Monday, September 28, 2009
The Pyschology of Obama's Speech at the UN
I think this article is grossly misusing psychological terms to describe Obama's rhetoric at the UN. The author writes, "Much of the speech seemed to be an exercise in what Sigmund Freud called "projection," assuming that others think the way you do. Obama spoke as if the mullahs of Iran, the Kim Jong Il clan of North Korea, Vladimir Putin and his gang of oligarchs, and the rulers of China had the same gripes against the Bush administration as Obama and the liberal Democrats in Congress. Hey, if we just close Gitmo, they'll realize that we're all in sympathy now." I'm not sure that's at all what Obama was doing, especially in regards to Guantanamo. The author seems to me to be taking so very serious leaps from what was said in the speech and the pyschological pretenses behind it.
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For me, reading this gave me a similar feeling I get listening to some English teachers draw conclusions from literature -- at what point are you just pulling conclusions out of thin air (and getting paid to write articles for it...)? Plus, doesn't he have speech writers, so really how relevent to his own psychie can this even be?
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