[Aria]

Obama said: "I think that I'm a better speechwriter than my speechwriters. I know more about policies on any particular issue than my policy directors. And I'll tell you right now that I'm gonna think I'm a better political director than my political director."

Unbelievable! no....wait...it's unfortunately believable...

[Arthur McGowan]

The only thing that gives me hope is that Obama is stupid as well as evil.

[Larry381]

Obama said I think that I'm a better speechwriter than my speechwriters. I know more about policies on any particular issue than my policy directors. And I'll tell you right now that I'm gonna think I'm a better political director than my political director."

My God, he sounds like Jimmy Carter's (illegimate) son. I wonder if he really said something that dumb-that's the kind of rhetoric politicians usually avoid because nine time out of ten it comes back to bite you in the ass.

[4rcane]

self confidence is a bad choice of word, its arrogance, hubris, elitism

[Arthur McGowan]

Too little noted: Joe Califano’s account of how people (rubes) would come in and present their concerns to Jimmy Carter. All during their meetings, Carter would write notes on a legal pad. The moment they left the Oval Office, the pages of notes went in the wastebasket.

[Arthur McGowan]

Oh, and everyone in the Carter White House knew it was pointless to offer Jimmy advice, or to disagree with him, unless you wanted to get a tongue-lashing.

[Darkwolf377]

For someone who talks about himself constantly, Obama has a shockingly low level of self-awareness. He’s deluded about himself. He has created this character called “Barack Obama,” and now he believes it represents the actual person.

[snowsislander]

The comments reinforced perceptions of Obama as a supremely confident President who knows what he wants and often just goes through the motions of taking advice. This ego factor first became clear in a New Yorker article last year, where the Obama campaign's political director Patrick Gaspard recounted his first conversation with the then candidate.

Obama said: "I think that I'm a better speechwriter than my speechwriters. I know more about policies on any particular issue than my policy directors. And I'll tell you right now that I'm gonna think I'm a better political director than my political director."

Hubris and incompetence.

It's going to be a long four years.

[nathanbedford]

Every generation of leftists believes that the reason Socialism did not succeed is because the wrong socialists were in charge.

[vbmoneyspender]

"I think that I'm a better speechwriter than my speechwriters. I know more about policies on any particular issue than my policy directors. And I'll tell you right now that I'm gonna think I'm a better political director than my political director."

Amazing. Anyone who has even the slightest empathy would know never to say something like that even if were true because people hate that kind of arrogance. Plus all you do when you make statements like that is paint a big fat target on yourself.

[library user]

bump

[Caipirabob]

"Make me proud, Bubula!"

[poobear]

“I think that I'm a better speechwriter than my speechwriters. I know more about policies on any particular issue than my policy directors. And I'll tell you right now that I'm gonna think I'm a better political director than my political director.”

Mendacity!

[monocle]

Jimmy Carter redux.

[MAD-AS-HELL]

The comments reinforced perceptions of Obama as a supremely confident President who knows what he wants and often just goes through the motions of taking advice. This ego factor first became clear in a New Yorker article last year, where the Obama campaign's political director Patrick Gaspard recounted his first conversation with the then candidate.

Didn't the media and the libtards complain about how Bush was just like this? And yet, Obama is very much like Bush and the left is all giddy, or at least they were. Some cracks are starting to show about what a con artist this piece of shiite muslim(sic) that now occupies the White House.

[gridlock]

The best way to advance when you have a Supremely Confident boss is to tell the boss what he wants to hear. In almost every case, what the Supremely Confident Boss wants to hear is his own position, read back to him with some flowery or flattering adornment attached. If you have this skill, you have it made under the Supremely Confident Boss.

The problem with such an arrangement is, of course, that the people who get ahead in the organization have no skill other than reading back the positions of the boss and attaching flattering adornments. Not one of them will have independent abilities or thoughts of his own. People who are capable of thinking on their own are incapable of giving the Supremely Confident Boss what he wants.

A more modest boss would keep independent voices around and would be open to hearing contrary opinion, from time to time. Therefore, he will not only tolerate, but promote, capable people in his organization. Therefore, he is in a much better position when things go bad, and fresh thinking is required.

[Recon Dad]

The chairman of the joint chiefs of staff is the son of a Hollywood spin doctor who was press agent for some big-name movie stars in the 1960s

Question for the Freepers. Has anyone caught Adm Mullin on the talk shows and have you ever questioned what country did he get his uniform from? My first reaction was his white uniform is in the cleaners because he's a sloppy eater. The one he's wearing now is the strangest shade of khaki.

[RichInOC]

Barry, either that’s not true, or you’re not hiring well. Or it’s true, and you’re hiring even worse than you think. (I think the latter.) Really, at this point, nobody’s ever going to mistake you for Thomas Jefferson dining alone, so stop kidding yourself.

[Bender2]

[chainsaw]

As a young lieutenant four years later, Mullen was given command of the gasoline tanker USS Noxubee. He promptly ran it into a buoy, damaging the ship's port propeller, not to mention his career prospects.

As a yes man for Obama, he will do the same for our military.

[aruanan]

Remember how Obama’s wife said he thought he could change the world by the force of his will? Or words to that effect.