Politicians Share Personality Traits With Serial Killers

Name 6 things your favorite (or least favorite) politician has in common with serial killers:

• Superficial charm
• Grandiose sense of self-worth
• Glibness
• Pathological lying
• Lack of remorse
• Manipulation of others

And the work of Jim Kouri, veep of the National Association of Chiefs of Police, gets even better. Politicians are also guilty of this:

The affective traits include a lack of remorse and/or guilt, shallow affect, a lack of empathy, and failure to accept responsibility. The lifestyle behaviors include stimulation-seeking behavior, impassivity, irresponsibility, parasitic orientation, and a lock of realistic life goals.

I think this calls for giving my least favorite politicians some choice nicknames:

• Nancy "Mary Ann Cotton" Pelosi
• Ted "Wayne Gacy Jr." Kennedy
• Harry "Ted Bundy" Reid
• Joe "The Ripper" Biden
• Barack "Zodiac" Obama

Feel free to add your own least favorites below!