America’s Struggle with Success

Barack Obama’s deeper intelligence continues to tell his story, his narrative in his own words. His stories come together in a new way to tell one big story. This is how people do it—in therapy, in forensic cases, in everyday life-- for sake of telling truth and preventing suffering. This is the new knowledge about ourselves from our DI—and we cannot stop it from speaking if we communicate. As I study him I am convinced that presidential candidates have even more of a need to tell this truth because their conscience knows how much responsibility they are asking to be given.

One other thing to keep in mind which the DI teaches us in spades is that people are deeply controlled by their own personal traumas particularly in their development (or even later) and BO had more than his share. When we ask is he the man for the job we would indeed be foolish not to look at the emotional baggage he brings with him as human beings inevitably true. While we tend to idealize our presidential candidates and are prone to think putting a candidate’s development under the microscope is off limits, the very opposite should be the case. One thing is for sure, Obama himself thinks it’s important because he is telling us all about his baggage, what shaped him, where his weaknesses are (which invariably will affect how he leads)—his DI thinks America should know because his DI wants a successful America. He will overtly get to his traumas quick enough, but already we can see the reverberations.

The reason for the strong focus on Obama: already he has emphasized his inexperience alerting us to continue examining him closely, truly hanging on his every word. Later, we will look at John McCain but he’s a known entity who has been around for years.

Veteran Washington Post columnist David Broder also noticed Obama’s body language and words during the first debate, “It was a small thing, but I counted six times Obama began a sentence with...[McCain] ‘was absolutely right’ about a point he had made.” Broder noticed McCain never similarly acknowledged Obama’s wisdom, commenting, “That suggests an imbalance in the deference quotient between the younger man and the veteran senator—an impression reinforced by Obama’s frequent glances in McCain’s direction and McCain’s studied indifference to his rival. Whether viewers caught the verbal and body-language signs that Obama seemed to accept McCain as the alpha male on the stage…I do not know.”¹

I can assure Mr. Broder that the viewers’ “blink minds” picked up on the message and that it was no small matter. This was pure DI communication from Obama and the remarkably consistent message, “John McCain is absolutely right.” You can fill in the rest of the sentence—“for the job of President of the United States.” Not ‘just right’ mind you, but ‘absolutely right’—in comparison to Obama. The message: there’s no doubt in Obama’s mind about who we should elect president [and it’s absolutely not him].

The same thought pattern continues everywhere we turn—so typical of the DI which repeats its key messages in order to validate the message. Upon selecting Joe Biden as his running mate, Obama noted, “I want someone to come to me, and say ‘Mr. President you’re wrong about this and why.’” Again, we see Obama’s idea of his being wrong and deferring to someone who knows more than he would as President—a repeat confession that he doesn’t yet know enough to be President. That’s it’s the wrong time for him to run, and he’s the wrong man. We can also hear Obama’s appeal for his father, “I want someone to come to me,” someone stronger than me.

His need becomes stronger when again we see the same deference at the moment he officially introduces Biden as “a man ready to step in and be President.” Don’t miss the first message, someone needs to step in for Obama, someone else needs to be President. Much more poignantly, we can hear Obama’s yearning for his father, the alpha male every boy needs, and his deep sense of personal deficiency-- how badly he needs a man to step in for him and show him how to be one.

Is it any wonder that the title of his recent book was, Dreams of my Father, as in “I’m dreaming of having a father.” Wishing and hoping—real bad. Real real bad.

We can even imagine Obama’s selection of an older man, a father figure, instead of Hilliary Clinton (and likely a more certain win) had something to do with his father needs. Whatever the case, Obama is leaving us doubt that he has an entirely different story to tell than his beloved media is reporting—his story from the ground up.

Next we will see Obama overtly tell us what it truly did to him to lose his father, how it sapped his strength as a leader, and sheds new light on how he handled recent public events. There’s much more Obama wants us to know.

Summary

• Obama’s repeated ideas of someone stepping in for him as president represent admission he’s not ready for job
• Obama’s selection of an older man, a father-figure, for VP instead of Hillary Clinton can be traced to his patriarchal needs
• Columnist David Broder noted Obama’s signals of submission to McCain—“that suggests an imbalance in the deference quotient between the younger man and the veteran senator”