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narcissus1.jpgAmerican Standard:

 

American Narcissus

The vanity of Barack Obama By Jonathan V. Last

 

Why has Barack Obama failed so spectacularly? Is he too dogmatically liberal or too pragmatic? Is he a socialist, or an anticolonialist, or a philosopher-president? Or is it possible that Obama’s failures stem from something simpler: vanity. Politicians as a class are particularly susceptible to mirror-gazing. But Obama’s vanity is overwhelming. It defines him, his politics, and his presidency.

 

It’s revealed in lots of little stories. There was the time he bragged about how one of his campaign volunteers, who had tragically died of breast cancer, “insisted she’s going to be buried in an Obama T-shirt.” There was the Nobel acceptance speech where he conceded, “I do not bring with me today a definitive solution to the problems of war” (the emphasis is mine). There was the moment during the 2008 campaign when Obama appeared with a seal that was a mash-up of the Great Seal of the United States and his own campaign logo (with its motto Vero Possumus, “Yes we Can” in Latin). Just a few weeks ago, Obama was giving a speech when the actual presidential seal fell from the rostrum. “That’s all right,” he quipped. “All of you know who I am.” Oh yes, Mr. President, we certainly do.

 

My favorite is this line from page 160 of The Audacity of Hope:

 

I find comfort in the fact that the longer I’m in politics the less nourishing popularity becomes, that a striving for power and rank and fame seems to betray a poverty of ambition, and that I am answerable mainly to the steady gaze of my own conscience.

 

So popularity and fame once nourished him, but now his ambition is richer and he’s answerable not, like some presidents, to the Almighty, but to the gaze of his personal conscience. Which is steady. The fact that this sentence appears in the second memoir of a man not yet 50 years old—and who had been in national politics for all of two years—is merely icing. shout

 

Everyone should read the entire article... not that it tells us anything that we don't know nor haven't heard and seen... but it is staggering in its totality.

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NcTexan! Great post & article!

 

Add to that mix, the fact that he's on anti-anxiety meds, and the country is actually being run by Chicago slumlord Valerie Jarret, ungrateful wife Moo-chelle "Antoinette" & WH Santeria high priestess and mother-in-law.....Mrs. Robinson.....you've got the makings of another book......a real pot-boiler!

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We risk reading too much into these vignettes—after all, our president is a mansion with many rooms and it would be foolish to reduce him to pure ego. Yet the vignettes are so numerous. For instance, a few years ago Obama’s high school basketball coach told ABC News how, as a teenager, Obama always badgered him for more playing time, even though he wasn’t the best player on the team—or even as good as he thought he was. Everyone who has ever played team sports has encountered the kid with an inflated sense of self. That’s common. What’s rare is the kid who feels entitled enough to nag the coach about his minutes. Obama was that kid. His enthusiasm about his abilities and his playing time extended into his political life. In 2004, Obama explained to author David Mendell how he saw his future as a national political figure: “I’m LeBron, baby. I can play on this level. I got some game.” After just a couple of months in the Senate, Obama jumped the Democratic line and started asking voters to make him president.

 

This is without question the most arrogant person to ever wade into the Potomac swamp. I just wonder if he's ready for the fall he's going to take in 2 years?

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righteousmomma

re one of shoutAcerimmers quotes:

"Wise people learn when they can; fools learn when they must." -Arthur Wellesly, aka The Duke of Wellington

 

Fools never learn because then they would not be fools. To the O it will always be someone else's fault -- Imperialistic racist America, that embarrassing Cowboy Bush, bigoted, selfish, uncaring Republicans and conservatives etc etc etc atal............

 

shout NCT perfect photo/painting you found of Narcissus!

Btw re those "rumors" -- Remember in mythology Narcissus felt in love with HIS own reflection ;)

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This is without question the most arrogant person to ever wade into the Potomac swamp.

Obama makes Bill Clinton look like an ego piker.

 

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