[VIDEO UPDATES, including a NEW Obamaism] Listening to Obama’s “Speech” on CNN, I am stunned by his flat affect

i cant listen to him i immediatley turn the channel if i hear or see him kind of like i used to do with bush …….

Barack is better on the big screen, he doesn’t do well on the small one. Why, I don’t know, maybe he lacks passion, maybe he’s tired and wants to go home, but he does not play well when he meets with voters and he looks passionless on television. I guess he needs to be more scripted?

EVERYONE: There is something SERIOUSLY WRONG with a person who cannot convey emotion in a key situation like that.

He is speaking on behalf of a man who IS DYING.

He is speaking to the entire world, because all the media are giving this free full play.

And his speaking style makes him come across as BORED as if he were cleaning out his desk drawer.

THIS MAN IS A SHELL. There is nothing inside him.

He is truly a creation of David Axelrod’s marketing genius.

And nothing more.

He is not involved. He doesn’t care.

Perfect description of Obama. He truly couldn’t care less about the people. He just doesn’t have it in him to run to serve, to run for the people.

He is running for him. It is a “dare game within himself”.
Obama inner demons still asking him to prove to himself.

Obama is like one of those easter eggs,
all wrapped up in those pretty attractive brillant colors on the outside yet hollow on the inside.

Maybe he knows something that we don’t, and he is a little “depressed”.

Maybe he should have taken a lesson from Hillary on how to shed fake tears.

He lacks the common touch. He doesn’t care about anyone but himself. His movement is all about him.

That’s why he keeps making those “gaffes,” “Hello, Sunshine,” “I’ve been to all 57 states,” because he doesn’t care about anyone but himself. Hillary never forgets where she is or to whom she’s talking. That requires effort, empathy and caring, even when you’re tired.

It would be one thing if he were upset and couldn’t speak. Maybe his “meds” are turned up too high.

There’s a troll here, dangling bait…DON’T TAKE IT! DON’T FEED THE TROLL.

It’s here because it knows they can’t win without us. And it’s killing them.

I see my comment was deleted. That’s unfortunate…opposing yet civil viewpoints are the essence of discourse.

Obama gave a speech that was not a best and not his worst…why does it need to be anything more than that.

Why attempt to treat this speech as a symptom of some deep psychological problem?

I miss the old, more reasoned and insightful version of this blog. Pity.

I suppose this comment will be deleted as well. That’s a rotten shame.

OMG I didnt even have to watch it to know that it was one of the greatest speeches in history.

I had a tingling sensation running up my leg to the crack of my ass.

I started to faint just thinking about watching him speak, but i was told they already had a fainter set to go so i opted to save my leg tingling and fainting for the next speech.

THe man is truly transcendant. He shows all of us what small insignificant petty creatures we are and how we would be elevated if we let go of our smallness, our cash, our suvs and fries and 72 degree heating in the winter to be more like what he says we shoudl be like.

I was so moved but what he said that i was unable to watch or listen to that i am going to sponsor a hammas terrorst transfer student for the next year.

Be right back…need to go make some koolaid.

susan -

i don’t think it’s that.

i think it’s because he is very emotionally stressed right now.

this campaign has ground him down.

he has never had to face this kind of grueling regimein before in his life.

i’ll be surprised if he makes it to september without an even more obvious display of emotional stress.

i think this is one reason axelrod and plouffe have tried everything they could to drive clinton out of the race since february.

they know their horse is a short-sprint quarter horse

not a long-track thoroughbred racer like senator clinton.

i’s love to ask david axelerod what medications obama is taking right now and why he has returned to smoking.

n.b. i said returned to “smoking”, not “smirking”, he’s never quite smirking.

I CANNOT WATCH HIM LEAVE ALONE HEAR HIS SPEACH.

HE CANNOT EVEN DEBATE WITH HILLARY.

THIS GUY IS PHONY

The speech was terrific. Perhaps you should remove the Obama filter from your ears?

Susan, I’ve said it before but here it is again. Obama’s a classic sociopath. Read this description.

http://www.mcafee.cc/Bin/sb.html

Obama is a sociopath, I’ve thought that for a long time now.

Ob is in SHOCK. He knows what’s coming out, and
he can feel defeat at hand.

Obama didn’t even pronounce the name of the University correctly. It’s already on You Tube…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOaKdQ3_Ris

As an ex-smoker I would say this is a man frequently lighting up. For some, smoking can completely blunt all emotion. I went to a week long program to quit and when I left for home they spent half the day warning us all that we would feel emotionally out of control because we hadn’t had access to our true emotions for a very long time. It felt wild at first. I’m not for having an emotionally numb president now that I personally know exactly what that entails.

Does any one have the link to the video of this particular speech?

Of course he’s “flat”. Narcissists don’t have feelings for other people.

Since Hillary’s statement Green Lighting the Assassination of Senator Obama was made, all doubt that the Clintons are anything but full Servants of the very same people that murdered both President John F. Kennedy and Senator Robert Kennedy it is obvious to all but the willfully Blind who is truly the People’s Choice. Those that claim to be Intell Insiders can be safely assumed that by their chants that they are in support of another “Crazed Lone Gunman” theory.

I noticed this early on. After the Super Tuesday primaries I believe it was. Sen. Clinton gave a eloquent, heartfelt speech and if she was reading it was not noticeable. Obama’s head was going from side to side like watching a tennis match as he read from the teleprompter without much feeling. As others have said, I can’t watch or listen to him any longer. I’d rather watch the Weather Channel.

Obama is a worse narcissist than the Chimp. Heck, even the Chimp shows loyalty to his people and people in his life (in fact the Chimp is loyal to a fault).

NO OBAMA. The WORST presidential candidate in recent history.

If Democrats nominate Obama, I will no longer a Democrat. Period.

The Answer To Most Of You All Question,Obama Is A Radical Muslim In Hiding.My Problem With This Whole Issue Is How In The Hell Did He Convince 17 Million People To Believe In His BS,And Even Caucassian’s,Because He Did Not Get This Far With My People Alone.It Were Obvious To Me Whenever Mr Obama Opened His Big Mouth That He Were Full Of Shit,This Were The First Time, So I Ask Again How Others Missed This Observation.

I agree he is a sociopath, but even more so, a narcissist to the highest degree. I listened to his speeches in Puerto Rico and somewhere in Florida for a few minutes, and he was reading the whole thing in the same monotone that you described. Look at where he was…P.R. loves Hillary, Massachusetts loves Hillary, Florida loves Hillary….therefore, they are not worth any effort from him because they don’t love HIM more.

I am wondering if he is not depressed because he knows that Hillary will not quit AND his only chance of getting what he wants, the nomination, is if she quite. I wouldn’t be surprised if he knows there is something about to break into the public scene that is devestating to his campaign.

Whatever it is that is going on, it is NOT GOOD.

I feel confident that if he believed that he truly had the nomination in hand, he would be able to fake some emotion for this speech.

Barrack couldn’t even pronounce Wesleyan’s name properly. Check it out on You Tube….

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOaKdQ3_Ris

I agree he is a narcissist, which explains the flat affect. He reminds me so much of George W. Bush–the sense of entitlement, the boredom at having to work on things that are difficult, the exploitation of vulnerable populations in order to serve his own purpose–he is the very definition of a narcissist.

But the talk in my household this morning over coffee was the stuff Larry wrote about yesterday concerning is radical Muslin cousin that he is in touch with regularly. I am speechless. Judgment? Perhaps he shares his cousin’s view of the role of women in society.

Where is the link to Obama what he said on cnn?Can someone post it here?

NQ Friends:

Desperate Trolls around: please refrain from feeding them. Use your energy somewhere else; they are really not worth it.

Susan, your assessment is dead-on, which explains why he leaves so many deflated, demoralized contributors and surrogates behind on his climb up the ladder.

I am really surprised that there is no link to the great one speech as yet he must of not come off that great because the Obamanuts have no links up.

Can’t wait to see this one

He is NOT beating her, it is only Zogby, who is in the tank for Barack who claims he is doing anything but sinking like a stone. Americans know he is a LIAR, that he in fact did know Wright was a raving racist and he approved of his beliefs and agreed with them. He even says he is his MENTOR. He is a fraud, claiming to be a “uniter” when all he has done is DIVIDE our party in his effort to take it over with his radical leftist ideals. The Democratic base is MODERATE. We will not support him in the fall. He does not show an ability to close the deal, Hillary won all the swing states and is AHEAD in the popular vote and the electoral vote. Obamabots seems to have forgotten their hue and cry of the early promary days of “the popular vote counts” and have retreated to hide behind “pledged” delegates. These delegates have NOT VOTED. The ones that voted PRE Wright are likely to CHANGE their minds. Hillary is doing the RIGHT THING in defending the voters of FL and MI while Barack has done all he can to disenfrachise them by legally blocking a revote. He could care LESS about them voting, only because he knows he will LOSE.
We need a QUALIFIED candidate, not an arrogant fraud who is so afraid of debating Hillary, all he can do is dismiss her like the sexist pig that he is. He has NOT ONCE stood up and spoken out about the sexism driving the media and neither has the DNC. What a bunch of jerks, how dare they even suggest Hillarywould take the VP spot when she is clearly more qualifed than Barack the lying bigot.

I’ve noticed his moodiness, petulance, bursts of over-sensitivity and the flat affect, too. He seemed literally bored with the last 2 debates. He’s clearly not impassioned by ideas.

I saw him after the debate, energized in front of a huge crowd. He’s fed by crowd energy only.

I don’t read a lot into this. That’s his strength. I’ve never been privileged to meet and talk with Hillary in a small group. Clearly, from the people she’s won over, I trust the reports that her personal rapport in smaller groups is HER strength. She wins people over quickly.

But…..just my own question about Obama. I wonder if he’s just not suited for the presidency. That’s not a “big crowd” job. It’s pretty much one-on-one or endless meetings and lots of settings that would make a debate look fun.

I always think people fail when they shoot for goals which, temperamentally, really aren’t their cuppa tea.

WOW This man has shown his real message of change.
Not one of hope but one of debt.

Is his campaign this bad to do what I am thinking? I don’t know how much media attention there is on this funeral and who the person who died is. But in light of the attention and warping of Hillary’s RFK remark I wonder if highlighting Obama at a funeral is some kind of subliminal Axelrod message? I’ll take off my tinfoil hat now and welcome opinions as to whether or not I should seek psychiatric treatment.

I think he is just tired of the whole process. Running for President has been too much work for him. I mean, up to this point in his life, he hasn’t done much work. Instead of recognizing it for the privilege it is, Obama is bored and tired with the whole thing. I have heard him complain time and time again about the schedule, the stops and the constant speeches.

You know, the Clintons love politics, love the contact, love the game. It energizes them. I think Obama just wants it be over. Can you imagine him at 3:00 a.m., or 3 p.m., or noon (if he is awake). . . .

“Aye, aye Captain. It is the blackness of the whale that stupifies, mesmerizes and enchants.”

I really believe there are people who love it, them some get in over their heads. Remember when, in a debate with Kerry, Bush was quoted as saying (about 8 times!), being President is “hard work.” I think, like Bush, Obama doesn’t want hard work. He walked into the Illinois senate because his opponent was caught in a scandal. He did nothing there for his constituents. Same with U.S. Senate. When pressed about his ability to perform as President and about his limited knowledge, he admitted he would appoint experts to take care of everything.
The Clintons know where the buck stops, and that the President has no excuse for being uniformed. They feed on politics and current events like it is there daily manna. I feel the greatest testament to Hill and Bill is that Arkansas (my state) and New York are both big supporters–it attests to their ability and desire to serve their constituents. They are servants.

So Obama the Tabula Rasa is also Obama the Mensa Rasa? Great–another Bush. Only dumber, if that were possible. We need one of those like we need a third World War. However, with Clueless McBeMyFriend, he’ll be so busy kissing despot ass that he won’t notice when the new cold war goes hot on us. Take Russian and Chinese in school, kids…you might need them!

I wonder how he’ll do tomorrow at the “town hall” with VETS??? I hope some of them hammer him with some tough questions

See my post on how this whole thing could turn into something dicey if it crashed….

“Yup! Obama Doing an “Invitation-Only” Event for Vets on Memorial Day…and Richardson Will Appear…”
http://insightanalytical.wordpress.com

Personally, I think this whole business here in Las Cruces too political for Memorial Day…

All Hail to The Messiah from Kenya!

His words are gold, his touch miraculous, his farts a pleasure to the senses. Even his half-eaten waffle is a family treasure.

Thanks for reporting on this, Susan. I would not have heard it, otherwise. Did he forget where he was, again? It sounds like he said Wellsley, or Wellsville? I thinks that being POTUS would be just too stressful for the man. If he can’t handle 24/7 from his adoring masses without being addled, how is he going to handle 24/7 of our country’s business? I shudder to think of this frightening scenario.

I wouldn’t call Obama a sociopath; that is probably inaccurate and cruel. What he is is a puppet for others, like our own George W. Bush.

I’m so thankful that Bill Cosby spoke at MY graduation 15 years ago… I would’ve gotten pissed if Barky was the “fill in” at it.

Actually, there is nothing different about this speech from most others of his I have heard, including hearing him in person twice. He is a lecturer, not an orator.

This talk is surprising only to those who haven’t actually listened to his speeches or who have heard only snippets.

This is SOP for Obama.

He could not pronounce the name of the university correctly? He has absolutely no respect for these students. This is truly disgusting.

Right graduate then don’t run after a big house and money go help the poor unfortunate blacks like Hillary did, help all the minorities that you can find then when you sacrificed all your youth and try to run for President the very same blacks will turn around and kick you in the butt if your are running against a black nominee.

Fly off to Africa sacrifice once again, go heal the world. why did not Obama go off to his fathers home land and help them if he knows they need all this help? I wonder if he will encourage his daughters to all these acts of service, he sure can talk about it but his track record is really weak in this regard.

Well we know he also likes Pokistan.

Did he tell these students that the only way they will ever purchase a mansion is with the assistance of an indicted political fixer and slumlord named Antoin “Tony” Rezko? Did Obama mention that one must become a tool of an indicted political fixer and slumlord in order to climb the political and social ladders? How is this man a role model?

Obama’s new message to the white graduates is go save the world, join the peace corp, go to Africa, help the needy don’t seek the material things of life sacrifice is good for the soul that will make you a better person, poor, hungry and polite.

To the black graduates he will tell them reach for the stars, go into the cooperate world, hit the board rooms, become CEO, Bankers, Doctors and who knows even president.

This is the new message of Obama to the young people of the USA, seems like Obama is trying to reverse the rolls now, I hope people will understand exactly where he is coming from.

So, besides calling him names and having a few of you call her names, what are you all going to do in November if Hillary Clinton does not manage to get this nomination? Will you send the Democratic Party a message that you won’t support the party and its empty suit candidate? Think now. If you stay home, you can’t shift the election. If you hold your nose and vote Democratic in November, you send a message that that you will lap up everything the DNC and the media have thrown at you. So, you can’t stand the sound of his voice. Big deal. Turn off the t.v. and radio but you’ve accomplished nothing. Consider the option of sending the Democratic Party a message in November. And, of course, if Hillary Clinton is on the ballot — as President, not v.p. — cast your vote for her. She is the best candidate for POTUS we’ve had in many years.

Obama is now power-drunk. He now believes everything the media has said about him. He now believes that everything is about him, and even when his name is not mentioned, somehow everything is an allusion to Obama.

He has caught the celebrity disease, but it’s worse, because real power could be given to this narcissistic sicko.

In a little over 5 months from today, we will have a POTUS-elect.

I have believed for a few months now that Obama is a malignant narcissist as described by Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. (http://samvak.tripod.com.) They are incapable of empathy, emotions are shallow at best, and the vision they have of themselves is grandiose and unrealistic. They rewrite the past week to week. They come to believe their lies. And of course, they are always blaming someone else for their problems.

Wow, read today’s Jake Tapper article on Obama:

What the FARC was Obama talking about?

(Obama is a one man gaffe machine.)

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/05/what-the-farc-w.html

Along with the other astute comments above, why is it that Obama, who has NEVER lived in the South, gotten away with using a Southern accent without anyone focusing on that? Let Hillary use just even a BIT of one, after having lived in ARKANSAS all those years, and people are all OVER her.

I have to confess – I simply could not watch all of this video. I have the Obama Alelrgy, too.

I’m so depressed. Thank god I can find people on the net who see through this guy. Everyone I know here in San Francisco is a Hillary-hater. This is the first time in my life I can’t discuss politics with my friends or family.

This is kind of off topic but, I just watched the republicans latest 527 video of Obama. They have a serviceman in Iraq, saying that Obama never came to see them. What’s up with that, maybe he can’t look in the eye of the people who have to fight his brothers of the Muslim World?Could it be that? Why in the world would he not want to see and speak with the troops? I know he wants to get rid of all our Nuc’s, doesn’t want us to use Nuc’s against Al Queda, so it stands to reason he would not want to see our troops!

Obama is not fit to run our Country and should be fully investigated for his ties to Terror!

I am sooo depressed right now I can’t begin to tell you. Teddy asked me to “fill his shoes”. Why did he ask me to do this? I just can’t be excited about doing a favor for anyone except Rezko. I am going to half to get up there and defend his “Middleclassnes”, which I have hated for 20 years.

What is really getting me down is I am required to say I can’t “Fill Teddy’s shoes” and he is a hero of mine! I mean, imagine that! Me, saying a white person is a civil rights hero…damn!

You see it’s just that my ego driven driven inferiority complex makes me sound so flat when I actually have to come across as sincere. I can’t play the “identity game”. God I don’t want to be here!

What can I talk about? That I was born when his brother said “ask what you can do”…hows that line go? Shit I forgot it! I guess I can talk about Selma..you think these stupid colledge kids did what I did and paid someone else to do their homework?

What if they ask about when I said I was not qualified to be president?…or that I agreed with GW on the Iraq war? Where is this place? I am so not looking forward to Denver. I feel like such a helpless fool. I must sound like an idiot!

How do you think TED feels this is for his wifes daughter who is graduating

WOW.On the outset, I am an immigrant from a war-torn country to this becautiful safe haven. I think it is great to live in a country where freedoms set in the constitution allows you to say anything that comes to your mind, and technology that allows you to spread it to as many people as possible. BUT I must also add that freedom must come with some responsibility. Every war and internal division has come from some careless talk, an abuse of some freedom. I am shocked to read all these negative views directed at a single individual over issues for which no one has no authority, i.e. ones emotions. BUt in the name of freedom, you are entitled to your opinions. I just hope that we shall be careful to learn from some of use who have seen similar careless words forment division and chaos of unprecedented proportions that leads to a total disintegration of unity and the very fabric that had allowed the freedoms in the first place. America is a country with people of diverse religions beliefs or no beliefs at all. To vilify someone for their religions beliefs based on actions of other people from teh same religion is pure laziness. Read your history and be careful to ensure that your words contribute to a better tomorrow. Shalom.

Bambi has a serious identity problem that causes him to be the empty shell he is. He wants to be white upper class( he has done all the “right” things re: education mansion , camp for his kids) but alas when he looks in the mirror or anyone looks at him they see a black man. Nothing wrong with that at all. We are who we are and its best to accept that …but not bambi that’s why he and Meeeeesecelle are self loathing..I have heard of self loathing Jews they exist in my family but I have never seen a self loathing black man until bambi.
He doesn’t like himself or his situation so it is easy to feel nothing and just want to have attention from the people from whom he is different. He uses us the white people .Both obamas act as though we are the unwashed masses….who needs them or their sick attitude..Hopefully they will be gone soon.

As the daughter of a diagnoses narcissist and the ex-wife of one, believe me…Obama is a sociopath.

I only regret that houseguests thwarted me from drigin down to Wesleyan and protesting Obama there.

We must interrupt the media-swoon.

I must be missing something, but I watched the first couple of minutes and it seemed fine to me.

As usual, you are on target.

My psychoanalyst sister heard Obama’s speech, and guys he doesn’t have the clinical condition termed “flat affect” that you all claim. She worked with people having it and says he doesn’t. She says he’s just exhausted. (And she’s a Hillary supporter.) So don’t go crazy-demonizing here. I do agree with those who have trouble listening to him. He has a lectury tone, and my brain just shuts down, one chamber at a time, waking up occasionally when something catches the fancy, to fall asleep again.

He did a favor for Ted Kennedy. He didn’t have to do this commencement speech. You people are pathetic. Get a life

My goodness, I can’t believe the insane comments directed against the next president of the United States. I am ashamed to think you people are my fellow Americans. Did any of you bozos take note:
This is not a campaign speech.

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OT:Phoenix has landed!!!!!

Well, I am glad he was so darn B A D!!

After all, he was speaking at Hillary’s Alma
Mater and, to me, it was very much a slap in
her face, very much intentional. Some people
will be unkind to the end.

Sorry, Mr. Kennedy, maybe you asked the wrong
person to speak in your stead…..?

You would have ended by being looked upon as
very noble, had you done the right thing….

BTW,

The above is said very TACTFULLY and DIPLOMATICALLY.

No one wants to hear what I REALLY think!

Uppty,

Um…Sorry we don’t want him back in Chicago. How about Hawaii? Kenya..think he would do well there.

Obama said they should do public service and not focus on “the big house and the nice suits and all the other things that our money culture says you should buy.”

Too bad he doesn’t realize that we all don’t have bribing slum-lord friends like Rezko who can help us buy that big house even when we don’t have enough money.

You guys do realize what you’re doing, right? You spend an unhealthy amount of time bashing a person and his family or grumbling about how another person is being treated unfairly. When was the last time you celebrated or took joy in something your candidate or her family has done? When was the last time a post here made you feel really really good? You’re so caught up in your own bitterness that you’re not even allowing yourselves to enjoy a truly historic moment in America. An African American and a woman are running to be U.S. president-and they’re both doing well! Wow!

Susan, you’re absolutely right, Obama has a flat affect. He is not connected emotionally to what he’s saying. There’s no empathy in his words.
My friends and I have discussed it for months. We find it absolutely chilling.

He’s like a robot, somebody on auto pilot. The gestures and inflections he makes appear scripted, there’s a slight delay between the words and the hint of emotion, as if he’s taking stage directions.

*yawn*

Why, when Obama tells of his life story, he has to read it from notes? It is as if he has no idea what his real life story is….

empty suit.
empty suit from Manchuria.
mr. hopey-uniter is a scary puppet who thinks he’s real. Zbig. B.’s hands on the strings. even bigger fish behind the curtains. bamboozlement all around folks.

watch and learn, people. it’s wake up time.

dels and super dels don’t fail us now. fight the corruption and the selling of democracy.
the people’s candidate, Hillary Clinton is the only one who will beat John McCain in the GE. this is FACT.

if obama get’s the fixed nomination nod, THE PEOPLE will fight back and elect Mr. McCain. even though he’s Zbig’s boy too, it will be worth it see the obamacan/elite dems get one hell of a good come uppance for destroying the dem party.

McCain and obama owned by the same gang anywyas, so what the hell….i’ll go with Johnny. he’s put the time in, and may have a few good surprises up his sleeve yet.

as i said…..we watch and learn.

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