Reflections From a Murky Pond

It’s a bit of a gloomy forecast for Obama and his handlers and overseers. The climate just isn’t cooperating with the boy and he had to move his acceptance speech from Bank of America Stadium, which seats 73,298 to to the Time Warner Cable Arena, which seats only 22,000.

Of course, there’s currently a lot of speculation that the “climate” in question was the political climate as opposed to Charlotte, NC’s weather.

Raining On The Charade

My guess is that it’s a combination of both factors. Obama’s incessant excuses are a piss-poor umbrella against the storm of disillusionment and bitterness that the boy’s facing from the Left, and neither his shucking and jiving nor his tap-dancing will save him from a soaking this time. This means that it’s far more likely that the threat of inclement weather would keep too many attendees away for it to be a “proper” political event.

There’s a certain sense to that. Obama has consistently and utterly failed to both lead and to inspire since being installed as POTUS. The Campaigner-in-Chief, once forced out of his comfort zone and faced with being accountable for a deliverable for possibly the first time in his life, fell flat on his face.

Don’t Look, Just Go Forward. Ignore The Man With The Air Hammer

And the boy’s only response was the same as the primary plank of his 2008 platform, blame President Bush and, when that is too far-fetched for even his constituents, blame the GOP, the productive Americans, or anyone else he or his handlers can find.

Presidential Taglines – And Obama’s As Well

Sadly for Obama and his cronies, blamecasting only works for so long before people – even Liberals, Progressives, and their minority tenants – grow weary of it and want results. Being a whining, little crybaby is just a litany of failure and that doesn’t inspire followers. Results do that.

The whole thing is, however, a fitting reprise of the boy’s 2008 acceptance speech as the only warming trend and the only sea level he’s lowered is that of his own acceptance and support by his base. 😉

Well, Moochelle the Grifter is out stumping around for her husband in the hopes that enough of America’s domestic enemies will vote for him so that she can maintain the taxpayer-funded lifestyle that’s she’s gotten so accustomed to wallowing in.

If You Don’t Vote For Barack You’re Rich, White, Racist Pig

As is to be expected though, her oratory can best be described as hate speech and dog-whistle racial attacks at any and all Whites who happen to have been successful in life – except, of course, for any of them who feel guilty over working and reaping the rewards of their labor.

All this while tricked out from head to toe in the finest costuming and makeup that the American people could be forced to buy for her.

She’s such an example…

When Two Selves Come Into Conflict

Could it simply be that Obama is decompensating and his inner self is finally being seen? That would explain the bitterness inherent in the boy’s immediate dive into negative politics and attack in the 2012 elections.

It could instead be a well-though-out out and quasi-Machiavellian example of realpolitik instead though. Obama won in 2008 due to a shift in the demographics of the American electorate. He won on the strength of the turnout of young people and Blacks – and multiple polls suggest that those two demographics are not enthusiastic this time around.

Frankly, once installed in office, Obama utterly failed to continue to be inspirational to those groups who put him in office in the first place. As he can’t run on the strength of his record, trying to inspire key demographics to vote against Romney instead of for himself might be his best strategy to keep his job.

It’s not likely to be a winning strategy though, if that’s Obama’s, his handlers’, and proxies’ actual thought. It didn’t work for Kerry and it likely won’t work this time either.

On Wednesday, August 29, 2012 at the 2012 Republican National Convention Former Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice took the podium and delivered a rousing speech that brought the crowd to their feet and kept them there throughout her oration.

Her focus on the incredible opportunities America presents and the extraordinary goodness of America was a stark contrast to Obama’s normal complaints about the country and its people.

It was an awesome speech and you can read a transcript of it here. One statement in it, however, stood out and still stands out in my mind, and it’s likely not the point that Ms. Rice would want anyone to focus upon as her speech was largely positive in nature.

Whenever you find yourself doubting us – just think of all the times that we have made the impossible seem inevitable in retrospect.

Ms. Rice spoke a great truth in that simple sentence. Yet, in it she has described the truly perilous exceptionalism of America. We are exceptional and we, as a unified people, have made made the impossible seem inevitable in retrospect. That can cut both ways though.

It has always seemed impossible to normal Americans that our country could sink into a entitlement state. Yet, in retrospect, it seems to have been inevitable. It has always seemed impossible to normal Americans that our country could become a semi-totalitarian nanny state. Yet, in retrospect, it seems have been inevitable. It has always seemed impossible to normal Americans that our societal morality could degenerate so far and in so many ways as it has. Yet, in retrospect, it seems to have been inevitable.

This is why America’s exceptionalism is so perilous. We as a people are so powerful and so dynamic that the seemingly impossible is made commonplace and this has fostered a complacency that may well doom us because we fail to understand that it can happen here.

Narcissistic Personality Disorder is a mental condition in which people have an inflated sense of self-importance and an extreme preoccupation with themselves. It is characterized by a two-leveled personality organization. The grandiose self exists on the superficial and manifest level, and the real self which is frustrated, emotionally deprived, and full of impotent rage exists on the deeper level.

Someone suffering from Narcissistic Personality Disorder can be expected to so many, if not all, of the 10 following symptoms:

1. Reacts to criticism with rage, shame, or humiliation
2. Takes advantage of other people to achieve his or her own goals
3. Has excessive feelings of self-importance
4. Exaggerates achievements and talents while belittling those of others
5. Is preoccupied with fantasies of success, power, beauty, intelligence, or ideal love
6. Has unreasonable expectations of favorable treatment
7. Needs constant attention and admiration
8. Disregards the feelings of others, and has little ability to feel empathy
9. Has obsessive self-interest
10. Pursues mainly selfish goals

In the of sufferers of Narcissistic Personality Disorder, their grandiose self dominates their inner world and is the primary shaper of the clinical picture. From the clinical point of view, narcissistic way of life is characterized by stereotyped cycles: periods of successful narcissistic activity, or narcissistic well-compensation, alternating with periods in which the narcissistic person fails to maintain their experience of grandiosity, i.e., narcissistic failure or decompensation.

Narcissistic Decompensation is the removal of the ego defenses propping up and sustaining the sufferer’s inflated self-esteem that was unable to “compensate” for a real or percieved injury of some kind. More simply put, decompensation occurs when the narcissist’s grandiosity is not validated by reality; their self image is impossible to sustain causing their real self to supplant their grandiose self. This normally results in the sufferer spirally downward into pessimism, frustration, and bitterness expressed as either withdrawal and passivity or some form of aggression, either at others or their selves.

Does any of this sound familiar?

Narcissistic Failure Anyone?

If you’re tuned into the American political landscape and have a reasonably unclouded mind, I’m guessing that it does…