But yeah, I, I mean I grew up with somebody that I basically think is, has narcissistic personality disorder. So to me, my understanding of that disorder is strongly influenced by my own personal experiences. In my mind, they're very difficult sort of, determine between them. Because their outward behavior is very similar. They're both going to lie, they're both going to seem very confident and very sure of themselves.
The narcissist though, he thinks he's the same as everyone else, just better. I think the sociopath has, for the most part, a profound sense of being different from other people. Even if he doesn't acknowledge it immediately, you know as a child or a teenager, eventually he'll come to acknowledge he is different from everybody else. And it's just apples and oranges to him. The narcissist will think its oranges and oranges, and he's the biggest and sweetest and best orange that anybody's ever had. And that all the oranges pale in comparison.
Rob Kall: Okay. So I ask about Drew Peterson, how about Obama? What do you think of President Obama?
M.E. Thomas: President Obama is an interesting character to me. He, I think he definitely has, has had a tendency to simplify things. And think that, you know, it's it's a matter of just doing this, and you just don't. For instance we don't record people's phone conversations, stuff like that, or I'm going to shut down Guantanemo, or you know thinking that his presidency is going to be the most transparent presidency.
And the, the way that he was elected, particularly in 2008 was such a cult of personality. Way of getting elected. There were, you know these words that meant nothing, hope, right? They, they're very manipulative, and he was very successful at doing that.
Is it because it was his master plan to do this? Or did he just happen to, and this happens sometimes you know, in a world of, of odds, even one in a million chance of something happening is going to happen right? People win the lottery every day, so it's possible that he just stumbled upon this being a winning combination. He happened to have the right characteristics, and he happened to, he's very smart obviously. You know he did very well in law school, he has been successful in making friends, he's charismatic.
So he could be a sociopath, I've sometimes thought maybe he's sociopathic for sure, or it could be more narcissism with him. His, he's very pragmatic. I think a lot of people thought that he was going to be sort of a typical liberal. And that his decisions were more emotional, I think is fair to say about liberals, that they, they have a feeling that things are right or wrong and they act based on that feeling. Whereas people who are more conservative or libertarian come to their political decisions, I think a little bit more mentally, rationally, intellectually.
Which is not a slight on liberalism, but I think Obama is a very, you know he was a legal academic as well. And I think that he..
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