This mocking bird will soon get his wings clipped - November isn’t that far away and neither is 2012.
When a Roman general was victorious in a foreign military campaign, he would return home to ride standing in a parade (sort of a long version of the “celebration” we see in sports when a touchdown is made). An attendant always was required to stand in back of the winning general in the chariot or other conveyance he was riding in and continually whisper in his ear that he wasn’t as great as he thought he was, to keep down the hubris and the problems associated with an inflated ego.