He is remarkably unself-aware.
[Update a few minutes later]
It really is a personality disorder:
Examination of the symptoms should give pause. I’m not saying he might be the only politician with this problem or that he’d even be diagnosed with NPD. I’m not a doctor and I don’t play one on TV (although I have stayed in a Holiday Inn Express before). However, there are so many examples of similar behavior in his past that it is hard to ignore what is right in front of your eyes. And while he may not personally do everything (this probably being an example) he has a staff which knows their President and does what he would approve. That’s why they’re where they are. They play into the personality and feed it.
They’re riding for a hard fall in November.
Phil Klein says he should get over himself:
Obviously, as president, Obama can use the tools of the White House to advance his goals. But at the same time, all presidents are to some extent guardians of the institution. Sure, a lot of the White House website is naturally going to be used to promote Obama, but there are some areas that should be considered neutral ground — one of them being the history sections. White House presidential biographies are the type of thing that school kids read and they should be able to do so without being bombarded by propaganda for whoever is in power. I’m sure that during the Social Security debate in 2005, if President Bush had updated the biographical page to say that he was trying to preserve FDR’s original vision for Social Security, liberals would have been up in arms. And if Mitt Romney wins in November, I’m sure liberals won’t want him to use the presidential biographies for self-promotion, either.
Obama should get beyond his own narcissism and realize that, win or lose in November, he’s just a temporary part of something that’s bigger than himself.
He can’t. It’s who he is. It’s what he does.
[Update a few minutes later]
Well, this was inevitable: Obama in history.
Obama is under the mistaken impression that America’s symbol is the bald ego.
[Taranto]
Are you going to believe your lying eyes or what the left tells ya? President dog breath for life!
If Romney wins in November, it still won’t be over. Obama will be eligible to run for another term and what Democrat would oppose him for the nomination, Al Franken? He will hector the American public and spend four years lecturing us about our great mistake, and that we can repent our primitive, racist, and gun-clinging ways and put him back where he belongs, in the White House. Meanwhile Moobacca will probably become a fixture on The View or get her own show on the Oprah Channel. When it comes to meddling in US and international affairs, he’ll make Jimmy Carter look like a hermit.
“When it comes to meddling in US and international affairs, he’ll make Jimmy Carter look like a hermit.”
Too true. It wouldn’t surprise me to see him host a show on MSNBC and CNN while being a judge on American Idol at the same time being in a reality show about his efforts to be President of the UN.
At each opportunity he will blame his successor for changing his programs and that things would be 314% better if people just did what he said.
Michelle would only get a show on the Oprah channel over Oprah’s dead body. That particular bridge has been burned, knocked over, and pushed into the swamp.
It would be delightful if some future administration erased the entire history of this administration, and replaced it with “2009 – 2013: position vacant.”
I think that was done with one of the Egyptian pharaohs.
Now we know why.
So let it be written, so let it be done.
Looks like there are all kinds of nuggets of fun in the Edward Klein biography of Obama. Over at Power line blog they have this excerpt from The Amateur:
Obama’s legacy: 3 years of a Democrat controlled Senate unanimously rejecting his budget.