HUBRIS-NEMESIS COMPLEX:

This complex involves a combination of hubris (a pretension toward an arrogant form of godliness) and nemesis (a vengeful desire to confront, defeat, humiliate, and punish an adversary, especially one that can be accused of hubris). The combination has strange dynamics that may lead to destructive, high-risk behavior. Attempts to deter, compel, or negotiate with a leader who has a hubris-nemesis complex can be ineffectual or even disastrously counterproductive when those attempts are based on concepts better suited to dealing with more normal leaders.

I wonder how the CIA must feel to know that the research they sponsored describes our very own President.

Linked via Instapundit.

Byron York's opinion piece on Obama's 'messianism' is here.