Today, politics is all about creating perceptions in the public mind. It's about building up a confident facade in an effort to persuade people. So when things don't go your way, you maintain that outward facade of calm and optimism. I'm not saying Obama's response to his party's defeat was the best reaction or even very good, but it fit the general pattern of usual behavior among politicians.
Much of what he says is true: Obama does seem to be a loner with few friends, and he's in a business built on deception and manipulation. He's overly sensitive and has a big ego. I guess those are signs of narcissism. But I'd resist the temptation to psychoanalyze people from a distance and counsel a little more skepticism about the conclusions one can jump to when one doesn't subject one's own perceptions to some critical reflection.
But I’d resist the temptation to psychoanalyze people from a distance and counsel a little more skepticism about the conclusions one can jump to when one doesn’t subject one’s own perceptions to some critical reflection.
I don’t need to resist any temptation to analyze Obama. Anyone with a lick of sense and ability to discern good from bad can see that the man is one messed up, vile creature.
I give Obama absolutely no benefit of the doubt.