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Edwards, Obama And The Perils Of Narcissism (Michael Medved On The Dangers Of Self Love Alert)
Townhall.com ^ | 8/13/2008 | Michael Medved

Posted on 08/12/2008 9:50:39 PM PDT by goldstategop

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The greatest flaw of the politician is the outsized ego and a disregard for the rules. Some risk-taking is necesssary to attain high office. When it borders on narcissism, it reveals not someone likeable and thoughtful but someone vain, conceited and arrogant. Most people would like to take Obama down a peg or or two. The one lesson in life the man still hasn't learned is humility. John Edwards has already found pride goeth before a fall. Obama thinks he will never lose.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

1 posted on 08/12/2008 9:50:40 PM PDT by goldstategop
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At this point Obama is so full of himself it has darkened his pigment.
2 posted on 08/12/2008 9:55:56 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter ( Who is America's George Galloway?)
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himself = it...
3 posted on 08/12/2008 9:57:42 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter ( Who is America's George Galloway?)
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Democratic strategists loudly insist that the tawdry sex scandal consuming John Edwards will do no damage to the Obama campaign.
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Such a statement and belief fits into the false reality of the liberal politician. It certainly does not fit in to the real world that measures people by their actions and holds them accountable for their actions. The nacissistic world of the liberal pol precludes reality, and thus we get so many “utopian perverts” list Clinton, Edwards, and Obama. Their egos and self admiration will not fit through a normal doorway.

Obama is a synthetic creature. He is not real. How can he be? He is without substance, character, real vision, ethics and morals. One has only to listen to this college-campus-communist and know exactly from which political and ethical womb he came.

Wake up America and start MEASURING AND HOLDING YOUR CANDIDATES AND POLITICIANS ACCOUNTABLE. If you do, you will be amazed at what improvement will take place in a government that we once respected and took pride in.


4 posted on 08/12/2008 9:58:08 PM PDT by EagleUSA
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“(Michael Medved On The Dangers Of Self Love Alert)”

Among other things, you'll eventually go blind...

5 posted on 08/12/2008 10:01:38 PM PDT by decal ("You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk dancing.")
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In the classical myth of Narcissus, it is said he looked in the water and fell in love with his own image and died there and from it sprang the narcissus flower.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

6 posted on 08/12/2008 10:05:31 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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Well this is interesting.

[ For two reasons, however, the meltdown of the sleazy operator long known on my radio show as “The Reptilian Con Edwards”. ]

I was not aware that offbeat assertions now made their way to supposed conservative talk radio. Granted no one should be surprized that Edwards is a con.


7 posted on 08/12/2008 10:17:15 PM PDT by Republic_of_Secession.
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I think there is more to the Edward's story. He could have denied everything. There must have been seamy pictures, maybe a set up, maybe blackmail. As a lawyer he probably could talk his way out of Hell, but if there is hard evidence like video footage...
8 posted on 08/12/2008 10:25:17 PM PDT by Blind Eye Jones
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...and Obama has yet to define what he really has in mind (beyond higher taxes) with the "change" and "hope" he endlessly invokes.

Michael Medved is correct.

Regarding the "change" part...

I would love it if someone in the "news" media asked Mister Obama to compare and contrast collectivist Utopian socialism to our republican form of representative democracy.

Marxist Obama needs to be asked precisely, and in full detail, just what on earth he means when he says..."We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded."?

And finally, Marxist Obama should also be asked how important he thinks is a strong and well-equipped United States military; as well as how important to him is the maintainance of security of classified information?

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9 posted on 08/12/2008 10:32:36 PM PDT by Seaplaner (Never give in. Never give in. Never...except to convictions of honour and good sense. W. Churchill)
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“We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded”

WAH? What on earth would be the difference between a state-sponsored civilian national security force (or CNSF, I guess) and the military we have now, besides proffesionalism? Assuming that Obama does not have pictures of little Minutemen dancing in his head, I cannot help but have pictures of brownshirts in mine.

I am not prone to (non-joke) hyperbole, and do not believe in unfair comparisons to past dictators. That said, does Obama realize how much he sounds like Hitler favoring the S.S. (or S.A. before it) over the stodgy Prussian elite of the Wehrmacht? Is this all so he can bypass the Joint CHiefs of Staff? What the heckfire?


10 posted on 08/12/2008 11:02:16 PM PDT by Tublecane
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To: goldstategop

” to the smug arrogance of high intelligence, movie star looks, natural athleticism, Ivy League degrees, lucky breaks, and effortless success.”

Anyone here remember the classic movie (imho), The Way We Were? Redford’s character, Hubbell Gardner, had a famous line about himself - “everything came too easily”. At least HE had enough character for self-loathing.

Not so with either Edwards OR B. Hussein.


11 posted on 08/12/2008 11:23:04 PM PDT by llandres (I'd rather be alive and bankrupt than dead and solvent)
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To: Blind Eye Jones

“I think there is more to the Edward’s story. “

With all due respect - DUH!!!

Bless your heart :-)))


12 posted on 08/12/2008 11:27:54 PM PDT by llandres (I'd rather be alive and bankrupt than dead and solvent)
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To: Blind Eye Jones

“but if there is hard evidence like video footage...”

The Enquirer DOES have video footage, and has been airing it, of him coming from her hotel room so recently, and trying to question him thereafter.


13 posted on 08/12/2008 11:31:23 PM PDT by llandres (I'd rather be alive and bankrupt than dead and solvent)
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To: Seaplaner

“”We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we’ve set. We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.”?”

Danger, Will Robinson, Danger.

Danger, United States, DANGER.


14 posted on 08/12/2008 11:34:02 PM PDT by llandres (I'd rather be alive and bankrupt than dead and solvent)
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Danger is right.

There are too many people in our country who do not seem to realize the potential threat to our liberties and our very way of life Obama represents.

15 posted on 08/12/2008 11:37:10 PM PDT by Allegra (Goodness me, goodness me, industrial disease...)
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To: goldstategop

mark


16 posted on 08/12/2008 11:41:43 PM PDT by Christian4Bush (About Obama: "Overinflated balloons pop suddenly and catastrophically." - Bill Dupray)
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To: gov_bean_ counter

Just think, Edwards could have avoided all this trouble if he could just have found a mirror that kissed back..


17 posted on 08/12/2008 11:57:25 PM PDT by Wil H
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To: Blind Eye Jones
The only crime a superman can make is to make a mistake.

--Nathan Leopold

18 posted on 08/13/2008 1:00:18 AM PDT by oyez (Justa' another high minded lowlife.)
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To: llandres

So the Enquirer has become the U.S. newspaper of record and a news agency worthy of attention.

By contrast, newspapers like the New York Times have become disasters.


19 posted on 08/13/2008 1:16:08 AM PDT by Seeing More Clearly Now
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Obama would love to have a group of stormtroopers answerable only to him. This would be to control and oppress the people. This is the change Obama has planned for us.


20 posted on 08/13/2008 1:52:36 AM PDT by Wilhelm Tell (True or False? This is not a tag line.)
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