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Wish I’d thought of this: The shrinks have decided they want to make some loot off of inflexible, perfectionist jerks. Actually, it’s not that new, it’s Freud’s idea. The classic symptoms of what is now called Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder (OCPD) are:

• Is preoccupied with details, rules, lists, order, organization, or schedules to the extent that the major point of the activity is lost.
• Shows perfectionism that interferes with task completion (e.g., is unable to complete a project because his or her own overly strict standards are not met)
• Is excessively devoted to work and productivity to the exclusion of leisure activities and friendships (not accounted for by obvious economic necessity)
• Is overconscientious, scrupulous, and inflexible about matters of morality, ethics, or values (not accounted for by cultural or religious identification)
• Is unable to discard worn-out or worthless objects even when they have no sentimental value
• Is reluctant to delegate tasks or to work with others unless they submit to exactly his or her way of doing things
• Adopts a miserly spending style toward both self and others; money is viewed as something to be hoarded for future catastrophes
• Shows rigidity and stubbornness

The litmus test I’d apply to it, is this: I come to you with a complaint. You respond by giving me instructions about what I should do, as if I had come to you asking for advice. That isn’t the criteria written above, but after so-many years of dealing with people who fit this mold, I really think that’s a fair distillation: The world’s just a soundstage in which you get to spout off orders at people, as your sole social pursuit, up to and past the point where it interferes with your ability to interact realistically, and with your relationships.

PEBO's Opinion I think President-Elect Barack Obama might have OCPD. He’s fulfilled my one-bullet litmus test, anyhow: People come to him with complaints, and he responds by telling ’em what to do. If he doesn’t have OCPD, he sure is a bossy little snot.

I gotta admit, though, he’s got me halfway-wishing President Bush had this disorder. It would’ve been fun watching the truthers and the impeachers and the Florida-recounters and the MoveOnDotOrgsters receive these haughty instructions from the White House to stuff a sock in it so we can all “get along”.

Dial it down a notch, President-elect Barack Obama tells gays

President-elect Barack Obama pushed back Thursday at gay rights groups trashing him for inviting evangelical Rev. Rick Warren to give the invocation at his inauguration.

“It is no secret that I am a fierce advocate for equality for gay and lesbian Americans,” Obama told reporters in Chicago.

But he noted that he ran a campaign promising to reach out to all sides.

“It is important for America to come together even though we may have disagreements on certain social issues,” he said, noting that Warren invited him to speak at Saddleback Church in California knowing Obama disagreed with many conservative religious stances.

“That dialogue, I think, is part of what my campaign has been all about,” Obama added. “We’re not gonna agree on every single issue. What we have to do is be able to create an atmosphere where we can disagree without being disagreeable.”

What a great line! I’m going to try that out on the next cop who pulls me over.

No, this is a sign of great fun in the years ahead. While President Obama puts my great-grandchildren in debt with bailout after bailout after bailout and redistributes every nickel I’ve ever managed to save, I’ll find solace in watching Him operate this way, and seeing His most ardent supporters get shakier and quakier with a white-hot quivering rage Obama’s predecessor never saw. It’s obvious the President-Elect has fallen into a lifetime habit of dealing with conflicts this way. He’s got the Walter Cronkite voice, the charisma, He’ll just dispense His Holy Instructions to people to unify, and all the complaints will wither away like your very favorite snowman after a herd of wild goats get together to pee on it.

Well…I’m sure that’s worked out great for him up to this point…I got to see the last two years of it up close. I don’t know if it’ll work out for Him in the new gig. I don’t think it’s going to work on His supporters, over the long term, any better than it would work on that motorcycle cop in the short term.

But I fully intend to grab a full bag of popcorn while I watch Him try it. It’s probably the only form of entertainment I’ll be able to afford for the next four years.

Sucks to be the gay activists, though. All this hopey-hope about changey-change…so they’d finally have someone in power who’d listen to them. Heh. Looks like they had a lot more of that going on up until now, than they’ll have from here-on-out. Got sold a pig-in-a-poke by the super-charisma “There’s Something About Him I Can’t Explain It” lightworker Man-God guy.

Lesson in there for all of us, gay or straight. Lesson in there for all of us.

Try this one on for size. Ali Sina opines about The One.

Ali Sina maintains he has narcissistic personality disorder and makes a darn good case for such.
- Robohobo | 12/22/2008 @ 22:06
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