Sunday, August 3, 2014

Is Barack Obama A Psychopath?

"American Thinker" usually lives up to its reputation for thought-provocation. On August 2 they produced eight articles. Two of the articles (Obama's Inexplicable Love for the Dark Side and The Road to Pathocracy) dealt with personality disorders and Barack Obama. To balance their perspective they also submit an article entitled The Sins of Psychotherapism. All are worth reading, by the way.

Speculating as to what is wrong with the president is becoming a national pastime. Not everyone is singing from the Vaknin songbook. For a multitude of reasons (compulsive lying, "I am really good at killing people," ongoing displays of self-pity, the inability to tolerate even the slightest disagreement or dissent) people are asking "What exactly is wrong with this guy?"

I did a Google search, "Is Barack Obama a Psycopath."  What happens with a lot of subjects is they get mentioned by a somewhat busy website and then searches are clogged by Salon refuting the idea, Slate dismissing the author, HuffPo gives their two cents worth, Daily Beast comments on it and so on. Interesting, original perspective gets buried. This particular subject is not there yet.

If you duplicate this search you will discover a broad spectrum of thought from a wide swath of humanity. I won't summarize the findings because Google already gives a one or two sentence blurb. What is interesting is that more and more people are independently asking the same question: Is Barack Obama a psychopath?

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