Posted on 10/13/2010 5:46:02 PM PDT by americanophile
"That's all right, all of you know who I am," President Obama joked last week when the presidential seal fell off his podium during a speech in Pittsburgh.
Even though the incident made headlines for no discernible journalistic reason, it was noteworthy as a succinct example of Obama's arrogance problem. Rather than make a self-deprecating joke, he opted instead to make a self-inflating one, as if to say that the title mattered less than the man.
The good news is that it's apparently not racist to call Obama arrogant anymore. Not long ago, Keith Olbermann and other gargoyles on the parapets of establishment liberalism insisted that if you were to call attention to the fact that Obama ostentatiously holds himself in very high regard, you were really calling him "uppity," if you know what I mean.
Now what was once taboo has become undeniable. Even the New Yorker's David Remnick, author of a loving biography of Obama, tells Der Spiegel, "Obama has a considerable ego."
And here's Time's Mark Halperin: "With the exception of core Obama administration loyalists, most politically engaged elites have reached the same conclusion: The White House is in over its head, isolated, insular, arrogant and clueless about how to get along with or persuade members of Congress, the media, the business community or working-class voters."
Halperin's diagnosis was inevitable, given Obama's conviction that he represented a movement that was larger than politics or even the presidency. After all, this was the man who, as a candidate, descended on Berlin as the leader of a worldwide cause that transcended national borders. And when asked in a debate what his greatest weakness was, he plumbed his soul and answered that he was disorganized. "My desk and my office doesn't look good," he said.
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0bama is is in for a humbling the likes of which we have rarely seen. And I mean in this life time.
When the affirmative action veil falls away, it’s a very rude awakening.
I sincerely hope so ... I want to see him so embarrassed world wide that he’ll crawl into a hole in Chicago and never appear anywhere again ....
People such as this Kenyan do not get embarrassed. It is not in them.
things ain’t uh goin’ well when the LATimes turns on you.
More like an attitude
More like an attitude adjustment
A weak US president is a very dangerous thing.
Thank God Ronald Reagan and John Paul killed the Soviet Union.
True, a weak president is dangerous ... the world is now seeing that ....however they do not know or understand the resolve of the American people .... history has taught the world that ....
He refuses to use the handrails every time he skips down the stairs of Air Force One (I'm not sure what that's supposed to communicate to the public). Gravity can be a harsh teacher...
are we the only people on earth who have noticed that?
He didn’t have a mother like my mother apparently.
I'm telling you, he's going to end up as a sensation on YouTube.
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