus Unum (Diary) Tuesday, June 22nd at 2:28PM EST (link)

Very, very good observation. It tracks alot of what I have been thinking. You’ve left it for us to connect the dots on the next step.

I’ll go with Art, and say that a whole bunch of it is that he’s just an angry, mal-adjusted, pampered communist. No leadership skills, but much worse, no desire to do anything except exploit his position. Not smart, not clever, and not merely incompetent. Astoundingly narcissistic, lazy, and I am going to lean toward vindictive and evil.

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Yes, EPU. It is a good way to discuss these things.

penguin2 (Diary) Tuesday, June 22nd at 3:43PM EST (link)

I did a lot of research for the dots, had my own professional expertise peeking at them, and connecting them can be useful. I like the way you described what I did.

I’m with you and Art in your descriptions, but I think there is an added component to the man–either from his past and/or his present.

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Oh I'm certain there are issues there in his past

E Pluribus Unum (Diary) Tuesday, June 22nd at 4:19PM EST (link)

The media has thoroughly, thoroughly scrubbed his past, large swaths of it from age 22 to age 36 or so. Bet there are interesting things in there.

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Another example:

itrytobenice (Diary) Tuesday, June 22nd at 3:31PM EST (link)

One of the most egregious examples was when he was doing the Ft. Hood presser (I think that was the one) and gave a ‘shout out’ to his buddies.

As for the telepropteritis, some of it is surely fear. Every time he’s gone off prompter, he’s let his commie background show. First it was ‘spread the wealth around’ then there were those YouTubes of his uhhh, uhhhh, huhhhh when his teleprompter went down, and I can’t remember it right now, but more recently there was an off prompter statement that raised a lot of eyebrows, even among the lefty glitterati.

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Itrytobenice, excellent example. He was absolutely inappropriate.

penguin2 (Diary) Tuesday, June 22nd at 3:56PM EST (link)

It’s as if someone is laughing at a funeral and everyone else is in black mourning and crying. If we witnessed our neighbor, friend or a family member do that we would see it as bizarre. It not only goes to judgment, but clearly a lack of awareness and consciousness–again unacceptable in the leader of nation of 300 million people.

So, a man who can’t speak without rambling or a teleprompter, a man who laughs when others are crying, a man who plays when others are suffering….what kind of man is that?

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The milli vanilli president

Common_Cents (Diary) Tuesday, June 22nd at 7:03PM EST (link)

Even milli vanilli started believing the hype about them, that they were real performers. We know how that turned out.

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True, common_cents, true. nt

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penguin2, you have given Biden and the cabinet fodder for the 25th Amend., Sec. 4

ColdWarrior (Diary) Tuesday, June 22nd at 4:43PM EST (link)

strategy to declare Opuppet “unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office,” as written about here:

Memorandum

VPOTUS, CABINET AND CONGRESSIONAL LEADERSHIP EYES ONLY (see following distribution list)

From: VPOTUS

To: CABINET OFFICERS AND CONGRESSIONAL LEADERS

Subject: Operation Able

Date: [Redacted]

Gentlepersons,

Following up on the serious discussions we have been having, both all together and in sub-groups, about the question of POTUS’s ability “to discharge the powers and duties of his office” and the grave danger he seems to be creating for the United States, I believe the time has come to decide whether to act now or to establish, yet again, future milestones which, if reached, would cause us to act and deliver to the Congress the declaration required by Amendment XXV, Section 4 of the Constitution to allow me to “immediately assume the powers and duties of the office [of POTUS] as Acting President.” (U.S. Constitution, Amendment XXV, Section 4.)

For reference, the full text of Amendment XXV, Section 4:

Section 4.
Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President.

Thereafter, when the President transmits to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his written declaration that no inability exists, he shall resume the powers and duties of his office unless the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive department or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit within four days to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office. Thereupon Congress shall decide the issue, assembling within forty-eight hours for that purpose if not in session. If the Congress, within twenty-one days after receipt of the latter written declaration, or, if Congress is not in session, within twenty-one days after Congress is required to assemble, determines by two-thirds vote of both Houses that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall continue to discharge the same as Acting President; otherwise, the President shall resume the powers and duties of his office.

As we have discussed, Operation Able would simply culminate in my delivery to the Congressional leaders the written declaration, on the authority of Amendment XXV, Section 4 of the U.S. Constitution, with my signature and the signatures of the Cabinet Officers receiving this memorandum, declaring that we believe, as demonstrated by the performance of POTUS, he is “unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office . . . .”

Simultaneously, we would, of course, issue press releases to all major media outlets and also to the internet communities via social media networks and Twitter. As you know, the SOS and trusted members of her staff had already drafted the necessary diplomatic communications that she will also simultaneously use to confidently reassure all U.S. allies that Operation Able has succeeded.

We would also deliver simultaneously to POTUS and FLOTUS the press statement we have prepared for them acknowledging POTUS has agreed with us that because of his [redacted redacted redacted] condition he has agreed that it is in the nation’s best interests for him to acknowledge his inability to discharge the powers and duties of his office, will not challenge our declaration and will resign his office immediately for the benefit of the nation. I should also note that key to the success of Operation Able has been the voluntary assistance and insights of the former POTUS; his assistance will be key regarding successfully implementing the public relations aspects of Operation Able. The nation, and we, will owe a debt of gratitude to the SOS for her wise counsel at the genesis of Operation Able to include the former POTUS for these critical aspects of the operation.

After the public announcement by the POTUS and FLOTUS, we will publicly applaud POTUS’s gracious and fearless decision to place the nation’s best interests above his own.

You know I would never put my own political interests above the best interests of the nation’s, as well, but I do want to remind all of you that I have indicated I believe the POTUS’s lack of an effective response to the Gulf of Mexico tragedy provides us, along with his failures with respect to Israel, Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, North Korea, unemployment, the economy and health care (which we now all know was passed without crucial budget forecasting information being given to the Congress), ample evidence to justify the conclusion of our declaration, that we cannot risk the possibility that POTUS may be able to somehow mask his [redacted redacted redacted] condition, and that we cannot allow our nation to be further placed at risk because of POTUS’s [redacted redacted redacted] condition that makes him, according to the Constitution, unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office and, therefore, unable to remain as POTUS.

Please let me hear from each of you as soon as possible.

[END]

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ColdWarrior, your recent articles on this crossed my mind....

penguin2 (Diary) Tuesday, June 22nd at 5:58PM EST (link)

when I was researching and writing the post. In fact, there was one moment when I thought, “goodness this kind of fits what CW recently wrote about.

All of this is food for thought, whether it bears fruit or not, it can help us understand, and perhaps be more effective in dealing with this administration. If nothing else, it allows us to tell the MSM, we’re not as ignorant as they think we are. They fooled us once, but now we will not/cannot hold back on voicing our concerns.

CW, the only problem is the rest of the characters in line…..all of them are supporting the Left’s plan of transforming America and taking her over a cliff.

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You know, Penguin...

TNJim (Diary) Wednesday, June 23rd at 5:35PM EST (link)

If people combine this post with Jon Voight’s open letter plus this over at Atlas Shrugs they’ll have a great insight into the real Obama, the one the the media kept hidden during the campaign and still try to hide today.

Bravo!

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Thanks, TNJim. You present an interesting observation.

penguin2 (Diary) Wednesday, June 23rd at 6:30PM EST (link)

I had heard about Jon Voight’s letter and checked out the Atlas Shrugs link too. Yes, there is much that the media hid from us and continues to hide. IMO, he was totally misrepresented to the America people in order to get elected. I remember the malicious examination and evisceration that both McCain and Palin underwent by the MSM, and how the public accepted it. What the Left and the malignant media perpetrated upon this nation is reprehensible.

I hope someday the truth will out.

Thank you, TNJim, I appreciate your input.

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One more of the never ending examples of how the media protects The Won -

eburke (Diary) Thursday, June 24th at 11:29PM EST (link)

if some leftist Hollywood celebrity would have penned a letter like this to Bush, it would have been on every newscast and website known to mankind.

This is the first I’ve seen of this and I check out no less than 8 – 10 newsites a day plus RCP every morning. It’s beyond nauseating how much the press covers for this empty suit.

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eburke, the "malpractice" of the MSM has been one of the most....

penguin2 (Diary) Friday, June 25th at 10:17AM EST (link)

difficult facts for me to accept. Now that I have finally realized that they are Leftists, Communists, globalists, etc. it makes sense, though it still leaves them for the reprehensible creatures they are.

Can only hope that our side can keep trying to uncover truths that even those blinded by fool’s gold, will be able to see.

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Simple

OccamsRazor (Diary) Wednesday, June 23rd at 11:34PM EST (link)

[of his father he's dreaming] He has abandonded the American people the way his Father has him-that’s gotta hurt (only to be satiated early on by drugs and booze, then ultimately anger and hate (his deep seeded driving forces). He was then betrayed by his mother, who ultimately left him (no son wants that). He really has nothing and no one to latch onto, except a magnanimous character, analogous to Duestchelanders circa ~1930s after British economic pressures post WWI. But have no doubt, that it’ll be typical white folks who’ll bail him out, but everyone will pay much bigger prices for their fallacies and faults as a whole-for it’s much more difficult to prove negatives than actualities. I only hope he doesn’t wrap the American people around a pole in a drunken stupour.

OccamsRazor, well said.

penguin2 (Diary) Thursday, June 24th at 7:19AM EST (link)

It is clear and understandable the man suffered emotional trauma in childhood, all the points you made are certainly part of the pathology of the young man’s life. The mentors he had, the people or ideals he clung to, shaped his life.

In fact, there are political movements that prey upon people who are vulnerable, poor, victims, etc. They come to them and promise, “to make it all better.” Right now in India, the Communists are stirring up the poor, that is how they do it.

IMO, our lives are shaped by both nature and nurture. Barack Obama is a product of his childhood. I can be sympathetic and empathetic about that. We can even understand the man that he became from that context. Unfortunately, it is the man who is in charge of the country and your final sentence is apropos.

Good to see you and thank you for your input.

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I keep thinking about this diary.

klondike Thursday, June 24th at 7:45PM EST (link)

P2, there is so much in BO’s background that is disturbing, from – as others have pointed out – abandonment by his father and mother, a mother in hot pursuit of all things radical, ultimately leaving him to be raised by Communist grandparents, etc. You mentioned his book. If I’m not mistaken, he referred to “Frank” as having the greatest influence on his life. It was later revealed that “Frank” was Frank Marshall Davis. Davis and his wife had a thing for ménage à trois with young girls. If I remember my research from the primary (access is gone since I lost my hard drive), BO’s mother’s first exposure to Frank was when she was 13, Frank was a whiskey drinking, pot-smoking sex-addicted Communist pontificator who later moved to Hawaii, and BO spent a lot of time with him.

That creates a twisted vision of life. What I hadn’t considered was the drug use, both as a young man and as an adult. Many abused drugs in their early years and turned out fine, as you pointed out, but I had not thought about current anti-depressant use. You’re right – he appears to be so detached that he is incapable of compassion, empathy, or even rational thought or caring about how something he might say or do affects others. We saw that in the primary.

At one point I had concluded that BO does not need any type of anti-depressant medication because he is so very narcissistic that he is incapable of depression. But you’re right – he may need medication in order to control the anger. It is just below the surface, as we all have seen and as many commenters here have acknowledged.

We have an extremely maladjusted person leading our country. And thank you for bringing up the point that we know nothing of his past – not his medical records, his college records – nothing. He has no past, other than what he wrote. No one has ever been able to even find anyone at Columbia who remembered him on campus. No one ever mentions the Saudi who got him into Harvard.

Great diary, P2.

Tremendous anger

Common_Cents (Diary) Thursday, June 24th at 8:46PM EST (link)

I was scared even during his inauguration speech, had the volume down a bit and his facial expressions were terrifying. I’m surprise there hasn’t been more written by body language experts on his anger. Obviously it is even prevalent in his speech. He can’t help it. I hope he keeps it together until he can be safely removed via the ballot box.

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Same here, Common_Cents.

klondike Friday, June 25th at 3:55AM EST (link)

Except I didn’t watch the inauguration speech. I stop watching him during the primary because I saw no soul behind his eyes. I felt like I was looking at pure evil every time I saw him, so ever since I’ve quickly changed the channel if he is on.

I know that during the primary, and especially during the general, a number of people were e-mailing Fox, Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, and their local news media trying to get them to cover the fact that BO’s past had been sanitized. No one would even touch the fact that he had “sealed” all of his records, including – as Lady P said – his medical records! What did he not want us to see? I have my own theory about why he sealed his college records, but it really chaps my you-know-what that he wants the government to be able to see our medical records, but we – his employer – are not allowed to see his.

What scares me the most is the number of people who voted for a candidate about whom they knew nothing except that which he told them, and even that couldn’t even be verified. Dennis Prager was right – the biggest threat to this country is the lack of Americanism.

God willing, this man will be removed from office before Jan. 2013.. His handling of the Gulf oil spill and Arizona’s immigration issue is nothing short of wanton criminal negligence. He needs to be removed from office.

 
 

Thank you, Klondike. That's what I hoped to accomplish.

penguin2 (Diary) Thursday, June 24th at 9:50PM EST (link)

While the information about Obama is limited, the little we do know is significant. Though his past has been sanitized, the present is much harder for his handlers to deal with. With information and knowledge we can connect the dots.

Thank you so much for your input.

And to Common_Cents, I have no doubt there are lots of experts analyzing this president. I hope that someday, likely after he is no longer in office, that at least some of the truths about him will be known.

I think the American people are entitled to know who this person is that was created, massaged and presented as worthy of being the leader of this nation. We should at least know the truth.

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