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He ends with "What is odd is to have a president so convinced of his own magnificence -- yet not of his own country's."

While I appreciate Krauthhammer is one of the few willing to take Obama on in all public forums...still he asks a non-sequiter. This is not Obama's own country. Never was. Why are conservatives so stupid?

The Big Boo

Obama's modesty about America would be more understandable if he treated himself with the same reserve. What is odd is to have a president so convinced of his own magnificence -- yet not of his own country's.

I've been amazed by Obama's arrogance. The crowning blow for me was his autobiography, which it appears he didn't write. Still, to write an autobiography when you have done absolutely nothing tells me a lot about the narcissism of the man.

From the article:

“It’s fine to recognize the achievements of others and be non-chauvinistic about one’s country. But Obama’s modesty is curiously selective. When it comes to himself, modesty is in short supply.

“It began with the almost comical self-inflation of his presidential campaign, from the still inexplicable mass rally in Berlin in front of a Prussian victory column to the Greek columns framing him at the Democratic convention. And it carried into his presidency, from his posture of philosopher-king adjudicating between America’s sins and the world’s to his speeches marked by a spectacularly promiscuous use of the word “I.”

“Notice, too, how Obama habitually refers to Cabinet members and other high government officials as “my” — “my secretary of homeland security,” “my national security team,” “my ambassador.” The more normal — and respectful — usage is to say “the,” as in “the secretary of state.” These are, after all, public officials sworn to serve the nation and the Constitution — not just the man who appointed them.

“It’s a stylistic detail, but quite revealing of Obama’s exalted view of himself. Not surprising, perhaps, in a man whose major achievement before acceding to the presidency was writing two biographies — both about himself.”

“I am the president.”

“My [secretary of state],” etc.

“Office of the President Elect.”

And let’s not forget the Oaf of Office on January 20, 2009:

“President TO the United States” — per Chief Justice John Roberts