American Narcissus

The Weekly Standard ^ | November 13, 2010 | Johanthan V. Last

[libstripper]

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.

[libstripper]

Shows how the Illegal's view of himself just doesn't square with the facts of what he clearly doesn't know and doen't understand, including the basic dyanmics of successful human and political relationships.

[goldstategop]

The title is a reference to the Greco-Roman fable of Narcissus, the beautiful youth who looked upon his reflection in a pool of water and died there of self-love. That is where we derive the term "narcissism" from. The classical source is Ovid's Metamorphoses.

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

“The Divine One” is not that literary. He was elected due to the perceived failures of the Bush administration coupled with confusion by the American people of cunning and glibness with intelligence.

[geologist]

Right! His life style as President, IE having a party in the White House with entertainment from many many great artists almost every night since He came to occupy the White House, multiple vacations, Michelle in her many pair of $700.00 shoes, frequent golf days.

Obama’s total offenses in behavior to Israel's Prime minister ... Insulting him directly.

[FrankR]

[La Lydia]

Wonderful. HIlarious. Appalling. Scary.

It’s troubling that a fellow whose electoral rationale was that he edited the Harvard Law Review and wrote a couple of memoirs was comparing himself to the man who saved the Union. But it tells you all you need to know about what Obama thinks of his political gifts and why he’s unperturbed about having led his party into political disaster in the midterms.

Can there be any doubt that somewhere on the horizon -- somewhere in the distance -- the results of such hubris are going to reveal themselves?

[NonValueAdded]

more like a tenement with many rooms

[Rocko]

Unfortunately, his devoted ants will never realize he is a lunatic.

[goldstategop]

He is in love with himself and he thinks others exist to serve him.

This is Obummer to a T.

[who knows what evil?]

...another classic!

[yldstrk]

Like his wife said on TV

“He ain’t done nuthin’.........”

[februus]

He will be remembered for being the emetic that, having been introduced into the body politic produced the result of the forced disgorging of the undigestible yet unreachable clump of damaged cells of Corporate Liberalism that had weighted the US down collectively for 100 years.

It took a quack medicine from the travelling circus of Dr.Obama to get that Old Faithful operating again.

[NRPM]

There's nothing else he finds interesting or important.

[Cyber Liberty]

[Loyalist]

Why wouldn’t Barack Obama be a narcissist?

Everywhere he has gone, white liberal guilt has paved a golden path before him, one on which he has had his benefactors to hold him up lest he stumble.

What happens, however, when there is no one to break his fall?

[goldstategop]

The only thing Obummer finds interesting is... Obummer!

[Diogenesis]

[freekitty]

He is the opposite of America.

[sissyjane]

A very, very interesting read about the fat head in chief.

[goldstategop]

You will never find a more self-centered guy than our President.

As far as he’s concerned, the world really does revolve around him!