REPLIES TO THE CURRENT QUESTION

Our question last week was:

President Obama is in his third month as president.  From what you've seen, what frightens you most, or encourages you the most, about his presidency?

Here are your answers.  The name of a writer is included only if he or she actually placed a name at the end of the message.  Otherwise, we assume the writer wished anonymity and "name withheld" is inserted.

We received only two replies to our question, reprinted here:

I am not encouraged. Times ten.

Many things frighten me about this presidency. Most have been discussed at length here at Urgent Agenda. But here is the thing that worries me the most:  POTUS Obama is a narcissist.

There is a thing called narcissistic rage. This occurs when the narcissist finds himself failing at receiving the adoration and attention that he strives for and is so good at getting. When his audience rejects him or his ideas he can easily fall into a rage and become self destructive and revengeful. We have seen BHO's thin skin, the "don't waste your question..." remark at a press conference for instance. He lives in a very tightly controlled 'set' (teleprompter?) that he has manufactured.

In a crisis, when the 'scene' is just not going his way and the audience begins to throw rotten fruit at him, his carefully crafted "president play' could very well fall apart. That is no big deal if the principal is a three year old (a natural narcissist) throwing a tantrum, but a three year old adult with nukes, a military and hoards of believers is another matter entirely.

James Birdsall

Frightens might be too strong a word, so far, but "concerns", "troubles" or "pisses me off" would all work.  

Elitism and the clear sense of superiority coupled with an almost incredible insensitivity to the past, both recent and distant, put President Obama on track to join Jimmy Carter in the group of intelligent idiots who managed to fool enough of the people some of the time to get elected.  His ability to say the wrong thing at the wrong time internationally is without equal in my experience.His determination to preemptively surrender the US position around the world, be it good or bad, is the other significant troubling aspect of his early days.

Domestically, his arrogance in dealing with his financial support base will come back to haunt him.  He will find that they have long memories and deep pockets.  It would take a far lengthier discussion than available here to delineate the troubling aspects of his domestic agenda, but, as near as I can tell, the only constituency that hasn't been offended in some way is the "undocumented worker on welfare" segment of our society.  They are doing very well, thank you very much.

What encourages me?  Every day that passes brings us closer to the presidential election in 2012.

Don Newell
Vancouver, WA