The more I see Barack Obama, the more I realize that his ego is truly out of control and that this is not at all a new thing for him. Jonah Goldberg gives us a quick history of Obama’s egotism, starting with this quote from his book “The Audacity of Hope”.
I find comfort in the fact that the longer I’m in politics the less nourishing popularity becomes, that a striving for rank and fame seems to betray a poverty of ambition, and that I am answerable mainly to the steady gaze of my own conscience.
I’d hardly know what to say to someone who said that in front of me. I’d probably take a step or two back just in case God thought I was on his team and decided to stage a replay of the Tower of Babel. The last thing I need is to have my language confounded.
The thing is, this kind of stuff, and the subsequent amazing displays of sheer self-love we’ve seen from the Obamessiah has been part of his makeup for as long as he’s been in politics. Scott Johnson pulls a bunch of quotes from a Ryan Lizza article on the subject just to show us how deeply the self-love runs. What is evident is that he sees his rise to power as an inevitability. People will love him. The only question is how to get him in front of as many people as possible. He lives for the crowd, the huge gathering, which explains why an arena that seats 21,000 isn’t large enough for his nomination speech. He must speak in an open-air stadium that seats over 70,000 because, as his close friend put it in 2004, “…he knew that if people knew his story they would view him as a better candidate than anybody else he thought might be in the field”. That’s not confidence. It’s something far more grand.
I was talking with a good friend recently who says that he sees Obama as a narcissist. The only question for him is whether that makes him simply vainglorious or a sociopath. I’m not sure about that yet but the more I see, the more reason I have to be concerned that it’s the latter.
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I tend to agree that Obama has an extreme amount of arrogance. The money quote was after he clinched when he proclaimed that today we would finally cure the sick and feed the hungry as though it took him for America to figure such things out.
In fact, I am of the opinion that this presents a problem. His theme is that you need to vote for him because only he can solve the world’s ills. Expose that theme for its nebulous narcissism and you expose Obama for what he is. Here is how I viewed it..
http://theeprovocateur.blogspo.....istic.html
Just after that he said, “this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal” which I thought was an even more blatant show of Messianic delusion.
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I am becoming increasingly creeped out by Obama and his minions cult of personality.
The whole chanting thing and having a huge rally in a stadium to honor the leader. I kind of expect Leni Riefenstahl to come back from the dead and produce ‘The Triumph of the HopeChange’
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