Er.. does that make it any better?
No, it doesn't. However, I don't approve of people attempting to use that as a misdirection tactic to draw attention away from Obama's shortcomings, which is, after all, why it was brought up.
Well, that makes three people I guess. Actually, I came about the notion while reading
Bush on the Couch. I slowly started to realize a pattern with Obama overtime, including his tendency to use Bush-like tactics, but reading the book gave me a lens to focus with. Not that that was my introduction to psychology, mind you, but noticing things and then putting them together is a whole different game... the latter takes time.
But if my thoughts are correct, and Obama has many of the same emotional incapacities as Bush, then its not going to matter that he is more intellectually capable... in fact, it might make it worse. And as for "change"... its hard to see where the "he and it" stop and begin. Is there really a difference? Not in the minds of most people, I would imagine. If someone represents change, than one assumes they are the vehicle to deliver it, correct? Otherwise, vote for someone else. If however, his only point really is that he merely represents change, then one must ask, how. Is it just because of his race? Because he is young? Isn't that shallow, if either is true?
I merely brought it up to demonstrate similar patterns of behavior. It's obvious that Bush's kids were never told how to act, what is expected of them, etc. If Obama's kids are similar, and I think they seem to be, since they seem to get away with alot and say whatever they want, it indicates to me that they have similar parenting styles, which is indicative of similar personalities. I didn't bring it up to be mean or vindictive, I brought it up as a side point, and it somehow became a main item. As for the dog... Obama himself said as much, on a couple of occasions, and Michelle on a couple more... Hell, even the kids might have said it.
I admit, it limps, but I'm not a professional, and I don't have time to write a novel. That being said, my purpose is to demonstrate that Obama might come loaded with all the severe personality problems that have made W such a bad President. And I disagree that 9/11 had anything to do with Bush's flaws. It merely allowed them to manifest in his need to be the big dude, his sadistic enjoyment of other's misery, his disrespect for people who really are capable of putting themselves in harms way for the greater good, etc.
I simply don't see the need for a speech in front of 100,000 people (as opposed to "just" 20,000) other than ego, and the desire to wow people with a show of force.
And Muslims, and his staffers who were disrespectful to Muslims, and Scarlett Johansson, and his own "white grandmother" (one could write a paper on his identification of her alone, or lack there of), and, and, and... when it happens a few times, its interesting... but it has clearly become a pattern.
I sincerely appreciate your willingness to approach this without calling my sanity into question.
