Emperor Barack Obama: Mandating Morality

For many on the right and left, Barack Obama’s current stand on abortion funding is a matter of morality, infinitely more important than anyone’s election or re-election.   For the moment, however, let’s view the issue exclusively through the prism of the President’s dark-triad personality that is characterized by narcissism, psychopathy, and Machiavellianism.

Since abortion is all about values, one cannot point to any definitive, objective data to resolve the searing social dilemma with which we struggle.  At the level of the individual, however, the question of abortion is deeply enmeshed within the core of our personalities: who and what we are and what we stand for.  Because abortion is so personal, I believe that no one should “tell” anyone else what they “should” believe about abortion, provided, and this is my essential point, that the individual’s position authentically represents that person’s true beliefs.

Enter Barack Obama.  His narcissism is such that he knows not only what is best for him, but also what is best for every American citizen.  He truly believes that he has the righteous authority to impose his will on the nation, and that after his policies are enacted we all will realize that the Emperor had been correct.  (Recall his health care “mandate.”) 

Obama, the psychopath, is not an axe murderer, but a man so devoid of empathy and emotional insight that neither shame nor guilt plays any part in enabling him to consider the inalienable moral rights of those whose opinions diverge from his.  Barack Obama comforts himself by readily recalling all the wickedness of America–past racism, Imperialism, blah, blah, blah.  Like his wife, the inimitable Michelle Antoinette Obama, Barry Barack Hussein Soetoro Obama conveniently forgets the blood, treasure, and tears that Americans have shed when fighting for, feeding, clothing, and comforting people from virtually every major nation on earth   

Finally, Barack Obama, the Machiavellian, evidences a superior capacity to conveniently amend his rhetoric whenever his highness perceives national outrage so intense that it threatens his essential self-serving goals, such as his re-election.  He likely comforts himself by conspiring with his supporters to find some subterfuge by which later to get what he must publically concede.  

So, what about the current abortion funding issue?   Since he knows that the policy is costing him, in true dark-triad personality style, Obama has adopted a widely-publicized strategy of policy revision.  Like a snake, he slithers forward, halts, and tastes the wind before proceeding.  He will be checking his focus groups and opinion polls in order to decide which next move is best for HIM.

As of this moment, the media suggests that Barack Obama is “considering” revisions to the abortion funding mandate.  Time for the administration to pause in order to see who says what, how loudly, and the potential affect on Obama’s chances to remain at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue after January 20, 2013.