Back in the day when I was still viewed as respectable by my fellow military officers I used to get a lot of emails. Some of them were funny. Some of them surprisingly steamy. But a number of them were hard right posts, some of them bordering on lunatic fringe. Eventually hard electronic words were said between myself and the senders and I stopped getting them. But they are still out there, and for those who are not tempted to wade through the mucky cesspool, I thought I would reproduce one:
" From: "rdjuvik@aol.com" <rdjuvik@aol.com>
> > To: pneptune@nctelecom.net; dongfleck@yahoo.com;
> > Mdjuvik@aol.com
> > Sent: Saturday, November 1, 2008 2:43:36 PM
> > Subject: Understanding Obama: The Making of a Fuehrer
> >
> >
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> > Comments, anyone?
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> >
> >
> > Understanding Obama: The Making of a Fuehrer
> > By Ali Sina
> >
> > I must confess, I was not impressed by Sen. Barack Obama
> > from the first time I saw him. At first I was excited to see
> > a black candidate. He looked youthful, spoke well, appeared
> > to be confident, a wholesome presidential package. I was put
> > off soon, not just because of his shallowness but also
> > because there was an air of haughtiness in his demeanor that
> > was unsettling. His posture and his body language were
> > louder than his empty words. Obama's speeches are unlike
> > any political speech we have heard in American history.
> > Never a politician in this land had such a quasi
> > "religious" impact on so many people. The fact
> > that Obama is a total incognito with zero accomplishment
> > makes this inexplicable infatuation alarming. Obama is not
> > an ordinary man. He is not a genius. In fact, he is quite
> > ignorant on most important subjects. Barack Obama is a
> > narcissist. Dr. Sam Vaknin, the author of "Malignant
> > Self Love," also believes, "Barack Obama appears
> > to be a narcissist."
> >
> > Vaknin is a world authority on narcissism. He understands
> > it and describes the inner mind of a narcissist like no
> > other person. When he talks about narcissism everyone
> > listens. Vaknin says that Obama's language, posture and
> > demeanor, and the testimonies of his closest, nearest and
> > dearest suggest that the Senator is either a narcissist or
> > he may have narcissistic personality disorder (NPD).
> >
> > Narcissists project a grandiose but false image of
> > themselves. Jim Jones, the charismatic leader of
> > People's Temple, the man who led over 900 of his
> > followers to cheerfully commit mass suicide and even murder
> > their own children was also a narcissist. Charles Manson,
> > Joseph Koni, Shoko Asahara, Joe Stalin, Saddam, Mao Zedong,
> > Kim Jong IL, and Adolph Hitler are a few examples of
> > narcissists of our time. All these men had a tremendous
> > influence over their fanciers and followers. They created a
> > personality cult around themselves, and with their blazing
> > speeches elevated their admirer's souls, filled their
> > hearts with enthusiasm and instilled in their minds a new
> > zest for life. Those men gave their followers hope! They
> > promised them the moon, but alas, they invariably brought
> > them to their doom.. When you are a victim of a cult of
> > personality, you don't know it until it is too late.
> >
> > One determining factor in the development of NPD is
> > childhood abuse. "Obama's early life was decidedly
> > chaotic and replete with traumatic and mentally bruising
> > dislocations," says Vaknin. "Mixed-race marriages
> > were even less common then. His parents went through a
> > divorce when he was an infant (two years old). Obama saw his
> > father only once again, before he died in a car accident.
> > His mother re-married and Obama had to relocate to
> > Indonesia, a foreign land with a radically foreign culture,
> > to be raised by a stepfather. He was raised as an only
> > child, full of himself and no others. He never had to share
> > the spotlight with any siblings. At the age of ten, he was
> > whisked off to live with his maternal (white) grandparents.
> > He saw his mother only intermittently in the following few
> > years and then she vanished from his life in 1979. She died
> > of cancer in 1995."
> >
> > One must never underestimate the manipulative genius of
> > pathological narcissists. They project such an imposing
> > personality that it overwhelms those around them. Charmed by
> > the charisma of the narcissist, people become like clay in
> > his hands. They cheerfully do his bidding and delight to be
> > at his service. The narcissist shapes the world around him
> > and reduces others in his own inverted image. He creates a
> > cult of personality; his admirers become his co-dependents.
> >
> > Narcissists have no interest in things that do not help
> > them to reach their personal objectives. They are focused on
> > one thing alone, and that is power. All other issues are
> > meaningless to them and they do not want to waste their
> > precious time on trivialities. Anything that does not help
> > them is beneath them and does not deserve their attention.
> > If an issue raised in the Senate does not help Obama in one
> > way or another, he has no interest in it. The
> > "Present" vote is a safe vote; he used the
> > "Present" all the time as a member of the Illinois
> > legislature. No one can criticize him if things go wrong..
> > Why should he implicate himself in issues that may become
> > controversial when they don't help him personally? Those
> > issues are unworthy by their very nature because they are
> > not about him.
> >
> > Obama's election as the first black president of the
> > Harvard Law Review led to a contract and an advance to write
> > a book about race relations. The University of Chicago Law
> > School provided him with a fellowship and an office to work
> > on his book. The book took him a lot longer than expected
> > and at the end it devolved into..., guess what? His own
> > autobiography! Instead of writing a scholarly paper focusing
> > on race relations, for which he had been paid, Obama could
> > not resist writing about his most sublime self. He entitled
> > the book "Dreams from My Father."
> >
> > Not surprisingly, Adolph Hitler also wrote his own
> > autobiography when he was still nobody. So did Stalin. For a
> > narcissist no subject is as important as his own self. Why
> > would he waste his precious time and genius writing about
> > insignificant things when he can write about such an august
> > being as himself? Narcissists are often callous and even
> > ruthless. As the norm, they lack conscience. This is evident
> > from Obama's lack of interest in his own brother who
> > lives on only one dollar per month. A man who lives in
> > luxury, who takes a private jet to vacation in Hawaii, and
> > who has raised nearly a half billion dollars for his
> > campaign (something unprecedented in history) has no
> > interest in the plight of his own brother. Why? His brother
> > cannot be used for his ascent to power. A narcissist cares
> > for no one but himself.
> >
> > This election is like no other election in the history of
> > America. The issues are insignificant compared to what is at
> > stake. What can be more dangerous than having a man bereft
> > of a conscience, a serial liar, and one who cannot
> > distinguish his fantasies from reality as the leader of the
> > free world?
> >
> > I hate to sound alarmist, but one must be a fool if one is
> > not alarmed. Many politicians are narcissists. They pose no
> > threat to others. They are simply self-serving and selfish.
> > [Witness Al Gore's Income Tax; it reveals that he gave
> > away NO MONEY to charities, not even to a church!] Obama
> > evinces symptoms of pathological narcissism, which is
> > different from the run-of-the-mill narcissism of a Richard
> > Nixon or Bill Clinton, for example. To him reality and
> > fantasy are intertwined. This is a mental health issue, not
> > just a character flaw. Pathological narcissists are
> > dangerous because they look normal and even intelligent. It
> > is this disguise that makes them treacherous. [Look up the
> > word 'treachery.'] Betrayal, as a form of deception
> > or dismissal of prior presumptions, is the breaking or
> > violation of a presumptive social contract (trust, or
> > confidence) that produces moral and psychological conflict
> > within a relationship amongst individuals, between
> > organizations or between individuals and ...
> > en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treachery
> >
> > Today the Democrats have placed all their hopes in Obama.
> > But this man could put an end to their party [and to this
> > great nation]. The great majority of blacks have also
> > decided to vote for Obama. Only a fool does not know that
> > their support for him is racially driven.
> >
> > Let us call a spade a spade [No pun intended]. This is
> > racism, pure and simple. The truth is that, while everyone
> > carries a misconceived collective guilt towards blacks for
> > wrongs done centuries ago by a bygone people to a bygone
> > people, the blacks carry a collective rancor, enmity or
> > vendetta towards non-blacks, and to this day want to
> > "stand up" to the white man. They seem to be stuck
> > in 19th century [encouraged by race baiters like Al
> > Sharpton, Jesse Jackson and others].
> >
> > The downside of this is, that if Obama turns out to be the
> > disaster I predict, he will cause widespread resentment
> > among the whites. The blacks are unlikely to give up their
> > support of their man. Cultic mentality is pernicious and
> > unrelenting. They will dig their heads deeper in the sand
> > and blame Obama's detractors of racism. This will cause
> > a backlash among the whites. The white supremacists will
> > take advantage of the discontent and they will receive
> > widespread support. I predict that in less than four years,
> > racial tensions will increase to levels not seen since the
> > turbulent 1960s. Obama will set the clock back decades.
> > America is the bastion of freedom. The peace of the world
> > depends on the strength of America, and its weakness
> > translates into the triumph of terrorism and victory of
> > rogue nations. It is no wonder that Ahmadinejad, Hugo
> > Chavez, the Maoist Castroists, the Hezbollah, the Hamas, the
> > lawyers of the Guantanamo terrorists, and virtually all
> > sworn enemies of America are so thrilled by the prospect of
> > "their man" in the White House. America is on the
> > verge of destruction. There is no insanity greater than
> > electing a pathological narcissist as president.
Now. I quote from this vomitous post for three reasons: One is obvious. Look at the webste http://samvak.tripod.com. Note the part where he says "I am not a mental health professional". Not that this stops him from laying on a psychologic diagnosis on someone he has never met. Two, for those unaware, if you think sheer bigotry has been eliminated from the body politic, think again; how cute that they "call a spade a spade, no pun intended". We are doubtless all aware of the pschologic symptom of projection, that is imputing a deeply held flaw in yourself to someone else, as a way of dealing with it. Finally, I post this as a motivator for people to get out the vote tomorrow; I think it not hyperbole to say that there is rottenness in our country that must be decisively repudiated.
And, as a veteran, I didn't deploy to make the country safe for scum like this 'Ali Sina'. I just accepted it as the inevitable by-product.