Posted on 09/03/2012 8:35:32 AM PDT by Justaham
President Obama's competitive, boastful nature and condescending advice rubs even loyal Democrats the wrong way, a new profile alleges.
The New York Times' Jodi Kantor airs complaints from "loyal" Obama associates -- not as a buried lede but explicitly in her introduction:
He has mentioned more than once in recent weeks that he cooks a really mean chili. He has impressive musical pitch, he told an Iowa audience. He is a surprisingly good pool player, he informed an interviewer not to mention (though he does) a doodler of unusual skill.
The article reports Obama's associates characterize this bluster and political zeal as "cockiness." Further, Washington Democrats say he is all too eager to offer unsolicited advice -- on handshakes, writing, and parenting, among other topics.
For those activities at which he feels inadequate, Obama reportedly dedicates considerable time to practice, no matter how trivial the pastime:
He has played golf 104 times since becoming president, according to Mark Knoller of CBS News, who monitors his outings, and he asks superior players for tips that have helped lower his scores. He decompresses with card games on Air Force One, but players who do not concentrate risk a reprimand (Youre not playing, youre just gambling, he once told Arun Chaudhary, his former videographer).
His idea of birthday relaxation is competing in an Olympic-style athletic tournament with friends, keeping close score. The 2009 version ended with a bowling event. Guess who won, despite his history of embarrassingly low scores? The president, it turned out, had been practicing in the White House alley.
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Gimme a small movie theater, and a small room with a couple of guitars, bass included, drums and a few amplifiers.
I don’t play golf, so I’d mostly have guitars around my shoulder.
But only one at a time, because two can’t fit.
Unless it’s a double neck.
From the looks of things, does this special person do anything remotely connected to traditional American President duties....all I hear or see about is golf, beer, chili, golf, golf, golf, B-ball, and so forth....what time does this welfare president wake up in the morning?
LOL. They are just now figuring out the man is a narcissistic self-absorbed jerk? Obama walking down WH halls where he had all the pictures replaced to pictures of himself didn’t do it?
It would be fun watching media heads who are suddenly discovering who O really is, if it weren’t for the destruction and havoc he’s wrought on this country in the four years that they hadn’t figured it out yet.
Bill O’Reilly suddenly figuring the man is anti-family. So many Dem businessmen realizing he’s anti-business. Me screaming at the TV, why do you not see the warning signs? Why aren’t you paying attention?
All those speeches they raved about and we all looked at each other saying, “Do they not realize the man used the word “I” 72 times? The defects of his character were blazing out for anyone not blinded by self-delusion. Of course, nowadays people are thought to think of themselves first so it went by the secular-progressives.
“Logic, why don’t they teach logic in these schools!” -The Magician’s Nephew, CS Lewis
“He is everywhere and yet nowhere. He constantly wants our attention, but has nothing to tell us. There is a real physical Barack Hussein Obama walking about somewhere, but there needn’t be. He would be just as real, if he didn’t exist. If he were nothing more than a poster, a logo, a few books, some computer graphics and a slogan. He would be no less real, because he isn’t real. He’s a brand.”
We conservatives have been saying the EXACT same thing since Obama announced his presidential run back in 2007 and most of us were called racist.
Is Greenfield a Racist or only certain people allowed to critize Obama?
Did anyone else watch the home films of Romney playing with his kids at the RNC and wonder, why haven’t we seen any home films of Obama and his kids, playing?
Even the Kennedys had that.
This is his ‘tell’.....arrogant, omnipotent - evil tyranny rolled up into one human being so corrupted by hate he can’t even think about anyone but himself.
Does it account for the oft-repeated opinion that if citizens do not approve of his actions and policies it is because he has not spent enough time explaining them?
Is "practicing" a role as President of the United States in order to fulfill a need to be what has been longingly described as one of the top few to fill the office leadership? Or, is it the action of an immature and arrogant actor/tyrant who wants to beat others' expectations of his abilities.
Are they really his?
“I can create a steaming pile of impressive proportions and amazing pungency.”
I guess BO’s “friends” don’t like him much, either.
It is only a matter of time until the RAT’s start jumping ship — JMHO.
My ears are bleeding from the racist dog whistle sound of that word!
My God, if a Republican had called Obama “cocky” Ed Schultz would blow a gasket.
Good grief.
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