mindhacker on October 5, 2008 at 6:05 PM

Agreed. Everything Obama has done in his life has been to feed his colossal, narcissistic ego and sense of superiority (it goes beyond mere entitlement), and to bring him wealth and power, exactly none of it earned. As a President, I would expect him to be at once self-indulgent and brutal toward those he regards as his personal enemies. He would literally resent anyone disagreeing with him on anything, on the principle of “Do you not perceive my greatness?”

This is why his call for a national “Volunteer Corps”, which would be little more than a modern Sturmabteilung, should worry any rational person.

But the flip side of this is even more worrisome. You see, people with this sort of personality tend to be personal cowards along with it. They seek to render others subservient because they fear them. And when confronted by determined, actual enemies, in the military/geopolitical sense of the word, they react in a cowardly manner. If they cannot co-opt, they will appease. Faced with a truly aggressive adversary, they will seek to “cut a deal” that allows them to retain their own “local” status at the expense of everyone else on their “own” side. (Think Vichy France, or the Quislings in Norway.)

If even that doesn’t work, they collapse. Completely. Because their minds cannot grasp the reality of their own fundamental unimportance, especially from a determined adversary’s point of view.

Biden is another one cut from the same cloth, as is Pelosi. Both are “creatures of the deal”, who are perfectly willing, in fact eager, to oppress their own people at the behest of any foreign influence which is, in their minds, more “enlightened”. And both believe, like Obama, that they are so transcendentally important, that they, personally, matter so much, that in such a situation, the aggressor will fall all over themselves to fulfill their wishes.

In the first months of an Obama Administration, I would expect bizarre, possibly illegal behavior on the part of the leaders that would make the Days of Rage, Nixon’s “Enemies List”, and Waco all seem like chump change by comparison.

In their first genuine foreign policy crisis, whether on the order of Cuba in October of 1962 or 9/11, I would expect them to panic, seek personal salvation from the aggressor at any cost- and when that failed, collapse like a house of cards on a table when somebody slams a door.

Remember, you heard it here first.

clear ether

eon

eon on October 5, 2008 at 6:31 PM