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Obama is almost devoid of the megalomaniac and sociopathic tendencies so common among top-level politicians. The Greek word sophrosyne is usually translated as "temperance" or "moderation." But its core meaning seems to be closer to "self-command" or "sanity." That's the characteristic that shines through the speeches and actions of Abraham Lincoln. It's on Obama's sophrosyne, even more than on his intelligence, that I'm prepared to bet.

Yeeeaarrrrghhh!!!

Hah... had you going for a second there, didn't I?

Hey and just like Lincoln, he has a shrew of a wife that he obeys without question.

The article doesn't mention whether *she* was a
megalomaniac/sociopath...

Wikipedia sez:

Sophrosyne (σωφροσύνη) is a Greek philosophical term etymologically meaning 'moral sanity' and from there 'self control' or 'moderation' guided by true 'self-knowledge.'

Greeks upheld the ideal of sophrosyne, which means prudence and moderation but ultimately its complex meaning, so important to the ancients, is very difficult to convey in English. It is perhaps best expressed by the two most famous sayings of the oracle at Delphi: "Nothing in excess" and "Know thyself."

The term suggests a life-long happiness obtained when one's philosophical needs are satisfied, resembling the idea of enlightenment through harmonious living. It is a nearly lost Classical ideal, but is enjoying some revival today with its emphasis on individuals to live within the proportions of reason and nature, this being achieved through practical wisdom and self knowledge. Parallels abound in eastern thought, in Hinduism, Buddhism and Taoism.

Take one look at this photo and tell me what you think Obama has going for him.....

Those faces greeting him look like they enthralled by position papers and philosophy? Uh, yeah, right.....

Will she be running for President 16 years from now?

How come it's always the whitest white women who go for the black (or mulatto) guys?

She is running now.

Is he wearing pants, I wonder?

Against it? I should be positively astounded to hear anything that could be said FOR it. Why the whole bloody place is the most unspeakable matriarchy in the whole history of civilization! Look at yourself! The way your wife and her strumpet of a mother push you through the hoop! As far as I can see, American men have been totally emasculated- they're like slaves! They die like flies from coronary thrombosis while their women sit under hairdryers eating chocolates & arranging for every 2nd Tuesday to be some sort of Mother's Day! And this infantile preoccupation with bosoms. In all time in this Godforsaken country, the one thing that has appalled me most of all this this prepostrous preoccupation with bosoms. Don't you realize they have become the dominant theme in American culture: in literature, advertising and all fields of entertainment and everything. I'll wager you anything you like that if American women stopped wearing brassieres, your whole national economy would collapse overnight.

-J. Algernon Hawthorne, It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

Take one look at this photo and tell me what you think Obama has going for him.....



Those faces greeting him look like they enthralled by position papers and philosophy? Uh, yeah, right.....

That is *so* going to be capped.

I thought "cotton candy" was a good way to describe Obama's candidacy.

LOL, Joem!

But I'd rather have that than Al Gore's Burnt Albatross with Quinine Sauce.

lol

It's twue! It's twue!

Obama is almost devoid of the megalomaniac and sociopathic tendencies so common among top-level politicians.

Obama is almost devoid of the megalomaniac and sociopathic tendencies

If I was that close to him I'd spit in his face. I hate this guy. He gets away with having racist and antisemitic associations.

The front center, and front right ones look like they get their hair done by the same girl at Hair Cuttery.

Nordic sluts.

And they've all selected Eric Jong for their next reading group discussion....

Shocking as it may sound, I'm not opposed to race-mixin' in principle.

Any potential problems are dwarfed by the much immediate evil of the government (or "society") telling me who I can or cannot fuck.

"much more immediate" that is.

And not just that, they use the same Clairol dye mix.

DAVID BROOKS on what some of us are enjoying about the Clinton / Obama contest: "The problem is that both the feminist movement Clinton rides and the civil rights rhetoric Obama uses were constructed at a time when the enemy was the reactionary white male establishment. Today, they are not facing the white male establishment. They are facing each other."

He gets away with having racist and antisemitic associations.

Obama is almost devoid gives the public appearance of being devoid of the megalomaniac and sociopathic tendencies so common among top-level politicians.

It's really just a variation of Bill Clinton's perfected "Awww, shucks!" routine

Which I totally fell for twice.

OK, I capped it. And I don't think I swiped anyone's ideas.