Obama Returns from Asia, Realities of his Nero-Complex Sink In

November 22, 2009 (LPAC)—Lyndon LaRouche was the first to put the issue publicly on the table in his April 11th webcast. Now Obama's performance in his just concluded Asia trip has made it undeniably clear to many in the institution of the US Presidency, president Barack Obama is a narcissistic personality, a Nero, impervious to reality.

From Obama's Asia trip itself, LaRouchePAC learned that leading U.S. government officials came to see Obama as erratic, dangerous and unpredictable, prone to go off on ego trips, especially when out of his wife's presence and control. In a particularly damaging example, he personally backed out of an agreement Bob Gates had reached with Japan Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama on the U.S. base in Okinawa; Gates was forced to override the President afterwards.

Now Elizabeth Drew, writing in Politico, reports that Obama's unforgivable actions against his loyal Presidential Counsel Greg Craig, have forced key allies to forswear any further defense of Obama and his Chicago mafia.

Lead paragraphs of her article follow.

"President Barack Obama is returning from his trek to Asia Thursday to a capital that is a considerably more dangerous place for him than when he departed.

"While he was abroad, there was a palpable sense at home of something gone wrong. A critical mass of influential people who once held big hopes for his presidency began to wonder whether they had misjudged the man. Most significant, these doubters now find themselves with a new reluctance to defend Obama at a phase of his presidency when he needs defenders more urgently than ever.

"This is the price Obama has paid with his complicity and most likely his active participation, in the shabbiest episode of his presidency: The firing by leaks of White House Counsel Gregory Craig, a well-respected Washington veteran and influential early supporter of Obama.

"The people who are most aghast by the handling of the Craig departure can't be dismissed by the White House as Republican partisans, or still-embittered Hillary Clinton supporters. They are not naive activists who don't understand that the exercise of power can be a rough business and that trade-offs and personal disappointments are inevitable. Instead, they are people, either in politics or close observers, who once held an unromantically high opinion of Obama. They were important to his rise, and are likely more important to the success or failure of his presidency than Obama or his distressingly insular and small-minded West Wing team appreciate."