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November 29, 2013

Our president: sensitive to criticism but immune to irony.

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Barack Obama is if not the most selfish man in American public life then a contender for the title and a shoo-in hall-of-famer.
Along with such titans as Donald Trump and Alec Baldwin, he is the possessor of an epic sense of self, a Jörmungandr of ego reaching around the world to embrace — what else? — himself. The man is mired in self, positively suffocating in self: self-importance, self-regard, self-aggrandizement. Though one wonders how much substance there is within the balloon of the presidential ego: This is a man who has, after all, conscientiously reduced himself to a logo and a slogan, not a man for all seasons but a man for a single season ending in early November. The Barack Obama made available for public consumption is, like those Shepard Fairey “hope” posters seen around election time, a millimeter deep but ubiquitous. The Problem of Selfishness By Kevin D. Williamson

Posted by gerardvanderleun at November 29, 2013 4:08 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.

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"He is the possessor of an epic sense of self, a Jörmungandr of ego reaching around the world to embrace — what else? — himself."

Of course he is. And I can edit this piece donw to two words. Baby Boomer.

Posted by: glenn at November 29, 2013 5:17 PM

Jonah Goldberg describes it as Hubris. Not just arrogance, but a blinding, towering certainty that you cannot do wrong, can do everything well, and that the ordinary rules of life, ethics, and even murphy's law do not apply to you. The kind of person who'd walk off a cliff totally confident they would just reach the other side because they are so wonderfully great.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at November 30, 2013 1:09 PM

It ain't him, it was never him.

It's the whoever that turned the schools into breeding grounds for self-absorbed slackers.

It's the whoever that perfected the art of manipulating the choice of GOP candidates to always choose the patsy.

When the story of this age of the transition from the Republic is written, Obama will neither be the hero or the villain. The symbol or figurehead perhaps, but not the man behind the curtain.

Behind the curtain is stadium seating.

Posted by: John the River at December 1, 2013 10:31 AM

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