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I thought I'd take the same approach and apply it to Barack Obama AND to politicians in general and corporate execs. Keep in mind that lower-functioning psychopaths get caught and go to jail. The highest-functioning ones often reach the highest places of power. Thom Hartmann first put the idea in my head that it takes a sociopath to run a fortune 1000 corporation. More recently, I interviewed a psychopath who wrote the book, Confessions of a Sociopath. I asked her about people she thought might be a sociopath and she mentioned Obama. I had my doubts, but the Wired article gave a way to apply the question to Obama and the other groups.
Wired used a checklist created by Dr. Robert Hare, author Snakes In Suits and Without Conscience. There are 20 items. If a person scores 18 or over, he or she fits the profile of a psychopath. Dr. Hare licenses the assessment tool for formal use to psychologists, prisons, parole boards. It is the curse of death, or extended time in jail if a person up for parole is assessed as a psychopath using the Hare assessment tool. The exercise I am engaging is not professional by any means. It's a rough attempt to think about leaders using Dr. Hare's model.
Here's how the questions are scored.
0 = no; 1 = maybe; 2 = yes. The highest possible score on the screening version of the full Psychopathy Checklist is 24. The average non-criminal non-psychopath receives a score between 0 and 4. A criminal psychopath is defined as anyone with a score of 18 or more.
To see the list, with descriptions of each of the items, click here.
I'm marking my score for for each group displayed as follows:
Obama/Politicians/Corporate Execs
Hare's Checklist
1. GLIB and SUPERFICIAL CHARM --
2/2/2
2. GRANDIOSE SELF-WORTH --
2/2/2
3. NEED FOR STIMULATION or PRONENESS TO BOREDOM --
1/1/2
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