Obama’s over-the-top self-aggrandizement
At ASU President Obama managed to combine criticism of the graduating students’ parents with a stunning amount of projection. (It is worth pondering that this child of a broken home, with a peripatetic mother and multiple temporary “fathers,” thinks it is his business to tell young people to “help end” the passing of traditional American aspirations from parents to children):
Many of you have been taught to chase after the usual brass rings: being on this “who’s who” list or that top 100 list; how much money you make and how big your corner office is; whether you have a fancy enough title or a nice enough car…such an approach won’t get you where you want to go; that in fact, the elevation of appearance over substance, celebrity over character, short-term gain over lasting achievement is precisely what your generation needs to help end.
Calling Dr. Freud. It is passing strange that Obama derides precisely those things that he has struggled for mightily and achieved at a young age. (He apparently thinks that his intense personal ambition is morally superior because he has hidden it from himself under the guise of “serving the people”.) Any man who has an autobiography at age 33 has no business telling others to curb their ambitions for personal gain in life.
(Jacob Weisberg’s comments at the very bottom of this piece in Slate are also interesting: “He’s ruthless…His cracks at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner about Hillary Clinton being an envious loser, Larry Summers’ woman problem, and training his dog not to pee on Tim Geithner skirted cruelty. Obama’s jokes about himself were about how great everyone thinks he is.”)
There is something quite disturbing about this man. It’s not just that he has grandiose rhetoric. It’s not just that he has the worldview of a typical college professor and pursues that agenda with Chicagoland ruthlessness — except when he abruptly decides to change his mind in his self interest. That’s just politics. Rather, it is Obama’s apparent conviction that he has, as his followers believe, a special personal destiny. In our view, at his core, this man may really not believe that he is just another guy. And that’s a scary thing when a man has so much power.
Question: is Obama even aware how over-the-top he is with his constant self-aggrandizement?
May 17th, 2009 at 12:09 pm
I did not want Obama to be elected because I thought he was dangerously naive. Since the election he has proven to be even more frightening to me due to his seeming to posses what is possibly the most dangerous of personality types: a narcissistic, golden boy, incapable of critical self-evaluation. The most dangerous leaders in history have had this trait. It never ends well. Unfortunately he is our leader this time. I would love to be wrong, and I deeply hope I am.
May 17th, 2009 at 11:51 pm
[...] in evil. Nor does it mean that he does not hate this nation and wish it formed into his own depraved likeness. There is something quite disturbing about this man. It’s not just that he has grandiose [...]
May 18th, 2009 at 6:03 am
Calling Dr. Freud…
Dino is trying to understand what makes Obama tick, and he rightly wonders what would cause a 33 year-old to write an autobiography. Dino is looking for clues to the man’s underlying personality structure.
He is especially puzzled by this recent O q…
May 19th, 2009 at 6:53 am
“”"”"it is Obama’s apparent conviction that he has, as his followers believe, a special personal destiny”"”"”"
He has supposedly said, in recent months, that he expects his name to be “chiseled in stone.”
Abraham Lincoln once said, “If you want to test a man’s character, give him power.”
Obama has flunked the test spectacularly.
May 20th, 2009 at 5:25 am
Obama could not manage a Burger King let alone the USA. Definitely a narcisst (look it up on google). His only International experience was at the International House of Pancakes.
What an International embarresment. Honorary degree at Notre Dame ? Under what name?
Beware of this individual.
May 21st, 2009 at 11:34 am
Bwah Ha Ha
oops… the spirit of Obama just went through me.