Posted on 01/16/2010 4:30:57 PM PST by militanttoby
I'll ask the same thing Ed Lasky has been asking about this book; the MSM made a huge deal of how the McCain campaign saw Sarah Palin and what they were saying about her, quoting liberally - and gleefully - from the book.
But in the first 40 pages there are several eye popping accounts of how Obama was seen by his own staff and allies, including this one Ed Lasky sent along:
After his election as Senator a lot of requests came in for him to speak..many of them fundraisers for other candidates. They required registration systems be set up that allowed Obama to get the email of all attendees for someone else's event. But that is a digression. His aides were "praying it wouldn't go to Obama's head; his ego was robust enough already. They even conferred on the senator a new nickname: Black Jesus."
Arrogant, sensitive to slights, bored with his job in the senate, and someone with a messianic self-image; a cold, calculating Chicago pol - all of this is of no interest to the MSM?
The Gatekeepers have been working very hard to ignore this.
More coverage of Obama in the book here and here .
Excerpt:
The glacial pace, the endless procedural wrangling, the witless posturing and petifoggery, the geriatric cast of characters doddering around the place: all of it drove him nuts. To one friend in Chicago, Obama complained,
“It is basically the same as Springfield except the average age in Springfield is forty-two and in Washington it’s sixty-two. Other than that, it’s the same bullshit”.
After listening to Biden during a committee hearing, Obama passed a note to Gibbs that read “Shoot me now”.
Time and again after debates on the floor, he would emerge through the chamber’s double doors shaking his head, rolling his eyes, using both hands to give the universal symbol for the flapping of gums, sighing wearily, “Yak, yak, yak
Ed Lasky
Within a few pages of the new book:
“He could come across as cocky, that was for sure. He knew he was smarter than the average politician and he not only knew it but wanted to make sure everyone else knew it, too. He would interrupt aides at meeting, saying Look (he does this all the time) and be off to the races, reframing the point, extending it and then claim ownership of it. “Whose idea was that? Was another of his favorites, employed with cheerful boastfulness whenever something he’d previously proposed had come up roses. His calmness and composure would veer into the freakish,., and sometimes concealed gaudy confidence in himself. When asked if he was nervous, Obama replied “I’m Lebron, baby..I can play at this level. I got some game”.
In other words: he claims credit for others’ ideas, brags when “his” ideas turn out to work and -when he is not unnaturally apathetic (oh..sorry..calm) he is filled to the brim with hubris and ego.
Great guy....
Zero’s arrogance is reflected throughout his administration and in the Democrats in the Senate and the House. We need a major housecleaning in the House and as much as possible in the Senate this year followed by a fumigation of the Senate in 2012.
Gee, this is all so surprising. I thought he was such a noble, heroic spirit, both humble and godly. < /s>
why isnt rush , levin and savage and hannitty and beck reading these quotes> they should read them, post these quotes
im buying the book tomorrow. just finished end the fed, culture of corruption and halfway through America for sale
yes total fumigation.
One thing he can’t do: produce his birth certificate.
Have you read www.thepostEmail.com/2010/01/12/his-name-is-steve-dunham/
Obama told that in a speech in 2008. Someone followed up on it and found birth certificate for Steve Dunham in Kenya. Admin said it was a joke. Read Comments.
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