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pork
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Posted - 25 Jan 2009 :  9:18:37 PM  Show Profile  Visit pork's Homepage  Reply with Quote
Solasd: why not point out some of Obama's average/unhealthier patterns that identify more with E9 than E3?

As I established earlier in this thread, I am not an Obama expert, and thus, my role in this discussion is limited mostly to the general caveat regarding uninformed uses of the system in general.

In this case, I point out the problems that may arise with the approach whereby phrases are selected for boldfacing, which may give the illusion of forcible argument but whose most effective role is actually decontextualization, which is particularly inappropriate to Enneagram personality theory.

As for your particular question, our resident Obama experts have already described many of his average-Nine tendencies, particularly those he displayed in his youth and prior to his campaign, before he either got healthier or acquired a team of image consultants or both; read this thread and the two other recent threads on this subject if you have not already.

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dfgray44
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Posted - 25 Jan 2009 :  9:31:34 PM  Show Profile  Visit dfgray44's Homepage  Reply with Quote
quote:
Originally posted by lilalove


For the last 2 years 70% of America have had concern over Bush. So much so that he has left office with record low approval ratings and has tanked the GOP as low as they have been in decades.



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You're not listening to what I've been clearly saying - I'm not talking about policy.

I'd suggest that it's particularly unusual for a president to go to health Level 6 (or lower). Levels 4 and 5 would be typical homebase, with some tapping Level 3, on occasion.

Relative stability of health level (as an innate character feature) is probably a prerequisite for presidents and other 'successful' politicians - by that I mean that the public makes a decision, somewhere in a collective thought-cloud in the sky, not to elect a president who is erratic, healthwise.

Nixon might be a noteworthy exception - hanging out at Levels 6 and 7.

Bush suffers from bad ideas, not acute neurosis. He has, for the most part, no facility for abstract thought, which points more towards 6 than 9.

And the conversation about Bush's type is important to the topic of this thread. I say, 'bring it on'.








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lilalove
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Posted - 25 Jan 2009 :  9:55:28 PM  Show Profile  Visit lilalove's Homepage  Reply with Quote
quote:

You're not listening to what I've been clearly saying - I'm not talking about policy.


Katrina was not policy. Katrina came on the heels of Bob Woodward's book - State of Denial: Bush at War, Part III.

in that book he does a masterful job at explaining a type 9 at level 6. And then Katrina hit... and under scored every observation Bod Woodward had made. After that.. there were few in Washington and beyond that did not understand something was "wrong" with GW.

I have gone round and round with you about Bush. I'm truly sick of thinking about him. I answered because you addressed me but I have already made it clear I don't want to play any more with the topic.
I'm done.



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Edited by - lilalove on 25 Jan 2009 9:58:53 PM
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Habanero
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Posted - 26 Jan 2009 :  01:48:54 AM  Show Profile  Visit Habanero's Homepage  Reply with Quote
One thing I've observed about 3w4s...Despite wanting to be in control of their self image, 3w4's are often oblivious to how they are actually coming across. It's a huge blind spot for them. I'll be on the lookout for these traits in President Obama.

(Naming names: Kevin Spacey, Madonna, Tom Cruise . . .)

Edited by - Habanero on 26 Jan 2009 02:11:59 AM
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Habanero
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Posted - 26 Jan 2009 :  02:08:41 AM  Show Profile  Visit Habanero's Homepage  Reply with Quote
quote:
Originally posted by marie

Your analysis generates another problem. You are complaining that those who are typing him as a Nine have to place him exclusively in healthy levels, but you sometimes seem to verge on that as well when typing him as a Three. As I see it, he's either a Three at levels three to five, as you have it or he is a healthy Three who has access to his missing piece, as you also have it. (As I understand it that kind of integration of the missing piece only takes place at very healthy levels.) So, that's kind of messy too. Anyway, you can't have it both ways.



Thank you, thank you. You've articulated what has been bothering me but I just couldn't put my finger on it....
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lilalove
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Posted - 26 Jan 2009 :  08:31:26 AM  Show Profile  Visit lilalove's Homepage  Reply with Quote
Obama's unsung hero

What type is he. He played a very big part in Obama winning.

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/01/25/obamas-unsung-hero/


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dfgray44
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Posted - 26 Jan 2009 :  08:45:54 AM  Show Profile  Visit dfgray44's Homepage  Reply with Quote
quote:
Originally posted by lilalove

Obama's unsung hero

What type is he. He played a very big part in Obama winning.

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/01/25/obamas-unsung-hero/


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Stormy
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Posted - 26 Jan 2009 :  09:23:59 AM  Show Profile  Visit Stormy's Homepage  Reply with Quote
quote:
Originally posted by dfgray44

quote:
Originally posted by lilalove

Obama's unsung hero

What type is he. He played a very big part in Obama winning.

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/01/25/obamas-unsung-hero/


9w1


How so?

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dfgray44
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Posted - 26 Jan 2009 :  09:36:06 AM  Show Profile  Visit dfgray44's Homepage  Reply with Quote
quote:
Originally posted by Stormy

quote:
Originally posted by dfgray44

quote:
Originally posted by lilalove

Obama's unsung hero

What type is he. He played a very big part in Obama winning.

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/01/25/obamas-unsung-hero/


9w1


How so?

[Stormy]




Steady, low-key, positive-outlook triad, unsung....

Also, he's been told that he needs to move his hands (while speaking) so as not to come off as dull - which he has dutifully complied with.

And... a lot of nodding "yes, yes, yes..."

He's probably another soc-first 9 - highly involved in the 'new way of communicating', etc. Gets high on those kinds of ideas.





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ptypes
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Posted - 26 Jan 2009 :  11:07:08 AM  Show Profile  Visit ptypes's Homepage  Reply with Quote
quote:
Originally posted by lilalove

Obama's unsung hero

What type is he. He played a very big part in Obama winning.

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/01/25/obamas-unsung-hero/




7w8 istp "the tactician". He's been typed here, already. Marie thought 7w6. One of those. Definitely not 9w1. I've thought that David Axelrod might be 9w1, though.
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ptypes
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Posted - 26 Jan 2009 :  11:13:51 AM  Show Profile  Visit ptypes's Homepage  Reply with Quote
quote:
Originally posted by Habanero

One thing I've observed about 3w4s...Despite wanting to be in control of their self image, 3w4's are often oblivious to how they are actually coming across. It's a huge blind spot for them. I'll be on the lookout for these traits in President Obama.

(Naming names: Kevin Spacey, Madonna, Tom Cruise . . .)



Very good point of distinction.

Hemmingway told F. Scott Fitzgerald that he couldn't concieve good characters (or something like that) because he didn't know anyone but himself and Zelda. Self-absorption.

(fogot I had this on my site)

Fitzgerald's weakness of showing off

"The attractive, egoistic, socially insecure boy now revealed a crucial lifelong flaw in his character which would hurt him as a writer. He had a weakness of showing off instead of listening and observing, and was unaware of the effect he had on others. "I didn't know till 15," Fitzgerald said, "that there was anyone in the world except me, and it cost me plenty." Two of his closest friends later criticized the narcissistic self-absorption that limited Fitzgerald's understanding of other men and women (Meyers, 1994, 10)."

Here's the rest of the quote of Meyers:

"Sara Murphy wrote, with some exaggeration: "I have always told you you haven't the faintest idea what anybody else but yourself is like." And Hemingway, who agreed with her, told their editor Max Perkins: "Scott can't invent true characters because he doesn't know anything about people" (Meyers, F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1994, pg. 10).

Edited by - ptypes on 26 Jan 2009 11:56:38 AM
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dfgray44
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Posted - 26 Jan 2009 :  11:17:38 AM  Show Profile  Visit dfgray44's Homepage  Reply with Quote
quote:
Originally posted by ptypes

quote:
Originally posted by lilalove

Obama's unsung hero

What type is he. He played a very big part in Obama winning.

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/01/25/obamas-unsung-hero/




7w8 istp "the tactician". He's been typed here, already. Marie thought 7w6. One of those. Definitely not 9w1. I've thought that David Axelrod might be 9w1, though.



So, you see similarities between David Plouffe and Naomi Campbell?






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ptypes
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Posted - 26 Jan 2009 :  11:20:01 AM  Show Profile  Visit ptypes's Homepage  Reply with Quote
quote:
Originally posted by dfgray44

quote:
Originally posted by ptypes

quote:
Originally posted by lilalove

Obama's unsung hero

What type is he. He played a very big part in Obama winning.

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/01/25/obamas-unsung-hero/




7w8 istp "the tactician". He's been typed here, already. Marie thought 7w6. One of those. Definitely not 9w1. I've thought that David Axelrod might be 9w1, though.



So, you see similarities between David Plouffe and Naomi Campbell?




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dfgray44
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Posted - 26 Jan 2009 :  11:24:04 AM  Show Profile  Visit dfgray44's Homepage  Reply with Quote
quote:
Originally posted by ptypes



No.



David Plouffe and Jack Nicholson?



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ptypes
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Posted - 26 Jan 2009 :  11:25:38 AM  Show Profile  Visit ptypes's Homepage  Reply with Quote
quote:
Originally posted by dfgray44

quote:
Originally posted by ptypes



No.



David Plouffe and Jack Nicholson?




No further comments by me on this issue on this thread.
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marie
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Posted - 26 Jan 2009 :  11:32:50 AM  Show Profile  Visit marie's Homepage  Reply with Quote
quote:
Originally posted by dfgray44

quote:
Originally posted by ptypes



No.



David Plouffe and Jack Nicholson?



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I see Jack Nicholson as a sx/soc Seven with Eight. Harvey Milk also - another sx/soc. Real flamboyant, expansive, lots of fun. Rahm seems like a soc/sx Seven with Eight. (None of them remind me of Palin - one of the reasons I doubt the EI's typing of her as a Sx Seven with Eight. She's not that flamboyant or fun; she does want to expand her little fiefdom though. Takes herself real seriously.)

Plouffe is a bit harder...but he seems like a double head type to me...I could see Seven with Six or Six with Seven.

Axelrod seems like an uber-Nine to me. It might as well be written on his forehead it's so obvious. In my always humble opinion.
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ptypes
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Posted - 26 Jan 2009 :  11:38:45 AM  Show Profile  Visit ptypes's Homepage  Reply with Quote
F. Scott Fitgerald is another well known person who has what I see as the prototypical facial "look" of male 3w4.

I think that the big difference in temperament between Fitzgerald and Obama is obvious.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0815410360/ref=sib_dp_pt#reader-link
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dfgray44
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Posted - 26 Jan 2009 :  11:42:05 AM  Show Profile  Visit dfgray44's Homepage  Reply with Quote
Plouffe is "innocent". He's a "nice young man". This points away from 7.

Axelrod is cagey and 'strategic' by nature. Not a 9.





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dfgray44
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Posted - 26 Jan 2009 :  11:49:41 AM  Show Profile  Visit dfgray44's Homepage  Reply with Quote
BTW, Nicholson is sp/sx. 'Social' is not a comfort zone for him.





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marie
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Posted - 26 Jan 2009 :  11:51:31 AM  Show Profile  Visit marie's Homepage  Reply with Quote
quote:
Originally posted by dfgray44

BTW, Nicholson is sp/sx. 'Social' is not a comfort zone for him.





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I like Jack...but he is a complete vulgarian and very expansive. Absolutely not sp first.

I think we are working with different systems actually. So really there's no point.
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ptypes
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Posted - 26 Jan 2009 :  12:32:25 PM  Show Profile  Visit ptypes's Homepage  Reply with Quote
quote:
Originally posted by marie

[quote]Originally posted by ptypes


Btw, I think Caroline Kennedy is a member of your tribe. I think she would have been a good Senator also. She just couldn't handle the invasion of her privacy and the disrespect.



I think that Caroline Kennedy and Obama's mother share a similar temperament and the same type: 9w1. I also see a physical resemblance. Obama, his mother, and his maternal grandfather are all 9w1.
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ptypes
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Posted - 26 Jan 2009 :  12:40:49 PM  Show Profile  Visit ptypes's Homepage  Reply with Quote
Barack Obama's mother

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1729524,00.html
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dfgray44
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Posted - 26 Jan 2009 :  12:41:28 PM  Show Profile  Visit dfgray44's Homepage  Reply with Quote
quote:
Originally posted by marie



I like Jack...but he is a complete vulgarian and very expansive. Absolutely not sp first.

I think we are working with different systems actually. So really there's no point.



sp/sx = sensual indulgence and a festering belligerence.

The extroversion in his personality type has you seeing 'soc' in the stack. He's actually shy and awkward in social settings. A Seven with a middle soc is the definition of 'gregariousness'.

Sp/sx adds 'dark' to one's picture.

At a party, will he pull one woman into a corner for a hushed intimate conversation, or stand in the middle and regale the crowd with his stories?







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ptypes
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Posted - 26 Jan 2009 :  12:44:21 PM  Show Profile  Visit ptypes's Homepage  Reply with Quote
Barack Obama looks very much like his grandfather.

http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1834628_1754183,00.html
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ptypes
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Posted - 26 Jan 2009 :  12:48:57 PM  Show Profile  Visit ptypes's Homepage  Reply with Quote
Barack Obama's mother and father.

http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1834628_1754194,00.html
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