Posted on 12/21/2010 2:25:40 AM PST by Gomer1066
In the novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, described as "a classic commentary on narcissism, decadence, and the wages of sin," author Oscar Wilde wrote:
Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. The sitter is merely the accident, the occasion. It is not he who is revealed by the painter; it is rather the painter who, on the coloured canvas, reveals himself.
An empty canvas was offered by Barack Obama in the prologue of his book, The Audacity of Hope, with his admission: "I serve as a blank screen on which people of vastly different political stripes project their own views," and "my treatment of the issues is often partial and incomplete."
As writer Froma Harrop noted in her 2006 Real Clear Politics article, "Obama Scores as Exotic Who Says Nothing":
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
*snicker*
Everything else about his life is fake so it’s plausible.
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You are so right! It makes me want to scream when obama makes one of his ridiculous speeches that says nothing - and then the libs/MSM act like he’s Winston Churchill. With an educated electorate all this could not have happened
In terms of philosophy, Obama is Nietzsche’s “Superman” (UBERMENSCH)- a creature “beyond good and evil” who Nietzsche believed was the final evolution of Man.
Of course, Nietzsche went insane. Perhaps because he realized his UBERMENSCH was not an advanced evolution of mankind, but the same old psychopath the honest man has done battle with since the Garden of Eden.
HOW OBAMA SEES HIMSELF. I WONDER HOW MUCH HE WAS INFLUENCED BY NIETZSCHE?
Looks like Bobby Jindal.
LOL....you're not the only one. For a while, any time Michael Savage played an Obama sound bite, he'd have a dental drill in the background. It was hilarious, and IMHO, very appropriate.
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