Take off your bedroom slippers.

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I understand from what I've been told that angry people don't make good leaders.

Entry #360

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Avatar Rick G -
#1
Watch this vid with the sound off. He points his finger 33 times during the 48 second clip. Reminds me of another "charismatic" speaker from our past...
Avatar time*treat -
#2
People in crowds respond well to that. The (few) soft-spoken presidents in recent memory were one-termers.
Avatar jarasan -
#3
This explains everything from USNews & etc.:
Shrink: Obama Suffers 'Father Hunger'
October 14, 2011 RSS Feed Print

The abandonment by his father when he was an infant and by his stepfather at age 10 has left President Obama with a "father hunger" that influences everything from why he distances himself from pushy supporters, to his strong desire to compromise and bring people together, to his aggressive campaign to kill Osama bin Laden, says a psychoanalytic book out next week. In Obama on the Couch, George Washington University professor Justin Frank also reveals that Obama has spent much of his life seeking out father figures, but most, like Rev. Jeremiah Wright and Vice President Biden, have disappointed him. "Obama searched for a father, for someone to relate to who could help him—a strong man who knew what to do," Frank writes.

[Check out photos of Obama behind the scenes.]

This is Frank's second psychoanalytical book about a president. While a sympathetic look at Obama, it follows Bush on the Couch, a sharply critical analysis that suggested then President George W. Bush was disturbed. In that book, he predicted that someone like Obama—"completely different," "someone not ... white"—would succeed Bush. What the nation ended up with, however, is "an almost tragic figure," Frank writes.

The general theme is that Obama has been affected both by being biracial and by the abandonment of his two dads during his childhood. The result is that he is overly protective of his own nuclear family, desires greatly to see national unity, and yet harbors anger that he took out on bin Laden. [Vote now: Will Obama be a one-term president?]

Take for example Obama's earlier willingness to compromise with Republicans, upsetting his liberal base. Here Frank cites the negative influence of his parents, especially his mom, who often pressed him to do better in school. "He hates being pushed by supporters who want him to make good on his promises of universal healthcare and care for the poor, something that represents his mother and how she pushed him to study harder," Frank writes. And when he ignores his base, he is emulating his father, expressing annoyance but not worried they will desert him.

As for bin Laden, Frank writes that Obama's inner anger emerged: "He was able to pursue his action against bin Laden in part because bin Laden offered a displacement figure for Obama's rage toward his own parents." [See a slide show of 10 issues driving Obama's re-election campaign.]

Frank also calls Obama scared of the type of radical change he advocated in 2008. "He wants to be the father who makes change safe, the person he has waited for his entire life."
Avatar rdgrnr -
#4
Here's what black people in America don't know about Obama:
He has absolutely no respect for them whatsoever. He uses them to get elected and then joins his white buddies on the golf course.
He doesn't come from their line of people. He has no connection to slavery and really couldn't care less about it. He looks down his nose at people who are descended from slaves. He sees himself an aristocrat. Obama cares about Obama. He considers American blacks nothing more than suckers that he can buy with welfare and food stamps. He doesn't even bother showing them any respect. He knows they are bought and paid for and they'll never leave that democrat plantation.
Avatar louise black -
#5
I am shock to hear you people "who are not Black" speak for Blacks on an issue like this I would never speak on issues like this about White American, cause I never been in their shoes. Whose to say what thesident is feeling and one thing you are wrong in every way
Avatar louise black -
#6
Whose to say what the President is feeling ,one thing for sure he has a connection to all Blacks being we all originated from Africa. There is no doubt he had relatives who were slaves as well.Beside why are we talking about what a Black President is doing for poor Blacks. What's a White President did for poor Whites.Will you give the "plantation" crap you ditto head got from that piece of S$$T Limbaugh a rest. That trash have out live his worth!Good day all! Iam sure there lot of LPM that could do witout his talking points.
Avatar jarasan -
#7
I am blacker than Obama!   You don't know $h1t louise. That is an angry f'ing marxist race baiting on video,   he is calling blacks lazy, unmotivated, and tired.   Wake TFU you are being used.

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