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The Audacity of Vanity
Washington Post ^ | 18 Julyl 2008 | Charles Krauthammer

Posted on 07/18/2008 4:33:02 AM PDT by shrinkermd

Obama is a three-year senator without a single important legislative achievement to his name, a former Illinois state senator who voted "present" nearly 130 times. As president of the Harvard Law Review, as law professor and as legislator, has he ever produced a single notable piece of scholarship? Written a single memorable article? His most memorable work is a biography of his favorite subject: himself.

It is a subject upon which he can dilate effortlessly. In his victory speech upon winning the nomination, Obama declared it a great turning point in history -- "generations from now we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment" -- when, among other wonders, "the rise of the oceans began to slow." As Hudson Institute economist Irwin Stelzer noted in his London Daily Telegraph column, "Moses made the waters recede, but he had help." Obama apparently works alone.

Obama may think he's King Canute, but the good king ordered the tides to halt precisely to refute sycophantic aides who suggested that he had such power. Obama has no such modesty.

After all, in the words of his own slogan, "we are the ones we've been waiting for," which, translating the royal "we," means: " I am the one we've been waiting for." Amazingly, he had a quasi-presidential seal with its own Latin inscription affixed to his lectern, until general ridicule -- it was pointed out that he was not yet president -- induced him to take it down.

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: krauthammer; obama; vanity
Obama seems to suffer from malignant narcissism whereby he feels he is exceptional, acts like he is exceptional and his followers believe he is exceptional. On the basis of his followers opinion, Obama feels even more justified in his exceptionalism. This will go on and on until he fails at some major task. Then he, and his followers, will have to see him in reality.

In the meantime any chance of discovering who he is and what he stands for results in Obama taking that person out of the campaign--now his wife, formerly his pastor and all previous radical leftists

1 posted on 07/18/2008 4:33:03 AM PDT by shrinkermd
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To: shrinkermd

This is such a great column. Now if only we could get the dim Dhims and “liberals” to read, think and believe it.

They won’t, they’re all marching lockstep like lemmings over the cliffs of liberal fantasy, illusion, delusion and CON fusion. (Pardon my little Agnew swerve)


2 posted on 07/18/2008 4:41:01 AM PDT by garyhope (It's World War IV, right here, right now, courtesy of Islam. TWP VRWC)
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To: shrinkermd
Read about the Harvard Law Review at Wiki. Susan Estrich (Dem Operative) was the first woman prez in 1978. There is a race based initiative in their selections.

Looking more like the politics as usual.

3 posted on 07/18/2008 4:42:34 AM PDT by Sacajaweau (I'm planting corn...Have to feed my car...)
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To: RhoTheta

Ping.


4 posted on 07/18/2008 5:00:01 AM PDT by Egon (The difference between Theory and Practice: In Theory, there is no difference.)
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To: shrinkermd

Charles is my favorite commentator. He nails it every single time.


5 posted on 07/18/2008 5:02:30 AM PDT by SueRae
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To: Sacajaweau

as far as I am concerned this will be, in the case of Obama winning, the First Historic AFFIRMATIVE ACTION presidency, short on experience deficit of political maturity.


6 posted on 07/18/2008 5:04:41 AM PDT by pennboricua
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To: shrinkermd


7 posted on 07/18/2008 5:12:58 AM PDT by vietvet67
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To: shrinkermd
"Obama seems to suffer from malignant narcissism whereby he feels he is exceptional, acts like he is exceptional and his followers believe he is exceptional. On the basis of his followers opinion, Obama feels even more justified in his exceptionalism..."

To nail that reality down further:

"..The pathological narcissist imagines he's giving you milk when he's actually feeding you poop; in short, he's not a bountiful breast but a toxic a$$hole. Once you get a feel for this, you can really appreciate the ubiquity of the dynamic. Ever wonder how Noam Chomsky can be so prolific? Because the large intestine never sleeps. Likewise, mass culture is a sewer. Literally. ...

...Look at Obama. What is he? That's part of the problem, because he clearly doesn't know. He's certainly not "priestly" or spiritual, based upon his long-time membership in a racist cult. He's not intellectual, based upon his skin-deep grasp of the issues, and a mind that seems to consist of little more than recycled leftist cliches with no discernible center. He's not a warrior; quite the opposite, as he has no feel whatsoever for military culture. He's not a leader, as his basic masculinity is too much in doubt. He's pretending to be something, but even he doesn't seem to know what it is. Apparently, he wasn't even a good community agitator, like Al Sharpton. .." ~ Gagdad Bob

Click "show original post":
Beauty, Milk, Poop, Soul Jazz, and the Miscaste Obama

8 posted on 07/18/2008 5:28:20 AM PDT by Matchett-PI (Driving a Phase-2 Operation Chaos Hybrid that burns both gas AND rubber!)
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Ping


9 posted on 07/18/2008 5:34:49 AM PDT by HawaiianGecko (Obama at the Brandenburg gate: "Ich bin ein Beginner")
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To: shrinkermd
Title reminds me of a Movie Title.. The Bonfire of the Vanities
10 posted on 07/18/2008 8:32:32 AM PDT by AmericanMade1776
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To: shrinkermd

11/4 won’t come soon enough for me...
then we can be done with the anti-American racist Liberal...


11 posted on 07/18/2008 8:36:23 AM PDT by kellynla (Freedom of speech makes it easier to spot the idiots! Semper Fi!)
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To: shrinkermd

Bump.


12 posted on 07/18/2008 5:29:09 PM PDT by Shermy
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To: Shermy

bump


13 posted on 07/22/2008 7:59:18 PM PDT by Chickensoup ('08 VOTING, NOT for the GOP, but INSTEAD, for the SUPREME COURT that will be BEST for my FAMILY!!)
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