Thursday, October 9, 2008

Obama, Oprah, and the Guru: Malignant Narcissism

"Tony Blankley refers to Obama's posturing as the 'height of hubris.' Jeffrey Kuhner writes that Obama 'is a self-absorbed narcissist who portrays himself as a political messiah -- the anointed one.' David Limbaugh writes of the 'unspeakably presumptuous extravaganzas as those [that] feted Mr. Obama at Berlin and Invesco Field.'

"In reference to Obama's narcissism, Charles Krauthammer asks, '[H]as there ever been a presidential nominee with a wider gap between his estimation of himself and the sum total of his lifetime achievements?' Sam Vaknin, Ph.D., author of Malignant Self Love: Narcissism Revisited, writes that 'Barack Obama appears to be a narcissist,' and offers a detailed explanation.