Proverbs 29:2
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"The righteous detest the dishonest; the wicked detest the upright."
Proverbs 29:27
Posted on 07/13/2012 4:33:46 AM PDT by SJackson
This week, President Obama gave a 25 minute speech in which he used the personal pronouns “I” and “me” some 117 times. He preferred “I” to “me” by a margin of 98 to 19.
It’s not uncommon for presidents to use first person pronouns in speeches. President Bush did it often enough. But Obama’s stampede of “I’s” and “me’s” is unprecedented in its quantity. The President clearly has a high opinion of himself.
That’s a problem. Americans don’t tend to like leaders whose narcissism is out of control. That’s because those leaders tend toward the authoritarian and the imperial. They like executive orders and top-down control. They don’t understand the nature of open political debate, and consider disagreement a personal attack to be avenged.
According to writer Ronald Kessler, insiders at the White House say that Obama “attributes criticism of his policies to a failure to communicate or to the fact that he is an African-American.” And Obama’s campaign website revels in Obama-as-holy-figure mythology and in the sycophants who support it. This week, for example, the website featured a piece by “Jeff,” a friendly Obama supporter who won a meeting with the President aboard the campaign bus. Jeff just happened to be a beneficiary of Obama’s stimulus plan. Here’s what Jeff had to say: “It was unbelievable. I never thought that I would win. What got me to enter was that I’m trying to donate a little each month, and I had done it the month before. I didn’t even know it was a contest—I just had no idea. But to win that and meet the President of the United States, well—as I told him, it was the second best thing that ever happened to me, after getting married.”
Obama has to know that such arrogance isn’t exactly attractive. So at the same time that he obsesses on his world-historical importance, he also tries to let everyone know how humble he is. The same day Jeff posted his emotional outpouring at the Obama website, for instance, the campaign put out a fundraising email quoting the President as saying, “This isn’t about me or the outcome of one election.”
What is it about? The fate of democracy, naturally. (The grandiosity goes nicely with the egomania.) In the fateful upcoming election “we’ll learn whether it’s still true that a grassroots campaign can elect a president — whether ordinary Americans are in control of our democracy in the face of massive spending.”
It’s simply laughable when the President of the United States poses as a champion of the little guy “in the face of massive spending” when he himself has spent more than any leader in the history of humanity.
Thus far, the American people have been willing to give Obama the benefit of the doubt on his little ego problem. He’s still more popular than Mitt Romney personally. The American public seems inclined to give him a break and regard his awkward self obsession as a foible that can be overlooked. But as the economy continues to struggle, and as Obama continues to blame others and target Mitt Romney’s offshore bank accounts, his unshakeable faith in himself is going to start to wear thin.
Mac Davis
Naaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah.
The ‘I’ stands for imperial.
Am I living in a cocoon? Is that statement true?
The “I” stands for INCOMPETENT! The ‘me” stands for “MEAN”.
100% of Hussein Heads prefer Hussein.
Yeah, I’ve heard that numerous times. Obama’s “likability” ratings have been consistently high. Sort of a “he’s not a great president, but I do think he’s a good guy” kind of thing. Same goes for Michelle as the “kind, caring, warm First Lady.”
So many people have just no clue at all. This is why it’s so rare to see full-on attacks against Obama by Romney or anyone else—there’s a rather large risk of alienating the voters by attacking someone who’s seen as “a good person.”
Proverbs 29:2
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"The righteous detest the dishonest; the wicked detest the upright."
Proverbs 29:27
which explains why life is a bitch.
A Preacher once told me that
each time we use a first person pronoun,
we take one step away from God,
saying LOOK AT ME
Humility is a virtue that does not see itself
Like a Beacon on the Hill
Humility is seen my all around,
but the Beacon doesn't see itself
By definition
Humility does not call attention to itself
“Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence,
in the soul in which this virtue does not exist
there cannot be any other virtue
except in mere appearance.”
St. Augustine
FOIBLE?
That’s one “I” every twelve seconds including time out for applause and various uhs and ums.
It’s the teleprompter’s fault!
...“attributes criticism of his policies to a failure to communicate or to the fact that he is an African-American.”
About 20 years ago I saw a little black boy walk into the garage across the street and come out riding my neighbors bicycle. I confronted him and kept him talking until the police arrived. When the cops got there, I told them what I had witnessed. The little shit denied it and claimed I only said that because he was black. I told him I only said that because I saw him do it.
It is enraging to me that at such an early age, they already have the excuses/accusations down pat.
I'm sooooooooooo sick of liberal elites and their grandiosity... can't wait until the Narcissist in Chief is out of office...
“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert.
Near them on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown
And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed.
And on the pedestal these words appear:
`My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!’
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away”.
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Great pictures SkyPilot - thanks for sharing.
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