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Written by Lee Anderson

Monday, 18 July 2011 14:12

In a 2003 Psychology Today article titled "Understanding Compulsive Liars", Robert Reich, M.D., a New York City psychiatrist and expert in psychopathology, says compulsive lying has no official diagnosis. Instead, intentional dissimulation -- not the kind associated with dementia or brain injury -- is associated with a range of diagnoses, such as antisocial, borderline and narcissistic personality disorders. When it comes to compulsive liars, says Charles Ford, a professor of psychiatry at the University of Alabama Birmingham, "words seem to flow out of their mouths without them thinking about it." To understand the mind of a fake, Reich suggests considering what lying does for the liar. Deceit as a means to an end -- like lying to get a job -- is easy to comprehend. Much harder to spot, he says, is lying "for primary gains": deceptions that create a different sense of self without any immediate benefit. "It has to do with self-esteem," Reich says. "You want to be like someone else because you aren't very happy with yourself."

CBS news has reported that President Obama stated that, "Americans back me on debt deal.... My Republican friends have said that they're not willing to do revenues, and they have repeated that on several occasions," he told reporters at a news conference in Washington. "My hope, though, is that they're listening not just to lobbyists or special interests here in Washington, but they're also listening to the American people. Because it turns out, poll after poll, many done by your organizations, show that it's not just Democrats who think we need to take a balanced approach, it's Republicans as well."

So what do the polls really show?

A Gallup poll released Wednesday concluded that 50% of Americans want the majority of deficit reduction to come through spending cuts; only 32% favor some combination of reduced expenditures coupled with higher revenues. Even a smaller 11% favored mostly or only tax increases.

The Ipsos/Reuters poll found that 71% of those surveyed oppose increasing the debt limit. This was true even of the half sample who were told that "not raising the debt limit would damage the US' sovereign debt rating, which is like our credit rating: it would seriously damage our credibility abroad, would make it much more difficult for us to borrow in the future, and would likely push up interest rates."

In a June 9 survey by the independent Quinnipiac University poll, paints a bleaker picture:

60% disapproved of the way Barack Obama is handling the budget deficit
90% rated the nation's economy these days as not so good or poor
75% said the nation's economy is getting getting worse or staying about the same
71% think the United States economy is in a recession
53% think President Obama's proposals to raise revenues are are tax hikes or do not believe they are closing loopholes
55% said they trust someone other than the President in handling the economy
52% said they would not blame the Republicans if the debt ceiling is not raised

(For more detail on the Quinnipiac poll refer to the data and questions asked here:
http://www.quinnipiac.edu/images/polling/us/us07142011.doc)

So what are we to conclude? Our President is unhappy. He is a fake. He is a compulsive liar. Of course, CBS news is happy to accommodate the lie and enable the compulsion. The trouble with lying is that it catches up with you sooner or later.

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