Posted on 11/26/2008 1:14:01 PM PST by Sub-Driver
Obama: 'Change comes . . . from me'
By NIA-MALIKA HENDERSON
Obama referred to his team of advisers as "fresh thinking," adding that the “vision for change comes first and foremost…from me.”
President-elect Barack Obama pushed back at a press conference in Chicago today when asked how he would respond to supporters "who were looking for change," given how many of his announced and rumored appointments thus far are Clinton administration veterans.
“When it comes to the people that we've pulled together -- because I know this has been sort of conventional wisdom floating around Washington -- that, well, you know, there's a recycling of people who were in the Clinton administration,” Obama replied, referring specifically to the economic team he introduced on Monday. “And so it would be surprising if I selected a Treasury secretary who had had no connection with the last Democratic administration because that would mean that the person had no experience in Washington whatsoever.”
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excessive pride or self-confidence; arrogance.
sounds like a critical success factor to me.
Malignant Narcissism
From Wiki...
An absence of conscience, a psychological need for power, and a sense of importance (grandiosity) are often symptomatic of Malignant Narcissism.
Much more, and many other sites offer addnl insight to this vewwy skewwy psycopathy.
Obama votes — present.
All we have to celebrate about this guy so far is that he hasn’t appointed many out-and-out rabid leftists to any high profile positions. In the wake of the election and the campaign Hussein ran (especially in the primaries) we are all thankful for what appear to be some small favors.
But we still don’t know how he will govern. He has promised quite a few things and the economic mess may well prove to be an obstacle to his implementing some of his gems of change (we can only hope). But there are still plenty of things he can do to foul the waters especially in areas like life issues, depravity as a civil right and, of course, the emasculation of the military and a retreat in the war on Islamic aggression. And watching this bunch adminstering hundreds of billions of dollars in “economic stimulus” or “economic relief” funds ought to be a real treat. And amnesty for millions awaits.
If Hussein really does think of himself as some stellar figure destined to lead America into the light we are in real trouble.
No experience in Washington. Isn’t that what he promised?
Did anyone hear the caller to Rush — about an hour after this news conference — who said he’d voted for Obama because of Obama’s “humility”. Rush pretty much hung up on him, and he almost never does that!
From Wiki...
An absence of conscience, a psychological need for power, and a sense of importance (grandiosity) are often symptomatic of Malignant Narcissism.
Too long for a campaign slogan. "Change" sounds better.
Thus spake Baby Hugo.
Malignant Narcissim is a GREAT song by Rush (the rock band). I just hope Obama doesn’t ruin it by taking it for his theme song! Although it would fit - it sounds great but has no real meaning. (It’s an instrumental!)
The link is from Rush’s live Snakes & Arrows album.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TH2-4_q11zQ
He was the one who extended his "sympathy" to Rush, and then went on about how humble both Biden and Obama are.
I thought Rush handled him beautifully.
Thou Shalt Have No Other Thoughts Before ME!
Through The One (piss be upon him), ALL things are possible!
Alpha, Omega...
Less than 2 years experience in the United States Senate.
The only thing Comrade 0bama has ever run is his mouth.
My priest said that hope and change does not come from actors or politicians, it comes from Jesus Christ.
No self-esteem issues there, huh . . .
He needs to do a lot more of it. I, for the most part, change stations when he takes calls now days. He used to have no patience for sycophantic callers. Now he lets them drone on forever about how much they love him.
He used to tightly manage that aspect of the show with seminars for callers and the shtick about the purpose of the caller being to make the host look good. He seems to have forgotten all of that, and will let any idiot or conspiracy theorist babble on and on for whole segments.
I’ve noticed the same response by Hannity, and Levin to some extent, recently. The caller will start off sweetly sucking up to the host, then start with a sing-song whine about “give Obama a chance”, blah blah blah. The host just listens and is overly polite. I, too, cannot stand it and turn the stations more than I used to.
Keep your change
I ain't buying it
pomposity: The quality of being pompous; self-importance.
But I will say I have known people that seemed overly self-confident, however, in actuality they were insecure in their own abilities so they put on the “front” of self-confidence.
--Proverbs 16:18
Rush.....only recently have I realized how brilliant their lyrics are.
So far advisers have created an Office of the President-elect thus proving that they can modify the Constitution at will. (So much for that "defective" section that speaks of that natural born thingy.)
After a months-long, Hollywood-created aura of "the President" it continues -- and IMO makes a big joke out of Obama.
Is this going to be some kind of reality show? A reality version of West Wing?
Hannity is the one who drives me batsh*t with seminar callers. He had one yesterday who lied about being a conservative and came off as a complete moonbat, and the Leprechaun just sat there and took it. Levin would have had this posers’ nuts on a platter. I’m just glad I’ve got Dennis Miller and Steve Malzberg instead of Hannity.
That's what so scary. The so-called 3rd-way centrist guys from the Clinton Era are much more dangerous than the leftist moonbats.
Proverbs 24:21
My son, fear thou the LORD and the king: and meddle not with them that are given to change:
Psalm 111:10
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom;
all who follow his precepts have good understanding.
To him belongs eternal praise.
The blind leading the blind.
Anyone notcie this “professing Christian” (Obama), has not been to church since being elected. He’s been “working out” on Sunday.
“Change comes ... from me”
(Obama said that)
“I am the state”
(Didn’t some king say that?)
Not too far apart, eh?
(I said that)
- John
I am the light. I am the way.
Oooooh! Don’t get me started on Hugo! Talk about Malignant Narcissism! He has single-handedly turned that country into a stinkhole and his “followers” have gotten so used to the stink they can’t even smell it. The stinking tenements that are STILL there after years of HIM remind me of the MILLIONS State Senator Obama got diverted to Rezko to build all the boarded-up tenements in Chicago. I think one of those is still open and maybe they’re trying to keep it as an example of all they’ve accomplished.
He’s the king of pompous words — I don’t think he’s really this guy but he sure talks a big game — with zero experience
Daniel 7:8 NKJV
I was considering the horns, and there was another horn,
a little one, coming up among them,
before whom three of the first horns were plucked out by the roots.
And there, in this horn, were eyes like the eyes of a man,
and a mouth speaking pompous words.
Daniel 7:20 NKJV
and the ten horns that were on its head,
and the other horn which came up, before which three fell,
namely, that horn which had eyes and a mouth which spoke pompous words,
whose appearance was greater than his fellows.
How many people saw the PBS Frontline story about Venezuela and Chavez? The particularly interesting part is the way Chavez plays his ministers as the bad guys all the time, in public ... It’s never his fault.
Watch — http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/hugochavez/view/
Obamunism is warmed over communism, following the Chavez model. Aha, you say, now you know why the liberals were all fawning over the thug Chavez for the last few years. Watch the video, and get back to me.
Just another episode of PIMP MY PRESIDENCY.
I am the walrus...goo goo g’joob.
He conned half of America into thinking that, otherwise they wouldn't have voted for him.
Not one week after the election my starry-eyed liberal sister was still trying to sell me on Obama. It's a psychosis, I tell you.
“Levin would have had this posers’ nuts on a platter.”
Hannity would have, too, at one time. I think the threat of the Fairness Doctrine has compromised his grit.
When Rush gets too gushy with the seminar callers, I go to my PC and listen to Tammy Bruce. She’s tougher than all of them, except maybe Levin.
“I am the way, the truth and the light. No one comes to the
Father but through me.” John 14 something.
Obamassiah needs a shrink.
Regardless of what we all think of Obama, the headline here is grammatically dishonest. The subject of the sentence was “vision” - the vision comes from Obama. “Change” was part of a prepositional phrase. He did not say what the title says he did - it’s a distortion.
I’m all about criticism and ridicule of the One (after all, see my tagline), but it needs to be based in truth.
“Change comes from me”? More plagiarism, in this case a rip-off of John D. Rockefeller’s practice of handing out dimes to kids.
I was fond of pennies for UNICEF myself....
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