Posted on 01/09/2018 12:13:08 AM PST by Oshkalaboomboom
David Cameron thought Barack Obama was one of the 'most narcissistic, self-absorbed people' he had ever dealt with, his former strategy guru has claimed.
While in office the two leaders had a cosy bromance and were pictured high-fiving and playing rounds of golf and ping pong together.
But Steve Hilton tore into Mr Obama for thinking he was 'smarter' than everyone else in the room.
And he claimed that his old boss Mr Cameron would get wound up by the ex President's self absorption.
Hilton, who was Mr Cameron's adviser when he entered Downing Street but later parted way with him and moved to Silicon Valley where his wife, Rachel Whetstone was working first for Google, then Uber, and now Facebook as a communications executive.
Hilton is also hosting a Fox News show on Sundays called The Next Revolution and used it to jump into the aftermath of the publication of the explosive book Fire and Fury, on Donald Trump's time in the White House.
The former Downing Street adviser was highly critical of Mr Obama and said: 'My old boss, former British prime minister David Cameron, thought Obama was one of the most narcissistic, self-absorbed people he'd ever dealt with.
'Obama never listened to anyone, always thought he was smarter than every expert in the room, and treated every meeting as an opportunity to lecture everyone else.
'This led to real-world disasters, like Syria and the rise of Isis.'
But the claims were immediately slapped down by a spokesman for the former Prime Minister who said they do not reflect his views.
Mr Hilton made the shocking claim as he railed against 'elitists' for criticising Donald Trump and claiming he is unfit to hold office.
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Of course he never had the guts to say that while Obama was in office.
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Obama was given everything on a silver platter. MOney, position, a halo, presidency, Nobel....and he believed his own press....long before he every got any of it. His handlers didn’t care what he was, not even those in Europe, so there’s no point in them snarking about him now. What? Are they trying to avoid being deemed idiots for lauding him so much. Too late - we KNOW they are idiots. That ship has sailed.
“....never had the guts to say that....”
You are correct, but who exactly in the news media would have taken the true reality and noted the incompetence of Barack Obama? Even now, a year after leaving office...no one from the mainstream media will go back and criticize any part of the eight years.
The treason media last week was pushing yet again another one of their fake polls saying Obummer is the most admired man in the world. I was like what world is that? Neptune?
I think you’re one planet too far out there, my FRiend.
I see what you did there!
>> Of course he never had the guts to say that while Obama was in office.
Arguably, the comments are inappropriate at any point.
Given his Islamic sympathies what direction did he face when he prayed to himself?
Your talk of obama being given everything on a silver platter reminds me of the long booklet that is linked in my tagline. It was written in 1939 about FDR - called “The Revolution Was”. If you read through the entire thing - it could have been about obama. BUT - obama was trying to complete what FDR had started, so that makes sense.
The following long excerpt relates to obama as the enabled, “elite” revolutionary: (caps are my highlights, and brackets my comments):
“Outside of the Communist party and its aurora of radical intellectuals few Americans seemed to know that revolution had become a department of knowledge, with a philosophy and a doctorate of its own, a language, a great body of experimental data, schools of method, textbooks, and manuals — and this was revolution regarded not as an act of heroic redress in a particular situation, but revolution AS A MEANS TO POWER in the abstract ease.
There was a prodigious literature of revolutionary thought concealed only by the respectability of its dress.
Americans generally associated dangerous doctrine with bad printing, rude grammar, and stealthy distribution. Here was revolutionary doctrine in well printed and well written books.... One ought to read it, perhaps, just to know. But one had tried, and what dreary stuff it had turned out to be!
To the revolutionary this same dreary stuff was the most exciting reading in the world. It was KNOWLEDGE THAT GAVE HIM A SENSE OF POWER. One who mastered the subject to the point of excellence could be fairly sure of a livelihood by teaching and writing, that is, by imparting it to others, and meanwhile dream of passing at A SINGLE LEAP FROM THIS MEAN OBSCURITY TO THE PRESTIGE of one who assists in the manipulation of great happenings; while one who mastered it to the point of genius — THAT ONE MIGHT DREAM [”Dreams of my father?”] of becoming himself the next Lenin.
A society so largely founded on material success and the rewards of individualism in a system of free competitive enterprise would be liable to underestimate both the intellectual content of the revolutionary thesis and the quality of the revolutionary mind that was evolving in a disaffected and envious academic world. At any rate, this society did, and from the revolutionary point of view that was one of the peculiar felicities — of the American opportunity. The revolutionary mind that did at length evolve was one of really superior intelligence, clothed with academic dignity, always sure of itself, supercilious and at ease in all circumstances. To entertain it became fashionable. You might encounter it anywhere, and nowhere more amusingly than at a banker’s dinner table discussing the banker’s trade in a manner sometimes very embarrassing to the banker. Which of these brilliant young men in spectacles was of the cult and which was of the cabal — if there was a cabal — one never knew. Indeed, it was possible that they were not sure of it among themselves, a time having come when some were only playing with the thought of extremes while others were in deadly earnest, all making the same sounds. This was the beginning of mask and guise....
This revolutionary elite was nothing you could define as a party. It had no name, no habitat, no rigid line... It did belong, it was eminently respectable, and it knew the American scene. What it represented was a quantity of bitter intellectual radicalism infiltrated from the top downward as a doctorhood of professors, writers, critics, analysts, advisers, administators, directors of research, [actors, news reporters!] and so on — a prepared revolutionary intelligence in spectacles. There was no plan to begin with. But there was a shibboleth that united them all: “Capitalism is finished.” There was one idea in which all differences could be resolved, namely, the IDEA OF A TRANSFER OF POWER. For that a united front; after that, anything. And the wine of communion was a passion to play upon history with a scientific revolutionary technic.
The prestige of the elite was natural for many reasons; but it rested also upon one practical consideration. When the opportunity came a Gracchus [he was a Roman elite that was a populist and took from the rich to give to the poor] would be needed. The elite could produce one. And that was something the Communist Party could not hope to do.
Nailed it!
Heh. Another excerpt from that long booklet referenced in my earlier post about FDR and Communism:
“Worse outwitted were those who kept trying to make sense of the New Deal from the point of view of all that was implicit in the American scheme, charging it therefore with contradiction, fallacy, economic ignorance, and general incompetence to govern.
But it could not be so embarrassed and all that line was wasted, because, in the first place, it never intended to make that kind of sense, and secondly, it took off from nothing that was implicit in the American scheme. It took off from a revolutionary base....
Having passed this crisis, the New Deal went on from one problem to another, taking them in the proper order, according to revolutionary technic; and if the handling of one was inconsistent with the handling of another, even to the point of nullity, that was blunder in reverse.
The effect was to keep people excited about one thing at a time, and divided, while steadily through all the uproar of outrage and confusion a certain end, held constantly in view, was pursued by main intention.
The end held constantly in view was power.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts
Obama “planned” that Hillary would serve his third term.
I love it when a Democrat plan flops.
Oh and Hillary too, Obama and Hillary most admired in Gallup poll. Hey I didn’t make up this poll, look......
http://news.gallup.com/poll/224672/barack-obama-hillary-clinton-retain-admired-titles.aspx
No - probably Uranus.
Beat me to it!
:-)
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