Quote from jem:
By the way to defend Obama on this one.
Narcisicism is the buzz word of the oprah p.c. crowd...
When hurled at successful people its usually hurled by jealous people with an inflated opinion of their own self worth wondering why that person who achieved something seems confident fulfilled and charismatic.
Obama, Woods, other athletes... These guys have achieved... they kicked ass. What is not for them to like about themselves. They get to walk on a different plane of existence. They nurtured their talent, executed a game plan and kicked ass.
In my opinion - if you are top 100 in the world in something... you have a right to think you are better than the rest. If you are president of the United States. You kicked every one of our asses in realizing our stated 4th grade goal. .... why would I expect him or her to live like an average person.
For instance do we really think Tiger woods goes to therapy thinking he is all screwed up? should he feel that way?
next time someone calls a succesful person a narcissicist - wonder if he or she is part of the "get something for nothing from the government crowd." you will soon see part of the invidious pattern. I am seeing it happening in school to one of my sons. he does well in a few things... but he does not want to stand out so his friends like him.
When I was young the middle of the pack wanted to be like the achiever.
Yes, I read that passage earlier. It shows the good doctor for the thug that he is, hiding behind professional credentials to justify his political (and other) biases. He is a repugnant attention whore overtly lacking in integrity. And, therefore, a Republican darling.Quote from Ricter:
He may believe it but he hasn't supported it. His entire essay is, at best, correlation as causation, and his variables are themselves generalitiies. His "argument" is garbage.
"Obamaâs educational experience parallels that of many of my classmates. While we, the majority sweated through organic chemistry, physiology, graduate-level courses in literature, advanced composition, and tutorial reading with the late Prof. Bergen Evans, African-American classmates showed up at their leisure, sent for tests if they cared to, read none of the 15 novels in 10 weeks, submitted no papers whatever, and passed with flying colors."
All of his "majority" are not African-American? All of his majority "sweated"? None of the African-Americans worked? None at all? None of them read even one novel?
Bullshit.